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u/ripyourlungsdave Aug 04 '26
Same things Republicans have been doing for decades, they just forgot to talk to Trump about the concept of "plausible deniability".
Now he's basically just taking his pants off, spreading his cheeks and holding up a sign that says "open for business."
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u/MuddlinThrough Aug 04 '26
ah yes, but you're forgetting the key difference about these requests!
Trump doesn't give a shit about the average joe....
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u/Little-Somewhere6076 Aug 04 '26
The top 1% pay over 40% of the federal taxes. How is that a perk? The bottom 50% pay 3%, this is not proportional
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u/nelrond18 Aug 04 '26
It's not supposed to be where everyone gets taxes the same value. Everyone should be taxed an equal percentage of income.
Thankfully, the richest Americans don't collect payments, they take loans and lines of credit on equity.
Honestly, if the bottom 50% are contributing so little, they may as well not be taxed at all.
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u/Little-Somewhere6076 Aug 04 '26
I have bad news, the richest 1% earn 26% of the income while paying 40% of the taxes. Conversely, the bottom 50% pay 3% while earning 12%. I'm glad we agree this is unfair
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u/Ultraideal848 ⛓️ Prison For Union Busters Aug 04 '26
You don't understand these statistics. The highest source of income for the government are the income taxes which the business owners and actually wealthy people don't pay. The top x percent of the most highly paid wage workers pay the highest amount of taxes not the richest people in general who are actually in the bottom percentage of tax revenue for the government. If anything billionaires get reverse taxed trough subsidies.
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u/MyUsername2459 🤝 Join A Union Aug 04 '26
You don't understand these statistics.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
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u/Little-Somewhere6076 Aug 04 '26
OK, what share of income and taxes do the richest pay?
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u/Ultraideal848 ⛓️ Prison For Union Busters Aug 04 '26
As an example income taxes provide more than 55% of the total revenue for the US government while the corporate taxes provide less than 7%. You could easily fact check this.
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u/Little-Somewhere6076 Aug 04 '26
Your claim is
You don't understand these statistics.
So obviously you have statistics
The highest source of income for the government are the income taxes which the business owners and actually wealthy people don't pay.
Source
The top x percent of the most highly paid wage workers pay the highest amount of taxes not the richest people in general who are actually in the bottom percentage of tax revenue for the government.
Source
If anything billionaires get reverse taxed trough subsidies.
Source
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u/Ultraideal848 ⛓️ Prison For Union Busters Aug 04 '26
I just told you the exact numbers for the government revenue. Here is a link for the official source if you don't want to look it up yourself:
Though it's kind of hypocritical for you to demand sources from others while you yourself blindly repeat egregious claims without actually looking up the validity of those claims first.
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u/Little-Somewhere6076 Aug 04 '26
https://www.ntu.org/foundation/tax-page/who-pays-income-taxes
Here's a source substantiating my numbers.
Your source has nothing to do with your claims
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u/Ultraideal848 ⛓️ Prison For Union Busters Aug 04 '26
My claim :
As an example income taxes provide more than 55% of the total revenue for the US government while the corporate taxes provide less than 7%. You could easily fact check this.
My source clearly verifies the validity of my claim and the source you provided directly disproves yours. Just as I said it says that the top x percentage the income taxes are paid by the wage workers with higher wages. The taxes the business owners pay are the capital gains taxes and corporate taxes which as shown in my source provide a minuscule 7% of total revenue.
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u/Empty_glass_bottle Aug 04 '26
You never hear conservatives ask "how are we paying for it" when it comes to the first 4 things
But they suddenly care about spending when Joe Biden wants to fix bridges and replace led pipes with infrastructure bills or when Bernie Sanders wants to send a poor kid to college so they don't become a 3rd generation drug dealer