IndridColdGreg Abbott threatens "100% tariff" on New Yorkers moving to Texas
Wait. What? How does that even… I mean. Huh?
Republicans are the stupidest mother fuckers in the world.
I think it means Texans will have to purchase one whole New Yorker for each New Yorker who moves to Texas?
RiskableVibes-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.
They don’t have to be smart. They have the backing of the rich.
DevolutionHow is that even legal?
ZombiepirateIt isn’t; the Privileges and Immunities clause of the constitution has been interpreted by previous SCOTUS decision to mean that people can move freely between the States without restrictions.
However, reactionaries like Abbott know they have ideological allies in the current SCOTUS who are eager to overturn case law in order to advance their shared conservative project.
It’s not
A tariff on zero dollars is still zero. This means he’ll be introducing and unnecessary, job-killing regulation that adds more pointless bureaucracy to Texas’s already-extreme tax situation.
So, traditional Republican politics.
Sad but true.
It’s not just not legal, it’s nonsensical. Like, what does it even mean? How would it even be enforced? It’s just virtue signaling.
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.
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.
Navy ordered 6 new 60mm guns to shoot tariffs at enemy aircraft.
I had sex with a MAGA lady and now I think I have a tariff on my cock.
It’s the length of Pete Hegseth’s dick, while hard.
Wait until you find out about the standard issue 9mm, we will circumnavigate the globe using miles before fully adopting metric
Sassinake!can a governor be 25th? This guy's insane.
SoftestSapphicHey Abbott, how’s the plan to personal prevent every rape in texas going?
Someone needs to push his chair over
A cliff
TomMaszHe’s contracted Trump’s tendency to string words together without regard to their meaning.
He’s a Republican. They all do it.
Mister NeonWhat does that even mean?
UnderpantsWeevilMeans he’s red, mad, and nude, as usual.
they never got the cartoons anyway
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
Get guns
It’s Texas. The guns are already there.
One side is prepared for the civil war they desperately want
Republicans punishing Republicans
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.
potoooooooo ✅️Rick Perry is now out there spreading the word about psychedelics, oddly enough.
John Boehner toked up so that Rick Perry could trip balls.
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.)
What does that even mean? What an idiot.
That’s not how that works! That’s not how any of this works!
Jaysyn
Tiggy Skibbles and I smoke teeth behind the monolith.
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************.
bullshit motherfuckers
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