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He has a very successful practice spanning 35+ years and says this tax law was about as hastily done as Obamacare was. Probably didn’t even read it. The 1040 is postcard sized as promised, but the schedules which have to be attached have multiplied almost exponentially. Their software company has yet to get it all encoded it’s so screwed up.

It may have been shocking, but it wasn’t close. If he had lost the popular vote and won on the strength of 70000 votes spread over 3 states, I shudder to think of the outcry.

Why am I not surprised by that response. Just like Fearless Leader. If they don’t agree with you, get rid of them.

I have commercial construction customers telling me this. They are not seeing projects coming as in past. Harvey is an outlier. A lot of insurance and FEMA money poured in here to enable that burst. Reuter’s just reported today’s market drop is a result of waning confidence fueled in part by a .6% drop in construction spending in December. Still strongly disagree?

You have to understand, from my point of view Clinton ran a crap campaign. Arrogant overconfidence proved her undoing. Same with Al Gore in 2000. Had he won his home state, hanging chads would have been irrelevant. Democrats spent too much time crying over that one instead of getting on with business. Will Republicans cry like Democrats if Trump is defeated in 2020? My guess is yes.

You didn’t read my answer. This election is as legitimate as any, unless Mueller’s report has evidence of collusion. Maybe not Trump, but his campaign operatives. To ignore the fact that Russians are getting closer to having undue influence on our politics is to do so at our own peril. As an aside, ad hominem attacks on critics is oftentimes a sign of a weak defense, if not outright guilt.

I figure they’ve been trying since the Cold War began. The hyper-use of social media in the 2016 election gave them an ease of access to the process they hadn’t known before. Facebook use has more than doubled since 2012 and Twitter almost fivefold.

Well, I’d say 25,000+ gun deaths per year as opposed to virtually zero in person voter fraud charges among millions and millions of votes cast is a pretty good reason.

I think the education issue is settled. Literacy is not a prerequisite to vote. People convicted of certain crimes (felonies) are prohibited from voting. I have personally assisted people with Downs Syndrome to vote. I don’t really get your point.

My CPA would disagree.

I have commercial construction customers telling me this. They are not seeing projects coming as in past. Harvey is an outlier. A lot of insurance and FEMA money poured in here to enable that burst.

How about them?

You must not have been carrying your registration card.

That is all up to the several states.

I didn’t say anything about decline. I was talking profitability. Though I will say construction activity outside petrochemical has slowed considerably in our region.

Who?

Yeah, that’s how you Trumpers look at war heroes. Hack, not patriot.

I don’t think that would pass Constitutional muster, though states are given broad rights in establishing voter eligibility.

Every one of the major players cited are or were Republican appointees. Mueller’s patriotism is beyond reproach. It’s not so much whether the facts are true. They rationalize your conclusions, not prove them.

That is a gross misrepresentation. I don’t know if he collided or not. I do believe the Russians interfered, not so much to elect Trump as to destabilize our democracy.

My business is an S Corp. I didn’t get any benefit. C corps, the majority of large corporate structures got the big cut. Trump didn’t do jack for small business.

I’ve worked the polls for over 40 years. I have assisted many voters who were brought to the polls by someone else because they couldn’t drive, or even enter the polling place. I didn’t say incapable. I said undue hardship. I’ve seen these voters personally. Anyone here read the Secretary of State’s election handbook covering proper election procedures? I have. Several times.

You have to prove who you are when you register. You keep confusing registration and voting. Laws exist for ID to be presented when registering. I notice no one has commented about the story that launched this thread. The Republican Secretary of State had to apologize to the Republican legislature for providing faulty data. I’ll bet not one of you read the judge’s order.

States rights. You’re telling me you want the federal government to mandate voter ID for all Americans? Would you please show me where that is in your interpretation of the Constitution?

An undue burden huh? So is it an undue burden for someone to show ID to receive welfare, money for which they depend on to live? Is it an undue burden to show ID to actually buy food, which is necessary to live on. How heartless is a government that will not give their needy citizens money to buy food without placing an undue burden on them? And secondly, how sanctimonious does one have to be to think that people are incapable of obtaining an ID? Laws in 35 other states agree with my position.