Xi Jinping should follow suit and name trump China's Statesman of the Year.Caribbean Hen wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2026 10:35 am Florida names NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani 'Economic Developer of the Year' in Times Square campaign
A billboard thanks Mamdani for driving wealth, businesses and families to the Sunshine State
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When socialism comes to America..
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Re: When socialism comes to America..
Being wrong about a topic is called post partisanism - kalm
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It will probably be difficult for MAQA yahoos to overcome the Qult programming but they should give being rational & reasonable a try.
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Re: When socialism comes to America..
History and recent economic analysis shows this is not a thing. The same was said of Seattle when it raised its minimum wage.Caribbean Hen wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2026 10:35 am Florida names NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani 'Economic Developer of the Year' in Times Square campaign
A billboard thanks Mamdani for driving wealth, businesses and families to the Sunshine State
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Besides, wealthy people, including the wealthiest are replaceable. Everyone is.
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Re: When socialism comes to America..
Their tax dollars aren’t, unless the socialist are gonna tax the socialist… eventually they will have tokalm wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2026 11:07 amHistory and recent economic analysis shows this is not a thing. The same was said of Seattle when it raised its minimum wage.Caribbean Hen wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2026 10:35 am Florida names NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani 'Economic Developer of the Year' in Times Square campaign
A billboard thanks Mamdani for driving wealth, businesses and families to the Sunshine State
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Besides, wealthy people, including the wealthiest are replaceable. Everyone is.
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Re: When socialism comes to America..
Sure they are. And socialists pay taxes too when they make enough. In places like Norway they appreciate the services provided by those taxes.Caribbean Hen wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2026 12:06 pmTheir tax dollars aren’t, unless the socialist are gonna tax the socialist… eventually they will have to
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Re: When socialism comes to America..
Wrong.kalm wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2026 11:07 amHistory and recent economic analysis shows this is not a thing. The same was said of Seattle when it raised its minimum wage.Caribbean Hen wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2026 10:35 am Florida names NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani 'Economic Developer of the Year' in Times Square campaign
A billboard thanks Mamdani for driving wealth, businesses and families to the Sunshine State
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Besides, wealthy people, including the wealthiest are replaceable. Everyone is.
NYC specific. Pre Mamdami data. It’s only going to get worse for NYC.
https://www.championshipsubdivision.com ... 5#p1483725
NY State
https://www.championshipsubdivision.com ... 8#p1497378
https://www.championshipsubdivision.com ... 8#p1493008
https://www.championshipsubdivision.com ... a#p1491727
https://www.championshipsubdivision.com ... 8#p1487008
JMU Football:
4 Years FBS: 40-11 (.784). Highest winning percentage & least losses of all of G5 2022-2025.
Sun Belt East Champions: 2022, 2023, 2025
Sun Belt Champions: 2025
Top 25 ranked: 2022, 2023, 2025
CFP: 2025
4 Years FBS: 40-11 (.784). Highest winning percentage & least losses of all of G5 2022-2025.
Sun Belt East Champions: 2022, 2023, 2025
Sun Belt Champions: 2025
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Re: When socialism comes to America..
Yawn. Your links and numbers are always highly suspect. Besides, I’m sure there was much clamoring or previous changes. NYC will be just fine.BDKJMU wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2026 8:18 pmWrong.
NYC specific. Pre Mamdami data. It’s only going to get worse for NYC.
https://www.championshipsubdivision.com ... 5#p1483725
NY State
https://www.championshipsubdivision.com ... 8#p1497378
https://www.championshipsubdivision.com ... 8#p1493008
https://www.championshipsubdivision.com ... a#p1491727
https://www.championshipsubdivision.com ... 8#p1487008
Next time, how about a DIRECT link to unbiased data.
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Re: When socialism comes to America..
The data above came fromkalm wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2026 10:36 pmYawn. Your links and numbers are always highly suspect. Besides, I’m sure there was much clamoring or previous changes. NYC will be just fine.BDKJMU wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2026 8:18 pm
Wrong.
NYC specific. Pre Mamdami data. It’s only going to get worse for NYC.
https://www.championshipsubdivision.com ... 5#p1483725
NY State
https://www.championshipsubdivision.com ... 8#p1497378
https://www.championshipsubdivision.com ... 8#p1493008
https://www.championshipsubdivision.com ... a#p1491727
https://www.championshipsubdivision.com ... 8#p1487008
Next time, how about a DIRECT link to unbiased data.
https://cbcny.org/research/competitive-nys#taxesHigh-income taxpayers contribute a significant share of New York's personal income tax revenue, making their residency choices important to funding robust public services. From 2010 to 2022, New York's share of the nation's millionaires declined from 12.7 percent to 8.7 percent. New York’s number of millionaires doubled, but it tripled in California and Texas and quadrupled in Florida, leaving New York State with the fourth-most millionaires behind those states.
New York's Share of Millionaires Has Declined the Most
NYS Could Have Collected $10.7B More in Tax Year 2022 if Its Millionaire Share Held Steady
And note the chart shows they could have collected 15.3 billion more a year in 2021.
and
https://cbcny.org/newsroom/cbc-releases ... aire-share
JMU Football:
4 Years FBS: 40-11 (.784). Highest winning percentage & least losses of all of G5 2022-2025.
Sun Belt East Champions: 2022, 2023, 2025
Sun Belt Champions: 2025
Top 25 ranked: 2022, 2023, 2025
CFP: 2025
4 Years FBS: 40-11 (.784). Highest winning percentage & least losses of all of G5 2022-2025.
Sun Belt East Champions: 2022, 2023, 2025
Sun Belt Champions: 2025
Top 25 ranked: 2022, 2023, 2025
CFP: 2025
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Re: When socialism comes to America..
So some flight to tax havens. This just shows their victimhood and lack of gratefulness and social responsibility. My point still stands.BDKJMU wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2026 9:28 amThe data above came fromhttps://cbcny.org/research/competitive-nys#taxesHigh-income taxpayers contribute a significant share of New York's personal income tax revenue, making their residency choices important to funding robust public services. From 2010 to 2022, New York's share of the nation's millionaires declined from 12.7 percent to 8.7 percent. New York’s number of millionaires doubled, but it tripled in California and Texas and quadrupled in Florida, leaving New York State with the fourth-most millionaires behind those states.
New York's Share of Millionaires Has Declined the Most
NYS Could Have Collected $10.7B More in Tax Year 2022 if Its Millionaire Share Held Steady
And note the chart shows they could have collected 15.3 billion more a year in 2021.
and
https://cbcny.org/newsroom/cbc-releases ... aire-share
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Re: When socialism comes to America..
As Hartmann suggests, Americans aren’t really embracing socialism, they’re rejecting 50 years of steadily increasing oligarchical power.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartm ... medium=ios“If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.”
Americans aren’t really asking for that much: Canada has it all. England has it all. France has it all. Germany has it all. Spain has it all. As do dozens of other countries, all the way down to little Costa Rica.
This isn’t rocket science. People simply want a government that will help them and their children achieve their highest potential, an economy that’s not rigged by and for the morbidly rich, and a job that pays enough to sustain a middle-class lifestyle.
The problem we face today is that a large cohort of our billionaire and CEO class are suffering from the mental illness commonly known as hoarding syndrome, a subset of obsessive-compulsive disorder. There’s never enough for them, no matter how much they have, so they don’t care how many people must die or live in poverty for them to maintain their (tax-deductible) islands, palaces, bunkers, yachts, and private jets.
Those billionaires and CEOs, following the 1971 advice of notorious tobacco lawyer and sociopath Lewis Powell, built out a massive think tank and media infrastructure to transform America from a middle-class nation into a full-blown oligarchy, where every decision made by the Supreme Court, Congress, and most state legislatures would take care of their wants and desires before those of anybody else.
Nixon put Powell on the Supreme Court in 1972 and in 1978 he authored the Bellotti decision, saying that corporations are “persons” and money is the “free speech.” That let Reagan float into the presidency two years later on a tsunami of oil industry money (along with the treasonous deal he cut with Iran’s Mullah’s to hold the American hostages until after the election), remove Jimmy Carter’s solar panels from the roof of the White House, and kill his plans for solarizing America.


