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LouderVol said:
they are drowned out because they aren't being fairly represented. This is like the dems choosing Biden & then forcing Kamala down their throats. the people's vote is being ignored for the favor of the party.

from a local interest level, like the actual constituents, why would someone in Memphis want to be represented by someone in Nashville? Or vice versa.
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They were fine with a similar map that split Memphis in 2010 that Dems created.

There's literally no difference in "representation" except they get an actual black candidate instead of a grifting Jew who makes fun of them
 
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EasternVol said:
The wise thing would be to treat that area like part of Tennessee and work to make it better.
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Wonder how Memphis became so bad in the last 100 years to be one of the worst cities in the entire country in every single category
 
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Majors said:
Dad was a preacher, mom was a teacher. Strong home life. His privileged life and focus on academics led to Bowdoin College (same school Zohran graduated from) a private liberal arts school in Maine.
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I know a lot of people who went to school that went to an extreme while in college bc they grasped out on to a mentor or a cause that they thought believed in, in both directions . Usually, those people have come to grips with the idea that maybe those that they relied on for whatever they needed to feel purpose were just using them for a different reason. I have some friends from Maine that are very far left, it doesn’t surprise me that a liberal arts College there, would be a place where those sorts of ideals would be prominent.
 
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EasternVol said:
The wise thing would be to treat that area like part of Tennessee and work to make it better.
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You have 1900 THP and TBI officers/staff statewide and until recently, less than 10 were dedicated to Shelby County.

The state crime lab was shuttered, moved 90 miles away, and funded at a fraction of the other ones. Unless you were a rich white woman, turnaround time for rape and crime kits is measured in years.

(Every single time the state has allocated more resources to these two items above, there has been a double digit decrease in crime)

TDOT is largely non-existent. State Roadway incident response is non existent. Both bridges are in a state of disrepair due to neglect (one to the point of needing to be demolished and the other shut down for months). Miniscule portion of 10 year TDOT improvement roadmap is Shelby. Hell, Trump even commented on how bad US 51 was when he visited Graceland.

I69 aint coming in my lifetime.

The state actively recruits Shelby County businesses with $$ to move elsewhere in the state. The state gives out of state businesses 3-4x more in grants to move to Middle TN than Shelby.

We've seen the huge decreases in crime with proportional (its even under proportioned) resources dedicated. Put this county on an even footing and if they fail, they fail....
 
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EasternVol said:
Foreign countries don't pay tarrifs to us. The American importers pay them. Are you sure you went to school?
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Buddy you are an ignorant regurgitator of AI and sound bites. How was the Federal government funded before the income tax? Tariffs are often used to protect domestic industry, why? Because it cost foreign countries more to sell their crap to us.
If all the cost of import tariffs was passed on to consumers then the consumer would not buy foreign goods. Those countries, in this case particularly China today, absorb the cost so they can move their merchandise. The consumer has a choice, the producer does not. For them it is sell or go out of business.
Did you go to school, if so it was probably recently.
Last question. Are the Tariffs causing rampant inflation or are they working just as President Trump said they would? The proof is in the pudding.

Before the permanent income tax was established in 1913, the federal government was smaller and funded primarily by tariffs (taxes on imported goods) and excise taxes on items like whiskey and tobacco. This, along with public land sales, provided enough revenue to sustain a limited government with minimal expenditures compared to the modern era. [1, 2, 3]
 
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EasternVol said:
The wise thing would be to treat that area like part of Tennessee and work to make it better.
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Sure. I agree. We absolutely can’t have fun discussing it on a message board using humor and hyperbole.

Let’s take it down to the studs and rebuild it if we are being serious about it
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
It's always funny that these leftists from Mamdani to Justin to Crockett to Bernie to Newsome to literally most all of them come from privileged rich families and cosplay as commies for virtue signaling until it becomes ingrained in their souls.
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They understand screaming us vs them pays well.
Elected liberal privilege is good work if you can find it.
 
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rikberry31 said:
Buddy you are an ignorant regurgitator of AI and sound bites. How was the Federal government funded before the income tax? Tariffs are often used to protect domestic industry, why? Because it cost foreign countries more to sell their crap to us.
If all the cost of import tariffs was passed on to consumers then the consumer would not buy foreign goods. Those countries, in this case particularly China today, absorb the cost so they can move their merchandise. The consumer has a choice, the producer does not. For them it is sell or go out of business.
Did you go to school, if so it was probably recently.
Last question. Are the Tariffs causing rampant inflation or are they working just as President Trump said they would? The proof is in the pudding.

Before the permanent income tax was established in 1913, the federal government was smaller and funded primarily by tariffs (taxes on imported goods) and excise taxes on items like whiskey and tobacco. This, along with public land sales, provided enough revenue to sustain a limited government with minimal expenditures compared to the modern era. [1, 2, 3]
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Even if a company doesn't pass on the cost of the tariff to the consumer, which they most certainly do for the most part, the US importer of record pays the US tariff, not the exporter, and not the foreign nation where the product was produced.
 
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BeardedVol said:
So you still believe that foreign entities pay US tariffs?
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I will copy this post that I had to another person who doesn't understand economics.

If all the cost of import tariffs was passed on to consumers then the consumer would not buy foreign goods. Those countries, in this case particularly China today, absorb the cost so they can move their merchandise. The consumer has a choice, the producer does not. For them it is sell or go out of business.
Last question. Are the Tariffs causing rampant inflation or are they working just as President Trump said they would? The proof is in the pudding.
 
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EasternVol said:
Foreign countries don't pay tarrifs to us. The American importers pay them. Are you sure you went to school?
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Yep. That multi-family apartment developer based in Birmingham I just quoted a $560,000 quartz job to, is paying the import tariffs on all that cut to size quartz from Cambodia, and the handmade sinks from China. The tenants will ultimately foot that tariff bill in the form of monthly rent payments. China and Cambodia ain't paying jack s**t on that tariff bill add-on.
 
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rikberry31 said:
Buddy you are an ignorant regurgitator of AI and sound bites. How was the Federal government funded before the income tax? Tariffs are often used to protect domestic industry, why? Because it cost foreign countries more to sell their crap to us.
If all the cost of import tariffs was passed on to consumers then the consumer would not buy foreign goods. Those countries, in this case particularly China today, absorb the cost so they can move their merchandise. The consumer has a choice, the producer does not. For them it is sell or go out of business.
Did you go to school, if so it was probably recently.
Last question. Are the Tariffs causing rampant inflation or are they working just as President Trump said they would? The proof is in the pudding.

Before the permanent income tax was established in 1913, the federal government was smaller and funded primarily by tariffs (taxes on imported goods) and excise taxes on items like whiskey and tobacco. This, along with public land sales, provided enough revenue to sustain a limited government with minimal expenditures compared to the modern era. [1, 2, 3]
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Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you with facts. It slipped my mind that you have a phobia of them.
You write a lot but you don't say anything. Did you ever notice that?
 
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BeardedVol said:
Even if a company doesn't pass on the cost of the tariff to the consumer, which they most certainly do for the most part, the US importer of record pays the US tariff, not the exporter, and not the foreign nation where the product was produced.
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Here were go again, you can't see the forest cause the trees are in the way.
In the end who pays it? I hate to make common sense but here goes. If given a choice would a consumer choose an inferior Chinese made good or a domestic product if the prices were similar? The reason China sells its goods is because they are cheap. If a tariff causes that cheap good to become as expensive as the similar but superior domestic good, the cheap good is not sold. China has to sell their crap so they eat the tariff in the end. The domestic importer pass the increase on to them.
This is age old economics that have been understood for eons.
Why are they called protective tariffs? Because they protect domestic products and industry from cheap foreign stuff.
Remember, I am the stupid one. You don't have to act dumb to make me feel better. I will be happy in my ignorance.
 
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As the boys of The Church said, “lower the curtain down on Memphis, lower the curtain down alright!”
 
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utvolpj said:
This post only makes sense if you believe a district of only Memphis wouldn't go Dem. They aren't a minority until you draw a snake-like district to make it so. Purposefully drawing a district that includes Nashville to Dyersburg to Memphis has zero to do with "getting rid of racism".
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What other district in Tennessee was exclusively one urban population center? The old ninth was a purely racially drawn district. The South has been putting up with this racist crap since LBJ and now the libs are ticked that we won't be racist like those yankees are.
The left name calls "racist" and "fascist" all day long. They have really shown their true colors on this issue.
All of Tennessee used to be blue. What happened? The recent demographic changes in the state have actually favored the dems. The fact is that the blue party turned into a bunch of hammer and sickle "Reds."
 
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rikberry31 said:
Buddy you are an ignorant regurgitator of AI and sound bites. How was the Federal government funded before the income tax? Tariffs are often used to protect domestic industry, why? Because it cost foreign countries more to sell their crap to us.
If all the cost of import tariffs was passed on to consumers then the consumer would not buy foreign goods. Those countries, in this case particularly China today, absorb the cost so they can move their merchandise. The consumer has a choice, the producer does not. For them it is sell or go out of business.
Did you go to school, if so it was probably recently.
Last question. Are the Tariffs causing rampant inflation or are they working just as President Trump said they would? The proof is in the pudding.

Before the permanent income tax was established in 1913, the federal government was smaller and funded primarily by tariffs (taxes on imported goods) and excise taxes on items like whiskey and tobacco. This, along with public land sales, provided enough revenue to sustain a limited government with minimal expenditures compared to the modern era. [1, 2, 3]
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That is simply not true. Maybe in some instances, but not accross the board. I prepare commercial estimates for quartz tops part time. Any quotes I do that involve large developments, the quartz is commisioned in Cambodia. Any sinks and stuff we provide come from China. A US based quartz shop cannot produce 300 apartments of quartz tops domestically at a cost the developer can pay. It's dog eat dog in pricing matters. My cost for imported quartz on hte job I assembled last night is $178K for 16,500 SF. After I applied tariffs, containers, port fess, and our margins my sell price to the builder was around $240K for all the units. That's $14.50/SF delivered. If we even tried to produce that domestically in the Birmingham shop the bill would be over $600K and we'd never win a job. The developer knows they are paying $40K in tariffs in my quote. I detail everything. And they do not complain about that when the alternative is over half a mil. Not to mention, no quartz mfr I know of can afford to lock their production down over one 300 unit complex and ignore hte rest of their clients. So, we have importers. That 3rd largest multi-family developer in B'ham I quoted to pays that tariff bill. No one else, until it's time to rent and then they get their money back from the consumer. And even then their monthly rent would be even several hundred a month higher if they were footing the bill for locally cut quartz tops.
 
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rikberry31 said:
What other district in Tennessee was exclusively one urban population center? The old ninth was a purely racially drawn district. The South has been putting up with this racist crap since LBJ and now the libs are ticked that we won't be racist like those yankees are.
The left name calls "racist" and "fascist" all day long. They have really shown their true colors on this issue.
All of Tennessee used to be blue. What happened? The recent demographic changes in the state have actually favored the dems. The fact is that the blue party turned into a bunch of hammer and sickle "Reds."
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it depends on what you think a district should be.
 
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Hoping Memphis does have black republican representation now. They’ve needed help for decades and voting the same way year after year has gotten the city and majority black population absolutely nowhere except ranked top of the list in crime, murder, etc year after year. Dem leaders have done absolutely nothing for their people.
 
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