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Us here in Oregon will give you a run for your money.

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As someone who used to get a matching 401k and now has to solely fund his own retirement accounts, um no. Public employees should be capped as a multiplier of the federal minimum wage, maybe 6.5x.

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Actually sometimes new ones form, when that happens you are not safe anywhere.

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Come join the Republic of Cascadia, we are a Northwest separatist movement. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wik..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_(independen...">http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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Only the higher Silverback moose, the lower moose we will still eat.

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The original Fallout is actually based in Southern Oregon, Klamath = Klamath Falls.

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Texas is one of the only red states that actually contributes more than they take, btw. The way they do that is they are like 47th in Education and 50th in Health Care, yee haw!

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The Mississippi river is called the 'Food Stamp Corridor' by long haul truckers because of all the cheap food they truck up and down it. 180 bucks a month would last me about a week eating healthy foods, we should make food stamps 3-4x what they are now.

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Except the south would attack the coasts to keep us paying for their fat people to waddle through Walmarts with shopping carts filed with food that would of been illegal to sell at 1950's Gypsy carnivals.

Redistribution of wealth from intelligent to ignorant, I tells ya, Its the American way.

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Its older than that I heard it in the 1990's.

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I think a nearly 50 dollars an hour cap is reasonable. That is ~100k a year before taxes.

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California also happens to lead the nation in both porn studios and megachurches. That's just a fact, bitches. Texas and Utah can suck our balls and drop an offering in the plate on the way out the door.

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If low taxes was the secret to jobs and growth, Mississippi would be the engine of the U.S. economy. Instead MS leads the nation in obesity. Hmmm, low taxes = fat asses?

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New England plus NY, NJ, MD, PA, OH, and maybe VA and NC can secede, too. Call the new country Acela, maybe. Entertain applications from midwestern states suddenly scared shitless by the prospect of affiliating with the new teabagging hillbilly majority. Momentum will build in the direction of tolerance, progressiveness, and reason. Problem solved.

Oops, I forgot. I live in Florida.

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