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Anonymous wrote:This is what is wrong, IMO. DH and I are taxed out of half of our paychecks, while billionaires pay nothing! This is how, no matter the party, they screw us in the middle. Half of my paycheck is going to taxes, and no, it is not ok when the millionaires and billionaires pay nothing.
And then, I had to pay full in-state tuition for my kids, who did not even qualify for any aid from BCS. We don't earn that little, but we sure could not afford full rides, either. If my kids were allowed to take student loans, they would have been forgiven now. But they were not allowed to have that option.
No, it is not better for me under republicans because it is all the same for me, no relief ever. I don't qualify for any housing aid, meal programs, or student financial aid, but I sure can't afford an SFH that is the median price for the DMV.

Lady, if your HHI is over $400K you are not “in the middle.” That’s the point. SMH.

In DC you are. These policies disproportionately hurt people in large metros with high cola.

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Anonymous wrote:This is what is wrong, IMO. DH and I are taxed out of half of our paychecks, while billionaires pay nothing! This is how, no matter the party, they screw us in the middle. Half of my paycheck is going to taxes, and no, it is not ok when the millionaires and billionaires pay nothing.
And then, I had to pay full in-state tuition for my kids, who did not even qualify for any aid from BCS. We don't earn that little, but we sure could not afford full rides, either. If my kids were allowed to take student loans, they would have been forgiven now. But they were not allowed to have that option.
No, it is not better for me under republicans because it is all the same for me, no relief ever. I don't qualify for any housing aid, meal programs, or student financial aid, but I sure can't afford an SFH that is the median price for the DMV.

Lady, if your HHI is over $400K you are not “in the middle.” That’s the point. SMH.

Anonymous wrote:This is what is wrong, IMO. DH and I are taxed out of half of our paychecks, while billionaires pay nothing! This is how, no matter the party, they screw us in the middle. Half of my paycheck is going to taxes, and no, it is not ok when the millionaires and billionaires pay nothing.
And then, I had to pay full in-state tuition for my kids, who did not even qualify for any aid from BCS. We don't earn that little, but we sure could not afford full rides, either. If my kids were allowed to take student loans, they would have been forgiven now. But they were not allowed to have that option.
No, it is not better for me under republicans because it is all the same for me, no relief ever. I don't qualify for any housing aid, meal programs, or student financial aid, but I sure can't afford an SFH that is the median price for the DMV.

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Anonymous wrote:So the top 1% already pay the majority of taxes? lol

Let's give 25k for homeowners and increase prices of homes / increase inflation ?

Let's give more student loan forgiveness and that doesn't increase inflation right?

Let's increase taxes on business by 7%, that doesn't increase prices and increase inflation??

The policies are insane.

Again, the 1% hold a majority of the wealth, so they absolutely should pay at least what they are paying, if not more.

The issue is we don’t tax wealth. We should fix that.

The issue is that liberals who want higher taxes aren't already sending in additional payments to the Treasury.

Put your money where you mouth is. If you want higher taxes, start sending your checks to the Treasury ASAP.

Or are you a hypocrite?

I am sorry, this is just an asinine response.

Do you care about the debt or deficit? If not, tell me where you want to make the cuts that will impact that. Be specific and prove that your cuts will have an impact.

Do you believe the wealthy should pay a significantly less portion of their wealth in taxes? If so, why?

I don’t think you are even a high earner based on your sophomoric train of thought. It’s laughable that you defend proposals that make high earners wealthier as if doing so will make you richer by association. It’s pathetic.

So you're a hypocrite. Thanks for playing.

You cannot overpay the government PP. If you overpay the government they send it back.

Don’t be stupid and try to have a conversation grounded in reality.

Ha, of course you can. Anyone can send a gift to the Treasury for reduction of the public debt.

Good liberals who want to give their money to the Government should do so ASAP.

Who's stupid now?

Anonymous wrote:Here's what we know so far:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/us/politics/kamala-harris-tax-plan.html

"Ms. Harris would set the top marginal income rate at 39.6 percent, up from 37 percent. On top of that, she would also increase the rate on two parallel Medicare surtaxes to 5 percent from 3.8 percent for Americans making more than $400,000 and expand the income subject to one of them. Together, the Medicare and income proposals would create a top marginal rate as high as 44.6 percent."

Ouch. With state taxes, we'll be paying a marginal rate of greater than 50% taxes. That's just too much.

Harris also plans to: (i) increase corporate taxes and (ii) further increase the already ridiculous tax on corporate stock buy-backs. These ideas hurt everyone who owns stocks - that includes every single person with a 401/IRA/TSP.

Yikes.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the top 1% already pay the majority of taxes? lol

Let's give 25k for homeowners and increase prices of homes / increase inflation ?

Let's give more student loan forgiveness and that doesn't increase inflation right?

Let's increase taxes on business by 7%, that doesn't increase prices and increase inflation??

The policies are insane.

Again, the 1% hold a majority of the wealth, so they absolutely should pay at least what they are paying, if not more.

The issue is we don’t tax wealth. We should fix that.

The issue is that liberals who want higher taxes aren't already sending in additional payments to the Treasury.

Put your money where you mouth is. If you want higher taxes, start sending your checks to the Treasury ASAP.

Or are you a hypocrite?

I am sorry, this is just an asinine response.

Do you care about the debt or deficit? If not, tell me where you want to make the cuts that will impact that. Be specific and prove that your cuts will have an impact.

Do you believe the wealthy should pay a significantly less portion of their wealth in taxes? If so, why?

I don’t think you are even a high earner based on your sophomoric train of thought. It’s laughable that you defend proposals that make high earners wealthier as if doing so will make you richer by association. It’s pathetic.

So you're a hypocrite. Thanks for playing.

You cannot overpay the government PP. If you overpay the government they send it back.

Don’t be stupid and try to have a conversation grounded in reality.

Anonymous wrote:Here “libs should send money” PP, try this and show us where you would make cuts, so we can see where your priorities lie.

https://fiscalship.org/

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the top 1% already pay the majority of taxes? lol

Let's give 25k for homeowners and increase prices of homes / increase inflation ?

Let's give more student loan forgiveness and that doesn't increase inflation right?

Let's increase taxes on business by 7%, that doesn't increase prices and increase inflation??

The policies are insane.

Again, the 1% hold a majority of the wealth, so they absolutely should pay at least what they are paying, if not more.

The issue is we don’t tax wealth. We should fix that.

The issue is that liberals who want higher taxes aren't already sending in additional payments to the Treasury.

Put your money where you mouth is. If you want higher taxes, start sending your checks to the Treasury ASAP.

Or are you a hypocrite?

I am sorry, this is just an asinine response.

Do you care about the debt or deficit? If not, tell me where you want to make the cuts that will impact that. Be specific and prove that your cuts will have an impact.

Do you believe the wealthy should pay a significantly less portion of their wealth in taxes? If so, why?

I don’t think you are even a high earner based on your sophomoric train of thought. It’s laughable that you defend proposals that make high earners wealthier as if doing so will make you richer by association. It’s pathetic.

So you're a hypocrite. Thanks for playing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the top 1% already pay the majority of taxes? lol

Let's give 25k for homeowners and increase prices of homes / increase inflation ?

Let's give more student loan forgiveness and that doesn't increase inflation right?

Let's increase taxes on business by 7%, that doesn't increase prices and increase inflation??

The policies are insane.

Again, the 1% hold a majority of the wealth, so they absolutely should pay at least what they are paying, if not more.

The issue is we don’t tax wealth. We should fix that.

The issue is that liberals who want higher taxes aren't already sending in additional payments to the Treasury.

Put your money where you mouth is. If you want higher taxes, start sending your checks to the Treasury ASAP.

Or are you a hypocrite?

I am sorry, this is just an asinine response.

Do you care about the debt or deficit? If not, tell me where you want to make the cuts that will impact that. Be specific and prove that your cuts will have an impact.

Do you believe the wealthy should pay a significantly less portion of their wealth in taxes? If so, why?

I don’t think you are even a high earner based on your sophomoric train of thought. It’s laughable that you defend proposals that make high earners wealthier as if doing so will make you richer by association. It’s pathetic.

So you're a hypocrite. Thanks for playing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the top 1% already pay the majority of taxes? lol

Let's give 25k for homeowners and increase prices of homes / increase inflation ?

Let's give more student loan forgiveness and that doesn't increase inflation right?

Let's increase taxes on business by 7%, that doesn't increase prices and increase inflation??

The policies are insane.

Again, the 1% hold a majority of the wealth, so they absolutely should pay at least what they are paying, if not more.

The issue is we don’t tax wealth. We should fix that.

The issue is that liberals who want higher taxes aren't already sending in additional payments to the Treasury.

Put your money where you mouth is. If you want higher taxes, start sending your checks to the Treasury ASAP.

Or are you a hypocrite?

I am sorry, this is just an asinine response.

Do you care about the debt or deficit? If not, tell me where you want to make the cuts that will impact that. Be specific and prove that your cuts will have an impact.

Do you believe the wealthy should pay a significantly less portion of their wealth in taxes? If so, why?

I don’t think you are even a high earner based on your sophomoric train of thought. It’s laughable that you defend proposals that make high earners wealthier as if doing so will make you richer by association. It’s pathetic.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone earning over $500k who isn’t moving it to carried interest is a moron.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the top 1% already pay the majority of taxes? lol

Let's give 25k for homeowners and increase prices of homes / increase inflation ?

Let's give more student loan forgiveness and that doesn't increase inflation right?

Let's increase taxes on business by 7%, that doesn't increase prices and increase inflation??

The policies are insane.

Again, the 1% hold a majority of the wealth, so they absolutely should pay at least what they are paying, if not more.

The issue is we don’t tax wealth. We should fix that.

The issue is that liberals who want higher taxes aren't already sending in additional payments to the Treasury.

Put your money where you mouth is. If you want higher taxes, start sending your checks to the Treasury ASAP.

Or are you a hypocrite?

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Anonymous wrote:Make all earned income subject to the social security tax and not just the first $168,600. That would fix a lot.

The reason you cannot do that is then their benefits would soar too. And if you object to THAT you just completely changed SS into a pure welfare program and any semblance of bipartisan support for it (which is already tenuous) disappears.

There is already a cap on the max you can receive in SS benefits no matter how much you pay in. They should just keep that limit and increase the wage cap, which is far too low anyway. It should be more like $200 or $250K, or not have a wage cap at all.

You do that and you completely change the social contract on SS and doom it to the dustbin of history. Of all the things, this is hands down the worst idea of them all if you are interested in preserving the program.