...this isn’t going away, the rich will pay.
I'm sincerely worried about you, my friend.
The next thing you'll be wanting, is us to turn in our guns.
...this isn’t going away, the rich will pay.
Trying to follow the logic here, and with all due respect…Still disproportional. the person making $6k is still impacted harder than the guy making 60k. Using my coke analogy, the poor person can now buy 1 coke paying no tax, the lowest bracket having a couple bucks in his pocket might be able to buy one or two, yet the guy with $8 bucks can still afford lots of cokes. So he is still better off than the guys below him.
Granted your argument does work when you get above a certain tax bracket. But down low it still hurts the poor more.
You are reading too much into it. Its a literal example, in an attempt to simplify it.Trying to follow the logic here, and with all due respect…View attachment 143817
If you take it that the “coke” is the government you’re paying for, the amount you would pay would be a percentage (tax rate) of your money (income). Thus, assuming a 5% rate, the guy that has $1.00 would pay 5 cents while the guy with $8 pays 40 cents. Simplistic and doesn’t take into account deductions and such, but can’t see any other way it works.
That struggle is what should make people want to earn more, which in turn helps the country.You are reading too much into it. Its a literal example, in an attempt to simplify it.
Using the coke example, I'm demonstrating the disproportional loss of purchasing power by surrendering a flat % by all. Those with less to start with, have less extra to go around. So when you desperately need ALL of what you have, (and really need more) it hurts worse at the low end.
So I guess to clarify, If I only had a dollar and suddenly you came and took a dime from me, I can no longer afford that dollar coke because Ive only got 90 cents left. But if I took a dollar from your $10, you wouldnt be dramatically impacted when you walked up to the coke machine. Same %, but different impact. You can still buy what you want easily while I cannot.
And no offense taken.
Nuh-uh, people should have to pay for and support other people because reasons. Shame on those rich bastards making us have to take their ****, they should be good snowflakes and just give it all away. Nobody deserves anything better or worse than anyone else. It's only fair.That struggle is what should make people want to earn more, which in turn helps the country.
Being that poor should be a struggle
I know entirely to many people who believe exactly what you just said. I laughed at this, but only because you said it.Nuh-uh, people should have to pay for and support other people because reasons. Shame on those rich bastards making us have to take their ****, they should be good snowflakes and just give it all away. Nobody deserves anything better or worse than anyone else. It's only fair.
Agree completely, I was poking fun at some of the upthread comments saying my criticism of the Uber wealthy must be out of envy.I know that's in purple, but it's more like serious disdain for those who try to game the system. I've worked with plenty of disabled people in my career. People who were blind, people in wheelchairs, people who didn't have the use of an arm. I used to go to the movies at a place where the guy taking tickets had something that kept him in a wheelchair, with gnarled limbs, coke bottom bottle glasses and a coloscopy bag. Yet he was working. That's someone I can respect, not some whiny piece of who gets a "disability" check for some imaginary issue, where people with real disabilities are out there working their butts off...
Agree completely, I was poking fun at some of the upthread comments saying my criticism of the Uber wealthy must be out of envy.
audit the disability payrolls too. I’m all for stopping handout to those who can work but choose not to, that’s the very essence of why I have no love for the ultra wealthy and Bezos claiming this tax credit.
Pffft.... Who cares, he has what I don't so he deserves to be pillaged.You do realize that the top 10% of income earners pay 70% of income taxes right?
You realize that the bottom 50% of income earners pay 3% of all income taxes right?
Bezos pays more in taxes that probably all of us combined. Let's go find something else about which to be outraged.
If that’s true then why the pushback over this tax leak?You do realize that the top 10% of income earners pay 70% of income taxes right?
You realize that the bottom 50% of income earners pay 3% of all income taxes right?
Bezos pays more in taxes that probably all of us combined. Let's go find something else about which to be outraged.
Yeah but that doesn't matter, they're rich so they deserve to have their private lives put on display for all to see. I mean, **** em, right? They have more than we do so they deserve whatever they get. How dare they.Probably because though rich, they still deserve their privacy. Also, it was illegal to obtain that information and IMO should have been illegal to publish it as well.
Because they are entitled to their freaking privacy, everybody should be pissed when people personal information is leaked.If that’s true then why the pushback over this tax leak?
why are billionaires going on CNBC whining about their privacy ?
what don’t they want you to know