DL Open Thread: Monday, November 9, 2020
Biden Has A Lot Of Leeway To Exert Economic Power. Based on the work of his advisors, it looks like he intends to use it.
Biden Announces Covid Panel. Highly-qualified and quite diverse. His team has laid the groundwork for this. It’s clear that the work started long before the election.
Trump Rolled Back Obamacare In Georgia. Right before the election. Election issue much?
Trump’s Ascendancy: An Error Or The Future? This writer says it was an error, and that we all overreacted. I’m not so optimistic.
How Biden Won. Solid analysis from the Times.
2024 GOP Hopefuls To Audition In Georgia. I hope Obama takes up temporary residence there.
Trump Picked A Fight With Black Athletes. The Athletes Won. Doesn’t matter if Michael Jordan was a better basketball player. IMO, Lebron is the GOAT.
Could This Pfizer Vaccine Be ‘The One’? Trump blames the media for delaying this report in 3-2-1…?
Settlement Near On Statewide Reassessment? We’re getting close.
What do you want to talk about?
Trump Fires Defense Secretary Mark Esper. By tweet, of course. Classy until the end.
Reportedly more firings to come.
Just got the first post-election e-mail update from the House Democratic Caucus.
Guess what? Even though the newly-elected members went on the payroll the day after the election, the e-mail featured all the losers and retirees who have since cleaned out their desks.
Get WITH it, pipples.
I caught that too!
Also, did you notice how the font on a few of the names was different?
Can you give a summary of the reassessment article for those of us who are not subscribers?
“Officials from Delaware’s three counties are negotiating a lawsuit settlement that would see a multi-year process for reassessing the values used to tax individual properties up and down the state – a process that is likely to render widespread changes to residents’ and businesses’ tax bills in coming years.
Attorneys have told a judge they are working to settle, by the end of the year, a lawsuit that found the property valuations currently used by Delaware’s three counties to calculate tax bills to be unconstitutional, according to recent court transcripts and correspondence. ”
Under each of the counties’ planning proposals – which are not final and subject to change – new tax bills would not be mailed before 2024. Residents, however, would be notified of new property values in 2023 and be allowed to appeal.
Thanks. This does sound like progress.
The use of the phrase “widespread changes” is bullshit, and I notice is offered as an editorial comment rather than a quote.
The fact is that we don’t know how “widespread” the changes will be. Some bills will go up, some down, some will stay the same. If they mean that lots of people will be affected, that’s true. But to imply that bills will shift dramatically is offered without evidence, because there is none.
If anyone’s bill shifts dramatically, that’s a sign that skulduggery was involved in the original assessment.
My property tax/school tax bill has tripled over the 20 years I’ve lived in my house. Any change in my bill due to reassessment will pale compared with that.
Must read: Long NYT interview with AOC on blaming progressives.
https://news.yahoo.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bidens-win-164022661.html
I’ve looked through a lot of these campaigns that lost, and the fact of the matter is if you’re not spending $200,000 on Facebook with fundraising, persuasion, volunteer recruitment, get-out-the-vote the week before the election, you are not firing on all cylinders. And not a single one of these campaigns were firing on all cylinders… These folks are pointing toward Republican messaging that they feel killed them, right? But why were you so vulnerable to that attack?
If I lost my election, and I went out and I said: “This is moderates’ fault. This is because you didn’t let us have a floor vote on Medicare for All.” And they opened the hood on my campaign, and they found that I only spent $5,000 on TV ads the week before the election? They would laugh. And that’s what they look like right now trying to blame the Movement for Black Lives for their loss.
I was just about to post the same link. My favorite quote:
Statewide reassessment? Believe it when you see it. This should spur numerous checks in the mail from the rich to stop it, as the politicians remain fundamentally corrupt and cowardly they have a good chance of preventing it. Imagine if the beach properties were reassessed, it would result in a flood of new revenue and some pissed of hyper rich people too. Sounds like a win win, but as stated believe it when you see it.
But most of those big beach houses are owned by people who don’t vote in Sussex County.
But it might bring a good bit of out of county political contributions to dopeycon candidates.
I’m hearing that this possible settlement is not nearly as close as the article made it appear. Indications are that the vice chancellor does not believe he can order how reassessments might be done in the future (i.e., introduce rolling reassessments) and there’s the not-so-small matter of who would pick up the tab. The counties have long believed that the state should pay because most property tax proceeds go to school districts, not to county governments. The state isn’t a party to this part of the suit, so this could prove to be a major stumbling block.