CreoleTigerEsq

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Let’s do this but put a homeownership program in its place where you encourage people to own something rather than rent for their entire lives.

You move the needle from corporations and landlords making money to now homes being owned by residents.

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Well, how do you get a person that's landed on Section 8 to be responsible enough to secure a job that allows them to save for a down payment and manage their credit well enough to purchase a home?

I get the whole idea of encouraging home ownership, because people who own property have a vested interest in the value of their homes and communities, but you'd have to overhaul the person altogether (and their mentality) before getting them prepared for home ownership.

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Sort of like how you are distorting the intent by calling it a tax is a way to scare people into an unfavorable opinion of “Trumps tariff”. A leverage tool designed to illicit a behavior.

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What behavior is being illicited?

If you're telling someone that you want to force them to exclusively buy all supplies and labor (in the United States) as inputs into goods and services provided to consumers in the United States, and that you hope to accomplish this by placing a tariff/tax on all imports, then you'd better be prepared to explain how we are able to source all of these raw materials and supplies exclusively within the United States, using overpriced American labor, with factories that are up and running already here.

The problem is that because we don't make much here (and because we have to source a lot of raw materials and supplies from other countries), and our labor standards and costs are different that many countries globally, you're pissing in the wind if you think that imposing tariffs is going to illicit the response you want with whatever leverage you think you may have.

I'm voting No on all four of these amendments. I've researched all of them, and these amendments were brought during the special session on taxation to try to get around a Constitutional convention.

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The Founders never intended for the courts to be the final say on what is and is not constitutional.

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Marbury v. Madison disagrees with you, vehemently.

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IOW, The constitution is the guard dog for leftist corruption at this point in time.

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No, moron.

The Constitution is the guardrail upon which our democratic republic keeps wanna-be dictators in check.

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Corruption and Fraud will not be tolerated anymore.

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If Elon Musk were there to ensure that fraudulent spending was not occurring with federal money, then he would have forensic accountants there, not a group of guys that likely have no knowledge of how federal spending is appropriated and financed, signed into law, and administered by federal agencies.

He also wouldn't have open conflicts of interest while doing these things, either.

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This is board is insufferable this week

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Early voting isn't even complete yet, and the election conspiracy theories are already afoot.

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... look at how they outsourced the jobs of tens of millions of ordinary white Americans ...

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... and by "they" you mean the actual multi-national corporations that decided to do this, right?

That guy, robsmithonline, is a black, gay conservative.

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Is Mein Kampf worthy of being required course work?

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I have no problem with a professor requiring this within their coursework. It's literally the manifesto of one of the most brutal dictators that the world has ever known. I think it would only broaden a student's understanding of the motivation behind the Holocaust.