@ElicohenMe80462@danpjsheehan@ishapiro Yeah turns out advocating for the destruction of an ethnic group is worse than advocating for the destruction of an ideology, who knew
@danpjsheehan@ishapiro What makes you different from a Nazi? Imagine I said that the world is corrupted by Irish, that they make this a monsterous world?
The 92nd St Y is canceling this long-planned event because of the 4yo tweet where I criticized Biden for picking a justice based on race/sex. So (1) they don’t understand the issue, (2) they didn’t do due diligence, and (3) they still kowtow to woke. For shame.
@SlappySack@Captain_JubJub@mkwomackjr@JabroniMurph@HashtagGriswold net, or gross?
gross, you pay taxes everytime you buy a candy bar.
net? hmmmm. no. you don't.
fortune is not when you have to work for everything you have, it is when someone gives you things for free - such as welfare.
@Obamna_eth@Captain_JubJub@mkwomackjr@JabroniMurph@HashtagGriswold I pay into those programs every year, are you implying I don’t pay my taxes?
I’ve been fortunate enough to never have to receive any form of government welfare (apart from those COVID checks everyone got), but that could always change and I’m happy to pay into it for others
@SlappySack@Captain_JubJub@mkwomackjr@JabroniMurph@HashtagGriswold we are in a dramatic deficit in this country and the only conversation any of you people want to have about our tax policy is how you can take more of it.
and it is very obvious because you are not the ones paying *into* it.
@SlappySack@Captain_JubJub@mkwomackjr@JabroniMurph@HashtagGriswold i am actually going to unironically add this to my political platform. i think that is a real thing that people should be promoting right now.
every single dollar of my money that i am entitled to should go to my family if i die. 100%. i agree.
@Obamna_eth@Captain_JubJub@mkwomackjr@JabroniMurph@HashtagGriswold What are you even arguing here? Welfare also isn’t “a tax”, it’s paid for by taxes, just like social security
Taxes are what fund programs like welfare and social security; whether or not that’s how you think it should be, that’s how it is now
@Obamna_eth@Captain_JubJub@mkwomackjr@JabroniMurph@HashtagGriswold And if you die before collecting social security, can you include your previous social security payments as an asset in your will like you can with a savings account?
Or do those tax dollars stay in the system and go towards other people’s social security?
@Obamna_eth@mkwomackjr@JabroniMurph@HashtagGriswold Calling high-income people a “disenfranchised minority” because they pay more taxes and can’t collect welfare is a good bit
The minority part is true, but I’m curious how high-income people are “disenfranchised” in your mind
@Obamna_eth@mkwomackjr@JabroniMurph@HashtagGriswold …yeah that’s how it works when you have welfare funded by a progressive tax policy, high income people contribute more but don’t typically get welfare benefits themselves
Not sure why you’re acting like basic taxation principles are a scandalous secret
@SlappySack@mkwomackjr@JabroniMurph@HashtagGriswold the fact of this little scheme that you don't want to pony up to is that most of the tax contribution is being paid by a shrinking minority of people who do not benefit from it whatsoever.
@Obamna_eth@mkwomackjr@JabroniMurph@HashtagGriswold I never said they were; “avg” is short for “average” in case you weren’t aware
I don’t know OP’s income bracket and other tax situations and therefore I couldn’t give a fully accurate estimate of how much he would contribute towards welfare funding
@Obamna_eth@mkwomackjr@JabroniMurph@HashtagGriswold Ok so I guess I should’ve clarified “SNAP spending” but let’s take welfare as a whole then
$1.3 trillion in welfare annually/~160 million US taxpayers = ~$8100/taxpayer/yr
~100 mil recipients of any welfare
$8100/100 mil = $0.00008/taxpayer/recipient/yr
Point stands
@Obamna_eth@mkwomackjr@JabroniMurph@HashtagGriswold I didn’t say per dollar, I was describing how much the avg taxpayer contributes to the avg welfare recipient
Avg annual welfare tax contribution: ~$50-$500/taxpayer/yr
Tens of millions of welfare recipients in the US
500/50,000,000 = ~$0.00001 per taxpayer per recipient per yr
@SlappySack@mkwomackjr@JabroniMurph@HashtagGriswold welfare entitlements are the single largest budget expense the US tax payer funds and it's literally not even close.
it is not a fraction of a cent per dollar it is more like $0.60 per dollar.
@mkwomackjr@JabroniMurph@HashtagGriswold Pretty sure the implied caveat was “parents who can’t feed their kids themselves”, e.g. SNAP recipients
But if the other guy wants whatever fraction of a cent your average taxpayer contributes to your average welfare recipient’s benefits with no qualifiers, go for it
@JabroniMurph@HashtagGriswold@mkwomackjr I mean if you wanna sign up for SNAP I’m sure OP wouldn’t mind a portion of his tax dollars going towards feeding your kids
@OptimisticXRP@Cherylfaj@X_Quenvara@forallcurious C-19 is more transmissible than “regular” influenza, so the COVID measures (isolating when sick, masking, social distancing, more handwashing and sanitizing overall) were very effective in curbing the regular flu
Flu cases returned after people mostly stopped bothering with that