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Imagine thinking you can PAY more in taxes to receive FREE benefits....
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Hardhatbeast
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Hardhatbeast
@hardhatbeast
It's not knowing what to think, it's knowing how to think ... https://t.co/xPDlsFsVAe
Katılım Nisan 2022
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“The government should manage your finances” is an idea almost no one would trust at a personal level.
Yet the same people argue it should manage everyone’s finances at scale.
If you wouldn’t hand over your bank account to a politician, why assume the outcome improves when it’s done collectively?
It’s not that government can’t do anything.
It’s that it lacks the knowledge and incentives to allocate your resources better than you can.
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@SenWarren You people are insanely dumb. Go back to the kitchen and make a sandwich
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It's time that we give families the quality, affordable childcare that they deserve.
Let's get this done.
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"Let's get this done". These two wannabe commisars parrot the language of productive work as if this would be anything but massively destructive paperwork shuffling and the appropriation of productive work they most definitely will not be doing. The only way they could be more ridiculous is if they rolled up their literal sleeves on camera in a cynical and insulting imitation of Rosie the Riveter.
Elizabeth Warren@SenWarren
It's time that we give families the quality, affordable childcare that they deserve. Let's get this done.
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Liberal white woman says if Republicans are the majority, why’s there never counter protesters at the No Kings protests..
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Rep. David Morales (D-RI) says the mural for Iryna Zarutska "does not reflect our values"
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@rushicrypto How many other taxes supposedly fund those side walks and roads? Just because YOU think someone else’s money should fund these things doesn’t mean it’s morally correct to force them into it. You want to throw money at those things you are free to do so whenever you want to
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How many other taxes supposedly fund those side walks and roads? Just because YOU think someone else’s money should fund these things doesn’t mean it’s morally correct to force them into it. You want to throw money at those things you are free to do so whenever you want to
Rushi@rushicrypto
I’m very confused about the number of people who think “property tax” is a sales tax on you home rather than taxes to pay for public services you use every day. “I paid off my home why do i still pay property taxes?!?!?” Oh, did you also stop using the roads and libraries and sidewalks and parks? Not worried about fires anymore?
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I’m very confused about the number of people who think “property tax” is a sales tax on you home rather than taxes to pay for public services you use every day.
“I paid off my home why do i still pay property taxes?!?!?”
Oh, did you also stop using the roads and libraries and sidewalks and parks? Not worried about fires anymore?
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@BernieSanders Bunch of morons still voting red or blue. People love being slaves
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Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, recently paid an effective tax rate of less than 3.3%.
That is less than the average truck driver, nurse and teacher.
YES, we must demand the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them - Hannibal Lecter
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She’s doing three things at once and hoping no one notices.
First, she blurs rate and amount. A billionaire can show a lower effective rate in a given year because of how capital gains are realized, while still paying vastly more in absolute dollars than thousands of teachers combined. The burden isn’t remotely comparable.
Second, she strips out timing. Most billionaire wealth isn’t taxed yearly because it isn’t realized yearly. Tax systems don’t treat unrealized gains as income. So she compares a steady W2 salary to fluctuating, often deferred gains and calls it unfair.
Third, she redirects attention. Instead of asking where trillions in already collected tax revenue go, she frames the problem as “not enough taken.” That conveniently shields spending, waste, and incentives from scrutiny.
So the real question isn’t “why aren’t we taxing more?”
It’s “why does more revenue keep producing worse outcomes?”
That’s the part this rhetoric is designed to avoid.
Pramila Jayapal@PramilaJayapal
In the richest country in the history of the world, why the hell do we allow billionaires to pay a lower tax rate than public school teachers? That's not an accident. That's a policy choice. Tax the rich.
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"What communism actually is:
• State ownership of ALL means of production"
People are the "means of production," you state school-bent imbecile.
AnthroVet50@spooked75
The word "communist" has lost all meaning in MAGA world. Let's fix that. What communism actually is: • State ownership of ALL means of production • Abolition of private property • No free markets • Single-party authoritarian rule What US Democrats actually support: • Capitalism with regulations • Private property rights • Free markets with safety nets • Multiple parties, free elections Communist parties in US Congress: 0 Socialist parties in US Congress: 0 Democratic Socialists (Bernie-style): ~5 out of 535 The Democratic Party would be center-right in most of Europe. Biden and Harris are capitalists. Always have been. But you call everything you don't like "communism" because: 1. You can't define it 2. You never learned political science 3. Fox/OAN/Newsmax told you scary words = Democrats 4. You're in a cult that requires an enemy "Do your own research" means YouTube videos. "Communist" means "thing I don't like." "Patriot" means "person in my cult." The states with the worst education rankings vote the most Republican. That's not a coincidence.
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Every politically-aware person must necessarily have an annotated and personally-indexed copy of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" readily handy in their library.
Billy Beck@_Billy_Beck_
@SDSLLC_USA @DonShift3 You can find it in Vol. I of "The Gulag Archipelago": it's footnote 5 on page 13.
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If we truly owned our homes, we wouldn’t have to pay rent to the county to keep from losing them.
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“ Politicians and Diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.”
- Mark Twain.
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