Many Latino families were here long before there were Atlantic coast colonies.
I respectfully disagree.
TeaParty manifested in TX in 1990s. And Gerrymandered total control of TX in 2003.
Similar in other âconservativeâ states, gaining GUARANTEED electoral votes.
As of a couple days ago, after only 2 decades of âopenly visibleâ effort, âtheyâ control all three branches of the FEDERAL govt.
Calling them âstupidâ merely propagates further misunderestimation.
{Sun Tzu
The Chinese military strategist, philosopher, and general Sun Tzu said, âKnow thy enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeatedâ. He also said, "To know your enemy, you must become your enemy".}
JMO.
ralph
LOLOL:
{He also said, "To know your enemy, you must become your enemy}.
Edited to add:
{We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde }
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Re: exempt income tax on Social Security
And its been pointed out income tax collected on Social Security gets paid into the Social Security trust fund rather than into the general fund. Hence removing the tax reduces payments to Social Security.
And while we are at it, businesses deduct their contribution to SS as a business expense.
How about we make individual FICA payments exempt from income tax. Ie pre-tax. Or tax deductible.
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I didnât know that Paul so people are getting taxed to pay themselves? Thatâs brilliant. I would love to be invested in a company that pays me a dividend and then taxes me on the dividend but then I receive the money back as a dividend. 
I found that SS payments income tax goes to the trust fund surprising too. But note too that they only tax 85% of SS payment and then only above minimum income.
So in reality, this is a wealth tax. It is collected only from those in upper income brackets. Not from everyone.
The proposal is to stop the wealth tax (paid by many middle class voters).
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St. Paddyâs day is only Irish-proud v. Ireland born. Both Buchanan and Hannity would likely be fine with this homegrown US holiday.
Pete
whoâda thunk it? Hypocrisy
I have experienced pushback even stating I am Irish on a few occasions from one or two Latinos. Like get that out of here. More hypocrisy in reverse yet the same thing.
So when do you become American? After ST. Pattyâs day or is there some calculation for this?
For my Irish cousin with the largest Irish pubs in America, who is also an American citizen nowâŚSt Paddyâs is the kick off of his business for the entire year thereafter. The rest of the restaurant business is on hold for a month longer in the winter doldrums.
Asking DK it is St Paddyâs day when everyone becomes an Irishman.
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That is how I was âeducatedâ in the early 60s. Everyone in class was given a paper shamrock to wear, with their name written on it, with an Oâ added at the beginning. Michigan Ave, in Detroit, passes through a neighborhood known as âCork Townâ, as it was a heavily Irish neighborhood at one time. The annual St Patrickâs parade is along Michigan, in Cork Town, with people wearing green and waving Irish flags, the same way people wave Mexican flags on Cinco de Mayo, that gives Hannity an apoplectic fit.
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Ha!, the 1920s Republicans are todayâs Dem party. 
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I suppose it all depends on how you define âwealthyâ. Social security becomes taxable (50% of it) at $25,000 [single] income. And above $44,000 income, 85% of your social security becomes taxable. Is a $44,000 income considered âwealthyâ thus making it a âwealth taxâ?
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Median household income is $75k. That is usually the midline between upper and lower middle class. Often between blue collar and college educated professionals.
Where is the poverty line these days. Maybe $45k depending on family size.
We are taxing the middle class, not the poor.
As usual Congress decides.
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Votes arenât done being counted. The actual turnout wonât be known for quite some time. Itâs certainly possible that turnout will be lower this time than last, but until the states finish their canvassing we wonât have the totals. Since the areas that are still reporting are largely the big west coast states that are disproportionately Democratic, the turnout totals will almost certainly increase from where they are today, two days after polls closed.
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How is it that large states like TX, NY, FL, IL, GA, etc can count almost the entire vote overnight (NY Times reports those as >95% or basically complete) while other large states like CA, WA, CO, AZ, etc are all still below 80% counted?
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States rights. They all have the right to legislate their own laws on how ballot counts will be done. You would have to go through each state and see how they have it set up.
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They have different rules. In some states, if you mail your ballot before election day, it still counts even if it is received by the elections department some number of days after election day. So they donât even have all the ballots on election day.
Some states also permit pre-canvassing of early/mail-in balloting, and others donât. So in Florida, all of the early voting and absentee ballots were already tabulated ahead of time. So within seconds after the polls closed, all of those votes were reported instantly. Others wonât even start opening the envelopes until the polls close, so they donât report until much later.
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Roughly 60% of the voters without a college degree voted for him, and 60% of the voters with a college degree voted for her. Since roughly 60% of the electorate do not have a college degree, his campaign strategy was actually a good one. Lower incomes, less education, hard hit by inflation, anger at competition for jobs from immigrants, comprising 60% of the electorate. Tell them what they want to hear because nobody else is.
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So, the âenvyâ cohort.
Steve
Al
The fat lady is singing