Who voted against FEMA hurricane relief ?

NiftyNiblick said:
Are we calling undocumented refugees "illegals" now?
Sounds pretty disrespectful to me.
I wonder if the Mayflower passengers came by invitation from our indigenous Americans?
Is there really a difference?
I don't think so.

If you're not cutting it where you are,
you try someplace else.
It's called "survival."
Not recognizing that is called "xenophobia."
It's incompatible with holding the moral high ground.
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If the illegals don't like the idea of America they should arm up and take it from us like we did the Indians.
 
Joe said:
If the illegals don't like the idea of America they should arm up and take it from us like we did the Indians.
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maybe the 'Crats' should have thought of that before they let 1.7M military age illegals from the ME invade our borders......
 
T. A. Gardner said:
If you took every penny of all the billionaires, then the corporations, then... Let's eat the rich!

You get this:


That was over a decade ago, and it hasn't gotten better.
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Short-term Trumpian thinking. If you raise corporate tax rates, Increase the taxes on the top 1 percent, it will pay off year after year. We will have to close loopholes the corporations and wealthy get too. After that, they will still be fabulously wealthy. But the money will accumulate and can be used to cut the debt. You think so superficially.
 
Nordberg said:
Short-term Trumpian thinking. If you raise corporate tax rates, Increase the taxes on the top 1 percent, it will pay off year after year. We will have to close loopholes the corporations and wealthy get too. After that, they will still be fabulously wealthy. But the money will accumulate and can be used to cut the debt. You think so superficially.
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no.

the short term thinking is thinking it's smart to send all the jobs and production capacities away for short term profits.
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Full List of Republicans Who Voted Against FEMA Funding Before Helene Hit​


As Hurricane Helene careened toward Florida's Panhandle, numerous Republicans voted against extending funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Last week, Congress approved $20 billion for FEMA's disaster relief fund as part of a stopgap spending bill to fund the government through December 20. But the measure left out billions of dollars in requested supplemental disaster funding.

The Senate approved the measure by a 78-18 vote on September 25 after it passed the House in a 341-82 vote. Republicans supplied the no votes in both chambers.

Some of the Republicans who voted against the bill represent states that have been hard hit by Helene, including Florida Representative Matt Gaetz.

www.newsweek.com

Full list of Republicans who voted against FEMA funding before Helene hit

Congress approved $20 billion for FEMA's disaster relief fund as Hurricane Helene was heading toward Florida.
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com
 
Nordberg said:
Short-term Trumpian thinking. If you raise corporate tax rates, Increase the taxes on the top 1 percent, it will pay off year after year. We will have to close loopholes the corporations and wealthy get too. After that, they will still be fabulously wealthy. But the money will accumulate and can be used to cut the debt. You think so superficially.
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No, it won't. Corporations and the top 1 percent will change their spending and investment behavior to nullify the effect to the maximum extent they can. The more onerous the tax, the more incentivized corporations and the rich become to do something to avoid the tax.

For example, France imposed a wealth tax of the sort Harris, Sanders, and Warren have proposed, among others...

...the wealth tax in Europe was a failure in many countries. France's wealth tax contributed to the exodus of an estimated 42,000 millionaires between 2000 and 2012, among other problems.


What will happen is corporations and the rich will leave if nothing else. They will flee somewhere they aren't taxed so heavily. California is seeing this happen there right now. They're doing exactly what you propose, taxing corporations and the rich heavily. Both are leaving for somewhere else to avoid the taxes.

People generally don't mind paying taxes they see as their "fair share." What a fair share is, is hard to define. What it isn't is levels where the taxes are confiscatory.
 
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