+1,000 If only our policy makers listened to reasonable suggestions like this instead of the TikTok-induced megaphones. |
+1 |
Taxation without representation!!!! |
Another reason to not vote for him. So someone has a once in a lifetime windfall and that’s the rate. Absurd. Also, the dems will keep it at $1 and with inflation, this will impact a lot of people over time. |
This is why people should be given a basic aptitude test before being permitted to vote on an issue. You hear text the rich making over $1million dollars and you think yes, that is great. If you don’t understand then stay out of the conversation and educate yourself. |
Not Air B n B but corporate investment in real estate is a very bad thing. |
Residential real estate that is. |
No, it is not worth twice what someone paid for it, They bought it for 500k and sell it for 1M 20 years later. It is barely worth more than what what they paid for it after adjusting for inflation 500k inflation adjusted from 2004 is 825k adjusted for inflation, then they spent money on maintaining the house and paid property taxes that fund a significant portion of the services you are mentioning that is apparently "not something they did". If you want to tax people on home appreciation above the rate of inflation fine, but you are advocating a policy that will increase the burden on hard working middle class people that live in the same home for decades. This 250k/500k exclusion is not indexed to inflation and many (not rich) people are being taxed on money they need to have a financially secure retirement. |
Capital gains are income. Why shouldn’t income from investments be taxed at the same rate as earned income from salary and wages? There is no good reason except that capitalists own every level of government and everything else. |
Absolutely not. |
It hilarious that Dems salivate over wealth taxes while they simultaneously espouse the Nordics like Sweden as some kind of progressive wonderland. Lol, did you know Sweden has no wealth taxes? No one wants to work their entire life so the govt can confiscate everything. Sweden was mires for decades in low gdp growth, stagnant wages, and high unemployment until the 90s when moderates came in, slashed tons of taxes, and embraced capitalism much more. Sweden even has 0% inheritance tax, lol. |
Higher taxes are INEVITABLE, as is forced purchase of treasuries. US has catastrophic debt level, particularly at the current interest rates. UMC will be the first to bear the brunt. Middle class down the line. |
Of course it's never a spending problem..it's always a tax problem. |
There is no government program that is so unimportant that we can end it. We still have a helium reserve for our airship fleet. |
Not indexing for inflation is a feature, not a bug, for pols. The whole point is to continue capturing additional taxpayers over the years without having to pass new legislation that might hurt your reelection chances. |