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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis tells Illinois crowd that Biden's reelection would leave US 'unrecognizabl
PEORIA, Ill. Ahead of the expected launch of a bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis warned a central Illinois audience of GOP faithful Friday night that if President Joe Biden is reelected and other Democrats also win office, the country is going to be unrecognizable.
In a speech of about 40 minutes inside an airy ballroom at the Peoria Civic Center, DeSantis blamed Democrats for obliterating communities throughout this country, including Chicago, while promoting his own policies in the areas including education and criminal justice that are meant to counter a woke ideology.
He boasted about his landslide reelection win last year against a Democratic challenger, and proclaimed his policies superior to those in other states, especially Illinois.
We have no state income tax. You should try it sometime, DeSantis said to an applause from the more than 1,000 attendees at the annual Lincoln Day fundraising dinner of the Peoria and Tazewell County GOP organizations. He did not note that Floridas lack of a state income tax long predated his administration.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-gov-ron-desantis-tells-170600868.html
He's right. Fascist shitheads like him and Trump would have less power in a second Biden term.
mcar
(42,480 posts)Cha
(298,152 posts)Meadowoak
(5,577 posts)pdxflyboy
(678 posts)N/T
Deuxcents
(16,459 posts)Lovie777
(12,433 posts)Cha
(298,152 posts)Takket
(21,729 posts)is largely due to the company he is currently at war with?
Meadowoak
(5,577 posts)See how the Florida economy does.
sakabatou
(42,208 posts)Cha
(298,152 posts)gets his salary and everyone who works for the State of Florida gets paid?
TY!
greatauntoftriplets
(175,777 posts)That means that he wasn't stinking up Chicago where I am.
Skittles
(153,321 posts)FUCK OFF, DEFASCIST
Baitball Blogger
(46,788 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,103 posts)Every accusation they make is a confession...
spanone
(135,959 posts)ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)Have shocking property tax rates and charge crazy fees for assorted services or licenses that are often equal to or higher than what people in state income tax locales pay.
The ex makes close to what my mother did before she retired. He lives in urban CA, in a house larger than hers, and about 4 times the tax-assessed value. His state income + property taxes are less than what my mother is paying for property tax alone in her "no income tax" state. He does pay far more for his car registration, but, even with that cost thrown in, it's not enough to equal what her property taxes alone cost.
He certainly gets more bang for his tax buck in CA than she does. Other than the local schools, little goes to improving the infrastructure and civic needs of her location. I suspect that the biggest expenditure where she is consists of lining the pockets of traitor party nabobs, and not on helping people.
I don't know it for a fact, but what people pay there for property taxes does not show up in a way one would expect.
ecstatic
(32,814 posts)To take away freedoms and rights that we've enjoyed for decades? By silencing free speech and forcing people back into the closet? Does this clown not see that HE is the one making the United States unrecognizable?
jmowreader
(50,605 posts)IT'S DISNEY.
The people you are currently bullying for not bending to your will are paying for your ability to not have any income tax.