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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,523 posts)
Sat May 13, 2023, 07:59 PM May 2023

Florida 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 Florida’s 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.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tells Illinois crowd that Biden's reelection would leave US 'unrecognizabl (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2023 OP
Fck this guy mcar May 2023 #1
Yeah, what you said, Cha May 2023 #6
When he says US, he means Republicans and he's right. Meadowoak May 2023 #2
Yup, he's projecting. pdxflyboy May 2023 #7
Beware my friends...he's not a good thing for your future Deuxcents May 2023 #3
I don't recognize Florida........... Lovie777 May 2023 #4
Looks who's talking.. Cha May 2023 #5
did he go on to point out that the reason FL has no state income tax... Takket May 2023 #8
Disney should close for remodeling for the next couple years, Meadowoak May 2023 #10
He's projecting again sakabatou May 2023 #9
Please tell me how deMussolini Cha May 2023 #11
Good, it was Peoria greatauntoftriplets May 2023 #12
he is confusing America with Florida Skittles May 2023 #13
Said the man who is drastically changing Florida using the element of surprise. Baitball Blogger May 2023 #14
Mr. DeSatan doth project too much. GoCubsGo May 2023 #15
FUCK OFF RON spanone May 2023 #16
These "no income tax" states ExWhoDoesntCare May 2023 #17
Unrecognizable as in a bunch of fascist laws being passed ecstatic May 2023 #18
Uhh...Ron...you know WHY Florida has no state income tax, right? jmowreader May 2023 #19

Takket

(21,729 posts)
8. did he go on to point out that the reason FL has no state income tax...
Sat May 13, 2023, 08:32 PM
May 2023

is largely due to the company he is currently at war with?

Cha

(298,152 posts)
11. Please tell me how deMussolini
Sat May 13, 2023, 08:48 PM
May 2023

gets his salary and everyone who works for the State of Florida gets paid?

TY!

 

ExWhoDoesntCare

(4,741 posts)
17. These "no income tax" states
Mon May 15, 2023, 12:19 AM
May 2023

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)
18. Unrecognizable as in a bunch of fascist laws being passed
Mon May 15, 2023, 12:21 AM
May 2023

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)
19. Uhh...Ron...you know WHY Florida has no state income tax, right?
Mon May 15, 2023, 01:31 AM
May 2023

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.

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