All valid points. But that's still better than nothing at all, and it's a damned sight better than following the rules and getting arrested anyway! I still haven't heard how the judge justified prison time! 🤬
The family moved out of Brooklyn when I was two, first to Jersey City near the Bayonne border, then Bridgeport, CT, then Linden, NJ (went to kindergarten there), then Hamilton, NJ. I moved to the east village when I was 16 by my lonesome. I've lived in my present tenement since 1986, and the rent is under a grand monthly.
1OO% agreed. I'm okay with taxing high-income folks who work, but people who earn comparable or waaaaaay more money by doing literally NOTHING other than already being rich? Tax them to hell & back. Passive income is not inherently immoral (though I think it's shit, & maybe is), but it should be taxed at an equal or higher rate than someone laying bricks or flipping burgers.
*waves from Oakland* Verifiably a fuckton. You could, like, go out to eat whenever you, get the steak, WTF, and maybe one of those fancy cocktails. The lights will stay on (PG&E permitting, that is), the rent/mortgage will get paid, and the savings account will still accrue.
If I have to pay an extra 1K a year (and our taxes went UP in the 'tax cut') - or fukkit, make it 3K - but the result is universal healthcare, SIGN ME UP!
Just cut the defense budget a few hundred billion while you're at it, please and thank you.
All valid points. But that's still better than nothing at all, and it's a damned sight better than following the rules and getting arrested anyway! I still haven't heard how the judge justified prison time! 🤬
You have a boat?!
The family moved out of Brooklyn when I was two, first to Jersey City near the Bayonne border, then Bridgeport, CT, then Linden, NJ (went to kindergarten there), then Hamilton, NJ. I moved to the east village when I was 16 by my lonesome. I've lived in my present tenement since 1986, and the rent is under a grand monthly.
Like Credit Default Swaps.
Uh, I have dessert spoons. Does that make me posh?
$500k a year is a fuckton of money literally anywhere on Earth.
New Yorkers can come and fight me.
One of my favorite deep-dives. Apropos here:https://www.theatlantic.com...
1OO% agreed. I'm okay with taxing high-income folks who work, but people who earn comparable or waaaaaay more money by doing literally NOTHING other than already being rich? Tax them to hell & back. Passive income is not inherently immoral (though I think it's shit, & maybe is), but it should be taxed at an equal or higher rate than someone laying bricks or flipping burgers.
It’s almost like if we stopped spending so much money on the private schools and instead improved the public schools more people would benefit.
Yep. I urged my son and his wife to buy a home for the tax benefit, and now I'm asking what the point even is of owning a home, if you're young?
Let’s see the correlation between the intensity of the democratic bubble and higher education and say funding community college isn’t a good idea.
I see I still have work to do with 4% of my neighbors.
Or at least super-bad at math.
*waves from Oakland* Verifiably a fuckton. You could, like, go out to eat whenever you, get the steak, WTF, and maybe one of those fancy cocktails. The lights will stay on (PG&E permitting, that is), the rent/mortgage will get paid, and the savings account will still accrue.
If I have to pay an extra 1K a year (and our taxes went UP in the 'tax cut') - or fukkit, make it 3K - but the result is universal healthcare, SIGN ME UP!
Just cut the defense budget a few hundred billion while you're at it, please and thank you.
Compared to a straw? Absolutely.
Yeah, the identical silver BMW's. Perfect.