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And what’s worse, you got morons calling for even more taxes. It’s like a cult. These people need to be controlled on a leash. Not given money hand over fist.
Lower taxes. You run out of money, then turn the lights off, lock the door and don’t come back til next year.
Defund cops, the military, Social Security and stop playing world cop in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria if Lulz so desires to not have to pay his (Gollum voice)
my precioussssss taxes. Our debt would at least not grow.
Paying your fair share vs. humanity?
Hmmmmm.
No, how about we defund some of the highest paid public employees in the state. Defund corporate welfare. Defund this fake green energy garbage that has made Newman rich while in office. Defund a county so corrupt that at least a dozen of its highest administrators resigned.
By all means defund police. I believe in the 2nd and will use any means to secure myself. You don’t but don’t let that stop you from believing weakness is virtuous. Fools learn the hard way.
Well at least we agree on defunding cops and corporate welfare.
Too bad it’s the GOP who passes massive tax cuts for Wall St.
As an aside: when you refer to DNC voters as communist, why do you always use the singular form to refer to an entre group instead of ‘communists’ plural?
I’ve always wondered.
One more for the Lulz types
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkR_DYAlYSQ