Feeling generous? You can Venmo the US government to help pay down the debt
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They all ready get my taxes
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They all ready get my taxes
The bottom half of US wage-earners pay net zero in federal income taxes. The top 10% pay the obscene majority of it.
What I mean is it's a safe bet that any random person whining about their federal tax dollars doesn't actually pay much in, if any.
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How about give me all the fucking social security I paid over the course of my career first, instead of handing it to like 12 billionaires who definitely don’t need it?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Current social security taxes go straight to current social security stuff. Its a paygo system. It used to be something like 15 wage earners per current social security recipient, but as of when I last read up on it, that was down to 3 to 1 and continuing to slide towards the red.
The first social security recipient paid in like $15 before retiring and then collected like $20k or something before dying.
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I don't even understand why someone with 100 million needs a billion or a milkion... There's no end to unchecked ambition.
It's not about the money. It's about status and control.
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If we taxed the wealthy at 1950s rates we’d get it paid off quickly
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Tip your landlord
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If we taxed the wealthy at 1950s rates we’d get it paid off quickly
Might be 70 years too late, the us's debt is now like $35 trillion or some madness.
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just fyi - the US national debt is $36 trillion. That's about $110 million per American. So hey folks, what say we all chip in and get that thing paid off!
But wait, we could just make the billionaires pay it! Sorry no, the combined net worth of all 900-ish billionaires in America is less than $7 trillion. That's how deep in debt this country is.
My math came out a little different:
$36,000,000,000,000 ÷ 340,000,000 = $105,882 per person.Still agree with you, though. This is above the median household income, and the people who extract more wealth from this country should also share a greater burden of its debt.
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A Gocci belt made in China.
Bought with an IOU.
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Heck no. Taxation is good, it helps keep society running...but I don't want to support a Trump Regime society. They will waste it on ICE and other things that make everything worse.
Better for this fascist America to go down in flames, than for it to be prolonged.
