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Stupid Tax Tricks
by Neil H. Buchanan
As I write this column, Republicans in the U.S. Senate are doing their part to make sure that the debate about taxes becomes even more absurd and incomprehensible. Not that that's a bad thing. This whole process is a sham, and we would be much better off if they did nothing at all.
And it might well come to that. I continue to believe, however, that Republicans will flail about for several months but then cobble together something at the last possible moment before some self-imposed deadline. Whatever they ultimately pass, they will call it "reform" and Donald Trump will call it "tremendous."
Whatever emerges in the end will almost certainly be nearly unrecognizable compared to where they started. In the meantime, I find it unfortunately necessary to pay attention to the process, because Republicans will stagger along and make some ad hoc and often accidental decisions that will somehow become accepted wisdom. Path dependence matters.
To be honest, however, for people who follow politics or tax policy (or both), all of this is as close to mental masturbation as it could ever be without misusing the word "literally." Hence the following disclaimer: This column will probably end up being as relevant to future tax analysis as the House Republicans' failed March 2017 health care bill is to doctors and hospitals today. You have been warned.
To get a sense of just how unprincipled the entire tax debate has become, consider the tussle over repealing the state-and-local tax deduction (known as SALT). Initially, almost all congressional Republicans liked the idea of repeal, because ditching the SALT deduction would harm upper-middle-class people in blue states (who pay higher taxes so that their state and local governments can provide more and better services -- a no-no to Republicans).
It was of no concern that red states still make out like bandits in the federal taxing-spending balance. This was never about anything remotely resembling fairness or principle. If merely comfortable people in the top 2-10 percent of the income distribution have to pay more so that Republicans can score a win for the big boys at the very top, so be it.
This entire game, after all, is to cut taxes for super-rich people and corporations to reestablish the Republican brand, even though almost no one other than the party's big-dollar donors actually believes that tax cuts should be a priority.
But House Republican leaders were quickly reminded that some of their members represent upper middle-class high-tax districts near major cities, where the SALT deduction is somewhere between wildly popular and sacrosanct. Solution: keep the deduction for property taxes but not income taxes, averting a rebellion by the slightly less extreme House Republicans from those districts.
That, however, is standard operating procedure for principle-free Republicans. And to be fair, it is generally how most legislation is crafted -- although most such compromises in the past have not been rushed through with absolutely no input from the other party. (No, the Affordable Care Act was not rammed through Congress by Democrats with no attempt to reach out to Republicans.)
What makes the current dance around the SALT deduction so amusing is that the Republicans in the Senate are now apparently planning to repeal it entirely in their new tax bill. Why? As a news article in The New York Times explains:
"The Senate plan is taking shape as Republicans digest the drubbing they suffered on Tuesday night in affluent suburbs across the country, many of them represented by Republicans in the House. Those areas are stocked with well-off voters who would be disproportionately hit by the elimination of state and local tax deductions.
"But in the Senate, those high-tax areas are often represented by Democrats, which puts less pressure on Republican leaders to keep the state and local deduction, in any form, in their version of the bill."
So Senate Republicans are essentially saying, "Hey, none of us will suffer politically if we repeal the SALT deduction, so you people in the House can suck it." Yes, I realize that there are ways to describe this as the first of several chess moves that will result in Republicans reaching tax nirvana, but considering that Republicans almost failed to pass an earlier building block in this legislative process because of suburban House Republicans' concerns about SALT, this looks less like chess and more like a game of tag on a playground. "You're it!"
Do Senate Republicans actually not care whether their party loses their House majority? Come to think of it, I hope not.
But it is not just Republicans in Congress who are alternately a source of amusement and despair. Media coverage of tax reform continues to be stunningly credulous. At this point, for example, it appears that The Times has a standards-and-practices editor who insists on using the word "sweeping" in every story on Republican tax proposals. (The headline on the article that I described above: "Senate Republicans Will Diverge From House in Sweeping Tax Rewrite.")
As I wrote last week, the only way to call any of the Republicans' versions of tax policy "sweeping" or "fundamental" is to strip all meaning from those words and use them to mean "big" or "jumbled hodgepodge." There are no principles at stake here. Heck, even the silly idea that reducing the number of tax brackets counts as fundamental reform is not relevant to the Senate's bill, which reportedly will keep the current rate structure essentially intact.
The other journalistic tic that shows up in nearly all mainstream coverage of the Republicans' tax gymnastics is the uncritical acceptance of conservative talking points about the miraculous effects of tax cuts. As I wrote back in September, "business reporters in particular seem all too willing to assume that Republicans' favorite talking points about taxes are all true."
Reporters for The Washington Post continue to prove me right:
"[Republicans are] considering allowing companies to immediately deduct capital investments in 2018 from their taxable income, the people familiar with the matter said, which would avoid having companies wait until 2019 to spend on the economy."
In fact, it is highly contestable -- one might even say completely fatuous -- to claim that allowing companies to immediately deduct all capital spending will cause them to "spend on the economy" in 2018, 2019, or ever. For years, American companies have been sitting on piles of cash, all of which could be spent on investment projects to expand businesses' operations. The companies are not using those funds because they do not want to, not because they cannot deduct spending immediately.
The same article in The Post moves into even more ridiculous territory when the authors write that a heavily funded anti-tax group "wants the bill's authors to make it easier for businesses to claim a lower 25 percent income tax rate, as well as to speed up their planned repeal of the estate tax, in a bid to promote economic growth."
I think I once heard about something called "journalistic skepticism," but maybe I am imagining things. One might have hoped that "repealing the estate tax will promote economic growth" is one of those places were a responsible reporter might decide to add a word like "supposedly." Maybe not.
Even just a he-said-he-said formula, with a comment from any responsible tax analyst noting that there is zero evidence that the estate tax hinders economic growth, would be an improvement. One of The Post's op-ed columnists, for example, nicely explained how estate tax repeal (and several other measures in the House bill) would merely reward (in her words) "the lazy rich."
But perhaps reporters could argue that they face a nearly impossible task, because Republicans continue to make fantasy-based assertions about their tax proposals with such sincerity and repetitiveness that it becomes almost mesmerizing. That is not much of a defense for a profession that is supposed to see through BS, but it is undeniably true that Republicans' faith in the magic of tax cuts is child-like.
For Republicans, it simply does not matter that there is no evidence that tax cuts increase economic growth. Yes, I said "no evidence," which means that only people who want it to be true can concoct stories to support their favored conclusion. For a few examples of objective analyses proving that tax cuts do not increase economic growth, see here and here.
But none of that matters. Republicans simply know that it must be true, so they repeat it over and over again.
Consider, for example, the top tax pseudo-expert among House Republicans, the current chair of the Ways and Means Committee, Texas's Kevin Brady. Defending his bill against attacks by the National Association of Home Builders (who are understandably worried about proposed limitations on the mortgage interest deduction), Brady kept the faith, according to another article in The Post:
"The GOP tax bill, Brady said, would stimulate the economy generally, including the real estate sector: 'You get home values up, you get more sales, you get better prices when the economy is stronger,' he said. 'This tax plan is all about getting growth going. That is good for home builders. It's good for homeowners like you and me.'"
Someday, I hope to have such innocent trust in something supernatural (or at least the ability to fake such trust). Everyone is supposed to believe that the economy will get stronger -- and not merely stronger, but so much stronger that every other bad thing is completely erased.
You think that your house's value will go down because of directly relevant considerations like potential buyers not being able to borrow the full amount with tax-deductible mortgages? No worries. Growth will solve all of it. Trickle down lives. Trickle down on steroids.
Again, there is no way to predict whether any of the provisions that I have described here will end up in a final bill (if, indeed, there ever is a final bill). Even so, we at least need to monitor what is happening as the process drags along in its desultory way.
At this point, for all of the sound and fury, there is almost nothing new to report: Republicans continue to rely on trickle-down fantasies that have been long since debunked, and reporters fail to call them on their fanciful lies.
The only thing that we might consider somewhat newsworthy is that the Republicans in the Senate and the House are so far apart that they cannot even remember that they are from the same political party. Lord of the Flies comes to the Republican Party. If they keep it up, the country might be saved.
Posted by Neil H. Buchanan at 11:27 AM
John Barron said...
Reminds me of TRA '86. The damn thing passed the House on voice vote. If you blinked, you missed it.
Ryan doesn't even need a majority, if it is done right.
Shag from Brookline said...
We are all in a position to observe the process of the Trump tax "plan" as the House and Senate, each controlled by Republicans, commence their baby steps. For those who were not around to witness the Tax Reform Act of 1986 process as well as those who were around but did not seem to pay attention to detail, there is a good read at the NYTimes:
THE TAX REFORM ACT OF 1986: HOW THE MEASURE CAME TOGETHER; A TAX BILL FOR THE TEXTBOOKS
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, Special to the New York Times
It's available at: http://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/23/business/tax-reform-act-1986-measure-came-together-tax-bill-for-textbooks.html?pagewanted=all
It all started with President Reagan's State of the Nation speech in January, 1984. At the time, both the House and the Senate were controlled by Democrats. The political machinations described are quite interesting. It's a long report but well worth a read. Here's an excerpt from its lengthy closing paragraph:
Still, the prevailing view among leaders is that nothing can stop the bill now. Sept. 24, 1986: Gun-shy from their experience in 1985 when they were surprised by the extent of opposition, the White House and Democratic leaders make careful nose counts of how representatives plan to vote on the final bill. They are not confident they have sufficient votes until Representative Robert H. Michel, the Republican leader, asserts himself to blunt an attempt by a band of Republicans to scuttle the measure. Sept. 25, 1986: The House approves the final version, 292 to 136, with a majority of both parties in support. Sept. 27, 1986: After two days of debate, the Senate votes final Congressional approval, 74 to 23. President Reagan promises to sign the measure, calling the Senate vote ''the last legislative hurdle for the American people, who finally have a tax code they can be proud of.'' Senator Packwood says: ''It was a very real question whether we would achieve tax reform. Well we have. We did something good for America.'' Oct. 22, 1986: Surrounded by instrumental lawmakers from both parties, President Reagan signs the bill into law in a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House. He calls it ''the best antipoverty bill, the best pro-family measure and the best job-creation program ever to come out of the Congress of the United States.''
The Trump tax "plan" is claimed to provide major tax reform, the first since the Tax Reform Act of 1986. As we watch the process of the Trump tax "plan," we can look back to this article to compare processes in Congress. Currently the Executive and Legislative Branches are controlled by Republicans. So far it seems clear that the benefits will of the Trump tax "plan" will rain upon the obscenely wealthy who are apparently committed to political tithing of Republicans from their tax savings to continue their reign over the Republican Party by reining in Democrats and democracy with such political tithings in conjunction with Citizens United. The Trump tax "plan" would ensure the role of The Second Gilded Age and its 0.1% Robber Barons. We can watch in real time tax reform sausage being made in Congress, with inputs from the Trump Administration. The proof of the sausage is in the eating. Can the middle class expect heartburn?
Over at Balinization Joseph Fishkin has an interesting post on the impact of various versions of the tax bills on non-profit universities providing potential "controls" to big donors over such universities.
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Giovanni Poggio, també escrit Poggi (Bolonya, 21 de gener de 1493 - Bolonya, 12 de febrer de 1556), va ser un bisbe i cardenal italià, conegut principalment per les elaborades decoracions que va disposar per a la seua residència, el Palazzo Poggi.

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Era fill de Cristoforo Poggio i de Francesca Quistelli. Durant la seua formació, Giovanni va mostrar interès per la música, i als setze anys va fer un viatge a Espanya, on va aprendre a tocar la guitarra. De tornada a Bolonya, es va casar amb la milanesa Ludovica Bibieni, amb qui va tenir un fill, i després de morir la seua dona el 1528 es va fer clergue amb ordes menors i va entrar al servei de la cúria romana. El papa Pau III el va nomenar protonotari apostòlic i tresorer de la Cambra apostòlica. Des del juliol de 1529 fins al març de 1541, Poggio va ser el nunci a la cort reial espanyola, substituït entre gener de 1535 i juliol de 1537 per Giovanni Guidiccione.

Poggio va ser nomenat bisbe de Tropea el 4 d'octubre de 1541.
Va nomenar un vicari general per a administrar la diòcesi, ja que va tornar a ser nunci a Espanya des del setembre del 1541 fins al desembre del 1551, prop de l'emperador Carles V. El 1554, el papa Juli III el va enviar a intentar convèncer Francesc de Borja, quart duc de Gandia, d'acceptar un barret de cardenal, però el Borja el va refusar.

A petició de Carles V, el papa Juli III va fer a Poggio cardenal prevere en el consistori del 20 de novembre de 1551. Va rebre la birreta vermella i el titulus de Sant'Anastasia el 23 de març de 1552. Del desembre de 1551 al març de 1553, va ser legat a latere a Espanya. El gener de 1552 va defensar amb èxit els jesuïtes contra els intents de l'arquebisbe de Toledo, Juan Martínez Silíceo, de suprimir aquest orde.

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Downtown I-70 Removal
Forget the Lid — Let's Go Under I-70
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View south from Cole Street, looking under I-70's elevated section.
For the past tow years, the citizen group City to River has pushed for removal of I-70 through downtown St. Louis in order to better improve the connections between the city's core and the riverfront around the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. City to River's practical and relatively affordable proposal is replacement of I-70 with an at-grade boulevard after the new Mississippi River Bridge opens in 2014. Then, I-70 will be carried away from the unsightly depressed and elevated lanes, which will get an inferior designation.
The boulevard plan won traction when the National Park Service's General Management Plan for the Memorial included a very favorable mention of the boulevard idea. Then during the Framing a Modern Masterpiece competition, all five finalists ended up endorsing the proposal, with several explicitly drawing their own phased boulevard plans in their final competition proposals. Then the momentum came to a halt when the winner, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, got to work on creating a workable design. When that plan was unveiled on January 26 this year, the boulevard was nowhere to be found. City to River took a conciliatory tone, suggesting consensus that the boulevard was no longer a short-term goal for anyone.
Amid the reality that this city will be saddled with the ungainly mess of interstate that mars many a sight line downtown, yesterday City to River tweeted an idea that could make life with the highway a little less depressing.
Here's the short story from Dezeen: A group in London called Assemle has built a cinema underneath a wharfside elevated highway (called a "flyover" in England). The project is called "Folly For Flyover" and lasts six weeks. The cinema's entrance is made of reclaimed local brick supported by scaffolding in the shape of a historic row house. According to Dezeen: "Folly for a Flyover was assembled by a team of volunteers over the course of a month, using reclaimed and donated materials."
Some efforts have been made to "beautify" the area under the elevated lanes.
The architectural pun is clear and lovely: elevated highway construction took down many a historic building in previous decades, and demolition continues today (hence the available brick). Activating the otherwise-bleak space under the highway offers both a way to mitigate its dehumanizing form and the occasion to do a little teaching about the scale of materials and the impact of highways on cities.
View east along Washington Avenue toward Laclede's Landing.
Can St. Louis try something similar? At present, even the three-block highway lid — which does nothing to offset the tragic landscape of the elevated lanes — included in Van Valkenburgh's final plan will take years to build. Some temporary programming in our cavernous under-highway spaces downtown would make what could be a long wait for any changes to I-70 easier to bear.
The elevated structure itself is not the worst architecture in St. Louis, either. It is a utilitarian work of steel and concrete — there's untapped visual potential that we should harness as long as it stands.
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Sisyphussays:
Great last paragraph. I agree. But I fear there is a long, heavy inertia that burdens people from thinking of impediments as possibilities.Â
Douglas Duckworthsays:
No. St. Louis does not have the density to justify beautifying space under highways and about a million other public spaces in downtown which aren't used. Unlike Toronto no one uses this highway. It only blocks investment and pedestrian access. It should be torn down. It has no utility.

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Stefan Donner to play Bach at Noon Tuesday 21 April 2015 at 12:20 p.m.
Grace Church welcomes Stefan Donner to play the Bach at Noon Organ Meditation on Tuesday 21 April at 12:20 p.m.
Mr. Donner will offer:
Toccata E-Dur, BWV 566
Sonate in G-Dur, BWV 530
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2. Lente
Fugue in b-moll, BWV 579
Toccata und Fuge in d-moll, BWV 565
Stefan Donner (1987) started his education at the Conservatory for Church Music in Vienna and worked as an organist in his home parish. As a 15-year-old he began his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Peter Planyavsky and Martin Haselböck in concert organ and music education. After diplomas with honors in concert organ and music education, he also received a master's degree at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam where he studied the organ with Jacques van Oortmerssen and the clavichord with Menno van Delft.
In 2012 he finished his organ piano studies with honors and received his diploma thesis "The legato playing in the keyboard music of the 19th Century", the degree of Master of Arts. He continues his piano training with Antoinette Van Zabner at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He also performs regularly as part of the Viennese series "Mozart Piano Sonatas." More inspiration for his work he got from master classes with Martin Haselböck, Ludger Lohmann in Stuttgart and Olivier Latry in Paris.
Stefan Donner was the 1st price of the "Daniel Herz Organ Competition 2008" in Italy and of the "Franz Schmidt Organ Competition 2010" in Kitzbühel (Austria), where the first Prize was awarded for the first time. A great success in his career meant the 3rd Prize at the "Dublin International Organ Competition 2011". In 2013 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for studying in the master´s programme organ at Eastman School of Music in Rochester (USA) with Edoardo Bellotti.
The competition successes made Stefan Donner as an internationally known organist and helped him to engagements throughout Europe. In addition to his busy schedule as a concert organist, he works in Vienna as organist at St. Leopold and at the Schönbrunn Palace Chapel. Stefan Donners attracting great interest in the Masters of the North German organ school as Dietrich Buxtehude, Nicolaus Bruhns and Vincent Lübeck.


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The Feast of St. Andrew ~Br. Mark G. Dickson-Patrick – Novice
Today the Church celebrates the great feast of St. Andrew the Apostle, the brother of St. Peter. Andrew was a fisherman by trade, working alongside his brother before being called by Jesus to follow after Him. He became one of Jesus' 12 apostles, and after His death and resurrection went out into various regions to preach the Good News of salvation. He was eventually martyred on an X-shaped cross, tied to the cross until death. As he was led to the cross, an ancient tradition attributes this quote to the Saint:
"Hail, O Cross, inaugurated by the Body of Christ and adorned with his limbs as though they were precious pearls. Before the Lord mounted you, you inspired an earthly fear. Now, instead, endowed with heavenly love, you are accepted as a gift…
O blessed Cross, clothed in the majesty and beauty of the Lord's limbs!… Take me, carry me far from men, and restore me to my Teacher, so that, through you, the one who redeemed me by you, may receive me. Hail, O Cross; yes, hail indeed!"
Saint Andrew holds a special place for me, as he was the patron of the Roman Catholic College Seminary I attended for 4 years. Countless hours were spent praying before the image of this great saint, who was cradling an image of our seminary in his arms. This saint, who we deemed a brother, we would beg to intercede for the brothers of our house, for ourselves, and for an increase of vocations to the priesthood and to the religious life. Now, every year, I take it upon myself to pray a Novena to my brother, St. Andrew, for the state of the Church and the world.
Our Gospel reading this morning presents us with the moment that Andrew and his brother Peter are called by Jesus for the great work of preaching the Gospel. Fishermen by trade, they were mending their nets by the edge of the sea, when this teacher walks by and says "Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men." We are told that they immediately left their nets and followed Jesus, not knowing at all what was to come. In a retreat on this topic to seminarians, Bishop Robert Morlino the Roman Catholic Bishop of Madison, WI, once said "When the Lord and Savior of the world comes up to you, looks you in the eye, and says 'Follow me,' why in the world would you ever stand still?" Andrew and Peter felt the call of conviction that the Lord laid on their hearts and as we know became two of the great apostles, preaching the Good News of salvation to the death.
There are times, I'd venture, that we often feel the call and conviction that Peter and Andrew felt, the call to preach the Gospel to all who will listen. We picture setting out on a grand crusade, bringing thousands to Christ and to salvation, bringing them home into the arms of God and away from the pain of heresy and death. But then we realize that with our busy lives in an increasingly secular world, we don't have the time to go on these grand crusades that we have formulated in our mind. Notice what the Lord does with Peter & Andrew, and what He does with us as well. Jesus didn't say, "Leave your nets, and you're going to go on huge crusades." No, he said, "Come follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." Jesus took what they knew how to do, and enhanced it, for the work of ministry. So, too, does he do that with us. He takes our abilities, to teach, to pray, to work in the ordinariness of our lives, and enhances them for His uses, to preach the Gospel. That is how we can lead these lives of religious devotion in a secular and busy world.
My friends, there is work to be done. The harvest is plentiful, and the labors are few. Pray for an increase in vocations to the priesthood, diaconate, and religious life, that the Lord may take people in their ordinariness and enhance their gifts to serve His glory, that we may build up the Kingdom of God together. Like Peter & Andrew, heed the conviction that He is placing on your heart.
Novena Prayer to St. Andrew
Saint Andrew, strong and powerful, intercede and pray for us.
Andrew, apostle of Christ, help me to rejoice in Jesus and so bring others to Him. May my words and deeds lead others to deeper faith in him. Bold missionary and evangelist, guide me where the Lord would have me preach his gospel. Companion of the Lord Jesus, send us people called to be priests, deacons, & religious. Saint Andrew, in your kindness hear and answer our prayer.
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Ako Bakwit thanks Angel Locsin and Arla PH for donating Arla Organic Milk Drink that was distributed to senior citizens!
Since the onset of the pandemic, Angel Locsin has been really busy pooling resources and funds for the benefit of the healthworkers and people who are displaced amid this crisis. When the country was placed under lockdown and a temporary halt on mass transportation was in effect, the actress together with her fiance and some friends in the biz initiated a project which aims to provide health workers of Taguig space to sleep close to their workplace for the time being.
Right after then and after some hospitals reported that they are operating at full or overcapacity, she once again gather all her resources and use her connections to raise funds to help solve overcrowding at hospitals. The project dubbed as #UniTENTweStandPH was a huge success as they were able to raise almost 11M pesos in less than 3 weeks and was able to donate more than 200 isolation tents to 135 hospitals in the metro and neighboring provinces.
Aside from the above mentioned projects Angel Locsin spearheaded, she also sends donations and pledges from herself, her friends and companies she endorses to the health workers and to the people who are badly affected by the pandemic. Talking about using her connections to a greater good, just recently, Ako Bakwit, a non-government organization expressed their gratitude to the actress and to the milk brand she's endorsing, Arla Organic, for sending Arla Organic Milk Drink to their organization with which they distributed to senior citizens!
We have seen how people come together to help one another in this time of pandemic. Apart from Arla PH, some of the brands Angel Locsin represent share the same compassion and are always ready to help those who are in need!


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Q: how to send an email with Vuejs? How can I do to send an email with Vuejs2. I manage to get the input data and turned them into json but I can not send them to a mailbox.
I look for the side of PHPMailer but facing PHP and Vue do not mix.
How can I send the form content?
Template :

    Envoyer

Script :
  export default {
    name: 'Contact',
    data () {
      return {
        form: {
          lastName: '',
          firstName: '',
          topic: '',
          email: '',
          text: ''
        },
        file: null,
        show: true
      }
    },
    methods: {
      onSubmit (evt) {
        evt.preventDefault();
        alert(JSON.stringify(this.form));
      },
      onReset (evt) {
        evt.preventDefault();
        /* Reset our form values */
        this.form.lastName = '';
        this.form.firstName = '';
        this.form.topic = '';
        this.form.email = '';
        this.form.text = '';
        /* Trick to reset/clear native browser form validation state */
        this.show = false;
        this.$nextTick(() => {
          this.show = true
        });
      }
    }
  }

A: Sending mail from Vue directly is not possible as you need some sort of server to handle the mail protocol. This can never be done directly from the browser. I am not familiar with PHP, so I can't help you with that. In node you need the nodemailer package and some smtp server to handle the email like Amazon Simple Email Server (or you could use your gmail account). What you could also do is use axios to send a post request to SendGrid or Mandrill or some service like that. They will convert your request to an email and send it to an address specified in you request body.
More info here:
https://sendgrid.com/docs/API_Reference/Web_API/mail.html
https://mandrillapp.com/api/docs/

A: This is how I did:
Mailing from the server side
The PHP mail() function will just work fine. Nothing fancy here.
mail.php - This one must be located somewhere accessible on your server.
<?php

$name = "Undefined name";

if(isset($_POST['name'])){
    $name = $_POST['name'];
}

$message = "
Hi!
";
$message .= "
Wazaaaaa $name
";

$to_email = 'dest@mail.com';
$subject = 'Mail subject';
$headers[] = 'MIME-Version: 1.0';
$headers[] = 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8';
$headers[] = 'From: Biloo <noreply@ydomain.com>';

mail($to_email, $subject, $message, implode("\r\n", $headers));

?>

Be aware that headers values must be trustworthy (no unverified user-submited values).

Sending data to the mailing script
Then VueJS is suppposed to send the appropriate data to the  mailing script:
components/Mail.vue
<template>

      <transition name="fade" mode="out-in">

Thanks

      </transition>

                  Contact

</template>

Here, it is important to note that the default behavior of Axios is to post a JSON object. However, doing so, PHP will receive an empty $_POST value. Data must therefore be formatted using the querystringdependency before being posted.
Querystring can be installed with npm:
npm i querystring

A: <template>

 <transition name="fade" mode="out-in">

Thanks for contacting us, we will get back to you shortly...

 </transition>
 <form v-on:submit="sendForm">
  <input type="text" v-model="ContactForm.name" placeholder="Your Name">
  <input type="text" v-model="ContactForm.email" placeholder="Email Address">
  <input type="text" v-model="ContactForm.phone" placeholder="Phone Number">
  <input type="text" v-model="ContactForm.subject" placeholder="Subject">
  <textarea v-model="ContactForm.message" rows="8" cols="80" class="form-control">
  </textarea>

  <button data-text="submit" type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button>
 </form>

</template>

    Your php Server

    <?php
    // Allow from any origin
     if(isset($_SERVER["HTTP_ORIGIN"]))
     {
        // You can decide if the origin in $_SERVER['HTTP_ORIGIN'] is something you want to
      allow, or as we do here, just allow all
        header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin: {$_SERVER['HTTP_ORIGIN']}");
     }
     else
     {
        //No HTTP_ORIGIN set, so we allow any. You can disallow if needed here
        header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *");
     }

     header("Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true");
     header("Access-Control-Max-Age: 600");    // cache for 10 minutes

     if($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "OPTIONS")
     {
        if (isset($_SERVER["HTTP_ACCESS_CONTROL_REQUEST_METHOD"]))
            header("Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST, GET, OPTIONS, DELETE, PUT");
  //Make
        sure you remove those you do not want to support

        if (isset($_SERVER["HTTP_ACCESS_CONTROL_REQUEST_HEADERS"]))
            header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers:
           {$_SERVER['HTTP_ACCESS_CONTROL_REQUEST_HEADERS']}");

           //Just exit with 200 OK with the above headers for OPTIONS method
        exit(0);
      }
    //From here, handle the request as it is ok

     if(!empty($_POST['name'])){
        $name = $_POST['name'];
        $email = $_POST['email'];
        $phone = $_POST['phone'];
        $subject = $_POST['subject'];
        $message = $_POST['message'];
     }

     $message = "$message";

     $to_email = '<email to be sent to>';
     $subject = "$subject";
     $headers[] = 'MIME-Version: 1.0';
     $headers[] = 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8';
     $headers[] = "From: <$email>";

     mail($to_email, $subject, $message, implode("\r\n", $headers));

    ?>

A: You can also send client-side Emails using EmailJS. It helps you to send emails using vuejs or any other client side technology, connect EmailJS to one of the supported email services once you create an account, create an email template, and use VueJS to trigger an email.
Here is a link to their documentation https://www.emailjs.com/docs/examples/vuejs/

A: You may try mailjs package.
mailjs

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One horizontal brush for the front and rear washing of the vehicle.
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The driver drives the vehicle as directed.
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The name Sarahah is Arabic, and it roughly means frankness or honesty. Zain al-Abidin Tawfiq, an app developer in Saudi Arabia, built the original Sarahah as a website interface and marketed it to businesses. The app enabled employees to leave feedback and voice concerns to employers without revealing their identities.
Tawfiq saw the potential in releasing the app as a more general communications tool. Today, you can download Sarahah and link it to a Snapchat account. This creates a custom link just for you, which you can share with your friends or, if you're tired of feeling good about yourself, with the internet at large. Then people who wish to leave you anonymous messages can do so using Snapchat by clicking on that custom link. The app's popularity exploded shortly after it became available in February 2017, not surprisingly finding widespread adoption among teens.
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Sarahah isn't the first anonymous messaging forum. It joins others such as the now defunct app Yik Yak, as well as the social networking site Ask.fm.


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class AddReceiveEmailsWhenWorklogAddedToClients < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    add_column :clients, :email_when_team_adds_worklog, :boolean
  end
end

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