SirenSong

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SirenSong

SirenSong

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Sports predictions | Political Commentary | Video game lover 🎮 | Navigating stats and strategies."

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Kevin Dahlstrom
Kevin Dahlstrom@Camp4·
The second order effects of this would be disastrous. Bezos knows this—he’s just trying to deflect criticism. It’s not about the 3% of tax revenue. Every voter needs skin in the game and needs to feel the sting of government spending. Otherwise, they’ll only vote for more.
Jeff Bezos@JeffBezos

Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue. But it’s very meaningful to that person. Zero it out.

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Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos@JeffBezos·
Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue. But it’s very meaningful to that person. Zero it out.
Chris | Venture X Media@thecoachchris_

Facts It's great that Jeff Bezos thinks this way, because too many people who don't make money think that giving money to the government will solve a lot of their problems. They think these government programs are the answer, and it's clearly not. You can look at the federal level or at the state level, and you will see that a lot of government programs are simply waste.

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LibertyJ
LibertyJ@LibertyJen·
The divide on X today: Everyone who owns a home: “There’s nothing wrong with making your own lunch, I brown bag all the time and rarely eat out.” Renters, criers, basement dwellers, people upset they can’t possibly “ever” buy a home: “I HAVE to spend $28 every day at Chipotle, why do you want me to STARVE?”
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Mary Underwood
Mary Underwood@munderw341·
@EWErickson As Margaret Thatcher pointed out, all citizens need to be vested in their country. All. 50% of Americans pay no taxes. Not vested in the outcomes.
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Brandon Tatum
Brandon Tatum@TheOfficerTatum·
Thomas Massie lost his primary race in Kentucky by ten points, and instead of exiting with dignity, he decided to sink into the gutter. You don't get to blame an entire foreign country just because the voters in Kentucky were completely done with your garbage decisions in Washington.
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Will Hubbard
Will Hubbard@wbhub·
Poor people: tax the rich! Rich people: don't tax the poor
Will Hubbard tweet media
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SirenSong
SirenSong@SirenSongPA·
@dgt10011 You can’t see the forest from the trees.
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Jeff Park
Jeff Park@dgt10011·
A surprisingly (rare) bad take. If half the population doesn't pay tax because "it's very meaningful to that person" while its only "3% of the total tax revenue" it means you've built a patronage state that monetizes suffrage/political legitimacy through fiscal non-participation. As Mises clearly articulated, once you establish any precedence that the state may exempt any classes of citizens from any contribution on moral grounds, you have dissolved the "principle of generality" which in fact makes taxation indistinguishable from theft In other words, the democratic system will have been completely captured, thus completely failed.
Jeff Bezos@JeffBezos

Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue. But it’s very meaningful to that person. Zero it out.

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SirenSong@SirenSongPA·
@TomSteyer @JeffBezos Cut foreign aid, increase public works spending, remove money from politics, make immigration a dynamic process, and remove income tax on lower tail of economy. This would have massive benefits
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Tom Steyer
Tom Steyer@TomSteyer·
For decades, the top tax rate on the wealthiest Americans — like @JeffBezos — was much higher than it is today. What did we do with that money? We built roads and bridges, expanded healthcare, and invested in education. We grew the middle class. Care about economic growth? Tax billionaires.
Jeff Bezos@JeffBezos

Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.

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NeverWokeX
NeverWokeX@raefejenkins·
Honestly, I don’t think Ed Gallrein cheated I just think boomers vote and the younger generation doesn’t vote
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SirenSong
SirenSong@SirenSongPA·
@patrickbetdavid No we have a tax problem and a spending problem. Y’all influencers are legit brainless. Or evil bearing false witness.
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Patrick Bet-David
Patrick Bet-David@patrickbetdavid·
We don’t have a tax problem, we have a spending problem.
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Scott Jennings
Scott Jennings@ScottJenningsKY·
Thomas Massie chose to end his career with this despicable line about Congressman-elect Ed Gallrein: “I had to find him in Tel Aviv.” Rather than exit with dignity, Massie just proved President Trump was right to send him into early retirement.
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Grace Vera
Grace Vera@grace_vera01·
Bernie’s 5% wealth tax pitch is the same old song: take from the rich, sprinkle magic money on teachers, families, and the homeless, and somehow everything gets fixed. Bezos is right. Government intervention is exactly what drives up rents, inflates costs, and creates the problems Bernie claims to solve. Doubling taxes on billionaires still wouldn’t fix the waste, fraud, and bureaucracy that swallow trillions every year.
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Warren Gunnels
Warren Gunnels@GunnelsWarren·
Bernie's 5% wealth tax would: -Raise starting teacher pay to $60,000 -Give $12,000 to a working family of 4 -Expand Medicare for dental, vision, hearing -Guarantee universal childcare -End homelessness Bezos would see his wealth drop from $279 billion to $265 billion. Poor guy.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS

Jeff Bezos on CNBC: "If people want me to pay more billions, then let's have that debate, but don't pretend that that's gonna solve the problem. You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens.... Airbnb isn't causing high rents. What's really causing high rent is government intervention."

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SirenSong
SirenSong@SirenSongPA·
@hasanthehun Hear me out! Do BOTH. In many economy based video games there are money "sinks" just create the sink at the hyper rich tail of econmy, cut government spending, and don't get in the way of the lower end of economy and allow them to strive upwards.
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SirenSong
SirenSong@SirenSongPA·
@55kuffyy @yoxics What Joyced said. Depending on conditions there could be other scopes required to complete work. Bloating cost.
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@yoxics If theyre not even getting fiber at $100k how the hell much is fiber? Cant some of that be written off as a business expense? Do they have to dig lines? Im legit curious
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yoxic
yoxic@yoxics·
JasonTheWeen and Lacy found out it costs $100,000 to install high-speed internet into the new $20M CORE mansion so they can stream without any issues 😭 - $16k a year per person - plus a monthly payment
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SirenSong
SirenSong@SirenSongPA·
@yoxics Not explained and misunderstood by almost everyone: Length of run of trench to existing service. Length of fiber optic if they are in a 20M mansion it could be a very long distance. Also other factor, is it developed and permit requiring concrete repairs, or boring under road
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SirenSong
SirenSong@SirenSongPA·
@uspeter1 @KillaKreww Bullshit, the only reason she is pissed is because Shane called out the elephant in the room which is Epstein/Jews. That is really why she is pissed at Shane.
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U.S Peter
U.S Peter@uspeter1·
@KillaKreww Chelsea Handler drew a line in public knowing exactly how loud the response would be. Whether you agree or not, that takes a specific kind of conviction most people save for private conversations.
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Killa 🌺
Killa 🌺@KillaKreww·
Chelsea Handler goes OFF on Tony Hinchcliffe & Shane Gillis for making “racist” jokes at the Kevin Hart Roast and claims White people should NOT be joking about Black people in that kind of way since its equivalent to joking about r-pe 😳 “I knew enough about Tony & Shane… They’re racists, they’re bigots, they’re sexist… I don’t find those jokes funny. L-nching Black people is not a joke. It’s worse than r-pe… Them making fun of Sherryl Underwood’s dead husband who comitted s—cide is gross… I wasn’t fine with that. There was so much disgustingness, I knew it was gonna be a gross vibe.”
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