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Please provide examples of Democrats undoing good policy/legislation just because it was passed by a prior Republican administration.
The great increase in illegal entry into the country through the southern border is a good recent example. Though, I suppose this is predicated upon it being "good policy" that illegal immigration be slowed.
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Please provide examples of Democrats undoing good policy/legislation just because it was passed by a prior Republican administration.
Our current border situation...?
The main change at the border is a larger number of migrants. Migration trends are up globally, for a variety of reasons including climate change.
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100% Correct. People all too often look at Congress and say "gee, they aren't passing all the things I want them to do, therefore Congress must be broken!" This fails to realize Congress works entirely the way it was designed. As you said, inaction == lack of consensus. Imaging running a country where significant ways of life (influenced by laws) change willy-nilly depending on the flavor of the day? The legal whipla…
> This fails to realize Congress works entirely the way it was designed. Don't really think so. The 1929 Permanent Apportionment Act subverted the intentions of the founders and clearly swayed the power balance back towards rural areas, even though they have equal representation in the senate.
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Surely you can find examples of Schumer saying that his party is fully committed to obstructing the Trump administration, right? Or Harry Reid saying it during the Bush administration? No, it's not normal. That's exactly my point. If it's normal, cite it. Believing it's normal for one party to have as an explicit goal to simply obstruct everything the administration is doing is a symptom of drinking too much Koolaid.
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> This fails to realize Congress works entirely the way it was designed. Don't really think so. The 1929 Permanent Apportionment Act subverted the intentions of the founders and clearly swayed the power balance back towards rural areas, even though they have equal representation in the senate.
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>The 1929 Permanent Apportionment Act subverted the intentions of the founders
Stop playing dumb. The contradiction with your initial assertion was clearly articulated. Try addressing it instead of baiting other posters.
> Taxpayers Protection Alliance spokesperson Kara Zupkus said in a statement that expanding the program will "radically increase the IRS's authority and scope" and "have devastating consequences." Sounds like something Turbo/Block would say. I don’t understand how more competition in this area could hurt the customers. All the “file federal taxes for free” offers usually cost me around $70 since I have more than just…
'For you.'
Is it going to be open to itemizers? IIRC this year it wasn’t, which means a lot of people weren’t eligible (and basically had to pay an itemization penalty to a tax preparer/company).
Isn't itemization extremely rare post Trump tax cuts?
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Conventional wisdom is that if one can fund the IRS with one extra dollar, and they use that dollar to collect two dollars more taxes (from evaders), than that was a good way to spend taxpayers money. Many economists don't agree though. If you care about economic success of the country, the goal isn't 'collect as many taxes as possible'. The goal is to make the citizens wealthier in real terms. Effort your citizens p…
I would like to see the citations on this asinine idea.
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DirectFile was created by the IRS, a federal agency, for preparing your federal income tax return, in a manner similar to the streamlined e-file options available in other countries (i.e., for the most common/basic situations). There are 50 states, and every single one of them has their own idea of what an income tax return should look like, so a direct file that handled state returns would take several years and hun…
> There are 50 states, and every single one of them has their own idea That's not my problem. The states are part of the country. This is as bad as restaurants charging tips instead of stating one number. Government dudes should meet and work it out between state/federal and give me one damn number. All I want is one number.
States are NOT an administrative subdivision of the larger country. This is a common misconception. They are not at all like Japanese prefectures, not like Canadian provinces, nor like the counties or parishes that US states are subdivided into.
States are fully sovereign entities that retain to this day certain inalienable rights vis a vis the federal government.
A good analogy is that the US is more like a stronger version of the EU. States like New York and Texas within the US are more like Germany or France-- they've ceder some rights to the federation but retain many others. The US constitution, which is short and easy to read and required reading for the US Citizenship test, clearly outlines which powers are reserved for which part.
>That's not my problem. The states are part of the country.
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I meat this is Y Combinator Hacker News, so I would expect "software engineers in California" to be a significant fraction of the user base here.
The problem is you're exposing yourself as someone extremely self-centered, and someone that assumes their lived experience is equivalent of everyone else's, and adjudicating the utility of this particular thing as if you are reflective of the larger population. Saying the majority of engineers in California make at least $200k makes you even more out of touch. According to Glassdoor, over $200k for a SE in CA is 90t…
Most of Hacker News and indeed the tech community at large exhibit "I don't understand life outside of California cities." syndrome, this by itself is nothing new.