So...I'll try my best to explain the money part. Each state is "sort of" its own little country. Each state has its own tax system for income, sales tax, property tax, etc. This is how states set their budget. They can spend what they can collect in revenue. The amount of revenue a given state can collect depends on how desirable it is to live there, so-for instance, taxes are much higher in New York than Kentucky, but public services are much better in NY. States also receive funds from the federal government for various things.
Anyway, in state budgets, education spending is discretionary, meaning it's a part of the budget that they can cut or increase. It often gets cut in favor of other things, or instead of raising taxes on businesses or something. In my state just this year, the (democrat) governor proposed an increase to the K-12 budget since they had some leftover Covid funds (I think that's what it was) but the Republican-controlled legislature killed his proposal, so the money won't be going to the schools. They haven't said where it's going so I can't answer that, they just said "rainy day fund".
The federal government also gives states additional money for education. Each of the 4 years Donald Trump was in office, he tried to slash that budget, along with trying to entirely get rid of the Dept of Education. Joe Biden, in contrast, is proposing more money for education.
The election was fine. You have to keep in mind, Donald Trump never once had a positive approval rating. He had the lowest approval ratings of ANY president since modern polling began. He lost. Some people really liked him but more people did not. There has been countless investigations into any election fraud and none has been found. Hand recounts were done, some multiple times. No problems were found.
The lawsuit I believe you're talking about is the one that allowed mail-in ballots to be received up to 3 days after voting day? I believe this was in Pennsylvania. So, that lawsuit got dismissed because there is an established concept in law that says you have to take action in a timely manner. The state in question approved the law to accept ballots after election day MONTHS prior to the election. If someone wanted to challenge that law, they legally had to act within a reasonable time frame. You can't sit back and wait, see if it benefits you, and if it doesn't, then sue to retroactively change it. The law does not work that way.
Yeah, I get the individual state parts. So is what happens in Red States more a case of there being less taxes being paid to go towards these areas like Educations and so on? What do taxes in these Red states go to? Why would Republicans be opposed to giving the left over money from Covid to schooling, did they give any particular reason?
In the first link you gave does it not also say that while Trump was cutting that budget he was putting it towards a private school voucher scheme?
Honestly, I take a lot of what I hear from places saying those things with a grain of salt now. They say he's the least popular and that somehow Biden was the most popular yet Biden's rallies were barely populated, ya'know?
I believe the issue wasn't that they wanted a recount but an audit as the the concerns people were bringing up wasn't that it wasn't counted correctly but that the votes being counted could of been compromised.
That's a fair point on the Pennsylvania part. They should of done it sooner. Can't just wait for those votes to be counted then throw them out when it would be too late for them to vote again.
I still have my concerns but at the end of the day it doesn't matter anymore.
We have the worst reply schedule here. I reply just after I wake up and wanna sleep and you reply when you're about to get to bed and wanna sleep. God help us. Haha.
Less taxes collected, because of many factors. Shitty place to live, people moving away instead of moving in, and the Republican favorite...big tax breaks to the wealthy and big businesses. Some examples from my state, coal mining-stripped the land of coal and destroyed and poisoned it, crippled the men who worked there, then left without even cleaning up the mess, and got tax breaks and everything the whole time.
Granting land and other benefits to "factories" that never get built, or end up a fraction of what was promised. It's a shell game, basically, and the average residents of the sate lose and the money "evaporates".
Another one is incarceration. Guess which states have the highest rates of incarceration? Red...
My state pays out multiple millions in lawsuits, that really shouldn't be happening. Police brutality, anti-abortion bullshit and religious zealotry cost this state enormously. I'm sure you heard of Breonna Taylor, that happened here. Kim Davis, the clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, that was here too. She cost a fortune in legal fees for refusing to do her job, and the governor at the time, Republican Matt Bevin, supported her. We have a lot of that. Stupidity. Its just such a waste.
Biden didn't have rallies due to covid. Most left-leaning people respected covid guidelines and didn't care about not having rallies. If you watched the coverage on the day the election results were -finally- announced though, you would've seen people dancing and partying in the streets not just in the US, but all over the world. I was watching it on CNN. Anderson Cooper harped on the partying a bit (covid) but it was really quite the display.
I couldn't find anything saying biden was only helping black people with covid aid, but I know that's not true because everyone who filed taxes and made under $75,000 got a check for $1400, and so did their children.
Biden did say he was sending $5 billion in aid to black farmers. So? They need it. White farmers weren't excluded from aid, they got billions from each stimulous. This was just a special fund for people who need it and lost out last time. Anyone who is pizsed about this should think about all the already rich individuals who got billions EACH in the previous stimulus. Why did Jared Kushner get $1billion? Thats $1billion to ONE man, but there's a problem with earmarked $5 billion to all of America's black farmers to share? Think about that, its ridiculous.
Small businesses lost out under Trump's stimulus, because bigger, more connected businesses snapped up huge benefits before small businesses could even try. Biden tried to level out the playing field by allowing smaller businesses to apply first and making the bigger ones wait. Theres some actual oversight this time too, instead of just handing out cash to whoever. I don't see a problem there. Seems better to me.
I'll be honest with you, I don't know as much as you do about America (obviously) and I'm kind of on a tight schedule before to get ready for a few days away for work so I'm not risking putting time into looking the the tax topic up until I'm back (Round about Thurs/Friday) if we can hold off on that part just now? I'd need to do more reading to catch up with you on it. I'll try to keep up with the rest though as I hopefully don't need to catch up too much with the other subjects, which if I do I'll have to drop them until I'm back too. Hope you don't mind.
I don't know if we can necessarily say Biden didn't have rallies due to Covid, weren't the early rallies he done completely pitiful? We seen more people out protesting within the span of a year for left leaning causes than we seen turn up for Biden so I don't think we can say he just didn't rally when he did and it seemed to be a sad turnout. Not only that but the livefeeds and views of his, for lack of a better word, content were painfully lacking compared to Trump's, so even when Covid wasn't a factor it was pretty bad.
Sorry, it was in regards to black and minority owned businesses, not simply black people and minorities.
The $5 billion thing would require more reading for me to do but are you saying that all white farmers and all other minority farmers all obtained these funds while all black farmers did not to the point that we can justify racial segregated funding instead of funding to go to people regardless of race that missed out? Because if this is something only some white farmers, hell even most white farmers got but all black farmers get then why are we discriminating against white farmers that lose out in comparison purely due to their race? Unless I'm mistaken here that would justify an exclusively white farmer funding for white farmers that missed out under the same logic, right?
Omg. ARRRRRGH. I'm trying to be quick in this reply because I'm heading out again but then I clicked "Reply" on the other comment and it deleted the one I was typing out. Ok, I'll try to be SUPER quick this time.
I don't think I'm a conservative, I usually just approach things from what I believe is a common sense angle from the perspective of fairness. You probably know way more than I do on these matters. The political tests I've done, if they can be relied on, I was first on the centre and then the last one I took I was Left Lib. A large part of what got me defending the right was the unfairness Trump received by media and people defending it. Unfairness pisses me off, infact it's a large reason on why I believe there should be some sort of reparations for descendants of slaves.
No worries, won't take it personally. Might be true. The reason why I take issue with the Left is because their extremism is being validated in popular culture, as are their views of who "The enemy" is.
When it comes to fact-checking I'm honestly dubious of them. Take for example your examples, I just don't believe it. Biden supporters who were out at the same time protesting and rioting on mass didn't go to his rallies because of Covid-19? How could they possibly have quantified that? Not only that but (((why))) would they feel the need to run to the defence of something they admit was true but give an excuse for as a means to apply a negative label to it to imply it's less true (((because reasons)))? Then when you add the fact his media just done horribly the "Covid-19 did-it" argument takes a hit even more. Also, didn't Biden get like the most votes ever? Even more than Obama? Pair them all together and it becomes quite laughable. But then again, black people don't know how to use the internet according to Joe, so maybe that's the missing context is that he'd of got the viewership if they knew how to use Youtube. Lol. ;)
But yeah, I think the reason why I go after left wing extremists more is because right wing extremists aren't taken with nearly as much legitimacy as Left Wing extremists. The Right seem to want to maintain everything (Obviously there's room to improve) but The Left want to change everything in our culture and force their way into the lives of others, through force if necessary. One will leave me alone and the other will tear me down if I don't live how they want me to.
I'm away again today for a good few days. I might be able to read the response but not reply. Kick my ass if I don't respond within a week again, I need reminding. Lol.
That's interesting, so you're not actually a conservative? Have you or would you vote conservative? It's actually a "thing" that people who "feel" conservative actually favor liberal policy, but why do they vote conservative??? Thats what people are talking about when they say "voting against their own interest".
I get where you're coming from on fairness, I think I used to be a lot like you a while back, but my idea of fairness has evolved. I realized there's different layers of fairness. I acknowledge fairness doesn't translate exactly across age/gender/race. Its not like I can say "hey, I did xyz, so you should/could too"...that's where a lot of my disagreement came from, I realized that even though I "did" and "could" do it, doesn't mean anyone else should, or even "could". And if I suffered doing it, why would I want anyone else to? Why make others suffer and hurt for no other reason than, "hey, I went through it so why can't you?" No.
Biden literally DIDN'T HAVE IN PERSON RALLIES. I mean, you can't go to a rally that didn't exist. You're saying people didn't show up to an event that didn't exist, and that proves fraud. If he purposely didn't have in-person rallies, then how does a lack of attendance at said inexistant rallies prove support, or lack of?
With fact-checking, you can easily start by going to the original source, if the claim is "Biden said/Biden did", you can easily check his speech or record, if it's a proposed law then you can just as easily check the text of the law. You can check other news sources against others combined with the direct sources, it's not hard. Why choose to blindly believe anti-Biden sources?
"One will leave me alone and the other will tear me down if I don't live how they want me to."
In the US, I feel the ones who tread on me the most are the conservatives. They are anti-abortion, anti-freedom of religion, anti-education, anti-freedom of speech....
I feel like civil rights benefit us all, why fight that?
Physical Violence is primarily a right-wing thing.
Maybe we could switch gears a bit here, why don't you just tell me why you personally support conservatism, what you think Republican ideals are, and tell me any criticisms you have of the ideology/party.
Something I've noticed in our chat (and please don't take this as a personal attack, its merely an observation, I'm enjoying talking to you very much and I appreciate you engaging with me politely even though we have different views) is that you seem to have a willingness to believe anything anti-Biden/anti-"left" with little to no proof or fact-checking but anything that criticises or puts a spotlight on a negative of conservatism is dismissed, excused or questioned heavily. I've noticed you believe at least a few things that could be easily fact-checked to be shown false, or to at least be put in context for full understanding. I think its important to question your own side just as much as the "other", you know? Also to be critical of your own guys.
I voted for Biden, I didn't attend or watch any of his campaign except for watching the televised debates, and I read some campaign materials. I didn't feel any need to do any more, probably many others felt the same way.
Even though I voted for him, I can easily say "fuck you, Joe, shut up about "assault weapons". I also saw he wanted to reduce nicotine levels in cigarettes. OK, fuck you on that too, Joe. I'm not going to just be fine with everything he says or does just because I voted for him. I don't see the same willingness to criticise on the right, though. Speaking of that, I found a pretty telling collection of polling results that illustrates this. It shows conservatives change their support for or against things not so much with facts but feelings, whereas democrats stay very level in their support. It appears to show conservatives support or un-support depending more on who is saying it/in charge rather than examining the actual issue itself.
http://imgur.com/a/VXl1K
Another famous example of this is the whole Affordable Care Act vs Obama care. Conservatives are much more favorable of the ACA but hate Obamacare. They are LITERALLY the same thing. I mean, the same exact thing, just a different name for it.
Anyway, I'd really like to hear back from you about what I asked in the first paragraph, maybe it would help establish a better understanding between us so we can more effectively talk about the other issues.
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Haha, Wall-E, indeed.
So...I'll try my best to explain the money part. Each state is "sort of" its own little country. Each state has its own tax system for income, sales tax, property tax, etc. This is how states set their budget. They can spend what they can collect in revenue. The amount of revenue a given state can collect depends on how desirable it is to live there, so-for instance, taxes are much higher in New York than Kentucky, but public services are much better in NY. States also receive funds from the federal government for various things.
Anyway, in state budgets, education spending is discretionary, meaning it's a part of the budget that they can cut or increase. It often gets cut in favor of other things, or instead of raising taxes on businesses or something. In my state just this year, the (democrat) governor proposed an increase to the K-12 budget since they had some leftover Covid funds (I think that's what it was) but the Republican-controlled legislature killed his proposal, so the money won't be going to the schools. They haven't said where it's going so I can't answer that, they just said "rainy day fund".
The federal government also gives states additional money for education. Each of the 4 years Donald Trump was in office, he tried to slash that budget, along with trying to entirely get rid of the Dept of Education. Joe Biden, in contrast, is proposing more money for education.
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/news/2020/02/11/480384/trumps-k-12-education-budget/
https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2021-04-09/bidens-budget-significantly-boosts-k-12-education-spending
The election was fine. You have to keep in mind, Donald Trump never once had a positive approval rating. He had the lowest approval ratings of ANY president since modern polling began. He lost. Some people really liked him but more people did not. There has been countless investigations into any election fraud and none has been found. Hand recounts were done, some multiple times. No problems were found.
The lawsuit I believe you're talking about is the one that allowed mail-in ballots to be received up to 3 days after voting day? I believe this was in Pennsylvania. So, that lawsuit got dismissed because there is an established concept in law that says you have to take action in a timely manner. The state in question approved the law to accept ballots after election day MONTHS prior to the election. If someone wanted to challenge that law, they legally had to act within a reasonable time frame. You can't sit back and wait, see if it benefits you, and if it doesn't, then sue to retroactively change it. The law does not work that way.
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Yeah, I get the individual state parts. So is what happens in Red States more a case of there being less taxes being paid to go towards these areas like Educations and so on? What do taxes in these Red states go to? Why would Republicans be opposed to giving the left over money from Covid to schooling, did they give any particular reason?
In the first link you gave does it not also say that while Trump was cutting that budget he was putting it towards a private school voucher scheme?
Honestly, I take a lot of what I hear from places saying those things with a grain of salt now. They say he's the least popular and that somehow Biden was the most popular yet Biden's rallies were barely populated, ya'know?
I believe the issue wasn't that they wanted a recount but an audit as the the concerns people were bringing up wasn't that it wasn't counted correctly but that the votes being counted could of been compromised.
That's a fair point on the Pennsylvania part. They should of done it sooner. Can't just wait for those votes to be counted then throw them out when it would be too late for them to vote again.
I still have my concerns but at the end of the day it doesn't matter anymore.
We have the worst reply schedule here. I reply just after I wake up and wanna sleep and you reply when you're about to get to bed and wanna sleep. God help us. Haha.
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Less taxes collected, because of many factors. Shitty place to live, people moving away instead of moving in, and the Republican favorite...big tax breaks to the wealthy and big businesses. Some examples from my state, coal mining-stripped the land of coal and destroyed and poisoned it, crippled the men who worked there, then left without even cleaning up the mess, and got tax breaks and everything the whole time.
Granting land and other benefits to "factories" that never get built, or end up a fraction of what was promised. It's a shell game, basically, and the average residents of the sate lose and the money "evaporates".
Another one is incarceration. Guess which states have the highest rates of incarceration? Red...
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/prison-population-by-state
My state pays out multiple millions in lawsuits, that really shouldn't be happening. Police brutality, anti-abortion bullshit and religious zealotry cost this state enormously. I'm sure you heard of Breonna Taylor, that happened here. Kim Davis, the clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, that was here too. She cost a fortune in legal fees for refusing to do her job, and the governor at the time, Republican Matt Bevin, supported her. We have a lot of that. Stupidity. Its just such a waste.
Biden didn't have rallies due to covid. Most left-leaning people respected covid guidelines and didn't care about not having rallies. If you watched the coverage on the day the election results were -finally- announced though, you would've seen people dancing and partying in the streets not just in the US, but all over the world. I was watching it on CNN. Anderson Cooper harped on the partying a bit (covid) but it was really quite the display.
I couldn't find anything saying biden was only helping black people with covid aid, but I know that's not true because everyone who filed taxes and made under $75,000 got a check for $1400, and so did their children.
Biden did say he was sending $5 billion in aid to black farmers. So? They need it. White farmers weren't excluded from aid, they got billions from each stimulous. This was just a special fund for people who need it and lost out last time. Anyone who is pizsed about this should think about all the already rich individuals who got billions EACH in the previous stimulus. Why did Jared Kushner get $1billion? Thats $1billion to ONE man, but there's a problem with earmarked $5 billion to all of America's black farmers to share? Think about that, its ridiculous.
Small businesses lost out under Trump's stimulus, because bigger, more connected businesses snapped up huge benefits before small businesses could even try. Biden tried to level out the playing field by allowing smaller businesses to apply first and making the bigger ones wait. Theres some actual oversight this time too, instead of just handing out cash to whoever. I don't see a problem there. Seems better to me.
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I don't know if we can necessarily say Biden didn't have rallies due to Covid, weren't the early rallies he done completely pitiful? We seen more people out protesting within the span of a year for left leaning causes than we seen turn up for Biden so I don't think we can say he just didn't rally when he did and it seemed to be a sad turnout. Not only that but the livefeeds and views of his, for lack of a better word, content were painfully lacking compared to Trump's, so even when Covid wasn't a factor it was pretty bad.
Sorry, it was in regards to black and minority owned businesses, not simply black people and minorities.
The $5 billion thing would require more reading for me to do but are you saying that all white farmers and all other minority farmers all obtained these funds while all black farmers did not to the point that we can justify racial segregated funding instead of funding to go to people regardless of race that missed out? Because if this is something only some white farmers, hell even most white farmers got but all black farmers get then why are we discriminating against white farmers that lose out in comparison purely due to their race? Unless I'm mistaken here that would justify an exclusively white farmer funding for white farmers that missed out under the same logic, right?
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Omg. ARRRRRGH. I'm trying to be quick in this reply because I'm heading out again but then I clicked "Reply" on the other comment and it deleted the one I was typing out. Ok, I'll try to be SUPER quick this time.
I don't think I'm a conservative, I usually just approach things from what I believe is a common sense angle from the perspective of fairness. You probably know way more than I do on these matters. The political tests I've done, if they can be relied on, I was first on the centre and then the last one I took I was Left Lib. A large part of what got me defending the right was the unfairness Trump received by media and people defending it. Unfairness pisses me off, infact it's a large reason on why I believe there should be some sort of reparations for descendants of slaves.
No worries, won't take it personally. Might be true. The reason why I take issue with the Left is because their extremism is being validated in popular culture, as are their views of who "The enemy" is.
When it comes to fact-checking I'm honestly dubious of them. Take for example your examples, I just don't believe it. Biden supporters who were out at the same time protesting and rioting on mass didn't go to his rallies because of Covid-19? How could they possibly have quantified that? Not only that but (((why))) would they feel the need to run to the defence of something they admit was true but give an excuse for as a means to apply a negative label to it to imply it's less true (((because reasons)))? Then when you add the fact his media just done horribly the "Covid-19 did-it" argument takes a hit even more. Also, didn't Biden get like the most votes ever? Even more than Obama? Pair them all together and it becomes quite laughable. But then again, black people don't know how to use the internet according to Joe, so maybe that's the missing context is that he'd of got the viewership if they knew how to use Youtube. Lol. ;)
But yeah, I think the reason why I go after left wing extremists more is because right wing extremists aren't taken with nearly as much legitimacy as Left Wing extremists. The Right seem to want to maintain everything (Obviously there's room to improve) but The Left want to change everything in our culture and force their way into the lives of others, through force if necessary. One will leave me alone and the other will tear me down if I don't live how they want me to.
I'm away again today for a good few days. I might be able to read the response but not reply. Kick my ass if I don't respond within a week again, I need reminding. Lol.
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That's interesting, so you're not actually a conservative? Have you or would you vote conservative? It's actually a "thing" that people who "feel" conservative actually favor liberal policy, but why do they vote conservative??? Thats what people are talking about when they say "voting against their own interest".
I get where you're coming from on fairness, I think I used to be a lot like you a while back, but my idea of fairness has evolved. I realized there's different layers of fairness. I acknowledge fairness doesn't translate exactly across age/gender/race. Its not like I can say "hey, I did xyz, so you should/could too"...that's where a lot of my disagreement came from, I realized that even though I "did" and "could" do it, doesn't mean anyone else should, or even "could". And if I suffered doing it, why would I want anyone else to? Why make others suffer and hurt for no other reason than, "hey, I went through it so why can't you?" No.
Biden literally DIDN'T HAVE IN PERSON RALLIES. I mean, you can't go to a rally that didn't exist. You're saying people didn't show up to an event that didn't exist, and that proves fraud. If he purposely didn't have in-person rallies, then how does a lack of attendance at said inexistant rallies prove support, or lack of?
With fact-checking, you can easily start by going to the original source, if the claim is "Biden said/Biden did", you can easily check his speech or record, if it's a proposed law then you can just as easily check the text of the law. You can check other news sources against others combined with the direct sources, it's not hard. Why choose to blindly believe anti-Biden sources?
"One will leave me alone and the other will tear me down if I don't live how they want me to."
In the US, I feel the ones who tread on me the most are the conservatives. They are anti-abortion, anti-freedom of religion, anti-education, anti-freedom of speech....
I feel like civil rights benefit us all, why fight that?
Physical Violence is primarily a right-wing thing.
Maybe we could switch gears a bit here, why don't you just tell me why you personally support conservatism, what you think Republican ideals are, and tell me any criticisms you have of the ideology/party.
Something I've noticed in our chat (and please don't take this as a personal attack, its merely an observation, I'm enjoying talking to you very much and I appreciate you engaging with me politely even though we have different views) is that you seem to have a willingness to believe anything anti-Biden/anti-"left" with little to no proof or fact-checking but anything that criticises or puts a spotlight on a negative of conservatism is dismissed, excused or questioned heavily. I've noticed you believe at least a few things that could be easily fact-checked to be shown false, or to at least be put in context for full understanding. I think its important to question your own side just as much as the "other", you know? Also to be critical of your own guys.
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-crowd-biden-trump-support/fact-check-crowd-size-at-trump-and-biden-events-reflect-campaign-strategy-not-support-idUSKBN27F27Y
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/22/fact-check-joe-biden-events-smaller-because-covid-19/5780898002/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/business/media/biden-trump-town-hall-ratings.html
I voted for Biden, I didn't attend or watch any of his campaign except for watching the televised debates, and I read some campaign materials. I didn't feel any need to do any more, probably many others felt the same way.
Even though I voted for him, I can easily say "fuck you, Joe, shut up about "assault weapons". I also saw he wanted to reduce nicotine levels in cigarettes. OK, fuck you on that too, Joe. I'm not going to just be fine with everything he says or does just because I voted for him. I don't see the same willingness to criticise on the right, though. Speaking of that, I found a pretty telling collection of polling results that illustrates this. It shows conservatives change their support for or against things not so much with facts but feelings, whereas democrats stay very level in their support. It appears to show conservatives support or un-support depending more on who is saying it/in charge rather than examining the actual issue itself.
http://imgur.com/a/VXl1K
Another famous example of this is the whole Affordable Care Act vs Obama care. Conservatives are much more favorable of the ACA but hate Obamacare. They are LITERALLY the same thing. I mean, the same exact thing, just a different name for it.
Anyway, I'd really like to hear back from you about what I asked in the first paragraph, maybe it would help establish a better understanding between us so we can more effectively talk about the other issues.