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Maybe it's the fact that I was in Versailles, MO two weeks ago and I'm currently on a boat in the Danube staring at the buildings in Budapest but I'm looking around trying to take what you said and make it work in my brain and I'm having a tough time giving equal reverence to both parties.
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kiimo posted:Maybe it's the fact that I was in Versailles, MO two weeks ago and I'm currently on a boat in the Danube staring at the buildings in Budapest but I'm looking around trying to take what you said and make it work in my brain and I'm having a tough time giving equal reverence to both parties.
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Your chances of getting murdered by a fascist are probably roughly the same though
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mrbradlymrmartin posted:the welfare queen aint a myth, she was a vicious conniving murderous white con woman The "Welfare Queen" myth is that the benfits of welfare are so good that women are living in luxury off the system, therefore the benefits are too generous and disincentize actual work. The woman you linked was using multiple identities to pull in multiple welfare checks as well as committing insurance fraud. So I would say it's still a myth.
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There never has been any  Eliminate income tax in Kansas! supporters in this thread, has there? Easier to turn a blind eye to the flaming ball of poop if you're a tea party Kansas voter?Florida has no income tax -- but has massive sales tax to compensate. They also have tourism that suits taxing the heck out of visitors, anyway. Idk how well pure sales tax for revenue would work in a primary-production agribiz state. Based on what I'm reading, Kansas hasn't really kicked up sales tax enough to compensate for this poo poo, and etailers without offices in Kansas can provide the middle and upper classes their expensive goods without Kansas sales tax anyway. Potato Salad fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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Potato Salad posted:There never has been any I bet shops in Oklahoma and Missouri would enjoy that. 
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Haha holy poo poo, Kansas really can't go income-tax-free. I have a brother in Lawrence, so I didn't really realize the population was so drat close to the state's borders. What the gently caress are they trying to do.
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Potato Salad posted:What the gently caress are they trying to do. Break things to demonstrate that they don't work and remake Kansas into the anarcho-capitalist utopia that the Koch brothers always wanted.
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I can see the bill already: "Be it so enacted by the Kansas State Legislature.......don't spend your money 10 miles across the border in Missouri. Also, please don't move away."
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Potato Salad posted:Haha holy poo poo, Kansas really can't go income-tax-free. I have a brother in Lawrence, so I didn't really realize the population was so drat close to the state's borders. What the gently caress are they trying to do. I hate the term flyover country but it seriously describes 90% of Kansas. I'm from Topeka but my family's from a small town near St. Joseph and though I haven't been there in years, I remember there being quite a few "gently caress the government" types there that also spent a majority of their money at the local casino. Basically, bomb everything that isn't Northeastern Kansas or Wichita in that state. e: I saw that Huelskamp got voted out. Good. gently caress that motherfucker.
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Potato Salad posted:Haha holy poo poo, Kansas really can't go income-tax-free. I have a brother in Lawrence, so I didn't really realize the population was so drat close to the state's borders. What the gently caress are they trying to do. We also don't have industries to support going tax free. Texas can do it because they have the oil industry, Florida can do it because they have tourism. Kansas doesn't have any of that ON TOP of what you are saying about the bulk of the population living within an hour of the border.
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my wife's uncle and his family not only live in various small town Kansas shitholes but are all(or were) teachers and they can't quite make the connection on why the education system has gone to complete poo poo but they know its Obama's fault
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SalTheBard posted:We also don't have industries to support going tax free. Texas can do it because they have the oil industry, Florida can do it because they have tourism. Kansas doesn't have any of that ON TOP of what you are saying about the bulk of the population living within an hour of the border. Buddy, Texas and Florida can't actually support being income tax free either, and their population suffers because of it.
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Vanderdeath posted:I hate the term flyover country but it seriously describes 90% of Kansas. I'm from Topeka but my family's from a small town near St. Joseph I spent some summers working in Dearborn. It was the first time I encountered people racist towards Kansas-born Asians.
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fishmech posted:Buddy, Texas and Florida can't actually support being income tax free either, and their population suffers because of it. I'm sure they do, I just don't feel like Texas and Florida have a budget crisis every month.
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kiimo posted:Maybe it's the fact that I was in Versailles, MO two weeks ago and I'm currently on a boat in the Danube staring at the buildings in Budapest but I'm looking around trying to take what you said and make it work in my brain and I'm having a tough time giving equal reverence to both parties. That's an awesome view, been there done that.
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Vanderdeath posted:Basically, bomb everything that isn't Northeastern Kansas or Wichita in that state. From the sounds of it, it wouldn't be worth the expenditure of refined fissile material.
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Potato Salad posted:There never has been any Well technically a wealth tax would be better and you wouldn't need an income or sales tax then.
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kiimo posted:I spent some summers working in Dearborn. It was the first time I encountered people racist towards Kansas-born Asians. Ugh, I'm sorry. I'm part Asian myself and I've been told I've got "chinky eyes" back home. Potato Salad posted:From the sounds of it, it wouldn't be worth the expenditure of refined fissile material. I know, but a man can dream. A man can dream.
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http://kmuw.org/post/wichita-artists-brace-loss-federal-regional-grant-funding lol this state is just the worst
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go3 posted:my wife's uncle and his family not only live in various small town Kansas shitholes but are all(or were) teachers and they can't quite make the connection on why the education system has gone to complete poo poo but they know its Obama's fault I'm guessing it's probably all about Common Core, right?
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We are having a mock constitutional convention.  My Imaginary GF is representing the Heartland's interests (including Kansas) as we re-write the Constitution!!  Drop by and give them a piece of your mind to preserve/un-gently caress the Heartlands!
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fishhooked posted:Oh hey Kansas politics thread, anyone in mission/Roland park area want to laugh about the "totally not a Walmart" but still a Walmart project at missionn gateway getting booted again?
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Kruller posted:Is there a list for who is up for election statewide and their stances on things? I'd like to go in armed with some knowledge when I vote this year. If it matters, I live in Shawnee in JoCo. I'm quoting myself in case this got missed, I'd really like to be informed for once when I vote.
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Kruller posted:I'm quoting myself in case this got missed, I'd really like to be informed for once when I vote. Try putting your zip code or address in to Ballotpedia. I've also found https://turbovote.org/ to be very helpful in terms of reminding me about upcoming elections and helping me get advance ballots so I can vote from home and look candidates up. Turbovote has never sent me any spam so I'm recommending it to pretty much everyone for now.
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Filling out my overseas ballot for Sedgwick County. There are 21 district judges, a state board of education member, a county treasurer, a county clerk, and a register of deeds running unopposed. All Republican. Of the seven offices on the ballot with more than just a Republican, the Republican is always listed first, with the order of the other parties seemingly randomized after that. EDIT: Done. +1 to Hillary in the national popular vote, though of no use otherwise. It was also personally enjoyable to vote against Moran and Pompeo, though that will also ultimately be in vain. I voted to retain all of the Kansas Supreme Court and all of the Appeals Court judges basically because Brownback has been messing around with them, and gently caress that guy, even though I know absolutely nothing about the individual judges. Also voted against the hunting and fishing constitutional amendment out of spite for the rear end in a top hat Kansans I had to deal with while I lived there. I don't want them having things they would like. Inferior Third Season fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Sep 26, 2016 |
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That might be a fun little bit of investigative journalism: what determines the ordering of parties on your county's ballot?
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Grundulum posted:That might be a fun little bit of investigative journalism: what determines the ordering of parties on your county's ballot? In Washington State (or at least King County?) I'm pretty sure they're randomized.
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Inferior Third Season posted:I voted to retain all of the Kansas Supreme Court and all of the Appeals Court judges basically because Brownback has been messing around with them, and gently caress that guy, even though I know absolutely nothing about the individual judges. Also voted against the hunting and fishing constitutional amendment out of spite for the rear end in a top hat Kansans I had to deal with while I lived there. I don't want them having things they would like. I hadn't thought about that but the KS Supreme Court has done a great job. I was going to vote for the Fishing/Hunting Amendment but I'm going to spite vote No too
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got any sevens posted:In Washington State (or at least King County?) I'm pretty sure they're randomized. In Johnson County I believe they are in candidate alphabetical order. At least here, you can go to the county election board website to see the sample ballot for your address. Regarding the poster who asked about a list of candidates and their positions: Kansas is part of https://votesmart.org this year - your candidates may have answered their Political Courage Survey, which asks for black/white positions on issues that politicians are known for squirming on. If you want a ray of hope for this election in KS, quite a few of Sam's Gang lost their primaries to more moderate R challengers. The state Democratic party has fielded more candidates to challenge the rest. Nice to hear candidates speaking with a pretty unified message in both camps and more voters seeing the light. I'm a challenger in one of the House races, and it's a.) good to see some Kansan goons talking about our state and b.) embarrassing to me that my home state became known nationally for stupid fiscal policy.
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Chino Rojo posted:In Johnson County I believe they are in candidate alphabetical order. At least here, you can go to the county election board website to see the sample ballot for your address. Good luck!
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Does anyone know why Brownback seems to hate Kansas Neurological Institute specifically? There are rumors going around that some state hospitals might actually see some raises, but absolutely definitely not KNI. Did it just happen to be first on his list of socialist hellholes to close, and since it survived he's sworn vengeance like a good devout Christian would?
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Top Kansas Republican Calls Hitler’s Words ‘Profound’ In Facebook Postquote:The No. 3 Republican in the Kansas House called Adolf Hitler’s words “profound” in a Thursday Facebook post that she said was meant to criticize Planned Parenthood.
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When praising Hitler seems like a good idea you may want to take a step back and rethink your life.  Will they be using his brilliance on integration, foreign relations and humanitarian efforts as well?
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I don't know, Eisenhower really liked his autobahn idea -- maybe she was just swinging for the fences like Ike did!
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Poil posted:When praising Hitler seems like a good idea you may want to take a step back and rethink your life. No, no it was all taken out of context, I swear
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:I don't know, Eisenhower really liked his autobahn idea -- maybe she was just swinging for the fences like Ike did!
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Poil posted:When praising Hitler seems like a good idea you may want to take a step back and rethink your life. Well there is one great thing that he managed to do before the Allies could, he killed Hitler.
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CannonFodder posted:If Kansans like the autobahn then maybe they should raise the gas and deisel tax to fix those highways. lol yeah right, they've already raided like $200m from the highway fund to cover the holes in the budget
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Potato Salad posted:No, no it was all taken out of context, I swear Wichita Eagle posted:Mast’s initial post did not contain a video. An hour later, she shared a link to an article from JulieRoys.com, a Christian blog. The article included a transcript and video of anti-abortion activist Gianna Jessen testifying before Congress about Planned Parenthood. You see, it is actually my opponents who are the Nazis because...
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