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Jeff Hall's avatar

No taxing tips is a better message than cutting taxes on lower income Americans because everyone knows about tips but who are these lower income Americans? It's all a marketing messaging thing like defunding the police. Ask Donny Deutsch about it. He always said 'defund the police' was a stupid idea, but a great message because it was easily understood. People can easily rally around simple messages and defund the police was of that ilk.

I loved the reference to Federalist 1. Not often that we actually go back in our history for reference. Unlike those six pseudo originalists that are on the Supreme Court. They only claim to have read the Federalist Papers and the notes from the Constitutional Convention and yet, their decisions look more like stretches and contortions to make the originalist argument.

Kind of like my favorite meme on the internet these days. "You just cannot trust anything on the internet." - A. Lincoln, 1871

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MillennialExistential's avatar

Except "Defund the Police" was the exact opposite.

It was a bunch of great policy ideas around shifting resources and responsibilities from overburdened cops to community services and non-violent workers that actually reduce crime and help citizens.

Unfortunately the motto turned it into a millstone that tried to sink Democratic electoral hopes.

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Jeff Hall's avatar

You're saying what I was trying to say. It was a horrible slogan for great ideas.

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