A McCain Outpost in Blue Park Slope
Hey, don’t assume that Park Slope will go blue on November 4th. Four brownstones on 11th Street are adorned with McCain signs (though residents had to travel to New Jersey to get them). Writes the NY Times, “The election district that includes 11th Street has 643 registered voters: 51 of them Republicans, 452 Democrats, 23…
Hey, don’t assume that Park Slope will go blue on November 4th. Four brownstones on 11th Street are adorned with McCain signs (though residents had to travel to New Jersey to get them). Writes the NY Times, “The election district that includes 11th Street has 643 registered voters: 51 of them Republicans, 452 Democrats, 23 in other parties and 117 who did not list a party. That breakdown is echoed by the overwhelmingly Democratic makeup of Assembly District 52, as well as that of Brooklyn, which voted 79 percent for Senator John Kerry in 2004.” The McCain supporters are old school Slopers, writes the Times: residents from long before the Manhattan exodus who say the block was full of Roman Catholics and firemen when they arrived. But donkeys and elephants alike seem to be getting along: old and new, Obama and McCain-lovers. As one Democratic neighbor said about his neighbor’s signs, “To me, that says the person’s possibly open to some dialogue.
An Outpost in the Blue Sea of Brooklyn [NY Times]
Photo by moralesdirect.
Under Obama’s plan the marginal tax rate on amounts earned above $250,000 would go from 36 percent to 39 percent. So if you’re making $300,000, the extra amount you pay in taxes is %1500, or an overall increase of one half of one percent of your gross income. If you make %500,000, the extra amount you pay is $7500 or one and one half percent of your gross income. Is that really going to be a material burden for you? What are you *not* going to be able to do under an Obama tax regime that you can’t do now? If I make more than $250k next year, I’ll just count my blessings. (Now, if you want to complain about capital gains on primary residences, that’s something I’ll bitch with you about!)
All I said was that my taxes are going to significantly rise under OB-wan-kinobe and I get snide Boom-bam-biff comments. Like I said yesterday, too poor or too rich and you’re despised. Eff the damn Iraquis and Afghans, folks in (….wait for it…) Africa has and is still being raped and murdered to this day and no one (including I) is waving a flag for them.
Capitalism is a zero sum game. Money makes your life easier, if you’re lucky to have it you’re lucky. Changing the rules mid game isn’t fair….even if you didn’t make varsity biff-bam-boom.
Ah, but what about those of us who don’t get a meal because we are permanent residents. Eh bien.
SnarkSlope, that really does sum it all up. Thank you.
From the current New Yorker, David Sedaris on undecided voters:
“To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. ‘Can I interest you in the chicken?’ she asks. ‘Or would you prefer the platter of sh*t with bits of broken glass in it?’
To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.”
– http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2008/10/27/081027sh_shouts_sedaris
Ah, what could be said that hadn’t been said before? After so many glorious years of the Republican rule, after seeing and hearing the Republican vice presidential nominee and after Republicans publicly declare you less American and less hard working and just less of everything simply because you live in a city, there’s only one logical explanation why any city dweller would vote Republican. Ready? HE OR SHE IS A COMPLETE RETARD.
No, I’m not a liberal Democrat or any kind of a Democrat. I’m very much an independent and a centrist when it comes to foreign and fiscal policies. But this country has moved far enough to the right to scare even quite a few moderate Republicans into endorsing That One.
Hey the Northern Kurds and the Marsh Arabs have been doing great!
“Obama is gonna raise my taxes.”
Yeah, and the majority of Americans (and Iraqis and Afghans, etc.) have been doing so well under Bush. We’re going to be in so much trouble once he leaves! I guess if that happens, you can organize a Brooklyn Tea Party, moreteasir.
cobblehiller, maybe David Letterman can start a Great Moments in Wannabe Vice Presidential Speeches feature. I can’t get enough of those.
Cheers to infintejester and DIBS. If only they lived in Ohio or Florida!
Rich is always relative. Also, Bloomy or Quinn are going to raise your city income taxes too. If you’re in the 250K plus category its going to get very expensive compared to now.