jimbolauski
@jimbolauski@lemm.ee
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 6 days ago:
Once again, less revenues for the government, less resources to be shared among low and middle houseolds, even less public spending available for services mainly used by low and middle income houseolds. Proportionally those who save more money are the ones who have more money to be taxed. A 50$ difference in tax payments for a low income houseold does not hit like saving 1.000$ or 10.000$ for higher incomes if you also loose those services and benefits you received while you were paying those extra 50$ tax.
Once again a drop in revenue does not mean any of those services are being cut. On top of that if the tax cuts are not renewed the exact thing your hypothetical situation will happen. The government will be taking much needed money from low income families.
We’ll see how you’ll like price gauging, cartels and lowe safety and quality standards on the goods produced in the USA without any agency enforcing the law against these practices. I mean, if you like lead in your cereals because metals are good for you, enjoy. We’ll see how you like corporations whose only goal is the returns for their shareholders and not consumers’ satisfaction.
Your ignorance of economics is showing, price gouging doesn’t work in a healthy economy. Then your ignorance of the assortment of agencies besides the useless cfpa that are not being targeted that perform consumer protection is long.
The fact that those investments do not produce any goods does not mean that there is no ROI. It’s called “influence” and has a huge impact on your trades and relationships with the rest of the world, like it has in your personal life where personally knowing someone and having a good relation with that person can affect how they treat you in a business scenario.
Influence would be return on investment, countries learned long ago that usaid money didn’t have stings attached. Countries that don’t play ball still get pallets of cash.
But once more you struggle to understand this concept, maybe it’s not me who’s the one having no human interactions in his life between the two of us?
It’s funny that a someone who thinks flinging feeces is a form of communication would claim others don’t know how to interact.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 6 days ago:
That wasn’t a bad retort, you get a bananna.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 6 days ago:
Even if this would be a flat cut across the board who do you think would benefit more from this cut, proportionally? A family with 100K income taxed at a flat rate of 35% or a family with 100,000K taxed at the same rate? Who would save more money from a tax cut in this scenario?
How are low and middle income households harmed in this scenario?
You do understand why tax rates should be progressive, right?
I know you just learned what progressive taxes and tax cuts are and are excited to use it, but you’re far from an expert.
You have seen that this administration is currently cutting agencies related to consumers protection and state management, right? Are you living in the same reality as all of us or are you living the MAGA dream?
If the cfpa was serious about its job they would not have spent more in renovations than all the rest of federal government, or pass on any of the fines it imposed against lenders to the people they harmed. They are helping themselves not consumers.
Once more you don’t understand the concept of soft power. If you think that cutting spending abroad will benefit the USA while China and Russia keep on spending on developing countries to entrench their politics in these parts of the world you are even stupider than what you sound like
There’s no ROI on usaid money so getting rid of it won’t hurt the US. ie giving you $1000 won’t make you conservative. To do that I’d need to teach you work ethic, accountability, self reliance, maybe a trade, and a whole bunch of self confidence, then maybe you would be more focused on things you can do to improve your life instead of what others should do for you.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 6 days ago:
I’ve never encountered someone so convinced they were intelligent but are closer to a fecies flinging ape than Einstein on an intelligence scale. You are a unicorn.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 6 days ago:
If you apply such cut only above a certain threshold income everyone under that threshold will not reap the benefit of that cut
It’s a flat cut accross the board so this doesn’t apply. Everyone’s tax rate is lowered the same amount. Remember this tax isn’t a progressive tax cut, you still remember what a progressive tax cut is.
they will be affected by a lack of investments in public spending and services which will derive from a lower income in the state revenue caused by said tax cut.
That’s a simpletons understanding of how funding works. If nothing is cut then the deficit increases, this is common. If foreign aid is cut how does that harm the taxpayer? If defense spending is cut how does that harm the taxpayer?
My point is taxes go to so much more than infrastructure and social programs that the US spends taxpayer money on. There are a lot of things than can be cut and not harm low income families.
Hopefully now you’ll see why your simple statement is just ignorant of what is really going on.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
I already shown you that you don’t even know the policies of an administration you support and that is going to screw the middle and low classes in favour of a tiny percentage of the wealthiest elite
How is a tax cut screwing over the middle class? Do we need to add screwed over to the list of words you don’t understand.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
How do you enjoy being so angry?
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
You claimed the numbers I provided don’t look accurate and more granular numbers will prove your point but don’t provide any. Seems like you’re saying the numbers must be wrong but can’t provide any data to back that claim. That almost sounds like you have no data and are going off your preconceived notions.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
You haven’t made a sentient point yet. You don’t know what a progressive tax cut is, you don’t know the difference between billion and trillion. Now you’ve regressed to primate level intelligence and are flinging poo.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
The vouchers in my area pay for all tutition for private school for low and middle income families. There is no tutition cost for families. It lets low income families escape failing schools.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
Affluent white area by any chance?
That’s the one area where public schools outperform private in my area. The less wealthy the neighborhood the more likely private schools do better.
And those religious “schools” that don’t have to confirm to standards. Sure they are churning out real productive, fully functioning adults.
A requirement for accepting state money is standards have to be met. Private highschool graduates have higher ACT scores, higher acceptence rates into college, higher college graduation rates.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
Still can’t understand why any of this is so triggering to you. I guess some people just like to be upset.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
If a public school performs poorly they get more money, if a voucher school performs poorly they get closed. In my area voucher schools perform better than public schools and cost half as much.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
Who would have thought cleaning up wasteful and corrupt agencies in the US would be so triggering to someone in Europe.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
Is it because I don’t resort to name calling or have a weird fecal obsession?
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
The numbers must be wrong since they go against your preconceived notions.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
So much anger is such a little person.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
Bush 43 tried having nantional standards and instituted profiency tests with no child left behind. Due to there being consequences for poorly performing schools and teachers, Obama capitulated to the teachers union and switched to letting the states determine tests and standards. Public school teachers may want what’s best for students but the teachers union does not.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
You got to yell louder the clouds didn’t hear you.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
So you just want to yell at the clouds, got it.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
You also missed that the bill was extending tax cuts, and finally the cuts being progressive, though I suspect you don’t know what progressive tax cuts are.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
You should probably go back and check your facts. I don’t see anything about a proposed 4.5 billion progressive tax cut.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
You can make excuses for every president it’s always the guy before them, but the numbers don’t show a decline in deficit for Democrat presidents.
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
The budget Deficit has increased under Republicans and decreased under Democrats consistently for decades.
Trump R -$6.612 trillion
Obama D -$6.781 trillion
Bush R -$3.293 trillion
Clinton D +$63 billion
Bush R -$1.036 trillion
Reagan R -$1.412 trillion
Carter D -$253 billion
Ford R -$181 billion
Nixon R -$70 billion
Johnson D -$36 billion
Kennedy D -$18 billion
Eisenhower R -$15 billion
Truman D -$5 billion
Roosevelt D -$194 billion
Hoover R -$5 billion
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 week ago:
The department of education is mostly just a pass through agency. Standards are set by the states. It doesn’t take 4000 employees to divy up funding.
- Comment on Politico swept up in USAID scandal as records show government paid $8.2 million to left-leaning news site 2 weeks ago:
Based on your actions I don’t think you know what squabble means either.
Further USAID was not investigating starlink. They don’t have authority to investigate starlink. They were investigating how the Government of Ukraine used the USAID-provided Starlink terminals & how USAID monitored the Government of Ukraine’s use of USAID-provided Starlink terminals.
Finally Starlink was never turned off for Ukraine they denied access up to Crimea because of US sanctions on Russia.
- Comment on Politico swept up in USAID scandal as records show government paid $8.2 million to left-leaning news site 2 weeks ago:
Conspiracy theories must be quite common for people that don’t know what could means.
- Comment on Politico swept up in USAID scandal as records show government paid $8.2 million to left-leaning news site 2 weeks ago:
There are but the most likely one is you not knowing what could means.
- Comment on Politico swept up in USAID scandal as records show government paid $8.2 million to left-leaning news site 2 weeks ago:
It is, but it’s far more likely you missed or didn’t understand the word could.
- Comment on Politico swept up in USAID scandal as records show government paid $8.2 million to left-leaning news site 2 weeks ago:
That’s why I used the word could. In this context it’s used to express possibility.