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12-06-2019, 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
gibberish.
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is that the latest insult you constantly throw around?
You should use "you and your ilk" more to change it up a little.
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12-06-2019, 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by PaulS
is that the latest insult you constantly throw around?
You should use "you and your ilk" more to change it up a little.
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He's just practicing the Trumplican defense, though he missed the Gym Jordan memo to do it LOUDLY AND REALLY FAST
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Lets Go Darwin
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12-06-2019, 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Pete F.
He's just practicing the Trumplican defense, though he missed the Gym Jordan memo to do it LOUDLY AND REALLY FAST
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Can't answer the question I asked twice, eh?
"Gym" Jordan, I get it! Ha ha ha, please stop my stomach hurts from laughing so hard.
Your signature says that Sondland stated there was a quid pro quo. You seem to have left out the part where he said very clearly, that this was a presumption, he had zero evidence. He presumes there was. Others presume there wasn't.
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12-06-2019, 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by PaulS
is that the latest insult you constantly throw around?
You should use "you and your ilk" more to change it up a little.
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Only when what's been said, is impossible to discern. Seeing more and more of that as re-election possibilities sink in.
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12-07-2019, 06:19 PM
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wdmso, for the tenth time, i never said every city in the Carolinas is great. It’s part of the deep south, which is suffering the horrible effects of a culture that never really embraced making good long term decisions.
But the Carolinas has something CT does not have. It has some places ( suburbs of charlotte) that are booming with good jobs and new construction, places which offer a high quality of life with a very low price tag. Not every place is like that in the Carolinas. But some are. CT has exactly zero such places.
Most places that young families are fleeing to ( good jobs, great schools, super low taxes) are in conservative states. I wouldn’t want to throw a dart at a map if NC and raise my kids wherever it landed. But there are places there that are far superior, i. terms of bang for the buck, than anything CT has to offer.
You can’t make that wrong, you just can’t. Here in CT our population is shrinking, only a few states can claim shrinking population and were one of them.
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12-07-2019, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
wdmso, for the tenth time, i never said every city in the Carolinas is great. It’s part of the deep south, which is suffering the horrible effects of a culture that never really embraced making good long term decisions.
But the Carolinas has something CT does not have. It has some places ( suburbs of charlotte) that are booming with good jobs and new construction, places which offer a high quality of life with a very low price tag. Not every place is like that in the Carolinas. But some are. CT has exactly zero such places.
Most places that young families are fleeing to ( good jobs, great schools, super low taxes) are in conservative states. I wouldn’t want to throw a dart at a map if NC and raise my kids wherever it landed. But there are places there that are far superior, i. terms of bang for the buck, than anything CT has to offer.
You can’t make that wrong, you just can’t. Here in CT our population is shrinking, only a few states can claim shrinking population and were one of them.
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Just saying things change for a million reasons
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12-07-2019, 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted by wdmso
Just saying things change for a million reasons
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very true. But in CT, poll after poll shows that families and retirees are fleeing because of taxes. CT no longer has any value proposition.
My brother
moved his business and his family from CT to a spectacular suburb in Nashville. He saves over $1,000 a month in taxes.
I could move to NH tomorrow, buy a house exactly like
mine in a town with comparable schools near Boston, and save $700 a month in taxes. over a few decades, it’s hundreds of thousands of dollars. For what? What am I getting for that premium i pay? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. CT is a horribly, horribly run place. Businesses are moving to Massachusetts for the tax savings.
I can’t move because of
my parents, they’re older, they live a mile away, and they rely heavily on my wife to run them
around. And they won’t move. They’d be screwed if i left. If not for them, i’d be in NH in a flash. The tax savings would
pay for two of my kids to go to a public college. It’s mind boggling.
I have a 12 year old
minivan, and. a three year old pickup truck ( lowest tr version that Ford offers), and i pay $1,000 a year to my town in property taxes on those two cars.
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