23. As for Trump's tax returns: the norm of candidates releasing their taxes is a valuable one, & both Trump & Romney did themselves political damage by delaying/flouting it. But it's not a job requirement. Until 1916, no presidential candidate even paid income taxes.
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34. Actually - and again, this is covered in my piece - very few developed countries choose a head of state by national popular plurality. The German system, like ours, has a federalist structure. https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/what-the-electoral-college-saves-us-from/ … https://twitter.com/AlexMLeo/status/1124849420711936000 …
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35. Too many responses to get to everyone, but once you start adding runoffs, redrawing state boundaries, rewriting ballot & voting eligibility rules, you grasp what a radical reworking of the whole system is being proposed.https://twitter.com/yeselson/status/1124856977992179712 …
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Why are you numbering your responses?
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35. So yOu hAtE sTatEs RiGhtS hUh? Just a guess of the next response
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And Santa Fe was a provincial capital of New Spain before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. What’s your point?
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Doesn't that just support his point? The state lines were drawn hundreds of years ago. What meaning or relevance do they have in 2019?
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I also think we should abolish Italy.
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But they are no longer countries. They were like countries before the joined the US, but now they are just provinces of America, they’re no longer countries held together in a loose Union like the Articles of Confederation or the Confederate States of America.
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But what should that have to do with deciding the president of the whole country? States are already represented in federal gov through Senate and they have strong powers through federalism
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