The political equivalent of a toddler tantrum.
Like punishing the people who WANT to leave that "socialist hellhole"... LoL clownworld
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Rich people are seething that they couldn't get their puppet elected in a place that makes them so much money.
It's like a 5 year old mimicking his idiot dad. Would be adorable if it weren't real.
Do it lol
Wait. What? How does that even... I mean. Huh?
Republicans are the stupidest mother fuckers in the world.
They don't have to be smart. They have the backing of the rich.
Vibes-based policy. Republicans hate when people from blue states move to red states, even if they are republicans. They think they bring the liberal stink with them and fuck things up for everyone else.
They'll eat this up, regardless of how little sense it makes.
Republicans hate when people from blue states move to red states, even if they are republicans. They think they bring the liberal stink with them
I mean we kinda do. I moved from a blue state to a red state and man; I didn’t realize how good I had it. Now I want to make things better here.
I have to imagine at least some republicans come to the same conclusion too.
That's what any demographic shift does. Wealthy republicans carpetbag on occasion too, though not as often. The problems of red states can largely be overcome with personal wealth, so they tend to stay where they're politically comfortable.
Another thing is that blue-staters tend to have more buying power than red-staters, so they get butthurt about being priced out of real estate instead of realizing that their relative poverty is the direct consequence of republican policy. 20 states still have a $7.25 minimum wage, guess which ones.
hand up, waiving it around
A common refrain I've heard from Republicans here is "Don't Commie-fornia my Arizona". I could absolutely see them trying to pass something similar.
"Don't Yank my Texas" or some shit will be their new slogan
California should ban drinking bleach.
I think it means Texans will have to purchase one whole New Yorker for each New Yorker who moves to Texas?
Oh I'm sure there will be discounts of up to 3/5ths on certain classes of individuals.
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Best I can figure out, is that it's a joke, but I'm not sure what the punchline is?
I said tariff! Good day sir!
We hear b******* about how if New York raises taxes then some rich people are going to leave and that's supposed to hurt the city somehow. I don't understand that argument but people are making it and let's assume that they have some basis in reasoning to do so.
Except now he's going to make it more expensive for them to go to Texas. So they're more likely to stay in New York even if they're surrounded by socialists. Is that what he really wants to do? Because I think New Yorkers would like that, because then they can tax those rich m************.
You can turn of speech to text censorship. It made me a happier person. IIRC it's buried in the keyboard settings.
As for the threats of tariffing people? Pure nonsense. If he somehow finds a way, he probably opens himself up to litigation. I'd assume discrimination lawsuits or something like that, would ensue.
Money-hoarders contribute next to nothing to their host communities, except cash payments to coke dealers and hookers. So if they go somewhere else, they'll be contributing next to nothing there instead. That's all.
And hasn't it been long decided in court that states can't impose taxes on people moving to the state, and can't impose discriminatory taxes on US citizens based on their state of origin?
bullshit motherfuckers
You can swear on the internet. Especially on Lemmy. There is no algorithm and there are no advertizers here.
Thank you, I figured out "motherfuckers" but couldn't figure out how "bitches" fit into that statement. I appreciate the clarification.
how dare you now I'm not going to all tell you about my products that you don't want to hear about at all.
What a stupid fuck he is. Let’s suppose that a wave of people do ‘flee’ New York if they elect Mandani…. Should Texas welcome them with open arms? They would be ‘his type’ of people? What a dumb fucking thing to say….. barring all the rest of the issues with something so dumb…..
If he was smart he would promise them a gun and unlimited medical debt and payment in oil credits or whatever MAGAt people like.
"No, no, no! Do not come to Texas! Texas is full!"
Meanwhile, Texas:
Come to Texas! We love guns and hate brown people and reliable public utilities! Do you like water? Well so do our datacenters, but you might get some too!
It doesn't even make sense. He's just throwing around the word "tariff" because Republican dumbfucks don't know what it means but think it sounds harsh and Trumpy.
MAGA politicians are just regurgitating SEO shit at this point
Navy ordered 6 new 60mm guns to shoot tariffs at enemy aircraft.
Excuse me? Sixty MILLIMETERS!!?!!!!
Woke fuckin metric bullshit in my military?????
It's the length of Pete Hegseth's dick, while hard.
Oooh, high caliber twrrifs!
I had sex with a MAGA lady and now I think I have a tariff on my cock.
Hey Abbott, how's the plan to personally prevent every rape in texas going?
Someone needs to push his chair over
A cliff
What does that even mean?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff
A tariff or import tax is a duty imposed by a national government, customs territory, or supranational union on imports of goods and is paid by the importer.
Could be a slip that Texas is finally going to secede.
Or his head has seceded from reality, no one rly knows
It will cost Texans twice as much to buy themselves a New Yorker?
they never got the cartoons anyway
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Talk about tilting at Windmills.
He's contracted Trump's tendency to string words together without regard to their meaning.
He's a Republican. They all do it.
Popular MAGA influencer Gunther Eagleman wrote on X: "Good! Now abolish property taxes for us that live here."
Take note: property taxes are part of the wealth taxes that people rightfully clamor for. Property tax is something you pay because of what you own, not what you earn.
If anything, property taxes should be progressive, with brackets, and there should be a progressive "stock ownership" tax, too. (Yes, there would be carve-outs for 401ks and IRAs and similar retirement investments.)
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What does that even mean? What an idiot.
Twelve years later and oh how the turn tables
Gov. Rick Perry announced Monday that he’s hitting the airwaves in California to tout business opportunities in Texas and invite Californians to migrate.
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