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Maverick_2009
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On December 12 2018 05:40 2009 wrote: austerity, what a nightmare Austerity is cool and all, but have you tried taxing the rich to pay for things? Because let me tell you, we did it in the 1950s through the 1960s and it was fucking awesome. We built so much cool shit and went to the mother fucking moon. So I know the EU is high on this Austerity thing, but ya all should give taxing the rich a chance. It will change your world. | ||
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CorsairHero
Canada9491 Posts
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Nevuk
United States16280 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
And then someone convinced everyone that rich people needed that money to make more jobs, for reasons. And if we gave the money to the rich people, the money would travel down to middle class people and we all would get rich together. And for some reason everyone fell for it for like 40 years. It is such an amazingly terrible argument that even folks in the EU have started using it. And if we talk about making rich people pay more, we are big mean people for targeting them. | ||
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eieio
United States14512 Posts
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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Artisreal
Germany9235 Posts
Alex Honnold is what happens when you don't teach your child how to interact with others and what empathy is, but it has a thoroughly kind personality. Fuck that's so big what he did. | ||
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teddyoojo
Germany22369 Posts
On December 12 2018 06:05 Plansix wrote: People have no idea how awesome our tax system was in the 1960s to be fair most of us didnt grow up during... | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On December 12 2018 06:27 teddyoojo wrote: to be fair most of us didnt grow up during... I know this is a shot at me being old, but I wasn’t alive then either. Yet somehow I gained this knowledge about history. Somehow…….. | ||
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Nevuk
United States16280 Posts
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Erasme
Bahamas15899 Posts
On December 12 2018 05:46 Plansix wrote: Austerity is cool and all, but have you tried taxing the rich to pay for things? Because let me tell you, we did it in the 1950s through the 1960s and it was fucking awesome. We built so much cool shit and went to the mother fucking moon. So I know the EU is high on this Austerity thing, but ya all should give taxing the rich a chance. It will change your world. The issue is that at some point, taxing more will bring you less money. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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Artisreal
Germany9235 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On December 12 2018 06:40 Erasme wrote: The issue is that at some point, taxing more will bring you less money. So like stop when that starts to happen and pull it in a bit? It isn’t like you folks haven’t figured this shit out before. | ||
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PhoenixVoid
Canada32755 Posts
On December 12 2018 07:07 Plansix wrote: Tax avoidance is a problem that can be solved by rigorous enforcement of the system. In the US the conservative House of Representatives went after the IRS for political bias, but in reality they just wanted an excuse to make that agency scared of enforcing tax law. And cutting funding as well. I know this because we deal with taxable income all the time. All settlements we pay out are taxable. People are bad about claiming those funds during tax season. 10 years ago the turn around on someone failing to claim those funds and calling me to bitch about it was 1 year. In the year of our lord 2018 it is now 4-5 years before they get hit. So when politicians say “It is hard because people just avoid paying taxes on income and that is hard to stop,” my first thought is that they likely are not trying that hard to stop them. Or they are actively harming the agency with that job because whoever got them elected wants them to. This article in The Atlantic just came out today which matches with what you were saying. It's a concerted effort to hollow out and defang the institutions that would enforce it. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
I know this because we deal with taxable income all the time. All settlements we pay out are taxable. People are bad about claiming those funds during tax season. 10 years ago the turn around on someone failing to claim those funds and calling me to bitch about it was 1 year. In the year of our lord 2018 it is now 4-5 years before they get hit. So when politicians say “It is hard because people just avoid paying taxes on income and that is hard to stop,” my first thought is that they likely are not trying that hard to stop them. Or they are actively harming the agency with that job because whoever got them elected wants them to. | ||
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CorsairHero
Canada9491 Posts
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Nevuk
United States16280 Posts
https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2017/02/furred-reich-truth-about-nazi-furries-and-alt-right | ||
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