Posted on 08/12/2019 9:57:46 PM PDT by deek69
One thing is for sure, Texas property taxes are so outrageous they might as well have state income taxes. What is the sales tax up to these days?
“I think big government Republican Teddy Roosevelt got the Progressive ball rolling in 1901.”
He did. And in 1912 Teddy even ran for President on the Progressive Party ticket.
Progressivism was strong in the GOP around 1900. The drive for an income tax and to create the Federal Reserve both began under Teddy and Taft.
When Teddy’s cousin FDR became President a lot of former Republican progressives joined his administration.
6.25% State
2.00% City/County
8.25% Total
It does; we have more districts than towns, and they all have “home rule” - so we pay for our own schools, as well as the sh!tholes that have no tax base. May I assume you’re a public school teacher?
You’re welcome. The zombie states of NV, CA, AZ and CO look forward to “Tejas” joining their ranks.
I hope it doesn’t happen for another 6 to 10 years. But it will happen.
No you may not.
I am a gun packing, bible clutching deplorable. Thank you very much
There's a way- three parts- to keep this from happening, and pull the teeth from the Democrat *Mexican Voters* plan.
First, all that trouble and those riots in Hong Kong? Those are real refugees, and if they'd prefer to come here and work toward their US Citizenship, well and good. No immediate idea how many there'd be, but I suspect that once such a program opened a tidal wave would follow, Say 100,000. And I don't think these folks have much use for Communists or leftists.... Phgase 2: For 15 years the people of the Kingdom of Nepal fought a brutal counterinsurgency war against Maoist insurgents. Finally, they've been worn down, and King Gahendra is gone. Certainly many, most even of the Nepalese would prefer to remain in their cities and mountains where thyere ancestors ore buried, but of course many, if hot most, might emigrate to the USA. There are around 50 million of them, and they, for the most part despise Communism and Communists. Might we get 10% as new Americans? That would be around Five million to offset the Mexican and OTM leftists and communists.
Third: Taiwan. Just a bit of a smaller population, but a very high percentage of military service veterans. Once again, they don't much care for the Communist way of doing business, and a good many already have family or business ties to the USA. They've seen what's happening in Hong Kong, and once the Chinese Navy is sufficiently built up, and the US is distracted by trouble elsewhere [Ukraine, Poland, Mexico] they can expect a hostile takeover. Again, figure 10%, though I expect tyeir numbers might go higher than that: another 5 million or so.
Of course the racist Democrats would oppose their entry, just as they blocked the doorways of the Schools in Alabama and shot down others on the streets of Memphis. There's a solution to that.
Deport them. With our new 10-15 million voters, we might be able to get rid of the infestation and replace it with new Americans.
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