Submitted 9 hours ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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I am tired of the boomer narrative of that it’s always those “young people” ruining everything. Oldest millennials are now in their mid-40’s. Or even worse, the youngest gen-z people are almost 18 now. These people have been paying their taxes for years on end now.
The only terrified people in this scenario are the literal parasites who don’t pay anything, through loopholes and theft
Yep it is so stupid everyone blaming the boomers when they are no longer the largest voting block. But millennials are, also nobody wants to admit young people are stupid also.
No, boomers are responsible for the mess of crap we’ve found ourselves in. That’s why people blame them for it. They voted for “i got mine, and pulled the ladders up that helped them build their wealth and education”. That’s why we blame them for shit still.
OK, boomer
[Gen-Z] the generation loosely being defined as people born around 1997 to 2012.
They don’t believe anyone under a certain income pays taxes. “Taxpayer” just means “upper income tax bracket” in their mind.
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.
Also brown people don’t pay taxes in their fantasy world. It’s just another racist dog whistle.
… people under a certain income level don’t pay any taxes
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.
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)
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.
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.
You’re right, but people over a certain tax bracket are also pretty good at not paying taxes.
This is very Boomers thinking everyone is still a 16 year old Millennial.
Boomer brains stuck in 1998, and it shows.
I’ll bet Kathy Wilde doesnt pay taxes
We’re the taxpayers that want “free” health care while simultaneously paying taxes. The Right somehow thinks we’re too stupid to know we pay taxes that makes these things happen. Heck…we want people to have nice things.
Meanwhile the Right doesn’t want to pay taxes yet somehow expects to get social services like paved roads or safe drinking water. I’d mention schools or health care but the republicans clearly DGAF about those things.
“employers and taxpayers” is like “job creators”.
They don’t want to say “the ultra wealthy” because that would be too accurate for the owner of the site, who is an ultra wealthy person.
It’s so backwards too, since the ultra wealthy are the ones who most dodge paying their fair share of taxes.
nah it terrifies tax dodgers and leeches of society
I appreciate that they say that employers don’t pay taxes.
WANTED: KATHY WILDE
For contributing to social murder, ideologically justifying excess deaths among the lower classes in order to keep the upper class hierarchy.
That job description says it all
That's an interesting way of phrasing "has actively enabled corruption for decades".
“The media” love nothing more than to find the absolute most disgusting scum in our country and interview them for their opinions…
Outrage generates clicks, clicks generate revenue.
We’re both here because we’re disgusted by the headline so it obviously works.
While generally true, I think “the media” does what I mentioned in order to “manufacture consent” in cases like this. They want to create the image of what is “real” and what “people you should believe” think. God forbid you should think for yourself and agree with a spooky spooky socialist, no no we need to make you afraid of him! We need you to believe that only “freeloaders” vote for him and “real taxpayers” will be hurt by him!
Oh no. Anyway…
Actually unreadable with the size thing and bloat
Um, good?
Wait, are you telling me that because he got elected I don’t have to pay taxes? Bonus!
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
the scariest part about tax the millionaires policies for millionaires is that we did it in massachusetts and the outcome was that it worked and raised billions for the state