DC Council votes to raise taxes on the “rich”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t go nearly far enough. The income threshold is far too low, and the increase is pathetically inadequate.

It should kick in at $150k for singles, and $225k for couples filing jointly. And it should be a minimum of $6k/yr to start, and scale up rapidly from there.

This. OP is just like everyone else who pretends to be a liberal until it affects them.

If your HHI is over $225,000, you ARE “the rich”.

Start paying your fair share, greedy bastards.

Lol. $225k is a pittance compared to what the truly wealthy make. That’s like when my 8 year old is in awe of her teenaged cousin’s paycheck from her summer job.

[Anonymous]

SALT should go away entirely, and I say that as someone who benefits from it. It's absolutely terrible policy.

As for you, get with it and pay your fair share.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t go nearly far enough. The income threshold is far too low, and the increase is pathetically inadequate.

It should kick in at $150k for singles, and $225k for couples filing jointly. And it should be a minimum of $6k/yr to start, and scale up rapidly from there.

This. OP is just like everyone else who pretends to be a liberal until it affects them.

If your HHI is over $225,000, you ARE “the rich”.

Start paying your fair share, greedy bastards.

Lol. $225k is a pittance compared to what the truly wealthy make. That’s like when my 8 year old is in awe of her teenaged cousin’s paycheck from her summer job.

So? What’s your point? Tax them, too.

Tax the snot out of everyone making more than mid-$200’s. Then you get all of them. The wealthy AND the mere rich making a pittance of what the wealthy make.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t go nearly far enough. The income threshold is far too low, and the increase is pathetically inadequate.

It should kick in at $150k for singles, and $225k for couples filing jointly. And it should be a minimum of $6k/yr to start, and scale up rapidly from there.

This. OP is just like everyone else who pretends to be a liberal until it affects them.

If your HHI is over $225,000, you ARE “the rich”.

Start paying your fair share, greedy bastards.

Lol. $225k is a pittance compared to what the truly wealthy make. That’s like when my 8 year old is in awe of her teenaged cousin’s paycheck from her summer job.

So? What’s your point? Tax them, too.

Tax the snot out of everyone making more than mid-$200’s. Then you get all of them. The wealthy AND the mere rich making a pittance of what the wealthy make.

These lines are all completely arbitrary. No one is more virtuous than anyone else. Define pittance.

[Anonymous]

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Maybe the small town America should be dealing with their own homeless rather than shipping them off to the "liberal cities" and then disingenuously talking about those cities' homelessness problems. Many of DC's homeless aren't originally from DC.

This is a myth.

In general, <10% of the homeless in the major cities in America are from out of the metro area. An even smaller percentage is from out of state.

The majority of homeless are “temporarily” homeless — albeit temporary can be a long time, and I can only imagine how long it feels to the family.

Most homeless are families, with a working mom (sometimes dad) and school aged children.

The “Reagan cut funding to mental health” is mostly a red herring these days, so that liberals in the cities (I’m a liberal, in a city) can justify their NIMBY opposition to housing but still live with themselves.

The solution to homelessness is dramatically more housing in our cities. Not “affordable” housing, just dramatically more supply of housing. If we doubled the supply of housing in DC, the demand would be there to soak it up. Sure, my house value in my leafy Ward 3 neighborhood *might* go down. The horror. But there’s also a chance my children might be able to afford to live in the city. I’ll take that.

Whatever you think of his politics, if you are interested in this topic, Mathew Yglesias is a very thoughtful and grounded-in-the-data writer on this topic.

，most of homeless families do not sleep on DC streets.
The homeless people who sleep on street or under bridges are adults with some personal issues that could be mental health and/or drug. When was llast time you saw a homeless family sleeping on street ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t go nearly far enough. The income threshold is far too low, and the increase is pathetically inadequate.

It should kick in at $150k for singles, and $225k for couples filing jointly. And it should be a minimum of $6k/yr to start, and scale up rapidly from there.

This. OP is just like everyone else who pretends to be a liberal until it affects them.

If your HHI is over $225,000, you ARE “the rich”.

Start paying your fair share, greedy bastards.

Lol. $225k is a pittance compared to what the truly wealthy make. That’s like when my 8 year old is in awe of her teenaged cousin’s paycheck from her summer job.

So? What’s your point? Tax them, too.

Tax the snot out of everyone making more than mid-$200’s. Then you get all of them. The wealthy AND the mere rich making a pittance of what the wealthy make.

These lines are all completely arbitrary. No one is more virtuous than anyone else. Define pittance.

Yep. Why mid $200s? Why not $175k?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t go nearly far enough. The income threshold is far too low, and the increase is pathetically inadequate.

It should kick in at $150k for singles, and $225k for couples filing jointly. And it should be a minimum of $6k/yr to start, and scale up rapidly from there.

This. OP is just like everyone else who pretends to be a liberal until it affects them.

If your HHI is over $225,000, you ARE “the rich”.

Start paying your fair share, greedy bastards.

Lol. $225k is a pittance compared to what the truly wealthy make. That’s like when my 8 year old is in awe of her teenaged cousin’s paycheck from her summer job.

So? What’s your point? Tax them, too.

Tax the snot out of everyone making more than mid-$200’s. Then you get all of them. The wealthy AND the mere rich making a pittance of what the wealthy make.

These lines are all completely arbitrary. No one is more virtuous than anyone else. Define pittance.

Yep. Why mid $200s? Why not $175k?

That works for me. Done.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t go nearly far enough. The income threshold is far too low, and the increase is pathetically inadequate.

It should kick in at $150k for singles, and $225k for couples filing jointly. And it should be a minimum of $6k/yr to start, and scale up rapidly from there.

This. OP is just like everyone else who pretends to be a liberal until it affects them.

If your HHI is over $225,000, you ARE “the rich”.

Start paying your fair share, greedy bastards.

Lol. $225k is a pittance compared to what the truly wealthy make. That’s like when my 8 year old is in awe of her teenaged cousin’s paycheck from her summer job.

So? What’s your point? Tax them, too.

Tax the snot out of everyone making more than mid-$200’s. Then you get all of them. The wealthy AND the mere rich making a pittance of what the wealthy make.

These lines are all completely arbitrary. No one is more virtuous than anyone else. Define pittance.

Yep. Why mid $200s? Why not $175k?

That works for me. Done.

Maybe it should be $100k? They have tons more money than people making minimum wage.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t go nearly far enough. The income threshold is far too low, and the increase is pathetically inadequate.

It should kick in at $150k for singles, and $225k for couples filing jointly. And it should be a minimum of $6k/yr to start, and scale up rapidly from there.

This. OP is just like everyone else who pretends to be a liberal until it affects them.

If your HHI is over $225,000, you ARE “the rich”.

Start paying your fair share, greedy bastards.

Lol. $225k is a pittance compared to what the truly wealthy make. That’s like when my 8 year old is in awe of her teenaged cousin’s paycheck from her summer job.

So? What’s your point? Tax them, too.

Tax the snot out of everyone making more than mid-$200’s. Then you get all of them. The wealthy AND the mere rich making a pittance of what the wealthy make.

These lines are all completely arbitrary. No one is more virtuous than anyone else. Define pittance.

Yep. Why mid $200s? Why not $175k?

That works for me. Done.

Maybe it should be $100k? They have tons more money than people making minimum wage.

Agree 100%. No argument from me on that. Everyone should be paying a lot more, unless you’re at the very bottom, in which case, all those increased taxes on everyone else should be supplementing you.

This is how we achieve an egalitarian society. By taking the excess wealth of some, and sharing it with others. The closer we get to income commonality, the less income disparity we have, and we achieve economic justice for everyone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t go nearly far enough. The income threshold is far too low, and the increase is pathetically inadequate.

It should kick in at $150k for singles, and $225k for couples filing jointly. And it should be a minimum of $6k/yr to start, and scale up rapidly from there.

This. OP is just like everyone else who pretends to be a liberal until it affects them.

If your HHI is over $225,000, you ARE “the rich”.

Start paying your fair share, greedy bastards.

Lol. $225k is a pittance compared to what the truly wealthy make. That’s like when my 8 year old is in awe of her teenaged cousin’s paycheck from her summer job.

So? What’s your point? Tax them, too.

Tax the snot out of everyone making more than mid-$200’s. Then you get all of them. The wealthy AND the mere rich making a pittance of what the wealthy make.

These lines are all completely arbitrary. No one is more virtuous than anyone else. Define pittance.

Yep. Why mid $200s? Why not $175k?

That works for me. Done.

Maybe it should be $100k? They have tons more money than people making minimum wage.

Agree 100%. No argument from me on that. Everyone should be paying a lot more, unless you’re at the very bottom, in which case, all those increased taxes on everyone else should be supplementing you.

This is how we achieve an egalitarian society. By taking the excess wealth of some, and sharing it with others. The closer we get to income commonality, the less income disparity we have, and we achieve economic justice for everyone.

People with minimum wage jobs should be taxed more too. They make way more money than people who are unemployed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t go nearly far enough. The income threshold is far too low, and the increase is pathetically inadequate.

It should kick in at $150k for singles, and $225k for couples filing jointly. And it should be a minimum of $6k/yr to start, and scale up rapidly from there.

This. OP is just like everyone else who pretends to be a liberal until it affects them.

If your HHI is over $225,000, you ARE “the rich”.

Start paying your fair share, greedy bastards.

Lol. $225k is a pittance compared to what the truly wealthy make. That’s like when my 8 year old is in awe of her teenaged cousin’s paycheck from her summer job.

So? What’s your point? Tax them, too.

Tax the snot out of everyone making more than mid-$200’s. Then you get all of them. The wealthy AND the mere rich making a pittance of what the wealthy make.

These lines are all completely arbitrary. No one is more virtuous than anyone else. Define pittance.

Yep. Why mid $200s? Why not $175k?

That works for me. Done.

Maybe it should be $100k? They have tons more money than people making minimum wage.

Agree 100%. No argument from me on that. Everyone should be paying a lot more, unless you’re at the very bottom, in which case, all those increased taxes on everyone else should be supplementing you.

This is how we achieve an egalitarian society. By taking the excess wealth of some, and sharing it with others. The closer we get to income commonality, the less income disparity we have, and we achieve economic justice for everyone.

People with minimum wage jobs should be taxed more too. They make way more money than people who are unemployed.

Unemployed and babies. Minimum wage earners earn more than babies do!

[Anonymous]

I wonder why Tony Williams, our best Mayor ever, would be against this tax? Hmm.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t go nearly far enough. The income threshold is far too low, and the increase is pathetically inadequate.

It should kick in at $150k for singles, and $225k for couples filing jointly. And it should be a minimum of $6k/yr to start, and scale up rapidly from there.

This. OP is just like everyone else who pretends to be a liberal until it affects them.

If your HHI is over $225,000, you ARE “the rich”.

Start paying your fair share, greedy bastards.

Lol. $225k is a pittance compared to what the truly wealthy make. That’s like when my 8 year old is in awe of her teenaged cousin’s paycheck from her summer job.

So? What’s your point? Tax them, too.

Tax the snot out of everyone making more than mid-$200’s. Then you get all of them. The wealthy AND the mere rich making a pittance of what the wealthy make.

These lines are all completely arbitrary. No one is more virtuous than anyone else. Define pittance.

Yep. Why mid $200s? Why not $175k?

That works for me. Done.

Maybe it should be $100k? They have tons more money than people making minimum wage.

Agree 100%. No argument from me on that. Everyone should be paying a lot more, unless you’re at the very bottom, in which case, all those increased taxes on everyone else should be supplementing you.

This is how we achieve an egalitarian society. By taking the excess wealth of some, and sharing it with others. The closer we get to income commonality, the less income disparity we have, and we achieve economic justice for everyone.

People with minimum wage jobs should be taxed more too. They make way more money than people who are unemployed.

When we can implement a UBI, it will be slightly below where minimum wage is now, so there really isn’t an incentive to tax minimum wage workers. In fact, minimum wage earners shouldn’t really be paying taxes at all, since it would basically be a circular-flow of wealth that would come right back to them as an income supplement, so it would be pointless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder why Tony Williams, our best Mayor ever, would be against this tax? Hmm.

Because it’s money out of his pocket, and rich people don’t pay their fair share.

Too bad. Pay up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder why Tony Williams, our best Mayor ever, would be against this tax? Hmm.

Because it’s money out of his pocket, and rich people don’t pay their fair share.

Too bad. Pay up.

Most rich people in fact do pay their fair share. That’s who the taxes come from now. Flat tax. 25% total from all.