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Amran Gowani's avatar

The Faustian bargain between the GOP and its voters is: we'll help our rich supporters get richer via regressive tax policies, deregulation, and hypocritical veneration of the free market, and we'll feed red meat to our poor voters by fighting the culture war on every front.

For as allegedly "smart" as DeSantis is, I don't think he understands his role, and doesn't seem to realize he's not supposed to interfere with the money making machinery. I'm cautiously optimistic he's going to blow himself up when he hits the national stage, and I'm not known for my optimism. Fingers crossed.

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David Dimston's avatar

H.L. Mencken was quoted as saying “A democracy is where the middle class knows what it wants and gets it, good and hard”.

The joke is on Florida in so many ways but it is deserved nonetheless. A few years back the legislature passed regulations that limited how much insurance companies could charge in premiums. The result was that major insurers quit the state and those that are left are increasing premiums over 50% year over year. Now one can say, the insurers deserve it but the reality is changing weather patterns are increasing the frequency and severity of storms and thus claims. Anyway chasing banks out only increases costs for the Florida residents, Texas is finding that out as well. The voters are too stupid to recognize when their pockets are being picked so I say “let ‘em have it”. Its what I call the hidden income tax of a tax free state.

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