@UziCryptoo Hey Uzi! How ya doing? FYI That 401k you may or may not be investing in for your retirement, Those are unrealized gains. I ain’t rich and I don’t want my future to be taxed so that I can’t support myself in my last years.
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whetwilly1
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You can't tax rich people on unrealized gains from stocks because "it's not real money until it's sold."
So explain to me why my property taxes keep going up based on the unrealized value of my house?
I didn't sell it.
I didn't cash out.
I didn't make a profit.
But somehow I'm paying taxes on paper gains every single year.
Interesting how "unrealized gains" only become a problem when wealthy folks are involved.
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@Cryptoboyy_Aji Would work my butt of and
Sacrifice a lot to get out of that situation. It is stressful. Been there, done that. Don’t want to go back. Never expected to move out of my parents house and have it easy. Learned I didn’t want to stay broke and made a plan to get out of it.
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nobody talks about the mental load of being broke in an expensive world.
doing math in your head at the grocery store.
checking your account before you swipe.
saying “i’m good” when someone suggests going out.
skipping the doctor because the copay isn’t in the budget.
this isn’t laziness.
this isn’t poor decisions.
this is millions of people just trying to survive a system that was never designed for them to get ahead.
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@jared_shult Yeah. Nobody today would ever want to drive that car. Guaranteed no a/c, carburetor, points that need filing, column shift, chasis lube and farts blue smoke clouds every time it accelerates. Oh and dies by 100k miles. But Boomers had it easy.
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All I see is a neighborhood without a sidewalk
Virgil@VirgilsQuill
Millions of hours and billions of dollars were spent to convince you this is evil
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@jeremyct Stop getting the government involved in everything. Want lower tuition? Stop giving schools shovels and an open door to the governments coffers. Make them compete. Let them get rid of stupid degrees with ones with actual market value.
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@TheMaineWonk Got those numbers from where exactly? A government website or left leaning media outlet? I bet those numbers are legit. How many are dead? Illegal, fraudulent, or just plain lies? Sorry. Gonna have to do better to change my mind.
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70% of all SNAP/Food Stamp participants nationwide are minors, seniors, or non-elderly individuals with disabilities.
You're being lied to because they think you're stupid enough to believe it.
XX to the core@SJCazz2025
@TheMaineWonk Appalling how liberals love to spend other people money. What he means is people that are able to get off their lazy asses and feed themselves are now required to do so. Instead of drooling over what others have, go earn it yourself!
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@mapleblooded No buddy. That economic prosperity you think you know about was a country coming out of a depression. It was “booming” by comparison to THAT. Middle class people had basic homes, basic cars, pot lucked. Wifes patched clothes, hand me downs, dinner at home. You are ignorant.
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This is the problem with have with Boomers. It’s the denial.
They all grew up and took advantage of a post war economic boom. Some weren’t successful but the majority enjoyed a higher quality of life than exists for younger generations today.
And in the end all they have to show for it now is an accumulation of Air Miles and mythological tales from their past.
terry l.@dubsndoo
Boomers didn’t buy RVs that they couldn’t afford, we tented it. Boomers didn’t buy new cars, we bought used ones. Boomers didn’t spend six bucks for a cup of coffee at Starbucks. Boomers could hang all their clothes in a four foot closet. Boomers didn’t cry how tough their lives were, we fought through the tough times. Boomers have everything they have because they managed their money, didn’t squander it on frivolous things, and invested it in proven technologies and long term successful businesses. Boomers have zero fucks to give for whiners, fools, and couch potatoes.
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@BernieSanders No more taxes for anyone until you losers in govget control of the money you already steal from us.
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Mr. Bezos: Let's have that debate.
Under my 5% billionaires wealth tax, we'd:
-Give $12K to a working family of 4
-Expand Medicare for dental, vision, hearing
-Guarantee universal childcare
-Raise starting teacher pay to $60K
And you'd still be worth $269 billion after taxes.
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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@denimneverdies The economy disagrees with you. And I just finished my 6” sub, drink and chips for $11. So grow up and stop crying about how you can’t eat like a spoiled king.
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They're so fucking myopic it's ridiculous. What happens to a consumer based economy when people can't afford to consume? When businesses like restaurants can't turn a profit because nobody can afford to eat there? This is how these people are wrecking everything
yeet@Awk20000
Caleb Hammer on those paying $20 per lunch to get fast food “Pack a sandwich”
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Here's what you fucking morons don't understand: I expect better for my kids. We are top earners in a (supposedly) First World country, so my kids eat grass-fed beef and free range eggs and fresh produce. We only eat Real Food in this house. We easily afforded all of those things just a few years ago. Now it's not so easy anymore, but I am not going to compromise my childrens' quality of life to satisfy the lack of discernment of a subhuman slave like you.
Instead, I am going to pay the premium knowing that our President made it harder for us so that billionaires could keep looting the country, so that we could continue to be replaced with foreign workers, so that Chinese people could buy our already-short beef supply from us, and so that Israel could have the war in Iran they've been crying for my entire life.
And since you think all of that is okay and that my kids should get fat from eating nothing but rice and beans, you also belong in the same category as all of those people: my enemy.
Mr. Factcheck@50LibtardedIQ
@revenant_MMXX @grok How much do beans, rice, flour, and basic ingredients cost? How easy are they to come by or get for free from a food bank? How long can it feed a person or a small family?
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@raven_brah You are out of your mind. My boomer parents did not eat out. It wasn’t “affordable”. We ate sandwiches at picnic tables at rest areas on trips. Meals were at the dinner table. Sound familiar? How families no longer eat at home together…because that was the norm.
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Boomers seem to forget that fast food used to be a normal, everyday expense for them because it was affordable. You could get a burger easily on minimum wage, it wasn’t some fancy treat you had once a year as a reward for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.
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@casbeataol Just imagine the jobs that wouldn’t exist without them. If you think government jobs are the answer you are seriously uneducated.
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Without employees billionaires would never exist. In fact, most millionaires would never exist. This makes it very clear where their wealth actually comes from. They call it leveraging, but when their employees can’t make enough for a good life it’s really just wage theft.
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@camhigby @DataRepublican The sick entitled crap I see daily on X, this doesn’t surprise me. Disgusts me, but not surprised.
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We’ve now reached the “confront random Jews and berate them about how disgusting they are, and blame them for all our problems” stage of Jew derangement syndrome.
I cannot believe this is a real video.
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@mapleblooded You are a liar or an idiot or a spoiled member of the top
10%. Because the average “middle class” Boomer lived austere lives at best.
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Boomers are all now pretending they rationed food like their parents did during the World Wars.
We watched you live your lives. We are your kids. We saw everything you did.
These are behaviours the Greatest Generation engaged in.
I’m so tired of the Boomer myth making.
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@AnAverageGamerX Go to work child. Grown ups are tired of the “I deserve the best of everything because I exist” argument. Your fellow blue voters wanted higher wages for every job. So pay up so the burger flipper can buy a 4-bed, 2-bath house with garage. It’s only fair.
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This guy’s fall from relevancy is gonna be one for the history books.
Don’t become this. Don’t turn yourself into a mouthpiece for ideologies built by 60–70 year olds who cope with aging by convincing themselves younger generations are stupid.
yeet@Awk20000
Caleb Hammer on those paying $20 per lunch to get fast food “Pack a sandwich”
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@ma1ybe We warned you our reckless self centered behavior would lead to barbaric criminal acts…. But NO, you insist we take responsibility for ourselves and our actions.
I guess your STD’s are everyone elses fault too? I mean really, why ever take accountability? It’s THEIR fault.
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Hot take but we literally tried to warn you that this is what happens when abortion access isn’t accessible.
Zoya🕊️@Zoya_ki_batein
This newborn baby was found in a dumpster in Houston, Texas. "The child appeared to be fresh out of the womb, with his hair wet, his skin pruned and his umbilical cord still attached." Thankfully, he survived
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@tuvati Elon can’t be a trillionaire unless people WILLINGLY buy stock in his companies because they have confidence those companies will succeed, but it isn’t guaranteed.
You could invest in his companies of you so choose and come along for the ride…or cry about how poor you are…
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Elon is projected to become a trillionaire by 2027 but yes people ordering DoorDash is the problem
New Wife Guy-ComradeSnek☭ 🐍@ComradeSnake
How zoomers look at you when you say DoorDashing $30.00 tacos isn’t necessary
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@churrascooooo Stay broke you elitist loser. That dude gonna be looking back at you crying over how you can’t afford a chipotle lunch every day.
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grown ass man eating like a third grader
Ben Klayer@the_satellite23
Here's my lunch for today. Just as it has been for many, many days during my life. I'm 31yo. Happier and healthier than I've ever been.
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@CatholicCharm Nah. Your right. Keep spending like you do. It’s probably a billionaire’s fault you can’t afford a limousine for your work commute or pay your HOA fees…
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Boomers genuinely believe you can save $50k in 5 years by eating homemade lunches
Doc@DrBitcoinMD
The entire boomer vs young people divide in one thread
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I do not buy coffee, and I make my own lunches.
Where is this extra $15,000 I am supposed to have?
dank@cptdankkk
Kevin O'Leary says most people waste $15,000 a year on stupid stuff like $5 coffees "Stop buying coffee for five dollars and fifty cents" "You go to work and you spend $15 bucks on a sandwich, what are you an idiot. It costs you 99 cents to make a sandwich at home and bring it with you" "Bring your own water, your own drink or your own coffee mug. You start to add that up every day it's a ton of money" "Most people starting on their job making their first $60,000 piss away about $15,000 a year"
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@Uncatfishable Screw you. I hate spoiled people who think they are above everyone and crap all over regular people. My “poor” childhood and my adult life are filled with PB&J’s, chips and apple slices. Just shut up, put this indignant crap to bes and GO TO WORK.
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Do people realize that peanut butter and jelly and chips is what they give kids at school who can’t afford school lunch? That’s what they give prisoners in holding cells if you get to jail after food time. And you want working adults to eat that everyday willingly.
Ben Klayer@the_satellite23
Loaf of bread = $5 Peanut butter = $4 Jelly = $4 18 pack of chips = $12 Bag of apples = $5 Total = $30 And you'll have lunch for an entire week or two. $2-4 average per day. Inflation isn't the problem. Your spending habits are.
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