• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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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

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    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?

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

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      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.

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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?”

    :(

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

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    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.

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    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.

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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…