Things that made you Facepalm today (Political Version)

Define fair taxation

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Originally Posted by Suppa Hobbit Mage

Define fair taxation

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Anything that doesn't impact him negatively, but punishes anyone who makes more than him.

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Originally Posted by Parkbandit

You believing she spent her money to go there.... that's hilarious.

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You being retarded enough to think that "she had to spend money" at all to attend an event she got a free invitation to - along with other NYC representatives - and in a borrowed dress... that's hilarious.

https://i.imgur.com/7oo0JdB.png

You're RTC, though, so that's of no surprise to anyone. :rofl: Stick to your meltdown thread, Tardbandit.

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Originally Posted by Parkbandit

Anything that doesn't impact him negatively, but punishes anyone who makes more than him.

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You say that as a pejorative, but Democrats have put out an incredibly sensible plan to roll back the retarded tax cuts given to the wealthiest and corporations. 25-26% corporate tax rate, 37-38% top margin tax rate for the wealthiest. Include it a plan to tax stock options at issuance and to tax loans taken against generational wealth and you can legitimately fix the deficit. Republicans have destroyed the middle class with their trickle down nonsense, lack of fair wage support and only favoring the obscenely wealthy in tax reform

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Originally Posted by Seran

You're offended that a Congresswoman would bring her message about fair taxation to an event filled with privileged and obscenely rich people of power and influence? Does it offend you that someone only making low six figure salary in Congress would bother showing up to an event usually attended by the top one percent?

This just in, classes and castes don't exist in the United States. If you feel someone can't spend their money to convey a personal ideology, or they're outside their class, you need to go back to the 1400s where you belong.

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You’re such a fucking dumbass. “Only making low six figure salary”? As a congress person she makes 174k a year, this of course doesn’t even include her generous benefits, putting her comfortably in the top 10% of earners. She then has the audacity to refer to herself as a “working class woman of color”? And as usual per your stupid ass is here to defend every stupid thing a Democrat says.

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Originally Posted by Seran

You say that as a pejorative, but Democrats have put out an incredibly sensible plan to roll back the retarded tax cuts given to the wealthiest and corporations. 25-26% corporate tax rate, 37-38% top margin tax rate for the wealthiest. Include it a plan to tax stock options at issuance and to tax loans taken against generational wealth and you can legitimately fix the deficit. Republicans have destroyed the middle class with their trickle down nonsense, lack of fair wage support and only favoring the obscenely wealthy in tax reform

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Didn’t many corporations go on a hiring spree or give their workers more pay or increased benefits after Republicans lowered the corporate tax rates? The answer is yes of course. Now Democrats want to roll those taxes back while many companies are still suffering from Democrat imposed shutdowns so corporations can lower benefits and lay people off to pay for Democrats drunken spending spree.

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Originally Posted by Tgo01

You’re such a fucking dumbass. “Only making low six figure salary”? As a congress person she makes 174k a year, this of course doesn’t even include her generous benefits, putting her comfortably in the top 10% of earners. She then has the audacity to refer to herself as a “working class woman of color”? And as usual per your stupid ass is here to defend every stupid thing a Democrat says.

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Your hatred of minorities knows no bounds.

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Originally Posted by Seran

Your hatred of minorities knows no bounds.

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No amount of making shit up about others is going to erase the moment you defended ghouls who said unvaccinated people deserved to be turned away for medical care and die.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ck/8334915002/

You talk about subversion? This is the definition of it.

Hate hearing Milley did what he did. You might not like Trump, and I don't like Biden, but there are mechanisms already in place and laws available to be used if their concerns were valid. They chose not to use those, and instead did this.

Will there be accountability? Probably not. We're on a slippery slope.

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Originally Posted by Tgo01

Didn’t many corporations go on a hiring spree or give their workers more pay or increased benefits after Republicans lowered the corporate tax rates? The answer is yes of course. Now Democrats want to roll those taxes back while many companies are still suffering from Democrat imposed shutdowns so corporations can lower benefits and lay people off to pay for Democrats drunken spending spree.

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Except, whoops. Wages and salaries of production level, non-supervisory/management employees has been outstripped by a factor of five in comparison to productivity that employers enjoy to drive profits.

https://www.epi.org/blog/growing-ine...ypical-worker/

Factor in the wage growth inequality over the same time period ending in 2018. Wages for the lowest 90% increased 23.9%, while increasing 157.8% for the top 1% and 340.7% for the top 0.1%.

https://www.epi.org/blog/top-1-0-of-...-8-since-1979/

Hiring spree following the corporate tax rate? Corporate payrolls in non-management, production level employment /did/ increase 2017-2018, but started tanking in 2019, then utterly crashed after Covid-19. Meanwhile income for the top 1% inexplicably increased. Dun dun dun.

Dreaven would like you to believe that we're in some sort of tax sweet spot for all Americans. Well we are, if you're in the top 1% because you're doing quite well. Everyone else, not so much. But that's the Republican looter strategy for you, make the top 1% filthy rich, while yelling everyone else whose wages are barely keeping up with inflation that they're doing just fine.