It should be illegal to publish anything trump says with any level of sincerity.
If I knew how to make emojis I'd include this one.
You have to follow through now and add it.
If I knew how to add emojis to the list I'd include this one.
I'll try to add it when I get home, failing that I'll bug our emoji experts to teach me how to do it, failing that I'll just beg our emoji experts to add it while calling me a blockhead.
you can just post it to c/emoji and hope WhyEssEff gets to it
Oooor I can roll the dice on whether or not I break the site by trying to do jt myself 
I can add it when I get to my computer
Don’t worry you will get a tax break, but like normal everything else will skyrocket to get that saved money and more into corporate and healthcare ceo hands like always.
This is not the first time he has said this. He was saying this since before he was elected if I recall correctly.
His plan is not getting rid of taxes. His plan is shifting taxes from income tax to sales taxes (tariffs). His plan is to further shift the tax burden onto working people. Corporation owners will offload their tax burden by including the cost of the sales taxes into the cost of the product. It will be even more difficult to tax capitalists.
This could lead to complete government collapse.
Income tax is not a bad thing. You should be getting services in return for the taxes that you pay.
I thought we were supposed to get a 5k check in the mail from Elon gutting all those agencies?
My perception is that Americans hardly pay any tax as it is tbh
I pay about 1/3 of my paycheck in taxes every 2 weeks. Then another 1/3 for rent and the last 1/3 is groceries.
Ok so about the same as up here. Glad to have my perspective corrected.
I know there are specific states that have less tax, though, right?
It's not really true unless you are wealthy enough to have an accountant shuffle your money around for you. Most states end up around the same amount once all is said and done cause that's how much it costs to run a state.
Makes sense. Well then fuck, sucks all over doesn't it?
Yeah, State income tax is reduced in some places. My federal taxes are ~$250/wk while state taxes are ~$50/wk. That's middle of the road for state tax. I know California and NY charge a lot more, but they also get a lot of that with higher property taxes. Which I wouldn't have to pay because I don't own property.
Also it's not technically a tax, but health insurance is another $100/wk for a plan that requires me to spend $8000 out of pocket before they even consider paying for anything. If I don't take that employer offered health insurance, I have to pay an additional tax penalty at the end of the year that goes to the health insurance companies, so it's kinda a tax.
Brutal
Hey, they gotta pay for those warplanes and missiles somehow. Awesome how the roads and infrastructure around us is totally collapsing and taxes keep going up for poor people.
Am glad my boss got that PPP loan though. Him and his son got new houses and cars when they cashed it out then laid everyone off.
No income or sales tax in NH, but it's not a good thing. It actually makes taxes regressive because property tax has to be so much higher to pay for the schools. People in poor communities pay sometimes 10x the property tax rate for much worse schools.
Rich people basically pay 0 taxes in America, people that work a job do pay taxes they just dont get anything for it. lol
Out of curiosity, I went to the main Trump forum to see how they’re talking about this. Here’s what they’re saying:
That there is a sovereign citizen. Or they just adapted sovcit language. I think they've learned not to bring up maritime law right away
Yessss I haven’t seen one of these cranks in awhile
Income Tax is actually an unconstitutional bill of attainder rendered by the false government controlled by the British Admiralty.
(Sov citizens are one of the funniest forms of false class consciousness)
remember when he was going to get rid of the tax on tips?
The chuds will believe that this has already happened, and will phone in ICE raids on any restaurant worker who claims it hasn't
there is no tax on tips if you don't declare them!
wanna help a server, tip in cashhhhh
Genius PR move. He gets to look the part of the populist to his base and conveniently deflects blame to his opponents when it inevitably fails to pass.
Once the tariffs take effect....
He already said we are making billions in tariffs...so which is it?
"possibility". uh huh. sure.
but as a thought experiment, if he did somehow eliminate federal income tax for that many people (and presumably financed it by some combination of printing money, shutting down major federal programs like medicaid, etc)... Would he just be god emperor for life in the minds of like 70% of americans? I guess the high would wear off pretty quick and its not a trick you can pull twice, but idk, it feels like it might win some people over. maybe enough to overcome the "but the constitution" pleas of the libs (not that it takes much he's already almost there)
of course if he did it by making everything cost double which seems to be what he's proposing then I feel like people wouldn't react positively besides the usual rubes
Why yes sir I would not object
I'll believe it when I see it.
This alone could be good, (though they should only eliminate it on slabs of, say, <$60k), but they will combine it with austerity so that it is net regressive for the poor, the tariff shock doesn't help either.
Also, doesn't Congress set the rates and slabs?
It's net regressive for the poor anyway since it's just shifting the tax burden to consumption taxes because everything you buy will cost more because of tariffs. Consumption taxes always disproportionately hit the poor.
When the tariffs cut in
The trick is that they won’t
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