Hi....good night!

Sometimes he even showed up to work.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/fetterman-records-show-light-schedule-as-pa-lieutenant-gov/

You're welcome! It is great news.

"I do support fracking, and I don’t, I don’t — I support fracking, and I stand, and I do support fracking."

Here's what the editorial said on policy:

>During Tuesday’s debate, after hundreds of thousands of votes had already been cast, voters finally learned something about where the candidates stood. They learned, among other things, that Mr. Oz opposes federal intervention in abortion rights, and Mr. Fetterman supports the broader Constitutional guarantees provided by the overturned Roe v. Wade decision. They learned Mr. Fetterman supports a federally mandated $15-an-hour minimum wage, and Mr. Oz wants market forces to raise wages. They learned both candidates support fracking. They also learned both men are politicians, as they ducked and dodged questions about why they had changed their minds on fracking.

Fetterman supports fracking? He should make that clear.

More from the editorial:

>"Mr. Fetterman’s life experience and maturity are also concerns. He has lived off his family’s money for much of his life. That has allowed him to do some good things, including mentoring disadvantaged young people and working to improve community policing and economic development in Braddock. That work, along with his six-foot-eight frame, shaved head and tattoos, attracted national media attention. Still, Mr. Fetterman, despite his hoodies and shorts, has little experience in holding real jobs or facing the problems of working people."

Ouch.

Oh, interesting. What do you think of the editorial?

"Mr. Fetterman’s health — he suffered a serious stroke in May — is not the issue. His lack of transparency, however, in refusing to release his medical records is troubling. It suggests an impulse to conceal and a mistrust of the people. All candidates for a major elected office should release their medical records, as did Mr. Oz. If you want privacy, don’t run for public office."

No it's not.

UMass just spend thousands of dollars for an outside forensics group to investigate racist emails that were an obvious hoax. When - surprise! - they couldn't find anything, Umass hired another group on the taxpayer's dime.

>It is about ensuring that the most wealthy pay the same overall rate as the rest of us.

They DO pay the same rate: MA has a flat tax on income. What could be more fair?

Just like every other response: I don't like your totally accurate statistics because it comes from a partisan source.

Believe me, I'm used to it.

Yup, the WSJ article notes the financial crisis. Then there's this:

"One-in-eight millionaires who filed a Maryland tax return in 2007 filed no return in 2008. Some died, but the others presumably changed their state of residence. (Hint to the class warfare crowd: A lot of rich people have two homes.)
A Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysis of federal tax return data on people who migrated from one state to another found that Maryland lost $1 billion of its net tax base in 2008 by residents moving to other states. That’s income that’s now being taxed and is financing services in Virginia, South Carolina and elsewhere."

https://taxfoundation.org/marylands-millionaires-missing-after-income-tax-hike

>Most of these millionaires started as small business owners who weren't making much money but they needed to hire people to grow their business.

Yes, they took a risk, sacrificed, and created businesses that gave livelihoods to employees who subsequently provided for their families.

They must be punished.

These numbers from a comptroller report can't be real because they're being reported from an opinion piece is a hell of a take.

An extremely weak and grasping take.

FFS - OK, now answer my question.

Will personal taxpayers earning over a million move over the border into New Hampshire?

Based on history and previous examples from Maryland to France, why wouldn't we believe this? And why wouldn't we believe there would be an actual drop in expected revenues just like those previous examples?

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/business/one-top-taxpayer-moved-and-new-jersey-shuddered.html

So I need to track down the actual comptroller office report?

Attacking the source is always the last refuge of these threads.

Maybe you didn't hear about all the companies moving from California to Texas.

Don't worry, you'll hear about all the businesses moving from Massachusetts to New Hampshire soon enough.

Sure: I don't sit here and covet the wealth of other men. I don't believe we should punish success by taxing people at a higher rate just because they're successful. I think it's obscene to demand that people pay more just because they have more.

I'm sure that Bill Gates doesn't think twice about me. But Bill Gates created an industry that has employed tens of thousands of people in mostly high-paying jobs, and has created a business that increases productivity across the globe. We should be thanking him but instead the opinion is "he has a lot of money and he should give it to us."

If Peter's happy about that, he should willingly pay to support that.

Instead he needs to be compelled.

Yeah, I'm done with you.

How many jobs are created by poor men?

>Well, the state comptroller's office now has the final tax return data for 2008, the first year that the higher tax rates applied. The number of millionaire tax returns fell sharply to 5,529 from 7,898 in 2007, a 30% tumble. The taxes paid by rich filers fell by 22%, and instead of their payments increasing by $106 million, they fell by some $257 million.

Which of the numbers here have spoiled with age?

Question answered.

Yeah, it's funny how we've been beholden to trickle down economics here in Massachusetts until now.

After - who knows how long - with a flat and equal tax on everyone, we're going to reverse this policy.

It worked so well for Maryland: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703976804575114241782001262