Meanwhile in Texas, each State Senate District has 940,178 people. 70,000 people in a state senate district just seems more workable.
With 29 million people, Texas has more inhabitants than the entire Australia, which is divided into several states.
Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign
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#32This is impressive, but what is more impressive to me, and this is a non-partisan statement, is how people are not afraid of being blocked and ostracized by their partisan friends and just pick the opposition party to run for anyway.
Re: Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign
#33According to this website he won but according to ballotopedia he lost?
link? I can't find any results on that level on ballotopedia yet?
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#34This is impressive, but what is more impressive to me, and this is a non-partisan statement, is how people are not afraid of being blocked and ostracized by their partisan friends and just pick the opposition party to run for anyway.
There’s a reason that ballots are supposed to be cast behind a curtain.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quoting Durr in Politico: [0] Durr said Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s coronavirus executive orders, vaccine and school mask, unemployment benefits snafus and a general distrust of the South Jersey Democratic machine that has dominated the region for years all contributed to his strong performance. Sweeney, Durr said, “never challenged” Murphy during the pandemic. “You have the debacle of unemployment. The masking of…
I'm beginning to come around to this point of view: https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/peacefield/617c7b245793d... - we are not a serious nation. There's a global pandemic caused by an airborne pathogen, and people throw an absolute hissy fit over a minor inconvenience like masks. My kids wear them all day long in school, and while they don't love them, they are not constantly whining about them like some adults. My…
Kids have the most psychological development from looking at people's faces, emotions and smiles. Saying that's a "minor inconvenience" is silly. Especially since there's negligible risks for them.
And mandating something which neither prevents catching, nor transmitting the virus is definitely not a "minor inconvenience".
EDIT: In my last sentence, I wasn't referring to masks. I was referring to vaccine mandates which the truck driver also ran on.
Re: Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign
#36This is impressive, but what is more impressive to me, and this is a non-partisan statement, is how people are not afraid of being blocked and ostracized by their partisan friends and just pick the opposition party to run for anyway.
I know this is more charged in the US, but you can still vote for whoever you like and just not tell people you don't want to tell about it.
Re: Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign
#37This is impressive, but what is more impressive to me, and this is a non-partisan statement, is how people are not afraid of being blocked and ostracized by their partisan friends and just pick the opposition party to run for anyway.
I know this is more charged in the US, but you can still vote for whoever you like and just not tell people you don't want to tell about it.
I'm referring to the people running. This guy spent $150 on Dunkin donuts and put himself out there, home address and everything.
Re: Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm beginning to come around to this point of view: https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/peacefield/617c7b245793d... - we are not a serious nation. There's a global pandemic caused by an airborne pathogen, and people throw an absolute hissy fit over a minor inconvenience like masks. My kids wear them all day long in school, and while they don't love them, they are not constantly whining about them like some adults. My…
Kids have the most psychological development from looking at people's faces, emotions and smiles. Saying that's a "minor inconvenience" is silly. Especially since there's negligible risks for them. And mandating something which neither prevents catching, nor transmitting the virus is definitely not a "minor inconvenience". EDIT: In my last sentence, I wasn't referring to masks. I was referring to vaccine mandates whi…
> And mandating something which neither prevents catching, nor transmitting the virus is definitely not a "minor inconvenience".
They have studied this though. Actual scientists, not people on Youtube or Facebook, and they have found that masks diminish the transmission of COVID-19. This is kind of what you'd expect with something airborne.
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#39Any (relatively) unbiased sources that explain how NJ got into this predicament? Just current leadership being out of touch with the wants/needs of NJ citizens?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxFhMVIPodk Rossman is biased, but the facts do speak for themselves here. I couldn't believe this video
That's an hour long video, could you provide a TL;DW?
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I doubt the vast majority of people (probably less than 10%) in NJ are paid enough to be affected by SALT since standard deduction went up so much. Property plus state income tax liabilities would have to be more than $12.5k/$25k single/married for people to have been affected. I would bet on school closings and the trend of higher taxes/less government services, but the latter is unavoidable due to the outlier amoun…
>According to recent reporting, if we reinstated the SALT deduction, nearly a third of New Jersey residents — almost three million people — would get tax relief. As many as 80% of them have incomes of $216,000 or less. Hardly the 1%. https://www.northjersey.com/story/opinion/2021/05/17/salt-de... NJ has very high property tax rates and high home values
The writer used the word “average”, but it would be clearer if they used median, or quintiles or deciles. I could not find a source for the report they claim to be saying 3 million people in NJ would benefit.
NJ income tax is ~4%, and average property taxes are not that high:
https://www.nj.com/politics/2020/03/njs-average-property-tax...
It would be nice to find statistics by percentile, but I would find it hard to believe that many single households are living in houses paying $8k+ property tax, and married households are paying $16k in property tax.
I use $8k and $16k because that would mean the remaining $4k and $8k would be for income tax for a person earning $100k/year (78th percentile) or a couple earning $200k per year (83rd percentile).
https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-by-state-calculator/
Edit: the best way to figure out if the SALT caps hurt or not is to see if the amount of people itemizing on federal returns increased or not. I cannot find any NJ specific statistics, but IRS says only 11% of tax filers itemized in 2019.