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RE: AP says 90% of Workers get Tax Cut
February 3, 2018 at 11:38 pm
Fear not, there is always some rich, over entitled motherfucker to complain about the homeless.... like this piece of shit with legs.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2...-riff-raff
Quote:San Francisco tech worker: 'I don't want to see homeless riff-raff'
Quote:In only the latest cultural altercation between San Francisco’s tech workers and the city’s impoverished population, one tech worker has declared the homeless are “riff raff” whose “pain, struggle and despair” shouldn’t have to be endured by “wealthy” people commuting to work.
I'm sure he has one of those stupid, fucking, hats.
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RE: AP says 90% of Workers get Tax Cut
February 3, 2018 at 11:55 pm
(February 3, 2018 at 10:41 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: (February 3, 2018 at 10:06 pm)Shell B Wrote: 70k might be enough? 70k is an excellent salary compared to most of the country.
Yeah I'm not sure where he got lost there. 
My point was that I am right in the "middle class" income bracket, and my taxes just went up by $1200 a year. In every state it's the middle class that got hosed. Not all of them, just the ones with enough money to steal from, lol.
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RE: AP says 90% of Workers get Tax Cut
February 3, 2018 at 11:56 pm
(February 3, 2018 at 11:38 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Fear not, there is always some rich, over entitled motherfucker to complain about the homeless.... like this piece of shit with legs.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2...-riff-raff
Quote:San Francisco tech worker: 'I don't want to see homeless riff-raff'
Quote:In only the latest cultural altercation between San Francisco’s tech workers and the city’s impoverished population, one tech worker has declared the homeless are “riff raff” whose “pain, struggle and despair” shouldn’t have to be endured by “wealthy” people commuting to work.
I'm sure he has one of those stupid, fucking, hats.
It isn't that black and white. I have seen stories of well off people in silicon valley worry about the pay of those not so well off and the poor. I am sure not every better off person shits on others like you just posted. There are well off people in every state who do care.
It can only be argued that not enough at the top do care.
There is a myth that is far to big in America, that it has to be get rid of the private sector, or let the rich fuck us over. I'd only argue RIGHT NOW that the top is bullying us. But it is not to say that everyone at the top thinks the same way. One can only argue that the climate sucks right now and is dominated by greed.
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RE: AP says 90% of Workers get Tax Cut
February 4, 2018 at 12:00 am
(February 3, 2018 at 10:11 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Never tried owning a house in a high-cost area, huh?
When we moved to Arizona in 2005 my real estate taxes went from $16,800 to $1,410. Of course, the schools are shitty out here but hey, real estate taxes are low.
70k is still objectively “enough.” No one is starving in that salary.
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RE: AP says 90% of Workers get Tax Cut
February 4, 2018 at 12:13 am
(February 4, 2018 at 12:00 am)Shell B Wrote: (February 3, 2018 at 10:11 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Never tried owning a house in a high-cost area, huh?
When we moved to Arizona in 2005 my real estate taxes went from $16,800 to $1,410. Of course, the schools are shitty out here but hey, real estate taxes are low.
70k is still objectively “enough.” No one is starving in that salary.
I'd argue that too. BUT, it still remains that the top, bitching about taxes is absurd. America's top earners at one point had a 90% pre deduction rate that ended up being after deductions about 50%. After WW2 during the boom that created the middle class.
70k certianly isn't starving no. But it will only get worse long term if we keep allowing uber billionaires to falsely point this out.
Half of 40 billion is 20 billion, if we are talking Walmart family Bill Gates numbers. BUT half of 70k is 35k.
Point is the argument from the economic right has used this crap of "you make enough". When the real push back should be to uber billionaires is "NO YOU MAKE ENOUGH".
My mom made enough for both of us. My point would be if she can do that for me, as a retired teacher and single mom, why are dickeads like 45 and the Kochs and Walmart bitching?
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