RE: Gas and Go smoke em if you got em. Taxes.
October 11, 2021 at 11:55 am
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2021 at 12:10 pm by Brian37.)
(October 11, 2021 at 11:36 am)LadyForCamus Wrote:(October 11, 2021 at 11:31 am)arewethereyet Wrote: I can't even diagram this out to make sense. What is the point of this mini-rant?
WTF - early today.
Basically, Brian doesn’t understand that people prefer to pay less, not more.
Um what?
Nobody likes paying taxes, I get that.
But again, 4 dollars a gallon charged by the company, is larger than 14cents in tax.
The argument is standard coming from the big corporations, and I have heard it for billions of years, "If you raise our corporate taxes we will have to pass it down to the customer."
It is absolutely true, they do do that, not because they have to, but because they want to. But I'd also argue, if they want to argue profit margins, and taxes making doing business harder, they also argue that too. I'd argue that if you cannot afford to pay more in taxes the bigger you get, then maybe you need to be broken up. That is what anti monopoly laws are intended for.
I am simply sick and tired of companies in the class of Amazon or Exxon or Walmart, claiming that they are the victims anytime someone dares suggest that things are lopsided and the middle and working class are the bullies.
Nobody like paying more for anything, be it a product or in taxes. What I am arguing is focus, because currency is still our bargaining chip. But right now, at this current point in history, the top has a monopoly. I don't want wealth to go away, I don't want the private sector to go away, and I don't like paying more for a product, or more in taxes either.
So the real issue is who can afford to absorb more of the burden, a billionaire, or the fry cook or the factory worker?
(October 11, 2021 at 11:44 am)arewethereyet Wrote: If you are going to try to explain taxes using Daffy Duck...yeah, fuck that. Try talking like a normal human for a change.
Yea, because the GOP has done such a great job for the past 40 years. I find it funny that you criticize my analogy when the GOP got the former guy put in office. A guy who has a history of failed casinos, failed airline, failed steak company, failed vodka company , and most recently his DC hotel lost 70 million dollars. The former guy is using the exact same playbook as Daffy, pit everyone against the other so everyone gets distracted from the fact he is using everyone.
