Gas and Go smoke em if you got em. Taxes.

[Brian37]

Be it gas or cigarettes, I really get tired of those on the right whom bitch about taxes on those things. Take gas for example, yes the price goes up or down based on supply and demand. But I don't understand why, say you pay 14 cents tax on a gallon, when the company is charging you 3 or 4 bucks a gallon. I am no genus, but 3 or 4 dollars is much lager than 14 cents. Same with cigarettes. If the tax on one pack is 1 dollar, that is still SMALLER than say the 5 or 10 bucks the company charges you for that pack. Sorry right wingers, it seems to me your math teachers failed you.

[arewethereyet]

I can't even diagram this out to make sense. What is the point of this mini-rant?

WTF - early today.

[LadyForCamus]

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.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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.

FTFY.

Boru

[Brian37]

I can't even diagram this out to make sense.  What is the point of this mini-rant?

WTF - early today.

Every so often, in face to face interactions, or online posts, I run into people who do not understand that the enemy isn't always the tax, and they do not understand they have been suckered into protecting the profits of giant corporations that can afford to pay more in taxes. 

We've had 40 years of Reaganomics, and if it worked the way the GOP would have everyone believe, nobody would be bitching. If right wingers want to claim they are getting economically squeezed, they are not wrong, they are, but it isn't because of taxes being raises on billionaires, but that billionaires have been masters at pitting white poor people against poor black people, and middle class white people against liberals and minorities. 

It is no different than the old Warner Brothers cartoon where Daffy is a traveling gag, booby trap salesman, and sells gags to both the beagle and Foghorn, "You better look out for the other guy". 

I just ran into a person on Twitter who was bitching about gas taxes. I simply cannot understand how someone cannot see that the company is charging you more for the product than the government is taxing you for. 

Yes it is a "rant", but this ignorance on the right has been for decades, and it has had a cumulative effect unfortunately.

[arewethereyet]

If you are going to try to explain taxes using Daffy Duck...yeah, fuck that. Try talking like a normal human for a change.

[Brian37]

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?

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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.

[no one]

Fernando has a compulsion to blurt out any tiny blurb that runs across his mind.

[Brian37]

Fernando has a compulsion to blurt out any tiny blurb that runs across his mind.

"Fernando"?  He he, a little dig at ABBA there? FYI, not one on of their songs I go out of my way to listen to.

But yes, I do blurt and blurb. Did I mention my Washington Football team sucks huge donkey balls?

[arewethereyet]

Fernando has a compulsion to blurt out any tiny blurb that runs across his mind.

"Fernando"?  He he, a little dig at ABBA there? FYI, not one on of their songs I go out of my way to listen to.

But yes, I do blurt and blurb. Did I mention my Washington Football team sucks huge donkey balls?

This really can't be the first time you noticed being referred to as 'Fernando'?