Comment on A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers.

queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Euphemisms like that and “job creators”, “wealth creators” are an instant tip-off that whoever’s talking is a weaselly venal slimeball.

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• Soup@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oddly enough, when it comes to less dense suburbs with richer people in them, the cost to the city is always more than those people pay in taxes. They pay more but they’re actually using poorer people’s taxes to pay for their shitty “neighbourhoods”, in quotes because the word implies a level of community they could only dream of.

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• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Also brown people don’t pay taxes in their fantasy world. It’s just another racist dog whistle.

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• imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  … people under a certain income level don’t pay any taxes

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  • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They certainly pay sales taxes, possibly property taxes too, they probably have to pay fines because the cops love to prey on the poor, and there’s also fees to use government services. That’s all taxes.

    But there’s this concentrated attempt to denigrate people with lower income as useless eaters that don’t contribute to society, and so they don’t think any of that counts.

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    • imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Totally fair. I wasn’t thinking about all the taxes the government steals from us, just the income tax

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      • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Right, that’s the point of the “taxpayer” dog whistle. It trains people to think that poor people don’t pay taxes, and implies they’re lesser members of society because of it.

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      • GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        taxes the government steals from us

        No it’s not the government that is stealing from us its the Uber wealthy that use our tax money (that should be going to the greater good of the citizens of the country) for their own gain.

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      • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The poor pay the largest portion of their wages in taxes. They also benefit society far beyond any other social group. It’s the wealthy that take the most from the rest of us and pay almost nothing back.

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    • teamevil@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’re just stupid and meant folks who make all the money don’t pay raxes

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  • radix@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Even if you discount all other forms of taxation, and only focus on income taxes, the sentiment is irrelevant to this particular vote.

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    His support appears to be concentrated in the middle class. (Median household income in NYC is about 80k, right about the peak of his vote share)

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    • imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks for that information, I had no idea

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    • match@pawb.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      holy shit i want this graph for every election

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    People with great wealth don’t pay taxes. They employ loopholes only available to the wealthy. Btw, almost every state has sales tax, you dipshit.

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    • imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Way to rage at and insult the guy that already admitted he was wrong. You tool.

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        AlreAdY aDmiTTeD I wAs wRonG

        Well, at least your username is half right.

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  • jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re right, but people over a certain tax bracket are also pretty good at not paying taxes.

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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Okay, they “don’t pay taxes”, but the government still takes the money and then returns it if they ask for it (i.e. file a tax return). That isn’t quite the same as not paying.

    Also, you have to be stupidly poor to get all of your taxes returned.

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