I get what you're saying in this case, but this shouldn't be a reason. We'd never have Brown vs. Board of Ed, Roe vs. Wade (the original), or Joe Biden as legitimate president.
Maybe not doing shitty, underhanded rulings would be more accurate.
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Maybe not doing shitty, underhanded rulings would be more accurate.
GasBandit
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Posting this here because I have a feeling I'll need it in an e-mail one of these days
Say you're in a room with 400 people. 36 don't have health insurance, 48 live in poverty, 85 are illiterate, 90 have untreated mental illnesses, and every day, at least 1 person is shot. But 2 are trans so you decide ruining their lives is a priority. That is what's happening right now.
GasBandit
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GasBandit
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The Texas State Government just told me and every other EV owner to go fuck themselves
www.carscoops.com
To offset the loss of the ($71/yr on average) gas tax revenue to state highways, they just passed a $200/year fee (plus $400 at time of purchase) on EVs starting this fall.
Texas Passes Bill To Charge $200 Annual Fee For EV Owners Drawing Criticism | Carscoops
The bill that has to be approved by the governor is a way to levy taxes on electric vehicle drivers who don't have to pay Texas' gas tax
www.carscoops.com
To offset the loss of the ($71/yr on average) gas tax revenue to state highways, they just passed a $200/year fee (plus $400 at time of purchase) on EVs starting this fall.
The Texas State Government is just looking out for their constituents... the oil companiesThe Texas State Government just told me and every other EV owner to go fuck themselves
Texas Passes Bill To Charge $200 Annual Fee For EV Owners Drawing Criticism | Carscoops
The bill that has to be approved by the governor is a way to levy taxes on electric vehicle drivers who don't have to pay Texas' gas tax
To offset the loss of the ($71/yr on average) gas tax revenue to state highways, they just passed a $200/year fee (plus $400 at time of purchase) on EVs starting this fall.
GasBandit
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Frankly I'm surprised they didn't follow Wyoming's lead and just try to ban EVs outright.
Isn't...isn't electricity already taxed somehow?
I mean, if they wanted to frame this as "We're taking $600 from every EV owner and using it to beef up our electrical grid" then I think they'd get a lot less pushback.
--Patrick
Don't really have a problem with it, governments never want to give up taxes. I just abhor the argument that it is to pay for the roads.The Texas State Government just told me and every other EV owner to go fuck themselves
Texas Passes Bill To Charge $200 Annual Fee For EV Owners Drawing Criticism | Carscoops
The bill that has to be approved by the governor is a way to levy taxes on electric vehicle drivers who don't have to pay Texas' gas tax
To offset the loss of the ($71/yr on average) gas tax revenue to state highways, they just passed a $200/year fee (plus $400 at time of purchase) on EVs starting this fall.
GasBandit
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The gasoline tax is explicitly to pay for roads. The purpose of this bill is to address that ICEV drivers now think EV drivers aren't paying their fair share of road maintenance.
There's no reason it should be triple what gas guzzlers are paying, however. It is transparently meant to discourage the adoption of electric vehicles.
Personal vehicles pay 65% of the fuel taxes to fix the roads, yet only generate 3% of the wear on roads. Tractor trailers cause 93% of the wear on roads, yet only pay 35% of the fuel tax. Now every district is slightly different, but for the most part, fuel taxes have gone straight to general revenue for over decades, and the fuel tax only accounts for a fraction of the total maintenance cost for roads. What was once a reasonable tax with a defined purpose has become a tax people are comfortable with paying, regardless of the reasons for it's inception. (see the line item on my property tax to pay for the community centre that was supposed to last for 10 years, and that started 18 years ago...)
And it sounds more like, the bill is just political pandering to gasholes.
There's a video of him being real fucking shitty to his wife. The thing I'm most happy about is that his entire life falling apart is entirely his own fucking fault. Couple months ago he was offered a $50 million contract by the Daily Wire that he turned down because they had the audacity to say that him getting demonotized on Youtube would result in a paycut for him. Now everybody knows about his divorce and how shit a husband he was because he brought it up himself.
Sadly, there is no shortage of footage on Crowder being abusive to his (now ex-)wife, and once again proving why no-fault divorces need to exist:
Please note that this man made sure they only had one car, thus trapping his ex when he felt like it. Also, because I read about this bullshit a few days ago, I learned this little gem:
Please note that this man made sure they only had one car, thus trapping his ex when he felt like it. Also, because I read about this bullshit a few days ago, I learned this little gem:
I've never heard of this chode before a few days ago, and I hope to never hear his name again.
figmentPez
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Texas Republicans are targeting Harris County with a new voting law that gives a single appointed official the ability to cause an election to be re-held.
Harris County is the largest in Texas and covers most of Houston. It's also been shifting blue and Republicans are scared. This new law solely applies to Harris County, and puts the cost of holding a new election on the county. It's very transparent that this is an attempt to disenfranchise voters.
Harris County is the largest in Texas and covers most of Houston. It's also been shifting blue and Republicans are scared. This new law solely applies to Harris County, and puts the cost of holding a new election on the county. It's very transparent that this is an attempt to disenfranchise voters.
figmentPez
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Presumably Harris County is going to bring a lawsuit about it, but who knows what the judiciary will rule, especially the bought and paid for SCOTUS.
The vast majority of population growth in Texas over the past decade has been non-white and urban. Republican lawmakers who represent mostly white small towns and rural areas know their comfortable arrangement is coming to an end and they're terrified.
This has always been a problem with white Southern communities. For a century after the Civil War, exclusively Democratic Southern states tried to disenfranchise non-Democratic voters with poll taxes, literacy tests, and white primaries. Now, those same states are dominated by Republican legislatures and state courts who are trying to lock in Republican rule through extreme gerrymandering and other nonsense like we're seeing here in Harris County. Unfortunately, other white conservatives are under the impression that white racism doesn't exist in mainstream society anymore so the Voting Rights Act has largely been neutered.
This has always been a problem with white Southern communities. For a century after the Civil War, exclusively Democratic Southern states tried to disenfranchise non-Democratic voters with poll taxes, literacy tests, and white primaries. Now, those same states are dominated by Republican legislatures and state courts who are trying to lock in Republican rule through extreme gerrymandering and other nonsense like we're seeing here in Harris County. Unfortunately, other white conservatives are under the impression that white racism doesn't exist in mainstream society anymore so the Voting Rights Act has largely been neutered.
From another thread:
"Banning books isn't enough, we must ban entire libraries.
Also I, Clay Higgins, a sitting member of the US House of Representatives, give exactly zero shits about separation of Church and State and am publicly declaring that only churches should be allowed to pick and choose what books we read."
--Patrick
To wit:
"Banning books isn't enough, we must ban entire libraries.
Also I, Clay Higgins, a sitting member of the US House of Representatives, give exactly zero shits about separation of Church and State and am publicly declaring that only churches should be allowed to pick and choose what books we read."
--Patrick
That's been their criticism of post-secondary education for a long, long time. Their kids go in safe and conservative and come out tolerant and compassionate, and there's no other possible explanation than grooming!
The problem is that it's an effective talking point. People don't want their kids to be better than them, they want clones to carry on the hate.
figmentPez
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Dave
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I love the Onion.
www.theonion.com
Clarence Thomas Promises To Adopt Code Of Ethics For The Right Price
WASHINGTON—Telling critics in Congress that if they wanted serious reform they simply needed to make it worth his while, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas promised Friday he would adopt a code of ethics for the right price. “After hearing out the Senate Judiciary Committee’s concerns, I...
www.theonion.com
Harlan Crow and Clarence Thomas Are About to Learn About Gift Taxes
The billionaire’s generosity to the Supreme Court justice and his family raise a whole lot of questions about whether the “gifts” were declared properly.
www.thedailybeast.com
Ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohplease...
--Patrick
I mean, the billionaire will likely just pay them, for them both...Harlan Crow and Clarence Thomas Are About to Learn About Gift Taxes
The billionaire’s generosity to the Supreme Court justice and his family raise a whole lot of questions about whether the “gifts” were declared properly.
Ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohplease...
--Patrick
Dave
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