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“This is not a "seize money from El Chapo" bill. This is a "earmark money that was already going to be seized anyway" bill.”

- JONATHAN S

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In Response to: Should Money Seized From Drug Cartels Like “El Chapo” Go to Funding the Border Wall?

“Those who are concerned about deforestation should consider that lumber in the US is farmed: planted specifically for the purpose of harvesting for timber.”

- JONATHAN S

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In Response to: Should the USDA Prioritize Research Into the Use of Timber Products in Tall Buildings?

“Anyone saying "against" because of Trump or because of politicization should read the bill summary.”

- JONATHAN S

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In Response to: Should the Register of Copyrights be Nominated by the President?

“This only affects millionaires and effective millionaires. If it is an insult for them to receive the IRS letter immediately after a family member's death, have the IRS send a more sensitive letter and give them space to grieve.”

- JONATHAN S

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In Response to: Should the "Death Tax" and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax be Repealed?

“Association Health Plans already exist at the state level. What this law would do is exempt them from state-level regulations, giving them an unfair advantage in the market compared to individual and group plans. While the writers of the bill would like to sell it as a win for small businesses, it i…”

- JONATHAN S

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In Response to: Should Small Businesses be Allowed to Form Associations for Buying Their Employees Health Insurance?

“what the? this is a blatant attempt to rewrite the Constitution without ratifying an amendment?”

- JONATHAN S

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In Response to: Should Congress Block the Supreme Court From Citing Obamacare Cases As Precedent?

“Split it in a way that makes sense geographically.”

- JONATHAN S

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In Response to: Should the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals be Split in Two?

“Drug-testing welfare recipients is empirically determined to be useless and wasteful spending.”

- JONATHAN S

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In Response to: Do States Need More Freedom to Drug Test Welfare Recipients As They See Fit?

“This bill doesn't actually do anything but add bureaucracy and pay lip service .”

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In Response to: Omnibus: Funding the Gov’t Through September With $1.1 Trillion in Spending

“As far as I can tell, this is a dumb piece of feel-good legislation. Since it's not allocating new funds, we really ought to have looked into the question "how were these job training funds being used before this bill came around?"”

- JONATHAN S

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In Response to: Should Federal Job Training Programs for the Energy and Manufacturing Industries be Prioritized?

“The estate tax is a crucial tool to prevent the excessive concentration of wealth, and it only kicks in at inordinately large amounts of wealth.”

- JONATHAN S

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In Response to: Attention Heirs: Repealing the Death Tax and the Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax

“It's a minor change that has the potential to make things slightly more fair; no real reason not to do it.”

- JONATHAN S

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In Response to: Renaming a STEM Grant Program to Honor 100 Years of Women in Congress