Will anyone notice that the DC Council is considering tax increases, again?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The bottom is falling out of commercial real estate. Taxes will eventually need to increase to make up the difference.

Not because we need to punish the rich.

Also, yes, if you earn 250K you are indeed rich. Sorry if it's not what you want to hear.

And, if you think administrative assistants (that's what we call them these days, not Secretaries) regularly make 125K, you're mistaken.

Ha! The only people who think this are young people with no families and no responsibilities. You try raising kids in this city on $250K. Our monthly daycare bill is more than our mortgage.

Just because you’ve chosen to live outside your means and have more kids than you can afford DOES NOT mean that you also are not “rich”. High income earners like you can mis-spend your money just as easily gas low income people. Spending all the money you earn doesn’t make you middle class or poor. It makes you a rich person with no financial responsibility.


You are STILL rich. And your taxes need to be raised so you will be paying your fair share. If that means you reduce frivolous spending elsewhere, then so be it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The bottom is falling out of commercial real estate. Taxes will eventually need to increase to make up the difference.

Not because we need to punish the rich.

Also, yes, if you earn 250K you are indeed rich. Sorry if it's not what you want to hear.

And, if you think administrative assistants (that's what we call them these days, not Secretaries) regularly make 125K, you're mistaken.

Agree mostly. Except the rich SHOULD be punished, because they got us into this mess to begin with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The bottom is falling out of commercial real estate. Taxes will eventually need to increase to make up the difference.

Not because we need to punish the rich.

Also, yes, if you earn 250K you are indeed rich. Sorry if it's not what you want to hear.

And, if you think administrative assistants (that's what we call them these days, not Secretaries) regularly make 125K, you're mistaken.

Ha! The only people who think this are young people with no families and no responsibilities. You try raising kids in this city on $250K. Our monthly daycare bill is more than our mortgage.

Just because you’ve chosen to live outside your means and have more kids than you can afford DOES NOT mean that you also are not “rich”. High income earners like you can mis-spend your money just as easily gas low income people. Spending all the money you earn doesn’t make you middle class or poor. It makes you a rich person with no financial responsibility.


You are STILL rich. And your taxes need to be raised so you will be paying your fair share. If that means you reduce frivolous spending elsewhere, then so be it.

My "fair share" doesn't mean supporting lazy losers such as yourself.
What part of "its not your money" do you fail to understand?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The bottom is falling out of commercial real estate. Taxes will eventually need to increase to make up the difference.

Not because we need to punish the rich.

Also, yes, if you earn 250K you are indeed rich. Sorry if it's not what you want to hear.

And, if you think administrative assistants (that's what we call them these days, not Secretaries) regularly make 125K, you're mistaken.

Ha! The only people who think this are young people with no families and no responsibilities. You try raising kids in this city on $250K. Our monthly daycare bill is more than our mortgage.

Just because you’ve chosen to live outside your means and have more kids than you can afford DOES NOT mean that you also are not “rich”. High income earners like you can mis-spend your money just as easily gas low income people. Spending all the money you earn doesn’t make you middle class or poor. It makes you a rich person with no financial responsibility.


You are STILL rich. And your taxes need to be raised so you will be paying your fair share. If that means you reduce frivolous spending elsewhere, then so be it.

You sound young and naive and not very smart and remarkably churlish. And poor too, apparently. Sucks to be you.

[Anonymous]

Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and every Democrat in the House and Senate has sworn off raising taxes on those making less than $400,000. Going way past year to $250,000 shows you how far left our council has gotten.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The bottom is falling out of commercial real estate. Taxes will eventually need to increase to make up the difference.

Not because we need to punish the rich.

Also, yes, if you earn 250K you are indeed rich. Sorry if it's not what you want to hear.

And, if you think administrative assistants (that's what we call them these days, not Secretaries) regularly make 125K, you're mistaken.

We're talking about family incomes here. Two people. By your accounting, two elementary school teachers who are married and who could easily have a combined income of $250,000 are rich.

You may be the only person in the entire world who thinks kindergarten teachers are raking it in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The bottom is falling out of commercial real estate. Taxes will eventually need to increase to make up the difference.

Not because we need to punish the rich.

Also, yes, if you earn 250K you are indeed rich. Sorry if it's not what you want to hear.

And, if you think administrative assistants (that's what we call them these days, not Secretaries) regularly make 125K, you're mistaken.

Ha! The only people who think this are young people with no families and no responsibilities. You try raising kids in this city on $250K. Our monthly daycare bill is more than our mortgage.

Just because you’ve chosen to live outside your means and have more kids than you can afford DOES NOT mean that you also are not “rich”. High income earners like you can mis-spend your money just as easily gas low income people. Spending all the money you earn doesn’t make you middle class or poor. It makes you a rich person with no financial responsibility.


You are STILL rich. And your taxes need to be raised so you will be paying your fair share. If that means you reduce frivolous spending elsewhere, then so be it.

Please take your woke garbage to Bluesky.

And no, 250k for a family of 4-5, living in a city, is not "rich". You know why? Because 50% of that is taken away by the taxes you support.

Pay our fair share? I guarantee I've paid 5x more in taxes than you. How about you pay yours?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The bottom is falling out of commercial real estate. Taxes will eventually need to increase to make up the difference.

Not because we need to punish the rich.

Also, yes, if you earn 250K you are indeed rich. Sorry if it's not what you want to hear.

And, if you think administrative assistants (that's what we call them these days, not Secretaries) regularly make 125K, you're mistaken.

Ha! The only people who think this are young people with no families and no responsibilities. You try raising kids in this city on $250K. Our monthly daycare bill is more than our mortgage.

Just because you’ve chosen to live outside your means and have more kids than you can afford DOES NOT mean that you also are not “rich”. High income earners like you can mis-spend your money just as easily gas low income people. Spending all the money you earn doesn’t make you middle class or poor. It makes you a rich person with no financial responsibility.


You are STILL rich. And your taxes need to be raised so you will be paying your fair share. If that means you reduce frivolous spending elsewhere, then so be it.

You are the reason Trump won.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The bottom is falling out of commercial real estate. Taxes will eventually need to increase to make up the difference.

Not because we need to punish the rich.

Also, yes, if you earn 250K you are indeed rich. Sorry if it's not what you want to hear.

And, if you think administrative assistants (that's what we call them these days, not Secretaries) regularly make 125K, you're mistaken.

Ha! The only people who think this are young people with no families and no responsibilities. You try raising kids in this city on $250K. Our monthly daycare bill is more than our mortgage.

Just because you’ve chosen to live outside your means and have more kids than you can afford DOES NOT mean that you also are not “rich”. High income earners like you can mis-spend your money just as easily gas low income people. Spending all the money you earn doesn’t make you middle class or poor. It makes you a rich person with no financial responsibility.


You are STILL rich. And your taxes need to be raised so you will be paying your fair share. If that means you reduce frivolous spending elsewhere, then so be it.

Please take your woke garbage to Bluesky.

And no, 250k for a family of 4-5, living in a city, is not "rich". You know why? Because 50% of that is taken away by the taxes you support.

Pay our fair share? I guarantee I've paid 5x more in taxes than you. How about you pay yours?

My household income is higher than $250k and we don’t pay 50 percent in taxes. Where are you getting this statistic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The bottom is falling out of commercial real estate. Taxes will eventually need to increase to make up the difference.

Not because we need to punish the rich.

Also, yes, if you earn 250K you are indeed rich. Sorry if it's not what you want to hear.

And, if you think administrative assistants (that's what we call them these days, not Secretaries) regularly make 125K, you're mistaken.

Ha! The only people who think this are young people with no families and no responsibilities. You try raising kids in this city on $250K. Our monthly daycare bill is more than our mortgage.

Just because you’ve chosen to live outside your means and have more kids than you can afford DOES NOT mean that you also are not “rich”. High income earners like you can mis-spend your money just as easily gas low income people. Spending all the money you earn doesn’t make you middle class or poor. It makes you a rich person with no financial responsibility.


You are STILL rich. And your taxes need to be raised so you will be paying your fair share. If that means you reduce frivolous spending elsewhere, then so be it.

Please take your woke garbage to Bluesky.

And no, 250k for a family of 4-5, living in a city, is not "rich". You know why? Because 50% of that is taken away by the taxes you support.

Pay our fair share? I guarantee I've paid 5x more in taxes than you. How about you pay yours?

My household income is higher than $250k and we don’t pay 50 percent in taxes. Where are you getting this statistic?

In fact, we paid an effective total rate of about 24 percent on our AGI of $290k last year, including federal and D.C. taxes and also D.C. property taxes. So it's not remotely true that 50 percent of a family of 4's $250k is "taken away" by taxes. Let's not be ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The bottom is falling out of commercial real estate. Taxes will eventually need to increase to make up the difference.

Not because we need to punish the rich.

Also, yes, if you earn 250K you are indeed rich. Sorry if it's not what you want to hear.

And, if you think administrative assistants (that's what we call them these days, not Secretaries) regularly make 125K, you're mistaken.

Ha! The only people who think this are young people with no families and no responsibilities. You try raising kids in this city on $250K. Our monthly daycare bill is more than our mortgage.

Just because you’ve chosen to live outside your means and have more kids than you can afford DOES NOT mean that you also are not “rich”. High income earners like you can mis-spend your money just as easily gas low income people. Spending all the money you earn doesn’t make you middle class or poor. It makes you a rich person with no financial responsibility.


You are STILL rich. And your taxes need to be raised so you will be paying your fair share. If that means you reduce frivolous spending elsewhere, then so be it.

Please take your woke garbage to Bluesky.

And no, 250k for a family of 4-5, living in a city, is not "rich". You know why? Because 50% of that is taken away by the taxes you support.

Pay our fair share? I guarantee I've paid 5x more in taxes than you. How about you pay yours?

My household income is higher than $250k and we don’t pay 50 percent in taxes. Where are you getting this statistic?

Obviously I'm exaggerating a bit, but with DC + Federal taxes, you can easily hit 40-50% depending on income.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The bottom is falling out of commercial real estate. Taxes will eventually need to increase to make up the difference.

Not because we need to punish the rich.

Also, yes, if you earn 250K you are indeed rich. Sorry if it's not what you want to hear.

And, if you think administrative assistants (that's what we call them these days, not Secretaries) regularly make 125K, you're mistaken.

Ha! The only people who think this are young people with no families and no responsibilities. You try raising kids in this city on $250K. Our monthly daycare bill is more than our mortgage.

Just because you’ve chosen to live outside your means and have more kids than you can afford DOES NOT mean that you also are not “rich”. High income earners like you can mis-spend your money just as easily gas low income people. Spending all the money you earn doesn’t make you middle class or poor. It makes you a rich person with no financial responsibility.


You are STILL rich. And your taxes need to be raised so you will be paying your fair share. If that means you reduce frivolous spending elsewhere, then so be it.

Please take your woke garbage to Bluesky.

And no, 250k for a family of 4-5, living in a city, is not "rich". You know why? Because 50% of that is taken away by the taxes you support.

Pay our fair share? I guarantee I've paid 5x more in taxes than you. How about you pay yours?

My household income is higher than $250k and we don’t pay 50 percent in taxes. Where are you getting this statistic?

In fact, we paid an effective total rate of about 24 percent on our AGI of $290k last year, including federal and D.C. taxes and also D.C. property taxes. So it's not remotely true that 50 percent of a family of 4's $250k is "taken away" by taxes. Let's not be ridiculous.

Obvious exaggeration was ... not so obvious I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The bottom is falling out of commercial real estate. Taxes will eventually need to increase to make up the difference.

Not because we need to punish the rich.

Also, yes, if you earn 250K you are indeed rich. Sorry if it's not what you want to hear.

And, if you think administrative assistants (that's what we call them these days, not Secretaries) regularly make 125K, you're mistaken.

Ha! The only people who think this are young people with no families and no responsibilities. You try raising kids in this city on $250K. Our monthly daycare bill is more than our mortgage.

Just because you’ve chosen to live outside your means and have more kids than you can afford DOES NOT mean that you also are not “rich”. High income earners like you can mis-spend your money just as easily gas low income people. Spending all the money you earn doesn’t make you middle class or poor. It makes you a rich person with no financial responsibility.


You are STILL rich. And your taxes need to be raised so you will be paying your fair share. If that means you reduce frivolous spending elsewhere, then so be it.

Please take your woke garbage to Bluesky.

And no, 250k for a family of 4-5, living in a city, is not "rich". You know why? Because 50% of that is taken away by the taxes you support.

Pay our fair share? I guarantee I've paid 5x more in taxes than you. How about you pay yours?

My household income is higher than $250k and we don’t pay 50 percent in taxes. Where are you getting this statistic?

DC: 9.25%. Federal: 35%. Plus SS, other taxes, fees, etc.

And what do we get for it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The bottom is falling out of commercial real estate. Taxes will eventually need to increase to make up the difference.

Not because we need to punish the rich.

Also, yes, if you earn 250K you are indeed rich. Sorry if it's not what you want to hear.

And, if you think administrative assistants (that's what we call them these days, not Secretaries) regularly make 125K, you're mistaken.

Ha! The only people who think this are young people with no families and no responsibilities. You try raising kids in this city on $250K. Our monthly daycare bill is more than our mortgage.

Just because you’ve chosen to live outside your means and have more kids than you can afford DOES NOT mean that you also are not “rich”. High income earners like you can mis-spend your money just as easily gas low income people. Spending all the money you earn doesn’t make you middle class or poor. It makes you a rich person with no financial responsibility.


You are STILL rich. And your taxes need to be raised so you will be paying your fair share. If that means you reduce frivolous spending elsewhere, then so be it.

Please take your woke garbage to Bluesky.

And no, 250k for a family of 4-5, living in a city, is not "rich". You know why? Because 50% of that is taken away by the taxes you support.

Pay our fair share? I guarantee I've paid 5x more in taxes than you. How about you pay yours?

My household income is higher than $250k and we don’t pay 50 percent in taxes. Where are you getting this statistic?

DC: 9.25%. Federal: 35%. Plus SS, other taxes, fees, etc.

And what do we get for it?

These, at $250,000 a piece: https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/1judnjt/new_bike_lane_sweepers/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The bottom is falling out of commercial real estate. Taxes will eventually need to increase to make up the difference.

Not because we need to punish the rich.

Also, yes, if you earn 250K you are indeed rich. Sorry if it's not what you want to hear.

And, if you think administrative assistants (that's what we call them these days, not Secretaries) regularly make 125K, you're mistaken.

Ha! The only people who think this are young people with no families and no responsibilities. You try raising kids in this city on $250K. Our monthly daycare bill is more than our mortgage.

Just because you’ve chosen to live outside your means and have more kids than you can afford DOES NOT mean that you also are not “rich”. High income earners like you can mis-spend your money just as easily gas low income people. Spending all the money you earn doesn’t make you middle class or poor. It makes you a rich person with no financial responsibility.


You are STILL rich. And your taxes need to be raised so you will be paying your fair share. If that means you reduce frivolous spending elsewhere, then so be it.

Please take your woke garbage to Bluesky.

And no, 250k for a family of 4-5, living in a city, is not "rich". You know why? Because 50% of that is taken away by the taxes you support.

Pay our fair share? I guarantee I've paid 5x more in taxes than you. How about you pay yours?

My household income is higher than $250k and we don’t pay 50 percent in taxes. Where are you getting this statistic?

DC: 9.25%. Federal: 35%. Plus SS, other taxes, fees, etc.

And what do we get for it?

These, at $250,000 a piece: https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/1judnjt/new_bike_lane_sweepers/

Or fancy public toilets that cost DC taxpayers $14 per flush:

https://x.com/NW_Realist/status/1927805775524630657

Or millions to violence interrupter programs that (at best) don't do anything or (at worst) are rats nests of grifting (while also not doing anything to help with violent crime).