Where can we read it? I am having trouble finding the text.
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I don't think I can afford to prop up the wealthy any more than I already am doing now. Guess I'll need to get a fourth job to help pay off Musk and company tax relief.
Work those bootstraps
Clown Country
Just work harder and become a billionaire smh
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This is nothing, wait until the Trump tariffs kick in and everything gets more expensive.
Can't wait for shitty plyboard furniture to be marked up 489% because we got to import them from China/Vietnam or other SE countries.
Like seriously, what even gets made in the US that is reasonably affordable and is of a decent quality.
you say prices will go up, all I can hear is it's going to become cheaper to steal.
How much does it cost to steal?
Depends if you're rich and white, or not.
The price at which it becomes a felony won't charge. You'd have to do it in organized groups like the raids in LA a number of years ago.
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Who would have thought he would do the same thing he did in his first term again?
Less than half of the voters, apparently.
Something tells me most of his voters have no idea what he did last time
Trump: "Hannibal Lecter is a fine man." jerks off two dicks
Trump supporters: "😍😍 He's gonna fix the economy and make America great again!"
They were all trying to figure out why Obama wasn't in the oval office for 9/11
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"A small price to pay to own the libs!" the drones say as they make boiled leather soup.
Don't forget deport immigrants (arguably increasing food costs). BIL sent me an article about 400+ illegals getting deported Tuesday night or something. Weird, I thought there were hundreds of thousands of them. They could only get that many? "The majority were criminals" Aight, cool. Keep those resources going and start processing the years and years of rape kits left waiting for testing. Start getting those citizens too, champ. Or are we only after the brown criminals? Hmm....
Arguably? No. Factually.
Well, dear leader said gas is gunna be cheap so you can drive to the grocery store and look longingly at the food you can no longer afford to buy and see the empty shelves of cheap eggs. Good thing, since you will need the extra money you will save by not buying food to pay more taxes so the rich won't have to.
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Nobody in the US knows how marginal rates and progressive tax brackets work, you can sell the fools on anything and just blame the IRS because it’s the most convenient incarnation of what people hate.
It makes me angry when I see people talk about how getting a raise would be bad for them because it would put them in a new tax bracket.
Like dude, no, it won't be worse. Thats not how that works.
It's by design.. the same group of people think that tarriffs are paid by foreign companies. Keeping voters ignorant is a key part of their strategy. Remember that trump once said "I love the poorly educated"
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No guys it's cool it'll trickle down any day now just wait
Picture is incorrect. The bottom glass on the right should be cracking.
Bottom Glass on the Left. Cracking and potentially about to make it all topple over.
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Well, something is trickling down but for some reason it smells like piss.
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They raise taxes on the middle class to make people hate taxes so they vote for smaller government.
They’ve been doing it since the 80s. God how I wish our politics weren’t in a death spiral. It’s so boring.
Educate the next generation. My kids demonize taxes based off a short video but then get a quick education. Taxes aren't the devil, the rich dudes who aren't paying their share are causing your burden to be higher. Billionaires aren't always the enemy, but look at Amazon wages and it's an easy way to show them that hoarded wealth generally comes from keeping others down. It takes a bit longer, but elders are the only entity that can counter the bullshit they're being fed.
The problem with taxing the super rich is that their weath isn't in the form of taxable income, it's mostly in the form of stock, and doesn't become cash until it is sold. Selling stock, especially if the CEO is the selling lots of stock, causes the value of the stock to decrease, so they don't like to sell it at all. What billionaires do to pay for their day to day expenses is to take out loans, using their stock as collateral on that loan. No bank is going to deny a loan backed by Tesla stock, or space-x stock.. that's guaranteed interest for them with basically no risk. The value of the stock them increases over time, more than the interest payments do, and then they pay it back, coming out financially better than they were when they took out the loan. The only way that billionaires could really be taxed is if the government was to tax them on the value of all stock that is held at the start of the tax year, and not just when it is sold. Some countries do this, I don't think (?) the USA does.
Billionaires aren’t always the enemy
Uh, yeah they are
wouldn't be billionaires if they were allies
Billionaires are always the enemy.
You do not get to even 1 billion without causing massive indirect harm to a shitload of people. No one, no one, every, has put in enough to "earn" 1 billion. The vast majority of people will work their entire lives and be lucky to have a gross total income of a few million. Thats Gross, not worth or wealth, thats, "I took money in and spent it to live."
I would argue anyone worth much over 10 million is in the same harm causing boat as billionaires.
but at least now baby jesus will stop shedding tears because transgenders and intersex people can now be labeled with their correct biblical gender
that will make the poor religious folks happy at least, right? they don't need grocerries, baby jesus is happy the transgenders are suffering! delicious!
Graph is from October 2024 this isn’t some new version that was just released either
Correct. And it is still current.
https://itep.org/federal-tax-debate-2025-trump-tax-changes/#collapseOne
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This is just peak brainworm. What does someone making nearly a million dollars a year even do with an extra 7k?? Make their scroodge McDuck vault a little deeper? Doesn't matter how deep it is, you still can't dive into it like a pool. Idiots.
Plus, at the other end of the spectrum, I'm quite sure anyone making $28.6k a year would be very happy to pocket an extra $790.
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That's on top of the increase starting now as well.
The tax plan of 2017 cut taxes for everyone, but starting last year they went up for anyone not making 300k or more.
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