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TheFarseer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 10:28 PM Original message |
Poll question: Who is going to be pissed off if they start bailing out states? |
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Idealism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 10:32 PM Response to Original message |
1. Is this what will happen next? We turn against each other for not living in the same state? |
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TheFarseer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 10:44 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. I didn't say we should burn California down |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 10:57 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Since California puts more money into the fed govt than it gets, and Nebraska takes |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
2. California also pays a lot more in federal taxes proportional to the federal investment it receives |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
3. I'd rather see states bailed out than corporations. |
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Clovis Sangrail (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 10:39 PM Response to Original message |
4. yeah... |
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galledgoblin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 10:43 PM Response to Original message |
5. we're a union of states |
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Idealism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 10:49 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. but the GOP want to do away with unions |
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nini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 10:50 PM Response to Original message |
8. I tell you what.. you let us keep the federal taxes we pay |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 10:53 PM Response to Original message |
9. How are we supposed to get upset about that? |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 10:55 PM Response to Original message |
10. Some states bail out other states EVERY year. |
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TheFarseer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 11:05 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. you are totally discounting |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 11:07 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Everyone has to have a workable budget. Every state, every person. |
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TheFarseer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 11:32 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. you're making this too philosophical |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 11:38 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Do you think states should get from the fed govt only $ for $ what they put in? |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 11:17 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. You mean you visited California, drove on state and county roads, were protected by local police, .. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 11:37 PM Response to Reply #13 |
22. Californians |
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nini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-12-08 01:22 PM Response to Reply #13 |
25. Stay the fuck home then and spend your travel dollars there |
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blue_onyx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 11:07 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. If you switch Florida, Colorado, and Nevada to blue, |
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TheFarseer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 11:15 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. I feel for Michigan |
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blue_onyx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 11:26 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Thanks...we sure have been hurting |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
12. Not a goddamn dime to the anti-union states. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 11:32 PM Response to Original message |
19. "they" aren't bailing out anywhere, we are. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-11-08 11:35 PM Response to Original message |
21. As a California resident, we need help here BAD |
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nini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-12-08 01:16 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. I agree - it's Prop 13 |
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