People are conditioned to be outraged. GOP ads here are largely about transgender people in sports. I got plenty of problems and that ain’t one of em. I’ll bet most people those ads are targeting would admit the same. Illegal immigration is another one. Not a big concern for most people in Ohio, yet it’s a big part of the Republican’s campaign ads. The Haitian legal immigrant fear mongering recently was very unusual for here.
Why can’t I find the meme? I think it’s woman yelling at cat that says something like, maybe we should raise taxes by 1% on people who make over $40,000,000 a year. And then the woman yelling is captioned, people who make 50k a year.
I voted to have my taxes go up to pay for a new elementary school. They replaced a flat occupation tax with an increase in the income tax which would be about an extra $400 a year for me. But it’ll come right out of my paycheck instead of being a separate bill I have to remember to pay.
Of course, all the idiots who live near me will probably vote against it and we won’t get the school because “TAX BAD.”
I don’t even have children and always vote for the school taxes. Only an idiot would shoot themselves in the foot by neglecting the people who will care for them in their end days.
My city has a referendum to replace the middle school and add a wing to the elementary school. Oh and add fire suppression systems to both of them since they are so old they don’t have them.
It’ll cost me $700/year for like 25 years.
I’m voting yes. Let’s invest in our schools and education system. Let’s understand how incredibly useful the power of local taxes are.
And then be mad when the town dies because everyone leaves and no one new moves in. #1 thing on our list when looking where to move? School quality…well that and lack of Dollar Generals
I didn’t realize how prevalent Dollar generals were until I took a road trip through West Virginia. It’s like the only successful franchise in that entire state.
And we’re talking about progressive tax brackets here. ONLY the money over $400k will be taxed higher. As in if you make $405k per year, only the $5k will be taxed higher.
these are the people who think progressive tax brackets means they make you pay extra if you’re white and straight
They will never understand that. I knew a guy who refused a raise because it would put him in the next tax bracket. I didn’t even try to explain it.
When I was in my early 20s there were a few personal finance things like this I didn’t understand. Here are a couple examples:
- I refused a credit card limit increase because I thought that it was a trap to get me to spend more. I didn’t understand FICO scores are partly determined by “amount of credit” and “credit utilized”. I likely cause myself to later spend more money on higher interest rates when I got a loan because my credit score could have been better.
- I was mildly upset I got $1000 as a bonus instead of a pay income because I thought that bonuses were “taxed at a higher rate” when instead they are simply “withheld at a higher rate” and it all washes out in the end when you pay your taxes at the end of the year.
But I grew up and learned these things in my 20s and didn’t carry those mistakes into later adulthood.
That’s communism! … says guy who calls every political thing he sees communism
More like…
“That’s Fascist Communism!”
But yeah, same level of ignorance.
I dunno. I kinda like that guy more than the college kid that just read up on Marxism and now holds it as the solution to everything.
I’d love to invite them both to the same party.
I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
