• @disguy_ovahea
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    That’s not entirely true. Everyone is affected by Biden’s tax plan.

    Yes, you’ll pay more in taxes if you make more than $400k, even more if you’re a corporation, billionaire, investment fund manager, use gift tax loopholes in trusts, or manipulate life insurance loopholes.

    If you’re part of the working class, you’ll be paying lower taxes, earning increased child or low-income housing tax credits, as well as earned income credit.

    https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2169

    • @Bye
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      126 months ago

      What about retired people?

      • @rockSlayer
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        246 months ago

        Retired people are generally working class too. Unless the person owns/owned a large corporation, that is.

          • @rockSlayer
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            156 months ago

            I cannot functionally tell the difference from doing 2 hours of work at a Hampton vacation home and being retired. So I would say “not necessarily”.

        • @Bye
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          Sure but they get their money the same way the rich do, via capital gains.

          • Neato
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            56 months ago

            That would be in lieu of income taxes, yes. Also doesn’t apply for ss or pensions.

          • @rockSlayer
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            36 months ago

            Capitalism forces even the unwilling to participate. It’s a matter of fact that the only way to afford a retirement in the last 50 years as a worker is to invest in private capital. I already want to see the total annihilation of coerced labor, I don’t want to work for my entire life.

            • @[email protected]
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              16 months ago

              What government or economic system doesn’t do that? Even if the system is fully autonomous and opt in, it implicitly obligates interaction if it is enforced by any means (or the use of another system is prohibited)

              • @rockSlayer
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                If you’re asking about that bit of snark at the end about coerced labor, I can try to explain it.

                I consider there to be 3 loose types of labor: forced, coerced, and controlled. Forced labor is what it sounds like: incarcerated labor, slavery, etc controlled through violence and defined by the bosses total control over their labor and often their life. Coerced labor shares a bit of overlap with forced labor, but it’s primarily defined through modern capitalist work in which workers must perform waged labor due to economic pressure.

                Controlled labor would be the free association to work where the worker wished and contribute at their own pace. I consider the picturesque version of controlled labor to be a unionized worker cooperative in which all management is elected within a socialist economy. Work is still directed by management, but it’s free of coercion due to the lack of economic pressure that would require a person to be forced to work.

                There will still be coercion through other means within such a socialist society, and it will still be just as evil as economic coercion. But we should strive to eliminate it wherever possible. That’s why I believe even the co-op would need a union, to establish protections against such coercion.

      • @disguy_ovahea
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        The plan is closing the Medicare tax loophole for $400k+ earners. I didn’t mention it because it’s an additional tax on the first category mentioned in both the meme and my comment.

  • @Sanctus
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    506 months ago

    No, but the company that powers the servers they run on does.

    And somehow a bunch of hicks in the boonies relate to these fucks when their ancestors used to run moonshine in fast cars around law enforcement. What happened?

  • @[email protected]
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    426 months ago

    But one day I might be a billionaire and when that happens, I don’t want to pay taxes.

    • @TexasDrunk
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      246 months ago

      Leela: Why are you cheering, Fry? You’re not rich!

      Fry: True, but someday I might be rich. And then people like me better watch their step.

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      god will make me a trillionare because my pastor has a corporate jet. I don’t want any of my god dollars to go the gubmint.

  • @[email protected]
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    Not that this will be mentioned in any of the media they consume. They’ll be lied to and they’ll believe it because they don’t fact-check their “leaders.”

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    “Oh so you want to punish people that work hard to make a big salary, just for the sake of lazy burger flippers?”

    “You make less than $400k, does that mean you’re lazy?”

    :(

  • @III
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    146 months ago

    These heroes protecting the billionaires. If we don’t help the billionaires horde all of the money, who will?

  • EleventhHour
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    116 months ago

    These people would rather die than have what’s good for them. I really wish we could just let them die and then move on with what’s good for the rest of us.

    I don’t care if they admit they’re wrong. As long as they go away forever. I would literally pay it to see that.

  • @Omega_Man
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    116 months ago

    When I eventually make over 400k, I will be so mad about this!

    • @samus12345
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      46 months ago

      “I’m mad on behalf of the people who make over $400k a year that I idolize!”

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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    76 months ago

    Honestly, reminding them they’re too poor to be affected probably isn’t the best way to make a convincing argument.

    Then again, that presumes good faith, and redcaps wouldn’t know good faith if it burned them when their skin was exposed to it like a vampire.

  • @nycki
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    Its not that they think they’ll be affected. Its that they believe the market is “fair”, and therefore rich people must have “earned it”, and taxes are an unfair punishment.

    Of course the reality is that the market is only ever fair when it approaches equilibrium, which is typically achieved through taxes…

  • @andrewth09
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    26 months ago

    “Of course I don’t, thanks to YOUR policies”

      • @grue
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        16 months ago

        That’s DimitriBot8297245, to you!