When a Democrat says “lowering costs” he means “force taxpayers to subsidize costs” or “force others to provide services at lower cost”. He never, ever means “get government out of the way so that services can actually be provided more cheaply.” The Democrat attitude to the economy parallels that of Leonid Brezhnev to Eastern Europe - the governments galloping, metastasizing growth may sometimes briefly have to slow but they will fight to the death to prevent any shrinkage. Big government is their bread and butter.
My utility bills spiked because of Trump’s LNG exports and so I was forced to go Biden’s route of highly efficient HVAC….now my utility bills are a fraction of what they were and everyone in my family is more comfortable!! Biden for the win!!
Yes! That’s exactly what a nation state does. As a nation, defraying the cost for majority of people, who are working people, requires collecting revenue from the super rich.
Did you attend a public school? Generations before you paid for it.
No. Nation states exist for collective self-defense against external aggressors and internal criminals, not so people can loot their neighbors to fund their wants.
Even if you could loot every penny belonging to the “super rich”, it would fund the federal government for less than a year. But you can’t, because they won’t just hold still and let you loot them. So the definition of “rich” will have to be expanded. To? Well, if you’re American, the world thinks you’re “rich”.
My parents paid more than enough taxes to pay for my public school education. I owe my parents a debt I can never repay, and that’s a small fraction of it. Random socialist-voting looters and takers aren’t my parents.
I attended a public school because it was the law. However, back in the day, our public schools taught us to read, write and do arithmetic. We also learned history, civics and economics. Today, too many public schools don't do their job. Kids aren't reading or doing math at their grade level. They are totally ignorant of our county's history and government. We need more home schooling and school choice.
“People are so broke.” I am skeptical. Are they broke or are they hurt by Dems propagandizing? Are they broke or think they are broke?
Yes, food and gas are expensive, but this is not as bad as during the huge increases when inflation was rising rapidly. The democrats only have one strategy…Tell everyone that they are broke and they will feel broke.
No they’re broke for real. I am fine - retired and benefitting from the stock market. But I hear from friends on both sides and neighbors about how they’re struggling. True inflation leveled off or is only up slightly from the Biden years but grocery prices are still outrageous. Now with gas so high too, average people are hurting.
Now ask them WHY many of them are (or consider themselves to be) struggling.
How many flagship phones to they own? How many streaming services? How many leased SUV's are sitting in their driveways? How many vacations do they take? How many Starbucks coffee's per day? How much do they spend on betting apps?
How much money do they spend, or have they spent, stupidly?
I've no doubt that some are truely struggling to make reasonable ends meet. Just as I KNOW that many have been stupid with their money, with no thought to the future and only a little more to the present. I've watched food give-a-ways with lines of cars and SUV's most of which are 3 years old or newer, as they sit in line, idling $4 per gallon (or more) gas away and playing on their iPhones.
It's their right to be as stupid with money as they want to be, but don't come whining to me when they face the consequences of their poor choices.
Yes, I always go back to: how much money are they saving a month? They pay themselves last, so to speak. They're not doing automatic savings deductions at the front end of their paycheck, so they spend everything they have and then some and then wonder why they feel unstable.
I get it that housing is very expensive right now, buying a house. Remember, the cost of buying a house went up 40% during the Biden administration because of the ridiculous situation with the feds keeping interest rates so low. People were just driving up the cost with the frenzy of buying more real estate and the other effects of all the stimulus money. Let's just say that Dems caused a lot of the problem that we're facing right now. Their solution, of course, is the same thing they did before: subsidizing and giving people money that's not theirs to spend. Honestly, it's one thing to say you can't afford to buy a house. It's another thing to not save a dime.
Don’t think the Democrooks have even that strategy - they are the party of evil God forbid they should win in November there is nothing worse than them.
The party needs to look at what DeSantis has been doing in Florida that is literally putting money back into tax payers' pockets. He passed regulations that significantly lowered auto insurance costs. This wasn't a handout, it was regulatory change that allowed insurers to not only lower rates but retroactively credit their customers (I personally received a significant credit and a lower rate from my car insurer). He also saw that local governments had seen an explosion in tax revenue since 2019 so he's putting a likely-to-pass change on the November ballot to the homestead exemption which will directly benefit the working class homeowners (I personally will save $1200 a year since my property tax will be eliminated). These are regulatory changes that increase affordability without increasing taxes on anyone.
I understand why Trump decided to take action on Iran, but he ultimately made a huge mistake in underestimating the triggers Iran could pull to cause pain on the home front in the form in inflation and increased fuel prices. And I agree that it's going to cost Republicans in November because, as always, "it's the economy stupid". It's the reason Trump was elected after the Democrats ignored this basic fact through Biden's reign. Yes, there were other cultural reasons, but ultimately, the inflation caused by the Democrats was what doomed them, and it is what will doom the Republicans.
So why would we go back to voting for Democrats? Really we need to have some faith and give President Trump and his administration a chance to put things right. The Democrats are terrible people just look at Platner or Jasmine Crockett I could go, on we don’t want those madmen in power again.
Florida you said? Housing and insurance have surged. A single adult needs to earn around ($50,000) to ($60,000) annually to live comfortably, while families require upwards of ($200,000). — The homestead exemption will destroy whatever remains of Florida. Boomers benefit and young people will suffer. Local taxes are the most accountable to taxpayers. You see the benefits directly in your town. Sales tax will go up to account for lost revenue.
Trump launched a dumb war against America’s interests. He got played by Netanyahu. US has 7500 nuclear war heads. If Iran actually wants to have nukes, that’s non of America’s business. Other countries have rights to obtain the means of self defence. US’ history of aggressions makes it a reason to have it.
Yes, house values have surged (due to the incredible demand due to people moving here). Which makes homeowner's insurance AND TAXES surge. Local governments have seen a massive increase in tax revenue over the last 10 years. That's the whole point. This increase to the exemption will benefit homeowners whose homes are assessed at < $250,000. The wealthy who own higher value homes will still be paying property tax. People with second homes here will still pay property tax. People who own investment properties will still be paying property tax. This will return local government revenue to what it was in 2019. Florida has incredible infrastructure despite having no state income tax and reasonable sales tax. And that state infrastructure (our highways, bridges, etc.) are some of the best in the country (my husband and I do a ton of RV road trips - and no, we're not "boomers" - we're in our 40s) and every time we drive through other states (where there is a state income tax) we're shocked at the state of the interstates.
We also manage to recover from major disasters faster than other states. And we get a ton of tax revenue from all the tourism. And people who move here will not be allowed to take this exemption until they've owned their home here for at least 5 years.
The math works and this directly addresses the affordability issues in our state thanks to all of the people relocating here (can't say that I blame them). There is a reason that this amendment has huge approval among the residents here.
Florida recovers from natural disasters faster because hurricanes hit in September and then by November it has the best weather in the country. Louisiana gets cooler but it can still get hit by polar vortexes starting in December which brings everything to a standstill. In fact Louisiana getting hit by a string of unprecedented weather events starting in August 2020 is what led to inflation in 2022…Florida doesn’t have anything important and so when it gets hit by a hurricane it has zero impact on the national economy.
Florida doesn't have anything important? 22 Fortune 500 company headquarters, 23,000,000+ people, massive seafood fishing, agriculture, etc. And regardless of what impact it has on the national economy that doesn't change the fact that who is in charge of the state absolutely changes how quickly the recovery and restoration happens. The difference in how quickly the damage from Hurricane Ian (which was much larger in scope, including out taking an entire bridge) was resolved versus Hurricane Michael (in 2018) is pretty drastic. Hell, I drove through the panhandle along the gulf coast a year after Michael and there were still giant chunks of the road missing and debris piled up alongside the road from houses that had been wiped out. Talk to people who have lived here for decades and at how astonished they were at how well DeSantis managed the recovery/clean up/repair efforts after Ian. Veterans of dozens of hurricanes all talked about how they had never seen anything like it.
No, Florida is popular because Rick Scott took the initiative to make Obamacare work optimally…and now 55 year olds can move to Florida while keeping coverage for preexisting conditions. Otherwise they would have to wait until they qualify for Medicare which magically covers preexisting conditions.
Retirees have migrated to Florida my entire life (I've lived here since 1985). They didn't just start coming here when Rick Scott was governor. The Villages didn't suddenly spring up when Rick Scott was elected. It couldn't possibly be the weather, the beaches, no income tax, etc., etc., etc. What a ridiculous take. And Obamacare eliminated preexisting restrictions federally - Rick Scott didn't have anything to do with that.
Nope, every state had the choice to develop the ACA Exchanges and get insurance companies to create plans to take advantage of the ACA subsidies…Scott had the perfect experience to make Florida’s ACA Exchange successful which is an anomaly. And 55 years old isn’t a retiree…unless your mommy paying your bills so you can play video games in the basement makes you a “retiree”! 😉
I work in ACA administration and have done so since 2016 and yes, every state had the ability to implement exchanges but you made my point exactly - at 55 you're still working and employers are OBLIGATED to offer coverage that doesn't restrict for pre-existing conditions (that's a federal obligation) under the ACA regardless of whether or not your state has an exchange and there is also federal exchanges. So nothing Rick Scott did changed the fact that if you are working for an ALE (an employer with more than 50 FTEs), you have to be offered qualified coverage that doesn't have limits to pre-existing conditions. So that is not a reason to move to Florida. There was no spike when Rick Scott was Governor either. Our steady increase of ~70000 a year was consistent through the 90s and 2000s until the pandemic surge.
The older people moving to Florida (and South Carolina) are people that are wealthy and don’t necessarily work for a company which provides them with benefits. So the individual market is what Obamacare mostly regulates and prior to Obamacare if you moved states you had to get a new individual market policy which wouldn’t cover preexisting conditions which prevented people from moving before they qualified for Medicare.
And focus on median age and not total moves because boomers started turning 65 in 2011 and so that was always going to be the record although in the olden days people had pensions and health insurance before they turned 65.
Your cohort of people who moved to Florida in larger numbers after Rick Scott established the state exchange is not retirees, but over 55, not working and wealthy. So.....retirees. My point still stands: People did not suddenly start moving to Florida in larger numbers once the exchanges were established. The bottom line is that we've ALWAYS had large numbers of people migrating here when they retire. The median age has consistently been between 50-69 since the 90s. And wealthy 55 year olds retiring in 2011 largely still had pensions (while they started phasing out new enrollments in pensions in the 90's many of those people retiring in 2011 were still grandfathered into pensions and most pension plans included benefits). Not to mention the vast majority of companies offer some kind of retiree medical coverage (25+ years working in employer health & welfare benefits here and it's pretty much the standard) and those plans do indeed fall under the pre-existing condition rule established by Obamacare. I still see nothing to point to some big influx of people moving here for that reason alone.
I think that most republicans are not in an uproar because in republican states we haven’t seen the inflation you blue states have. Yea our gas is more expensive , 3.69 a gallon when it was less than 2 bucks a gallon in trumps first term. But other than gas, we haven’t noticed it being any higher. It’s rich for Dems to complain when they gave us “Bidenomics” , or live in blue states who are blocking everything Trump is trying to fix. We used to live in California who killed us with taxes and regulations, we retired to Tennessee and our money goes a lot further. Also Tennessee doesn’t waste our tax dollars on stupid things. We don’t have homeless camps anywhere, our roads are beautiful, state parks are free, I could go on and on…
Jeffries is a liar. We all know the first order of business of a Democrat-controlled Congress is Impeachment 3.0. Followed by an end of the filibuster to enable the packing of the Supreme Court. Followed by statehood for DC and Puerto Rico. Followed by criminal referrals of every one of Trump’s cabinet.
You don’t need a long memory to remember what a circus the Democrats turned Congress into. Foaming at the mouth rage 24/7.
Definitely limit energy exports. Do something about CA insanity. I am traveling around West now. Once you get outside the blast radios of CA policy diesel is about 75 cents cheaper. Except WA which has copied CA. Suggest seizing the closed refineries and running them as if they were in America. Banning energy exports should have a positive effect on fertilizer prices and availability which will help farmers. Don't ban foreclosures as a lot of the debt is equipment rather than land. If lenders won't do this, production suffers. Instead set up a refinance program. There is probably still something on the books from the New Deal. Don't know what to do about leftist judges and Senate RINOs. Maybe arrest a bunch for facilitating illegal immigration and then ignore orders to release them.
Biden tried to get ahead of the asinine LNG exports by pausing them…Republicans freaked out because they want more windfall profits like they had under Bush/Cheney with record oil and gas prices.
"...an American who worked themselves to the bone all day, and after they tuck their kids in at night, lay awake staring at the ceiling knowing a bill is coming that they cannot afford to pay..." Amen. I'm at the end of my rope. Just got a consolidation loan, Refinanced credit cards, paid off huge amounts of other debt, got direct deposit set up to pay consolidation loan... still don't have enough money. Trump's first term was wonderful, Biden killed it, but Trump 2.0 isn't doing sh*t. I'm drowning, and my dad's generation bought a house and two cars on ONE income! Nixon getting rid of the gold standard, I don't know, I just know that I work way too hard to be this broke.
You just summed up why you're doing so poorly, and still blaming Mommy, Daddy, Trump and everyone but yourself.
You didn't pay off huge amounts of other debt, you shifted it and the fact that you had credit cards and huge amounts of other debt is the reason why you can't afford things now.
Compare the house and cars your parents started with along with other "necessities". I'd bet their starter house was about half the size of what people demand as a starter house today. One phone on the wall (not one phone for every family member). No central air, one TV with an antenna (no cable, no streaming services, no internet)
You feel entitled to start where your parents are finishing and cherry picking the facts to fit your victim narrative
Biden’s term was phenomenal….wages went up and the job market was strong and only people that stood around and complained fell behind. The only missed opportunity was the debt went way down in 2022 which should have forced Republicans to support Biden’s agenda and instead they obstructed…and now the debt is waaaaaaay up since Obama.
What dream world are you living in? Biden administration screwed everything up with idiots filling Biden’s cabinet, inflation highest ever, woke and DEI initiatives. 🤦♀️
Thune and the in decline RINOS don’t care about legislation or Trump voters. Thune I think wouldn’t mind losing the House and keep the Senate creating gridlock and divided government. The RINO wet dream. They want to run out the clock on Trump and resuscitate the
Come on! “Bloodbath in November”? A little over the top given all the other issues swirling around. You can’t put inflation back in the jar once it is out. It is tied to deficit government spending and monetary policy at the Fed. That fuse was lit by Congress and Biden in 2021 and continues to burn.
Yeah but he decided to get involved in Iran. Stupid. Get out and let them “work it out”. Iran would never get a nuke because Israel and their nukes won’t allow it IMO. I still support Trump but he needs to STFU about close to a deal. The BS is starting to come over the top of my boots.
I'm familiar with the reasons for rampant inflation. It has everything to do with Democrat Party public policy and nothing to do with Trump. Our currency has been devalued. How do we fix that?
When a Democrat says “lowering costs” he means “force taxpayers to subsidize costs” or “force others to provide services at lower cost”. He never, ever means “get government out of the way so that services can actually be provided more cheaply.” The Democrat attitude to the economy parallels that of Leonid Brezhnev to Eastern Europe - the governments galloping, metastasizing growth may sometimes briefly have to slow but they will fight to the death to prevent any shrinkage. Big government is their bread and butter.
Well said! Another "Inflation reduction act"
Chris, it just hasn't kicked in yet.:)
My utility bills spiked because of Trump’s LNG exports and so I was forced to go Biden’s route of highly efficient HVAC….now my utility bills are a fraction of what they were and everyone in my family is more comfortable!! Biden for the win!!
Yes! That’s exactly what a nation state does. As a nation, defraying the cost for majority of people, who are working people, requires collecting revenue from the super rich.
Did you attend a public school? Generations before you paid for it.
No. Nation states exist for collective self-defense against external aggressors and internal criminals, not so people can loot their neighbors to fund their wants.
Even if you could loot every penny belonging to the “super rich”, it would fund the federal government for less than a year. But you can’t, because they won’t just hold still and let you loot them. So the definition of “rich” will have to be expanded. To? Well, if you’re American, the world thinks you’re “rich”.
My parents paid more than enough taxes to pay for my public school education. I owe my parents a debt I can never repay, and that’s a small fraction of it. Random socialist-voting looters and takers aren’t my parents.
I attended a public school because it was the law. However, back in the day, our public schools taught us to read, write and do arithmetic. We also learned history, civics and economics. Today, too many public schools don't do their job. Kids aren't reading or doing math at their grade level. They are totally ignorant of our county's history and government. We need more home schooling and school choice.
The problem is also that the Democrats will come up with all of the WRONG solutions to this very real problem.
“People are so broke.” I am skeptical. Are they broke or are they hurt by Dems propagandizing? Are they broke or think they are broke?
Yes, food and gas are expensive, but this is not as bad as during the huge increases when inflation was rising rapidly. The democrats only have one strategy…Tell everyone that they are broke and they will feel broke.
Remember Slick Willie ran in ‘92 on “the worst economy in the last 50yrs”; it was total BS but the media parroted it & it became widespread belief.
You are a Bush supporter!!! 😝
Ja - I was: lesser of two evils.
Slick Willie was & is a pile of excrement.
You hated peace and prosperity so much you voted for Bush and 7000 new Gold Star families…they might take issue with your choices. 🇺🇸
No they’re broke for real. I am fine - retired and benefitting from the stock market. But I hear from friends on both sides and neighbors about how they’re struggling. True inflation leveled off or is only up slightly from the Biden years but grocery prices are still outrageous. Now with gas so high too, average people are hurting.
Now ask them WHY many of them are (or consider themselves to be) struggling.
How many flagship phones to they own? How many streaming services? How many leased SUV's are sitting in their driveways? How many vacations do they take? How many Starbucks coffee's per day? How much do they spend on betting apps?
How much money do they spend, or have they spent, stupidly?
I've no doubt that some are truely struggling to make reasonable ends meet. Just as I KNOW that many have been stupid with their money, with no thought to the future and only a little more to the present. I've watched food give-a-ways with lines of cars and SUV's most of which are 3 years old or newer, as they sit in line, idling $4 per gallon (or more) gas away and playing on their iPhones.
It's their right to be as stupid with money as they want to be, but don't come whining to me when they face the consequences of their poor choices.
Yes, I always go back to: how much money are they saving a month? They pay themselves last, so to speak. They're not doing automatic savings deductions at the front end of their paycheck, so they spend everything they have and then some and then wonder why they feel unstable.
I get it that housing is very expensive right now, buying a house. Remember, the cost of buying a house went up 40% during the Biden administration because of the ridiculous situation with the feds keeping interest rates so low. People were just driving up the cost with the frenzy of buying more real estate and the other effects of all the stimulus money. Let's just say that Dems caused a lot of the problem that we're facing right now. Their solution, of course, is the same thing they did before: subsidizing and giving people money that's not theirs to spend. Honestly, it's one thing to say you can't afford to buy a house. It's another thing to not save a dime.
Are they Democrats?
Don’t think the Democrooks have even that strategy - they are the party of evil God forbid they should win in November there is nothing worse than them.
The party needs to look at what DeSantis has been doing in Florida that is literally putting money back into tax payers' pockets. He passed regulations that significantly lowered auto insurance costs. This wasn't a handout, it was regulatory change that allowed insurers to not only lower rates but retroactively credit their customers (I personally received a significant credit and a lower rate from my car insurer). He also saw that local governments had seen an explosion in tax revenue since 2019 so he's putting a likely-to-pass change on the November ballot to the homestead exemption which will directly benefit the working class homeowners (I personally will save $1200 a year since my property tax will be eliminated). These are regulatory changes that increase affordability without increasing taxes on anyone.
I understand why Trump decided to take action on Iran, but he ultimately made a huge mistake in underestimating the triggers Iran could pull to cause pain on the home front in the form in inflation and increased fuel prices. And I agree that it's going to cost Republicans in November because, as always, "it's the economy stupid". It's the reason Trump was elected after the Democrats ignored this basic fact through Biden's reign. Yes, there were other cultural reasons, but ultimately, the inflation caused by the Democrats was what doomed them, and it is what will doom the Republicans.
So why would we go back to voting for Democrats? Really we need to have some faith and give President Trump and his administration a chance to put things right. The Democrats are terrible people just look at Platner or Jasmine Crockett I could go, on we don’t want those madmen in power again.
Florida you said? Housing and insurance have surged. A single adult needs to earn around ($50,000) to ($60,000) annually to live comfortably, while families require upwards of ($200,000). — The homestead exemption will destroy whatever remains of Florida. Boomers benefit and young people will suffer. Local taxes are the most accountable to taxpayers. You see the benefits directly in your town. Sales tax will go up to account for lost revenue.
Trump launched a dumb war against America’s interests. He got played by Netanyahu. US has 7500 nuclear war heads. If Iran actually wants to have nukes, that’s non of America’s business. Other countries have rights to obtain the means of self defence. US’ history of aggressions makes it a reason to have it.
Yes, house values have surged (due to the incredible demand due to people moving here). Which makes homeowner's insurance AND TAXES surge. Local governments have seen a massive increase in tax revenue over the last 10 years. That's the whole point. This increase to the exemption will benefit homeowners whose homes are assessed at < $250,000. The wealthy who own higher value homes will still be paying property tax. People with second homes here will still pay property tax. People who own investment properties will still be paying property tax. This will return local government revenue to what it was in 2019. Florida has incredible infrastructure despite having no state income tax and reasonable sales tax. And that state infrastructure (our highways, bridges, etc.) are some of the best in the country (my husband and I do a ton of RV road trips - and no, we're not "boomers" - we're in our 40s) and every time we drive through other states (where there is a state income tax) we're shocked at the state of the interstates.
We also manage to recover from major disasters faster than other states. And we get a ton of tax revenue from all the tourism. And people who move here will not be allowed to take this exemption until they've owned their home here for at least 5 years.
The math works and this directly addresses the affordability issues in our state thanks to all of the people relocating here (can't say that I blame them). There is a reason that this amendment has huge approval among the residents here.
Florida recovers from natural disasters faster because hurricanes hit in September and then by November it has the best weather in the country. Louisiana gets cooler but it can still get hit by polar vortexes starting in December which brings everything to a standstill. In fact Louisiana getting hit by a string of unprecedented weather events starting in August 2020 is what led to inflation in 2022…Florida doesn’t have anything important and so when it gets hit by a hurricane it has zero impact on the national economy.
Florida doesn't have anything important? 22 Fortune 500 company headquarters, 23,000,000+ people, massive seafood fishing, agriculture, etc. And regardless of what impact it has on the national economy that doesn't change the fact that who is in charge of the state absolutely changes how quickly the recovery and restoration happens. The difference in how quickly the damage from Hurricane Ian (which was much larger in scope, including out taking an entire bridge) was resolved versus Hurricane Michael (in 2018) is pretty drastic. Hell, I drove through the panhandle along the gulf coast a year after Michael and there were still giant chunks of the road missing and debris piled up alongside the road from houses that had been wiped out. Talk to people who have lived here for decades and at how astonished they were at how well DeSantis managed the recovery/clean up/repair efforts after Ian. Veterans of dozens of hurricanes all talked about how they had never seen anything like it.
No, Florida is popular because Rick Scott took the initiative to make Obamacare work optimally…and now 55 year olds can move to Florida while keeping coverage for preexisting conditions. Otherwise they would have to wait until they qualify for Medicare which magically covers preexisting conditions.
Retirees have migrated to Florida my entire life (I've lived here since 1985). They didn't just start coming here when Rick Scott was governor. The Villages didn't suddenly spring up when Rick Scott was elected. It couldn't possibly be the weather, the beaches, no income tax, etc., etc., etc. What a ridiculous take. And Obamacare eliminated preexisting restrictions federally - Rick Scott didn't have anything to do with that.
Nope, every state had the choice to develop the ACA Exchanges and get insurance companies to create plans to take advantage of the ACA subsidies…Scott had the perfect experience to make Florida’s ACA Exchange successful which is an anomaly. And 55 years old isn’t a retiree…unless your mommy paying your bills so you can play video games in the basement makes you a “retiree”! 😉
I work in ACA administration and have done so since 2016 and yes, every state had the ability to implement exchanges but you made my point exactly - at 55 you're still working and employers are OBLIGATED to offer coverage that doesn't restrict for pre-existing conditions (that's a federal obligation) under the ACA regardless of whether or not your state has an exchange and there is also federal exchanges. So nothing Rick Scott did changed the fact that if you are working for an ALE (an employer with more than 50 FTEs), you have to be offered qualified coverage that doesn't have limits to pre-existing conditions. So that is not a reason to move to Florida. There was no spike when Rick Scott was Governor either. Our steady increase of ~70000 a year was consistent through the 90s and 2000s until the pandemic surge.
The older people moving to Florida (and South Carolina) are people that are wealthy and don’t necessarily work for a company which provides them with benefits. So the individual market is what Obamacare mostly regulates and prior to Obamacare if you moved states you had to get a new individual market policy which wouldn’t cover preexisting conditions which prevented people from moving before they qualified for Medicare.
And focus on median age and not total moves because boomers started turning 65 in 2011 and so that was always going to be the record although in the olden days people had pensions and health insurance before they turned 65.
Your cohort of people who moved to Florida in larger numbers after Rick Scott established the state exchange is not retirees, but over 55, not working and wealthy. So.....retirees. My point still stands: People did not suddenly start moving to Florida in larger numbers once the exchanges were established. The bottom line is that we've ALWAYS had large numbers of people migrating here when they retire. The median age has consistently been between 50-69 since the 90s. And wealthy 55 year olds retiring in 2011 largely still had pensions (while they started phasing out new enrollments in pensions in the 90's many of those people retiring in 2011 were still grandfathered into pensions and most pension plans included benefits). Not to mention the vast majority of companies offer some kind of retiree medical coverage (25+ years working in employer health & welfare benefits here and it's pretty much the standard) and those plans do indeed fall under the pre-existing condition rule established by Obamacare. I still see nothing to point to some big influx of people moving here for that reason alone.
The Dems will do the only thing they know how to do and that’s demanding price controls.
100%. This was my first thought.
Nixon did that…which is why Republicans forced him to resign.
What? Geez ever heard of Watergate?
I think that most republicans are not in an uproar because in republican states we haven’t seen the inflation you blue states have. Yea our gas is more expensive , 3.69 a gallon when it was less than 2 bucks a gallon in trumps first term. But other than gas, we haven’t noticed it being any higher. It’s rich for Dems to complain when they gave us “Bidenomics” , or live in blue states who are blocking everything Trump is trying to fix. We used to live in California who killed us with taxes and regulations, we retired to Tennessee and our money goes a lot further. Also Tennessee doesn’t waste our tax dollars on stupid things. We don’t have homeless camps anywhere, our roads are beautiful, state parks are free, I could go on and on…
Natural gas has been more expensive under Trump and it is more important than gasoline…your mommy must still pay your utilities! 😉
Jeffries is a liar. We all know the first order of business of a Democrat-controlled Congress is Impeachment 3.0. Followed by an end of the filibuster to enable the packing of the Supreme Court. Followed by statehood for DC and Puerto Rico. Followed by criminal referrals of every one of Trump’s cabinet.
You don’t need a long memory to remember what a circus the Democrats turned Congress into. Foaming at the mouth rage 24/7.
God NO we don’t want them again!
Definitely limit energy exports. Do something about CA insanity. I am traveling around West now. Once you get outside the blast radios of CA policy diesel is about 75 cents cheaper. Except WA which has copied CA. Suggest seizing the closed refineries and running them as if they were in America. Banning energy exports should have a positive effect on fertilizer prices and availability which will help farmers. Don't ban foreclosures as a lot of the debt is equipment rather than land. If lenders won't do this, production suffers. Instead set up a refinance program. There is probably still something on the books from the New Deal. Don't know what to do about leftist judges and Senate RINOs. Maybe arrest a bunch for facilitating illegal immigration and then ignore orders to release them.
Great idea!
Biden tried to get ahead of the asinine LNG exports by pausing them…Republicans freaked out because they want more windfall profits like they had under Bush/Cheney with record oil and gas prices.
"...an American who worked themselves to the bone all day, and after they tuck their kids in at night, lay awake staring at the ceiling knowing a bill is coming that they cannot afford to pay..." Amen. I'm at the end of my rope. Just got a consolidation loan, Refinanced credit cards, paid off huge amounts of other debt, got direct deposit set up to pay consolidation loan... still don't have enough money. Trump's first term was wonderful, Biden killed it, but Trump 2.0 isn't doing sh*t. I'm drowning, and my dad's generation bought a house and two cars on ONE income! Nixon getting rid of the gold standard, I don't know, I just know that I work way too hard to be this broke.
You just summed up why you're doing so poorly, and still blaming Mommy, Daddy, Trump and everyone but yourself.
You didn't pay off huge amounts of other debt, you shifted it and the fact that you had credit cards and huge amounts of other debt is the reason why you can't afford things now.
Compare the house and cars your parents started with along with other "necessities". I'd bet their starter house was about half the size of what people demand as a starter house today. One phone on the wall (not one phone for every family member). No central air, one TV with an antenna (no cable, no streaming services, no internet)
You feel entitled to start where your parents are finishing and cherry picking the facts to fit your victim narrative
Very cogent reply…we’ve trained our kids to save & invest…make your $ work for you, otherwise you’ll be a slave
🥲🥲I’m sorry please God things improve.
Biden’s term was phenomenal….wages went up and the job market was strong and only people that stood around and complained fell behind. The only missed opportunity was the debt went way down in 2022 which should have forced Republicans to support Biden’s agenda and instead they obstructed…and now the debt is waaaaaaay up since Obama.
What dream world are you living in? Biden administration screwed everything up with idiots filling Biden’s cabinet, inflation highest ever, woke and DEI initiatives. 🤦♀️
Look at the carts of people leaving grocery stores.
Check the sales figures in gambling, sport or "entertainment" events, etc
And tell us again that "people are broke.".
And be LOLed out of any conversation.
Thune and the in decline RINOS don’t care about legislation or Trump voters. Thune I think wouldn’t mind losing the House and keep the Senate creating gridlock and divided government. The RINO wet dream. They want to run out the clock on Trump and resuscitate the
SWAMP.
Swamp indeed. Thune is horrible
The democrats couldn’t successfully execute a one man funeral. Color me not worried.
Come on! “Bloodbath in November”? A little over the top given all the other issues swirling around. You can’t put inflation back in the jar once it is out. It is tied to deficit government spending and monetary policy at the Fed. That fuse was lit by Congress and Biden in 2021 and continues to burn.
Yeah but he decided to get involved in Iran. Stupid. Get out and let them “work it out”. Iran would never get a nuke because Israel and their nukes won’t allow it IMO. I still support Trump but he needs to STFU about close to a deal. The BS is starting to come over the top of my boots.
The Iran threat has been "working out" for decades, and where are we?
Counting on Israel's nukes to stop Iran getting nukes is calling for a nuclear war.
Madness.
I'm familiar with the reasons for rampant inflation. It has everything to do with Democrat Party public policy and nothing to do with Trump. Our currency has been devalued. How do we fix that?
But they caused the costs hikes by printing trillions during the 4 yrs of Biden.
This is the problem. And remember we not sure what decisions sleepy Joe made.