Please explain what you mean. MOM doesn't give a shit if they leave. Tax revenue will be neutral if they stay and neutral if they leave (as they'll simply raise taxes on the other suckers in MD). I think he'll actually cheer if they leave. Economic impact to the State will be nullified by...
Don't worry she doesn't think that confiscation ("in the way that they talked about it here today") is coming. Someone needs to ask her exactly what kind of confiscation she has in mind.
Perhaps someone needs to ask this giggling little girl where her statistics regarding protection vs. murder come from. I think the NRA should use this giggling speech in national TV ads.
Actually, the loudest clearest message would be to do what the ODummy crowd would do, angrily chant "no justice, no peace" and shut down the hearing until the police remove each and every last peaceful chanter.
Actually that is a common misconception about a State like MD. Those "revenue" shortfalls are simply made up for by further taxing the poor fools that actually pay taxes in MD. The state never loses out on money, NEVER. This is why economic arguments with those in Annapolis are a foolish...
Why tread lightly? There is no way to have an honest discussion about gun violence without open and honest discussion about the racial majority component of the problem. Guns aren't killing black people, black people are killing black people at an alarming rate and tip-toeing around that issue...
Don't want to piss on anyone's party, but making economic based points to someone that not only doesn't understand anything about economics but also doesn't actually care about economics is like pissing up a rope. This is MD! They will simply raise taxes to make up for any perceived "revenue"...
Bingo, 100% correct! They, just like their bumbling leader, are incredibly lazy. I like to call them "surface thinkers" - too menatlly lazy to dig into any issue.
Yes, you're missing the key thing (and it's really missing) and that's legislators that actually give a shit what the citizens (aka "subjects") think. Sorry, but that's exactly what's happening in this state. MOM has very good reason to believe it's in the bag already.
Thank you for the thoughful response (as opposed to some others) - that's exactly how I read your original post. This is a firery issue because the vast majority of the gun grabbing legislation (that most universally agree will have no bearing on crime rates) has been proposed by those that...
Sorry to need to educate you, but a police officer's life is no more valuable than mine (or yours for that matter). Who do these police officers think they are, some important politician? :mad54: