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Also called a "mill rate" it's a tax on a property on per-$1000 basis (per mille) of assessed value.

If you own a house assessed at $150,000, and you have a mill rate of 20, you pay 20x150 per year, that's $3,000.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/millrate.asp

LOL Who said anything about Harris? What does Harris have to do with Hawaii's gun laws? Once again, you assume the Dems are some monolithic force, like Joy Buenaventura and Joe Biden are the same person with the same goals.

Open Source Software can be forked. There's no reason to tie code to its creators, and no reason for Lemmy's code and platform to inherit their creators' terrible reputation.

All harris had to do was say 'i will ensure american laws are enforced with respect to weapons sales to isreal' and her major campaign problem would have disappeared.

If elections could be won in the United States solely, exclusively, by denouncing Israel, the Dems would have done it. Dems want to stay in power don't they? As you said, it's not hard to set up a press conference and make a statement. So why didn't the Dems just win the election? It's so simple, right?

Of course, in reality, the answer is no, this elections was not decided on one issue. Single-issue voters are wrong, nearly every single time. Abortion, gun rights, Palestine, I don't care what the cause is, it's not the center of universe. Their analysis of why certain things happened are so blatantly biased by the one thing they care about, they fail to consider the many other factors that contributed to Harris's loss: nascent racism and sexism of voters who won't turn out for a woman of color, inflation and price gouging and stagnant wages, right wing propaganda going absolutely gangbusters, fears of violence at the polls, active voter suppression, fear mongering against LGBT and immigrants.

Nah, all that will go away because Kamala said "israel bad." Kamala wins 500 electoral votes. Trump flees to Russia, and brainwashed Republican voters denounce their evil ways and turn back to good.

Not at all. I don't know anything about Hawaii's internal politics, so the only thing I focused on was Newsweek's misleading headline and article writing.

I don't think the Civil War is gonna be Maui lobbing 5.56mm at Oahu...

I hate seeing articles like this because it tees you, the commenter, up for assuming that the entire DNC decided to drop their gun control policy.

This is just for Hawaii. Hawaii voted against this.

Newsweek is such a dogshit source to be talking about in forums and threads because they write everything assuming that Democrats are a perfectly unified group, all with identical motivations, reasoning, and agendas. We know they're not, but NW can show you a ding in a shoulder plate, and tell you the entire suit of armor is equally vulnerable.

Bills aren't just... fixed with a sharpie. Laws don't have the luxury of casual, colloquial language. Nor can some cheeto-dusted dipshit just make whatever changes he wants.

"Oh yeah, P.S., existing owners are not criminals." When? Permanently? Not permanently? How long does that apply? Is it transferable? If I Last Will it to my grandchildren, do they also enjoy that benefit? Or do they immediately become criminals? Does it apply to all weapons covered by the bill, or just some? If the rifle can have some parts swapped out, can it be made legal? Which parts? The upper, the stock, the grip, the barrel?

Nothing bad ever came from underestimating your enemies right?