This 100%. I remember the catch cry being every where when this was being sold to the masses, I snorted and was disgusted then, I can't imagine anybody being brainwashed to be grateful for crumbs from the table.

Their attitude and mindset is to screw everyone down to the lowest dollar and then skip their bills for as long as possible or avoid paying at all. One company I temped for had a policy to only pay when 90 days overdue as their standard operating procedures.

The morons that celebrated Trumps trillions in corporate tax cuts because they got a one time bonus of like $1000. Too stupid to realize that if they simply got a $0.50 raise per hour instead, they'd essentially get the equivalent of a $1000 bonus every year going forward*. But you can't fix the stupid who actively vote against their own best interests. *for those that don't understand, full time work means about ~2080 hours worked per year. $0.50 raise * 2080 hours per year = ~$1000 increase in income per year. Every year.

The same with gas prices and interest rates. This goes for Trump or Biden. I f*****g HATE Trump but it's stupid to blame any leader for things that have no direct control over.

"OMG, California taxes you at 40%!! WHAT A LIBRUL HELL" Reality: 12.3% is the highest tax rate and that's only for income $698,272 or more. Which is how tax brackets actually work. You pay a certain tax rate until you reach a certain threshold. Freedum Land Texas as no income tax because f**k helping people, but also has higher property and sales tax than California. But they never mention that. And well enough off people love that state because no income tax and they can afford the property and sales taxes that their incomes can afford them. F**K YOU if you're not well off, though. And God forbid it gets too hot or too cold there, when the power grid shits the bed and people die. But, hey, Joe Rogan didn't have to pay taxes that would fund that infrastructure, so yay! And no, I'm not saying Cali is perfect. It's expensive AF and nobody can afford housing. Amoing other things. But I'd rather pay my fair share.

CEOs don't add much value to companies either and are grossly overpaid

This one isn't as straightforward.

Imagine potentially thinking because you made $75,001 a year instead of "just" $75,000 that the entirety of you income would be taxed at a higher rate rather than the $1.00 more you made that "took you into the next bracket."

My mom always complained that the front office girls at her job complained about living paycheck to paycheck while smoking cigarettes and eating out for lunch everyday. Food is one thing I will splurge on but I take my lunch to work almost every day, take a drink with me from home and cook dinner at home the majority of the time

Politicians are happy to use the two interchangeably when it suits their argument

President Biden in November, 2023: “Let me be clear to any corporation that hasn’t brought their prices back down even as inflation has come down: It’s time to stop the price gouging. Give American consumers a break.”

Yes. But, personally, it's weird to reconcile a low unemployment rate with a regular stream of massive layoffs. And as someone who struggled to find a job for a year after being laid off, it's difficult to know what to think. Having said that, my state is super expensive to live in but has decent social programs for unemployment and my city has strong renter protections which saved me from starving and losing a place to live over that year. It's worth paying a few precentages more in taxes than other states to support these programs. I would feel the same even if I never had to use them.

To quote my working class father from when I was making some foolish financial choices, "Don't let your out-go be more than your in-come."

That last one - trickle-down in a nutshell. Nonsense however you phrase it.

Another fantastic job by the BP photo idiots!

Tesla Cyberjunk anywhere

Being poor costs more.

"...they ask, as inflation runs rampant.":

Wow. No wonder Trump won. Remember these people vote.

But I thought that the "Tragedy of the Commons" was an actual thing?

I don't find it's the old people. It's the 50-60 groups and politicians who look for excuses to not raise the minimum wage.

This is a thing that people actually do?!

I built my credit by making a purchase one month, waiting until after the report date the next month and then paying the balance in full. No new purchases until after the report date the next month. I kept repeating this cycle and built my credit very quickly without ever having to pay any interest. Figure out what day your credit card reports to the credit bureaus.

And that's the issue with how these rich a*s people avoid paying taxes. Any CEO that states "I make $1 in salary" is so full of s**t. They're doing what Muck does, in that they'll manipulate stock and personal tax liabilities to pay themselves but claim a loss in income so they can say "i had $0 TAX income this year". Capital gains and losses and other avenues is how a******s, like Musk, avoid paying taxes.

Or..saying Social Security is a pyramid scheme(My boss). Technically it is, however he was not amused that I suggested he sign his proceeds over to me to keep his ideology pure.

Carrying a balance at all... There is no good interest rate except 0

To be fair, this is more of an emotional issue. You can logically be well aware that it's just good money after bad, and that emotional part of your brain still insists that you can't abandon it because it's "a waste".

Money spent on an item that's tax deductible reduces your taxable income (net profit if it's a business) by that amount. For a very simple example, if you made $10,000, but purchased a tax deductible item for $1,000, you pay taxes on $9,000 instead of $10,000.

Perfect example are the dorks that complain about egirls or whatever on Twitch. A bunch of dudes crying about half-"naked" women in hot tubs on that site... who can't comprehend that if a bunch of other dudes weren't giving them money, then it wouldn't be a thing. Dont blame people for making money filling a space with an obvious market. Blame the demand, you dolts.

401k aren't useless but it really is a subpar retirement system that caused more problems with its establishment and replacement of pensions as the corporations that dropped thier pension plans had a habit of not increasing wages to make up for it and yoiur employee matching of what you put into your 401k is not something that's done by everyone and it was hardly done at all at the implementation of 401k leaving a generation short on retirement that we all are paying/going to pay for.

When I worked the phones for the IRS, I had one caller who regularly got a refund of $1.00 (he was good)

If supply and demand aren’t being circumvented, this is the exact opposite of what can be expected to happen. An increase in supply with no change in demand generally lowers prices, because buyers have more options to choose from.

If you have enough unrealized gains to buy something that costs $44 billion you should damn well pay a metric s**t ton of taxes on those gains.

It's all relative. You can sell your house for way more then you paid for it and dump the proceeds into a new home. If you are upgrading to a better/bigger home and/or moving to a more expensive area, sure it's going to cost quite a bit more than you are able to sell your current house for, even though it can be sold for quite a bit more than you paid for it.

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. 'Probably' being the important word here.

Immigration will help offset the shrinking pool of wage earners. But why exempt the rich from contributing to social security?

I don't think many people think that. But usually installment payments are the only way to pay something even a bit more expensive. I certainly don't think they are cheaper, and would pay all the money up front if I had that kind of money. But I don't.

Added context: the stickers have an image of Biden pointing and saying "I did that." People stick them on gasoline pumps, pointing at the price.

The criticism of the left is arguably apt but equating both issues AND bothsiding reality, in general, is asinine. The right would never support "increases in public spending" so this entire premise is f*****g dumb. Aside from "by just taxing rich people" would literally be the solution. The ACTUAL issue is that there are too many ways/loopholes that rich people can evade actually paying taxes so that argument is so simplistic in its blindness as to make its agenda perfectly clear. It's so bad faith AF to equate "just by taxing rich people, the left says", which would literally help society and what we are demanding. The reality and what we're actually asking is "IF rich people would pay their taxes..." Two very different things, which this person would know if there wasn't an obvious agenda.

Unfortunately, if you are so poor you can't qualify for a basic free checking account, you are stuck paying large fees to access your own money.