Comment on A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers.
imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago… people under a certain income level don’t pay any taxes
Even if you discount all other forms of taxation, and only focus on income taxes, the sentiment is irrelevant to this particular vote.
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)
Thanks for that information, I had no idea
holy shit i want this graph for every election
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.
Way to rage at and insult the guy that already admitted he was wrong. You tool.
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Well, at least your username is half right.
You’re right, but people over a certain tax bracket are also pretty good at not paying taxes.
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.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 17 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.
imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Totally fair. I wasn’t thinking about all the taxes the government steals from us, just the income tax
queermunist@lemmy.ml 16 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.
GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
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.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
So I’m aware there is a right-libertarian argument at work here that frames all taxes, always, as “stealing”. However, there’s an argument that can be used along more democratic socialist lines.
Taxation in representative democracy is legitimate when the democracy itself lives up to the terms. We have come to some kind of consensus as a society on the level of taxation and where that money should go. When we do that, and we say the road is “our road”, we mean that in a literal way.
The US is not a democracy that lives up to the term. “Taxation is theft” is correct in this context.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 14 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.
teamevil@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
They’re just stupid and meant folks who make all the money don’t pay raxes