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[+] 170 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)
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    [–] 79 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    They don't believe anyone under a certain income pays taxes. "Taxpayer" just means "upper income tax bracket" in their mind.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year 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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    [–] 71 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "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.

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago

    nah it terrifies tax dodgers and leeches of society

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago

    I appreciate that they say that employers don't pay taxes.

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  • [+] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
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    [–] 36 points 1 year ago

    That's an interesting way of phrasing "has actively enabled corruption for decades".

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    WANTED: KATHY WYLDE

    For contributing to social murder, ideologically justifying excess deaths among the lower classes in order to keep the upper class hierarchy.

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    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

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "The media" love nothing more than to find the absolute most disgusting scum in our country and interview them for their opinions...

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Outrage generates clicks, clicks generate revenue.
    We're both here because we're disgusted by the headline so it obviously works.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    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!

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    This is very Boomers thinking everyone is still a 16 year old Millennial.

    Boomer brains stuck in 1998, and it shows.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    imho that's what connects all the right, from finance bros to masculinists to racists : they're terrified. Of change, of difference. Of others. They're deathly afraid and it explains every action they take, every word they say.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    It's worse than that. I'm affraid of these things sometimes too. They are affraid of being affraid. They can't handle it, they can't admit it and they do everything ti disguise it. It's a very primal emotion

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I'll bet Kathy Wilde doesnt pay taxes. Also, that job description says "oligarch enabler".

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Mamdani's ideological approach may terrify some employers... the ones that are currently massively dodging taxes, paying way, way lower taxes, getting all kinds of tax exemptions and deductions, getting all kinds of no strings attached subsidies... from actual taxpayers.

    The idiot capital class is obviously propogandizing in overdrive mode, but they also seem to be largely legitimately delusional about realizing how astonishingly subsidized they are by public financing, so that they can concentrate private profits.

    'But it would be impossible to run my business without training wheels and floaties and a helmet all provided to me by the government!!!'

    Ok fuckstick, don't care, sounds like a skill issue to me if you can't main as a capitalist without a bunch of handicaps on, either get gud or stop pretending you deserve your spot on the 'free market' league leaderboard.

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    This is not specific to this post but can we please not hype the guy up too much before we see what he actually does when in office? From all the news coverage I'm getting a 'He is the Messiah! We are rescued!' vibe. He may still bend the knee to the rich once he has power.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    millionaires? you mean taxnonpayers?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Actually unreadable with the size thing and bloat

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Oh no. Anyway...

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