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- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Lots of people have bad ideas.
Few people can ralley the masses around them.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Dangerous how? Vance has the charisma of a limp sofa cushion.
Of course I feel the same or worse about Don John, so I guess I’m not a good measure.
- Comment on Jesus Christ 4 days ago:
Take some responsibility for your actions.
JFC
Were we created in your image or not?
- Comment on Het Pijnstillersparadijs: Europese Zelfbeheersing vs. Amerikaanse Pillenfeest 1 week ago:
Acetaminophen and paracetamol are the same thing.
- Comment on Het Pijnstillersparadijs: Europese Zelfbeheersing vs. Amerikaanse Pillenfeest 1 week ago:
Is acetaminophen really considered to be stronger than ibuprofen? I’d always considered them to be equal with ibuprofen being safer.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to [deleted] | 1 comment
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I finally caught another of the YouTube ads and it was paid for by futureforwardusa.org.
The message, again, was very generic with friendly animation and cheery music. The message was the same. “Your vote is private; whether you vote is public” with the addition of “make a plan to vote”.
- Comment on Is it offensive for me as a man to dress as a male version of a female fictional character for Halloween?' 3 weeks ago:
Let’s say “marginalized groups”…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’ve mostly seen YouTube ads so not sure how to share those here. I happened to get another postcard today though, with the exact same wording is the one I linked to elsewhere in this thread:
If you look at votingmatters.org it says:
Paid for by the Democratic National Committee (202) 863-8000
This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. - Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
This is the first clearly partisan one I’ve seen.
Mostly I’ve seen them as videos that plainly state. “Who you vote for is secret. Whether you vote is public record”. I did get one handwritten postcard saying the same.
I found them mostly “interesting” as a concept, but others have felt they’re threatening:
The first one I saw I looked up the “Paid for by…” entity and it was a Kamala PAC so I just kinda assumed they all were before seeing this.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Both parties are running these style ads in my area.
This is BY FAR the creepiest iteration I’ve seen.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to [deleted] | 53 comments
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. I tried and failed to head it off at the pass. There are some good comments in here though.
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 3 weeks ago:
I think the logical thing is to have those who most benefit from the infrastructure our taxes pay for
The poor benefit from roads, schools, firefighters, Medical/Medicaid, and utilities as much as anyone. But I think you had the super wealthy in mind. “Those who benefit from infrastructure” is an odd way to pinpoint the super wealthy.
Those who “most benefit” would be those who have been able to leverage the infrastructure and security provided to profit wildly. Not those who are just scraping by.
I think we do agree on all but degree like you said. And maybe mean/median income is too high. I was just trying to come up with a somewhat natural but objective breaking point. I think a more reasonable but also more subjective one might be the “living wage” which will certainly be much lower than mean/median but also much higher than $13k.
P.S. Tangentially related, I found this living wage calculator which put my current LCOL residence at ~$42k and my previous HCOL residence at ~$57k. Turned out to be much closer to Mean/median than I expected.
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 3 weeks ago:
The standard deduction should be at least the median income…? Wouldn’t that mean that half of people would pay no income tax?
Half or more depending on mean or median. But that’s just a starting point for the discussion.
You might say this is what we should do, but I think it’s unreasonable to say that it’s a total head scratcher why we don’t already.
That’s not what I was intending to ask. Sorry if I phrased it poorly. I’m trying to understand the arguments against it because it’s what makes sense to me.
I just fail to see how this is placing the burden on the poor. It Is structured to do the exact opposite and give them the most breaks.
I think the logical thing is to have those who most benefit from the infrastructure our taxes pay for be the ones who contribute the most. And those that are seeing the least benefit be exempt.
I’d probably agree that the floor on the deduction should come up, and we should raise taxes on extreme wealth to make it up. But at least in its most essential form, income tax is already progressive.
This is almost exactly what I suggested. I think we’re basically on the same page.
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 3 weeks ago:
The argument is that if you take some money from a lot of people, you get more money than if you take a lot of money from some people.
That’s all dependent on how much you’re taking and from who which I addressed in my comment.
There’s also the argument that if everyone pitches in, the overall burden for each individual is less.
This only makes sense if you define “burden” with a fixed dollar amount. A $6k tax “burden” is going to be a much harder burden on someone who makes $40k than someone who makes $250k
What this fails to address is that the richer you are, the more you can play with your money and end up with nothing to tax.
This could be addressed by the wealth tax I mentioned.
In the end, I do believe it’s politics and the wealthy manipulating people’s perception.
They’ve got us focused on this bullshit culture war when what we need is a good old-fashioned class war.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to [deleted] | 48 comments
- Comment on Beware 3 weeks ago:
Damnit. I knew something wasn’t right
- Comment on Beware 3 weeks ago:
Missed out on “Be weary of Larry”
- Comment on Saying "Israel is like the 51st US state" is a bannable offense for "misinformation" on Lemmy.world 3 weeks ago:
Shit post != shitpost
- Comment on Why should we have to continue seeing people's replies when we block them? 4 weeks ago:
I was pretty confident dent that was how blocking worked on Lemmy. Is it not the case?
I did think twitter worked the way you describe, blocking the blockee from seeing the blockers content vs blocking the blocker from seeing the blockee’s content
- Comment on Please don't crash. Please don't crash. Please don't crash. 5 weeks ago:
I just realized my joke is backwards but I think I’m leaving it anyway…
- Comment on Please don't crash. Please don't crash. Please don't crash. 5 weeks ago:
Wow - a whole trailer full of cowbells?
- Comment on How is the calories meter on exercise bikes accurate 5 weeks ago:
Yeah - there must be some calculation done to estimate inefficiency.
- Comment on Doing vs thinking 1 month ago:
Wow - Those cubes became unclear a lot faster by Doing.
Clearly (heh 😅) Thinking is the better strategy…
- Comment on Has anyone let David Icke know about this? 1 month ago:
Wow 🤯
Ancient pyramids confirmed 👍
- Comment on Blood and Honey 1 month ago:
Virgin exclusive?
- Comment on Name generator 1 month ago:
Not much to tell. It’s a Star Wars character name @hotdogsladies@mastodon.social made up on the spot on a podcast years ago and has embedded itself in my head like a brain worm
- Comment on Name generator 1 month ago:
Not a food but I can no longer read a garment care label without being reminded of the infamous Tumble Drylo
- Comment on Men: What sequence do you fellow to dry your body off after showering or bathing? 2 months ago:
But do you track the face and junk sides across showers?
