Americans under 30 are so miserable that the U.S. just fell to a historically low ranking in the world happiness report
Americans under 30 are so miserable that the U.S. just fell to a historically low ranking in the world happiness report
We view the late 40s through the 70s as a golden age for the American middle class. People raising families off a single income. Yearly vacations. Affordable higher education.
Know why?
We taxed the ever-loving fuck out of the wealthy back then.
Then the wealthy bought the politicians and stopped that from happening.
And now we're all sad.
DO. NOT. VOTE. FOR. ANYONE. THAT. DOESN'T. RUN. ON. TAXING. THE. WEALTHY. MORE.
Is absurd that we essentially have a regressive income tax. I also wouldn't ignore the global environment during that period.
During those decades, the US was effectively the only industrialized nation in the world. Everyone else either never had factories to begin with, or had smoldering piles of rubble where their factories used to be.
I found it astonishing that there isn't even a 0% tax bracket anymore federally. It starts at 10% when you make your first fucking dollar. We've gone batshit backwards in this country to the point where we're trying to get every last dime from poor people so we can almost afford to have buy-borrow-die oligarchs that never pay a penny in federal taxes.
Technically the standard deduction is the zero tax bracket.
Yep understood but there's a reason they made the switch and that reason is so they can keep the shit they took out of checks of those who don't file.
I'm sure they did the math on it, they're sneaky assholes through and through.
Sales tax as well as VAT are also, by design, regressive taxes.
We turned the planet into a human labour farm.
DO. NOT. VOTE. FOR. ANYONE. THAT. DOESN’T. RUN. ON. TAXING. THE. WEALTHY. MORE.
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Fuck everyone who voted for hillary clinton in the 2016 primary.
We need to point many fingers at them and give them the blame they so rightfully deserve.
It's their fault, and they need to be reminded of it constantly.
There's plenty of Kamala supporters that don't see her as just a Hillary 2.0, democrats and MAGA both agree not to go after the rich people robbing them blind.
The pay gap between CEO and ordinary worker was the smallest back there, not because the taxes, there were less taxes back then, but because those CEO were decent people, not predatory like right now. Todays C-Suite are predatory people, they're not humans, they're money machines that need every penny. There should be law that don't allow pay gap between CEO and ordinary worker to be greater than 100k USD or any other currency in other countries. Those who pursue luxury would say that's very low. Yes it's very low because everyone who works in successfull company deserve success. Not only small group on top. That is main difference between companies from 40s and 70s and companies right now.
This is also why (white) Boomers struggle to understand how it got so bad. They literally lived in a period where you could often count on and trust your boss.
Nah
Don’t vote for anyone, got it
It gets my vote!
DO. NOT. VOTE. FOR. ANYONE. THAT. DOESN'T. RUN. ON. TAXING. THE. WEALTHY. MORE.
Another liberal telling us to vote for Kamala just because her tax plan looks nice. Disgusting.
Comrade, the present situation ain't bringing us closer to socialism.
Hello dumb shit or rich person. STFU
Sir that ship sailed months ago, what are you talking about?
Uhh, Kamala didn't run on a platform of taxing the wealthy either, that would break the contract she has with her corporate sponsors.
https://apps.urban.org/features/2024-candidates-tax-policy/
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nominee, has proposed several policies that build on President Joe Biden’s recent budget plans. These include higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations and more generous tax breaks for lower-income workers, families, and small businesses.
https://itep.org/a-distributional-analysis-of-kamala-harris-tax-plan/
Taken together, the tax changes proposed by Vice President Kamala Harris would raise taxes on the richest 1 percent of Americans while cutting taxes on all other income groups.
If these proposals were in effect in 2026, the richest 1 percent of Americans would receive an average tax increase equal to 4.1 percent of their income. Other income groups would receive tax cuts, including an average tax cut equal to 2.7 percent of income for the middle fifth of Americans and an average tax cut equal to 7 percent of income for the poorest fifth of Americans.
Regardless of all of this data, Kamala is still a filthy liberal and you shouldn't vote for her.
