my dad is a closeted lefty
i sent this text to my family group chat (which includes my father). my dad is a poverty MAGA with a wild fantasy about how to better enjoy his retirement.
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i sent this text to my family group chat (which includes my father). my dad is a poverty MAGA with a wild fantasy about how to better enjoy his retirement.
And how did that go for you?
"When others do a foolish thing, you should tell them it is a foolish thing. They can still continue to do it, but at least the truth is where it needs to be." -Dukhat
His dad needed to be told.
i wouldn't normally be controversial in the family chat, but it was a rare opportunity to make a simple point. he probably hasn't seen it yet, but it spurred a great discussion among the rest of us.
That's good, it's always 50/50 whether stuff like this will actually land the way you hope it will.
If they gave everybody in the US in poverty 100k, it would cost $4,189,000,000,000.
The US GDP is $27,360,000,000,000.
How much tax revenue would we gain if we reinstated the corporate tax to the levels it used to be in the 40's and 50's? You know, when America was great? That tax rate was 52%>. Care to take a gander at what today's rate is?
We are losing tens or hundreds of billions of dollars thanks to tax policy incongruent with sanity.
Effective tax rate? Basically zero. Iirc the on-paper corporate tax rate is around 20%.
What's your definition of "poverty", citizen?
Or "everybody", for that matter.
Any age range, or are children & elders out?
Is citizenship required or merely present in the country at the moment this miracle occurs?
Perhaps baseline cognition is required? Or are the sleeping, the mentally challenged, the comatose, and MAGAts excluded?
Any working age person who makes under the federal minimum wage is in poverty. Children, the retired, and illegal immigrants don't count. Realistically anybody not making a living wage for a 40hr week is impoverished.
Hilariously, there are a great number of MAGA types that would be included in the people who would receive the $100k, but would vote against their own interests due to brain rot political talking points.
Who uses / to separate bulleted points? I’ve seen 1. , 1.) , 1-, but never 1/.
You obviously were born after the use of paper had already died out. It was quite common in written bullet points. On,y with digital did that change to be more uniform.
Now this happened in a group chat, with someone talking about rising with their dad and discussing Twitter, so I’d hazard a guess that they too are after digital first.
When did paper die out? Was it during the water wars of 2037 or the great snake plague of 2052?
Haha, I'd say about late 90s. I know I'm at the point where my printer is packed away and only gets resuscitation every 6 months or so. Holding a pen to write any more than a few words on a form feels odd.
Almost everyone who isn't a violent fascist who actually want to exterminate all the others, is actually a progressive who have been convinced through propaganda that progressivism is cringe
I'm sure the heart-sharer was more than happy to spread his wealth