Politicians playing political games with your tax dollars

[Parkbandit]

My funnest thing was someone bashing someone that was saying "prayers for Ukraine". I tried to draw a comparison to them having changed their FB profile pic as being pretty much the same thing. They got all huffy and said "I GAVE MONEY TO RED CROSS!!!" Well, you don't know if that person did or not too right? And don't even get me on the Red Cross, they don't allow you to donate for specific things, just a general donation. Anyways, when I said she was basically a pot calling a kettle black, she just said that was my opinion and left.

[Tgo01]

You can't even make this shit up.

Whitmer calls for freeze on 6% gasoline sales tax

Whitmer: How DARE you want to freeze the 27.2 cents per gallon gas tax!!!!
Also Whitmer: Oh boy do I need a win! Hey how about we eliminate the 6% sales tax on gas?

Honestly I didn't even know states had both a sales tax AND a flat per gallon tax on gas. That's cray cray.

So in Michigan if you combine the state per gallon tax, the federal per gallon tax, AND 6% sales tax then that means if you gas is 4 dollars per gallon that almost 70 cents/17.5% of that is just tax.

[Shaps]

You can't even make this shit up.

Whitmer calls for freeze on 6% gasoline sales tax

Whitmer: How DARE you want to freeze the 27.2 cents per gallon gas tax!!!!
Also Whitmer: Oh boy do I need a win! Hey how about we eliminate the 6% sales tax on gas?

Honestly I didn't even know states had both a sales tax AND a flat per gallon tax on gas. That's cray cray.

So in Michigan if you combine the state per gallon tax, the federal per gallon tax, AND 6% sales tax then that means if you gas is 4 dollars per gallon that almost 70 cents/17.5% of that is just tax.

Wait until they start taxing the electrical cars "mileage" taxes.

[Methais]

Pretty sure some shady shit happened in Michigan. It happens in pretty much every state-wide election in Michigan. The Republican candidate will be miles ahead of the Democrat candidate, then suddenly the Detroit area gets counted and the Democrat candidate has a comfortable lead and the race is pretty much over.

I know Detroit is a heavily blue district, but it's still very fishy how this seems to happen with every single state-wide election. It's odd how at the local level the Republicans have dominated for quite a while now, yet at the state-wide level the Democrats have dominated for a while now.

There aren't any blue states, only blue cities.

[Methais]

I will for sure. The entire report in our state is a huge waste of tax payer money.

Unlike you I don't blindly follow a certain party. Individual > party.

Daily reminder: I didn't vote for trump or Biden. Call it a throwaway vote all you want, but they were both stupid af

I'd just call it wasting your time leaving the house and standing in line just to vote for literally nothing.

The voting equivalent of thoughts & prayers.