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Re: Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States

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Post by favflam »

shortrounddev2 wrote: post #33
philwelch wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not just have a dictator?

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The current system was up for debate in the last election.

Feels over reals got us this result where Republicans specifically in Congress refuse to step in to stop the President from violating the emoluments clause, tax authority, and impoundment.

At least the last administration knew they had to pass Congressional legislation to spend money and that impoundment was absolutely illegal. And there is clear evidence Democrats will cull the herd of politicians who stray off.

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cheema33 wrote: post #34

This needs to be repeated. Tariffs are a tax on ordinary citizens. Unlike regular taxes, tariffs are not progressive and therefore benefit the wealthy. These are the sort of things the poor and middle class voted for. To make the rich, richer. And then turn around and complain that rich are getting richer and they are getting poorer.

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

paulsutter wrote: post #29
jleyank wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remember, he’s ending mail-in ballots…

AFAIK the proposal is to go back to absentee ballots, rather than the blanket free for all today

My state does all elections completely by mail, which means all paper ballots. It seems to work perfectly.

Re: Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States

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Post by dangus »

throw0101a wrote: post #39
westernmostcoy wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not within his power to do.

> That's not within his power to do. Trump has the power to do anything that people (especially Congress) does not push back against. > 1. Do not obey in advance. > Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what i…

Not really true. In this case he doesn’t have the power to do it because the federal government doesn’t operate elections. He has no lever to pull.

At most he can convince some friendly state legislatures to ban mail-in voting, but even that may not be an automatic process (e.g., maybe some states have requirements to change the constitutional or put the item up on a ballot measure).

Every Trump policy to this point has involved some kind of lever that the executive branch has had power over: tariffs, national guard deployments, and even in the case of ICE enforcement, Trump had to go to Congress to appropriate additional funding to make that viable long-term.

As an aside, I’m not personally too worried about the mail in voting as a hot button issue. I don’t think Republicans will touch it significantly because they need turnout, too, and they need it from key demographics that use absentee ballots like older voters and military members.

Some research seems to show that mail-in voting doesn’t really benefit a specific party.

https://www.dw.com/en/us-election-mail-in-voting-biden-trump...

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Post by monero-xmr »

fzeroracer wrote: post #66
monero-xmr wrote: post #60

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I see an argument for tax cuts everywhere. Taxes are literally brakes on financial transactions. The number 1 way to slow down your economy is to tax every transaction possible as highly as possible. It is an interesting thought experiment to eliminate income and sales taxes, and try to only finance the government via tariffs. How we redirect money to the medical system is so completely insane it must be the #1 place…

> I see an argument for tax cuts everywhere. Taxes are literally brakes on financial transactions. The number 1 way to slow down your economy is to tax every transaction possible as highly as possible. It is an interesting thought experiment to eliminate income and sales taxes, and try to only finance the government via tariffs. Then you don't actually see an argument for tax cuts everywhere. What you want is a tax t…

My preferred way would also to be to eliminate expenditures, but failing that, redirecting taxes in a way that grows the US internal economy as much as possible, and incentives the re-industrialization simultaneously, is an interesting experiment.

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Post by paganel »

jleyank wrote: post #15
CalRobert wrote: post #6

You can still send letters- this is a big deal but it’s not -quite- as bad as I first thought since my ballot is mailed in from abroad…

Remember, he’s ending mail-in ballots…

Which is good, as that is easier to fraud/tamper with. If you can’t be arsed to move your pistruie to a voting section come Election Day then you shouldn’t be allowed to vote anyway.

Re: Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States

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Post by ysofunny »

there is a literal energetic meaning to borders and frontiers and barriers IN GENERAL

from mitochondrial gradients pushing ions through a hole to make a protein complex spin so to chain double phosphate groups in ADP molecules into triple ATP molecules thereby storing energy.

all the way up to an international entities controlling flows of goods and people across borders with the goal of maximizing corporate and government profits (storing/collecting energy)

i.e. utilizing the energetic gradient caused by citizens and people and families trying to meet each other across the border including sending each other goods, flavors, candies, etcs

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Post by wasabi991011 »

westernmostcoy wrote: post #20
jleyank wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remember, he’s ending mail-in ballots…

That's not within his power to do.

Neither is ending birthright citizenship, dismantling USAID, closing the department of education, firing the heads of the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board (independent federal agencies) without cause, impounding funds appropriated by Congress, etc.

Nevertheless, Trump has started process for all of those, and has been successful at many due to the slowness of the courts.

Re: Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States

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Post by jleyank »

westernmostcoy wrote: post #20
jleyank wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remember, he’s ending mail-in ballots…

That's not within his power to do.

He wasn’t allowed to end the r&d system in the us, but nobody stopped him. He wasn’t allowed to create export tariffs, go nuts with import tariffs, rip up senate passed treaties, …. As others have said, somebody has to stop the process and to date it’s not been stopped.
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