Breaking Point?

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Anonymous wrote:We are getting a tax cut. For 8 years Obama taxed the crap out of us. Unemployment is down, food stamp usage is down, can we have 6 more years of this please

Please shut the f#ck up with your pathetic lies. Tax burden was higher under Reagan than Obama:

lol wasn't obama responsible for continuing the Bush tax cuts? So he rode up the deficit and taxed Americans more than any other president at the same time? lol you guys!

What is the gross income for the data represented in this chart? What is the AGI? How is middle class defined? I’ve posted my tax picture before:

Obama year 2016

Single no dependents -income 130,000
Fed income tax. 23,000
Property tax 12000
State inc. tax. 4,000
Soc. Sec + Med. 10,000
Gas and sales abt. $ 2,000
No mortgage Interest to deduct. Taxes = $51,000.
Plus I pay student loans not deductible with AGI over 65,000

Am I middle class? Or am I the wealthy that needs to pay more?

Post your taxes that you pay.

So you own a million dollar house free and clear?

It was the house I grew up in and my parents passed.

Born on third, thinks he hit a triple.

Post your taxes. Potomac at one time had houses selling for $50,000. My dad was military. I’m not sure why you need to get all snooty. A lot of people have their net built in the increases in their house value, especially lower income folks - that’s their major investment.

Heads up, kiddo - you're sponging off your parents hard work. That's what "born on third, thinks he hit a triple" means. You're posing like some financial genius, and it's your parents' money! Also, your level of aggression sounds like someone who wants to meet for coffee in Georgetown.

Your projecting an awful lot. I was explaining, but explaining sound like aggression? I’m not seeing a post of your taxes. Why are you avoiding disclosure?

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^^ actually, I capitalized from a hot real estate market and all the over priced salaries and lobbyists in DC. My parents paid 50,000 for the house.

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The lifeline program expansion to cover cellphone service happened under President Bush. Full stop. The “ Obamaphone” name may be catchy, that does not make it true. Yes it does a lot of good and yes the FCC under the Obama Administration expended a lot of effort to reduce waste fraud and abuse.

OK, happened under Bush. Get rid of it.

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Anonymous wrote:We are getting a tax cut. For 8 years Obama taxed the crap out of us. Unemployment is down, food stamp usage is down, can we have 6 more years of this please

Then. Why. Do. We. Need. A. Tax. Cut.

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Anonymous wrote:Fine. We're not on the same page. Cut it to the bone.

You want to control other people's recreations because you disapprove of their venue? As a middle-aged white woman, I would certainly feel self-conscious were I to show up at that scene, but we used to have empty-lot parties in high school in my affluent suburb. What's the difference?

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The whyte walkers have breached the wall. Trumpniks cackle like Cersei on her throne. The laughter will be short-lived.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ actually, I capitalized from a hot real estate market and all the over priced salaries and lobbyists in DC. My parents paid 50,000 for the house.

LOL. "You" did NOTHING in this transaction except be born. That's the third base part that you're missing.

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Anonymous wrote:I fully expect violence against the economic and/or political elite within the next two years. Don't be surprised we start hearing about the murders of corporate execs, finance types, and lobbyist swamp creatures. It's only a matter of time - it hasn't happened in the US since the 1960s but we are quickly headed that way.

Read about the Lead Years in Italy in the 1970s...very scary times ahead:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_Lead_(Italy)

The US is going to split apart like the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia unless we find another Lincoln.

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Anonymous wrote:We are getting a tax cut. For 8 years Obama taxed the crap out of us. Unemployment is down, food stamp usage is down, can we have 6 more years of this please

Please shut the f#ck up with your pathetic lies. Tax burden was higher under Reagan than Obama:

lol wasn't obama responsible for continuing the Bush tax cuts? So he rode up the deficit and taxed Americans more than any other president at the same time? lol you guys!

What is the gross income for the data represented in this chart? What is the AGI? How is middle class defined? I’ve posted my tax picture before:

Obama year 2016

Single no dependents -income 130,000
Fed income tax. 23,000
Property tax 12000
State inc. tax. 4,000
Soc. Sec + Med. 10,000
Gas and sales abt. $ 2,000
No mortgage Interest to deduct. Taxes = $51,000.
Plus I pay student loans not deductible with AGI over 65,000

Am I middle class? Or am I the wealthy that needs to pay more?

Post your taxes that you pay.

So you own a million dollar house free and clear?

It was the house I grew up in and my parents passed.

Born on third, thinks he hit a triple.

Post your taxes. Potomac at one time had houses selling for $50,000. My dad was military. I’m not sure why you need to get all snooty. A lot of people have their net built in the increases in their house value, especially lower income folks - that’s their major investment.

Yes, exactly. My grandmother bought her beach condo for $25,000 in the 1960s and it is now worth $800,000.

You are rich. Good for you. Average net worth for an American is around $150k and you are substantially above that. Must be nice.

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Anonymous wrote:I fully expect violence against the economic and/or political elite within the next two years. Don't be surprised we start hearing about the murders of corporate execs, finance types, and lobbyist swamp creatures. It's only a matter of time - it hasn't happened in the US since the 1960s but we are quickly headed that way.

Read about the Lead Years in Italy in the 1970s...very scary times ahead:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_Lead_(Italy)

The US is going to split apart like the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia unless we find another Lincoln.

Sounds like a victory for Putin

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Anonymous wrote:With the House having passed this bill, the breaking point is here. The ones that are going to be destroyed by this just don't feel it yet. I am so angry right now, I can barely see.

Here, this may help you.
[insert video only tangentially related to the subject at hand]

Do you know why people accuse you of being a troll and/or Russian? Because you have probably been busy on these tax threads these last few months, and you have been resistant to reading that to a person, we would all be fine paying higher taxes to make life easier, safer and better for poor people, to help pay for infrastructure, to pay for healthcare, really any decent human use. We do not want to pay for BILLIONAIRES to get more money they don't need.

Shame on you.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like John Adams called it about right 230 years ago.

Precisely. The problem is that the liberals will neither read nor comprehend that quote, so I have something more pithy that basically says the same thing:

"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic." - Ben Franklin

I could apply that quote to rich people like Trump, and considering they control most of the power and wealth in this world, I think that quote is more apt for the rich than the poor living on the dole.

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Anonymous wrote:I fully expect violence against the economic and/or political elite within the next two years. Don't be surprised we start hearing about the murders of corporate execs, finance types, and lobbyist swamp creatures. It's only a matter of time - it hasn't happened in the US since the 1960s but we are quickly headed that way.

Read about the Lead Years in Italy in the 1970s...very scary times ahead:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_Lead_(Italy)

There's a Trump voter who is asking that question...

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2017/1215/Trump-s-tax-plan-Why-many-middle-class-Republicans-support-it

“The only thing the government does is screw the working people,” says Scott, a Trump voter from Georgia contacted by email, who asked that his last name not be published. He says he’ll do everything he can to vote Republicans out of power in 2018. “What is the next step, short of armed insurrection?”

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Anonymous wrote:Post your taxes. Potomac at one time had houses selling for $50,000. My dad was military. I’m not sure why you need to get all snooty. A lot of people have their net built in the increases in their house value, especially lower income folks - that’s their major investment.

Oh, Patton Oswalt posted a quote just for you: "Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm." -- C. Wright Mills, 1951

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Anonymous wrote:Post your taxes. Potomac at one time had houses selling for $50,000. My dad was military. I’m not sure why you need to get all snooty. A lot of people have their net built in the increases in their house value, especially lower income folks - that’s their major investment.

Oh, Patton Oswalt posted a quote just for you: "Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm." -- C. Wright Mills, 1951

That's basically the entire White House and the GOP donor class: DJT, Jr, Ivanka, Jared, Mnunchin, The Koch Brothers, etc.

I've said it many times: everything happening in politics right now is a war being perpetrated at the hands of inherited wealth. They've managed to convince a large segment of America that a bunch of people with large inheritances are somehow fighting "the Establishment." It's the cruelest trick ever played on Americans.