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  On 9/26/2019 at 3:58 AM, Monzanator said:

 

Given the California state taxes it's just about right, it's a country within a country IMO.

 

 

You name me a life-long politician who is poor? Biden was in Congress for almost 40 years before he became VP, I can only imagine how many 'donations' he accepted under the table over that span. Politics means power and power means money. It's even more glaring in a two-party system like the US where you can only be the minority for so long and your turn to be in charge will always come!

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I think there’s a better way to write our tax codes and get the desired result. California taxes have been poorly managed in my opinion.

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Poorly managed? Geez, you speak like a politician now. It's a frickin shit show. Sacramento must be the lousiest places to live in the state. All that taxes and zero beaches. I'd rather live in Arizona than Sacramento most likely.

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  On 9/26/2019 at 4:28 AM, Monzanator said:

Geez, you speak like a politician now. It's a frickin shit show. Sacramento must be the lousiest places to live in the state. I'd rather live in Arizona than Sacramento most likely.

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If I can talk the talk, maybe one day I can walk the walk.

 

Yes. (To the Sacramento point) I’d just renamed the city Shithole (worst part of Cali hands down)

 

Arizona, nah. Colorado, Nevada, or Utah :wub:

 

 

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  On 9/26/2019 at 1:50 AM, Olympian1010 said:

Biden is starting to slip. Warren is up in multiple states now, including Iowa (obviously important) and California (important during the primaries). In fact she’s up +8% in California on Biden. My state is making itself clear as the “Norway” of the US.

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Does anybody really care about polls in other states than the first ones? Most candidates do after all more or less spend all their time in Iowa.

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  On 9/26/2019 at 10:14 AM, Agger said:

Does anybody really care about polls in other states than the first ones? Most candidates do after all more or less spend all their time in Iowa.

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We moved up our primaries in California. We’re in one of the first waves now. For the Democratic primaries, California could be a huge battleground.

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Trump’s impeachment is really starting to look like the US version of the Brexit crisis.

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Second round of climate strikes going down today. I will attend to class, but with a statement either tapped to my backpack or shirt. I think I’ll go with “Earth’s dying and so are we.”, unless I come up with something funny.

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