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Mike Johnson anytime he is asked about anything:

Oh, you figured out lie number one where I claimed that I never had any contact with him after I saw the massage chair in his living room? Damn, ok,well let's give this lie a go and see what happens....

So strange. This guy resembles our disgusting, tribal, bigoted, Trump-boot-licking VP. But he talks so rationally.

It is blah, blah, blah as proven by decades of it not happening. You are against illegal immigration. If I proposed the answer to illegal immigration is to make their home countries so wealthy and safe they don't want to leave that is a great plan, other than it doesn't ever happen. Bringing...

What you are saying is the same, only different wording to spin it. When speaking of fairness, the money HAS to come from someone. If you are saying that the wealthy "overwhelmingly pay" then that means that you expect that money to come from somewhere else. The options are the non-wealthy...

Look at the first graph below at the horrible economic harm the wealthy have suffered at the hands of the government. Such siloed, concrete, and inelastic thought. Every time this subject is brought up, you take a complex issue with clear data and ignore all of it. You focus on one specific...

Add Expand (Chesapeake) to the list. Damn. https://www.koco.com/article/expand-energy-moving-headquarters-houston-oklahoma-city/70286915

30 years from now, will the bigger embarrassment be that this happened or how it has been handled? I remember in med school learning about the Tuskegee syphilis experiments and thinking "No freakin' way!" No offense to those men who were treated so horribly, but this is worse in many ways...

You are a college football fan. The highest paid public employee in most states is the football coach. Just like "Musk isn't an engineer" a football coach can't really play football. But, the ones that make a ton of money are the ones that can bring in better players and make them play...

They would not become a billionaire then flee. They would flee at the point they thought they might become a billionaire. Plenty of data on lower tax places taking on people. I don't think many would leave because of fear of a little higher tax rates. But, let Mandami come out and say...

I know. I was just saying that if we were going to change the system and get rid of the income tax that there would still need to be a significant gift tax or the death tax would not function.

I think KSUpoke when he was here proposed a 100% death tax to replace the income tax. Other that me, everyone thought it was a horrible idea. Mainly the "they will take the family farm...." type replies. But, it would certainly level the playing field more than anything else. Obviously...

Exactly.

I hear this "tax them out of existence" but not anything specific. Higher tax rates are one thing. Punitive tax rates to make sure they do not exist are another. I would have concerns that would drive entrepreneurship overseas. Is one billion the magic mark? Would someone who is only worth...