I voted. I hope you did, too.

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 03/03/2020 at 18:46 • Filed to: None

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I voted against a parcel tax assessment of $96/yr for teacher salaries, and against a 0.5% sales tax for County Fire, as we already pay 10% or 10.5% sales tax in Alameda County... I also voted for one of the Democrats and for a bond measure for school facilities.

Alfalfa

For Sweden > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/03/2020 at 18:57

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Everyone should vote

for Scoob/Ni bby 2020

Wacko > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/03/2020 at 18:57

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Noodles > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/03/2020 at 18:59

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When I didn't see Gordon Shumway on the ballot I just left. 

Chariotoflove > Wacko 03/03/2020 at 19:00

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Orange dude with wavy hair and small fingers?  Checks out.

DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever > For Sweden 03/03/2020 at 19:07

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They weren’t on the ballot in Texas :(

Do we need to commence 1835 again?

dogisbadob > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/03/2020 at 19:18

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at least you voted

teachers are underpaid tho

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/03/2020 at 19:41

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Our voting here in Illinois isn't till the 17th

jimz > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/03/2020 at 19:55

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I’m not sure why you think you should be proud to post this.

XJDano > Chariotoflove 03/03/2020 at 20:06

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If we were in presence, I’d also add a thing. 

glemon > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/03/2020 at 20:33

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My day late PSA for the cause:

boredalways > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/03/2020 at 21:20

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Indiana goes to the polls on May 5th

DipodomysDeserti > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/03/2020 at 22:03

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I thought CA was supposed to be this socialist dystopia with European levels of taxation. To put your sales tax in perspective, your county sales tax is almost 1/3 of mine (the county Joe Arpaio ruled for a few decades), and your total sales tax is only 1% more than what I pay. It’s the same rate depending on where you live in Alameda county. Californians rejecting Arizona levels of taxation gives me a chuckle.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > For Sweden 03/04/2020 at 00:35

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I’m sure you would do a better job

jimz > DipodomysDeserti 03/04/2020 at 06:43

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funny how “conservatives” complain about entitlements, yet believe teachers, firefighters, and police should serve them for free. Those people have expenses too, and those expenses go up over time just like OP’s. Yet I doubt OP would turn down a raise.

I couldn’t be arsed to vote in this primary, and I doubt I will in November. none of it matters.

For Sweden > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 03/04/2020 at 08:15

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Not better than Scoob/Nibby

DipodomysDeserti > jimz 03/04/2020 at 08:53

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The  OP is a teacher, so there goes that theory.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > jimz 03/04/2020 at 10:49

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Wait a minute: are you talking smack about me? If so, why not ask me a question directly? If not, nevermind.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > DipodomysDeserti 03/04/2020 at 10:52

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I’m trying to do your math. So you pay 9% sales tax and you’ve looked up what Alameda County pays in county assessed sales tax and you pay three times as much?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Chariotoflove 03/04/2020 at 10:53

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Alf is too polite.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > dogisbadob 03/04/2020 at 10:54

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Maybe they are, maybe they aren’t. What they are paid, or are not paid, thank unions.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > jimz 03/04/2020 at 10:56

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You should not use should . You seem to be full of smack to talk about me. Start a real conversation, or leave me alone, por favor .

Chariotoflove > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/04/2020 at 11:33

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Good point. He’d never be elected. 

DipodomysDeserti > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/04/2020 at 13:59

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Per Alameda County’s website, the county sales tax is 0.25%. Maricopa county’s sales tax is 0.7% (almost 3x) . Depending on where you live in Alameda county, your total sales tax rate (state + county + city + whatever other entity) is 9-10ish%. My total sales tax rate is right around 9.5%.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > DipodomysDeserti 03/04/2020 at 14:45

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So yes. The sales tax measure on the ballot wanted to add 0.5%, which would have tripled the county sales tax, it turns out, thanks to the information you’ve provided . It had never occurred to me that the sales tax we pay has constituent parts such as County and Other, but it’s pretty obvious . I like money as much as anyone, but taxing everyone to make teacher pay raises, when we already pay what I think is an exorbitant sales tax, strikes me as too much taxation. 0.5% is a substantial increase. (My employer is a different district than the one I live in, FWIW, and that district is one of the lowest paid in the Bay Area, though the sales tax increase was for Fire and the parcel tax was for teacher pay. )

DipodomysDeserti > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/04/2020 at 15:57

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Voting on a sales tax without actually knowing your sales tax.

GET OUT THERE AND VOTE, PEOPLE!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > DipodomysDeserti 03/04/2020 at 16:29

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No, I’m doing my civic responsibility and knee-jerk voting on some issue like no more new taxes and why can’t the local government manage their, well, my , money any better? Voting my liberal principles.

I am curious to see how the McSally v. Kelly Senate race winds up.

DipodomysDeserti > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/04/2020 at 17:58

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We’ll see if McSally can lose two Senate races in as many years!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > DipodomysDeserti 03/04/2020 at 18:12

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When you look at Mark Kelly’s history in the state, and Arizona’s history with the likes of Senator John McCain, I would think Kelly would have some appeal and some name recognition and I would not expect him to be any sort of ideological automaton.  

DipodomysDeserti > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/04/2020 at 20:17

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Yeah. My friend was an aid for Gabby Giffords (slept in the day of the shooting), and she was pretty centrist. Same friend idolized McCain.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > DipodomysDeserti 03/04/2020 at 23:58

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When I learned of the shooting and the media started talking about Ms. Gifford’s, my immediate reaction was that I thought she was someone I could get behind. I wonder if Martha McSally can slot into that heritage and with alignment with the president as her selling point, it seems to me that a vote for McSally would be a vote to surrender some individuality as a state .

DipodomysDeserti > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/05/2020 at 00:26

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McSally is nothing like Giffords. Giffords was a born and raised Arizonan who happened to be a Democrat. McSally only presented herself as a centrist while running in the 2nd District, because tha t district will vote conservative Dems and centrist Republicans. She’s since shown herself to be a Trump styled Republican, who I don’t consider to be conservatives. Anyone who had any respect for John McCain would stay far away from Trump and his supporters. Barry Goldwater warned conservatives of the religious nuts that were trying to take over the party, and Trump has embraced them.