• RHOPKINS13@kbin.social
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    4 months ago

    …maybe if the rich people paid their fair share… both in taxes AND in wages… people wouldn’t be living in poverty… cutting back on senseless wars could help too…

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      This is incredibly irritating, Bernie was saying it for corporations to pay their employees more. Do most billionaires actually work or schmooze.

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        Well, reportedly they do lots of drugs and then give the leadership of their companies the choice to do drugs or be fired.

        … while drug testing the actual workers.

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      You tax their WEALTH. They make damn sure they don’t get a salary to avoid taxes

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        So tax the company based on profit margin. Corporations being considered people while not being held under the same scrutiny is one of the biggest problems.

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          Companies are taxed for their profit. They are careful to not make a taxable profit. They can spend what would be profit on R&D or advertising or expansion

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      Fair share means ending the tyranny of individual ownership of the Means of Production. Taxes are a good start though.

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    Really took me a while to figure out they were trying to make me think of people on benefits rather than shareholders

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    They’re saying this to Bernie Sanders? Bro what,… have you heard literally anything he’s said?

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      If Bernie shot off a tweet that said “you could write me in”, I would be DOWN.

      Bet he would take general… we would need to make them actually count though.

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          Ya, gotta make sure Genocidal Joe has a solid shot of finishing the job with the Palestinians.

          And that he gets us resoundingly balls deep in military conflicts with every middle eastern country.

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    ‘people working zero hours a week’

    Did anyone else take this as meaning “politicians”?

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      When you add all of the taxes up - yeah it’s pretty high, especially considering our infrastructure and healthcare situation. ROI is absolutely shit.

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    I was so confused not knowing what community this was in. Im like, “…but that’s what Bernie’s all about, not giving out money to rich executives”

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    I fucking paid my taxes to protect me from poverty if I became disabled… little did I know that disability only pays 11k/year and if you have more than $2k in the bank or in valuables, they take away your food and Medicaid. That $2k asset limit hasn’t changed since 1974. We can’t fix a vehicle on that, we can’t pay our rent, we can’t survive on max $2k at any given time. If adjusted for inflation, it would be $13k. That’s enough to survive on.

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    I’m of the opinion that people making less than 50,000 a year should only be paying like 5% in taxes and FICA/SS. And anyone under 150,000 taxed at 10%. Because the people making above that can afford to pay the typical 20% or more, but less than 150k is not all that much these days.

    And then the mega-rich need to be paying way more than they do. Not just income tax, but capital gains tax and tax on the total value of their assets above 5 million (don’t @ me with this number, it’s an example) or whatever.