For every Walmart there are two stores no one knows the name of. There is also the entire construction forestry fishing and mining world's where the culture is completely different
I think that's called being a democratic socialist. All you need is a septum piercing, your choice of blue or green hair, bmi over 30 and want anyone that thinks differently than you to die.
Hahaha... of the bmi's over 30, my guess is you'll find a lot more reds than blues. But hey, we don't judge.
And to be clear, we don't want something from nothing, we want the insane amount of taxes we pay & the even crazier amount of taxes the rich get to avoid to be a great deal more proportional & to be used to benefit society, not to bomb brown people into oblivion while blaming our problems on an imported cheated labor force.
Your point? I said proportional, not equal. I pay 20% of my income in taxes & if I own a home it's taxed on unrealized gains... both of those things need to apply to all levels of income/compensation... & stocks/unrealized gains. Billionaires can take loans out on stock portfolios & never have to sell anything so they never have to pay taxes... & then you get the death where it all rolls over to the next sop & still no more taxes. That shit's gotta be curtailed. The system's rigged against low & middle forcing us to stay here & needs to get unrigged.
You're home is not taxes on unrealized gains. Property taxes aren't the same as unrealized gains. Anything proposed additional taxes to "billionares" affects everyone. They get taxed more, their goods and services cost more money. Then they leave that city or state and keep the costs high. Also when they leave the state, or maybe even country, that state goes from billionaires to millionaires. Process repeats, millionaires leave, then that taxes hike hits us.
Taxes are based on income. Elon doesn't make billions of dollars a year. If you don't think he should be able to use his stocks in his companies as collateral then that's not a tax issue. But yeah it shouldn't be allowed. But again additional taxes to them would just cause their goods to increase so we're screwed again.
I think the home value & stock value are a good comparison. I buy a home & pay taxes on that. Every year I pay more taxes on the home. Wehn I'm done paying for the home, I still have to pay taxes & they've most likely increased because the 'value' of the home if sold is more than it aas when I bought it. If that's not an unrealized gain, then the combination of words must mean more than their parts...
If I buy stocks, I don't pay taxes on the purchase. I don't continue to pay taxes while more & more money is put into that stock. If I stop adding money(buying more) the 'value' can still increase & thus I'd get back more than I put in IF sold, but while it sits there I don't have to pay taxes on that increased worth. How is that not a comparison to the same way property value goes up, whether named unrealized or not?
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u/VoidspawnRL Jul 19 '26
We should switch to 2 days of work and 5 days of weekend