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I meant the GOP being voted out of existence and the Dems having a virtual monopoly.
I would not want to see either party disappear, and would prefer a multi-party system, with the option of coalition governments.
But where things stand now, I would like to see both parties intact, even if just to keep the other party in check.
If the Republicans were to disappear, they'd be replaced by some other party waiting in the wings, just as the Whigs were replaced by the Republicans in the 19th century.
In any case, for the GOP to survive, people like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski will have to become the norm.
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Not likely to happen. Obama didn't do it. In fact, his policy on immigration wasn't that much different that Trump's.
I don't have enough knowledge about that issue, so I can't comment.
Just as many Pubs support those horrible trade deals as Republicans. True progressives, like Bernie Sanders, are against them.
No argument there. In fact, that proves my point that Dems are every bit as neoliberal as the Pubs.
Both parties routinely raise taxes on the poor and middle class.
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That's lip service.
Democrats have control of the House of Reps now, so what are they waiting for?
It's great.
I particularly like when they fight self-righteous school districts.
Not a lot they can do without the senate on their side. And they need to rid themselves of their own corporate shills.
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They can pass a bill tomorrow. Especially, since they know it's going nowhere.
However, they can't even do that.
Can't you see you're being played?
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How would you enforce this?
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They can pass a bill tomorrow. Especially, since they know it's going nowhere.
However, they can't even do that.
Can't you see you're being played?
Who am I supposed to trust then, the right?
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How would you enforce this?
Maybe seize their property if they try leaving American shores?
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How would you enforce this?
Maybe seize their property if they try leaving American shores?
What would trigger such action? Aren't people generally free to come and go as they wish?
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How would you enforce this?
Maybe seize their property if they try leaving American shores?
What would trigger such action? Aren't people generally free to come and go as they wish?
Not when they take thousands, if not millions, of jobs with them.
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I admit I am hardly a business savvy person, and because of the fact that I grew up in a union household, I am driven much more by emotion on this issue. That's not to say that I'm admitting to be wrong, because something has to be done about American oligarchs who have zero loyalty to the American people.
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Well, I do wish you would also use your head in this issue, because policies that have been designed to stop this have had a wide range of negative effects. It results in many middle class Americans, who have lived abroad for decades, having to fill out onerous paperwork every year, even when they don't owe any tax. It also results in the enactment of unusual policies, as the US and Eritrea are the only two countries in the world that indefinitely tax the foreign income of citizens living abroad.
Sometimes, it seems like the issue is less anger at rich Americans leaving, and more a general anger at the idea that some people would rather live somewhere else other than America.
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Well, I do wish you would also use your head in this issue, because policies that have been designed to stop this have had a wide range of negative effects. It results in many middle class Americans, who have lived abroad for decades, having to fill out onerous paperwork every year, even when they don't owe any tax. It also results in the enactment of unusual policies, as the US and Eritrea are the only two countries in the world that indefinitely tax the foreign income of citizens living abroad.
Sometimes, it seems like the issue is less anger at rich Americans leaving, and more a general anger at the idea that some people would rather live somewhere else other than America.
I can see how such policies could inadvertently harm middle class people it was never intended to effect. I don't have any problem with American expatriates, as such people have included many who have made an important mark in the arts such as Hemingway, William Burroughs, Josephine Baker, and others who I have the upmost respect for. My problem is with rich people and corporations who are too cheap to pay their fair share of taxes.
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