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[-] RHOPKINS13@kbin.social 68 points 7 months ago

...maybe if the rich people paid their fair share... both in taxes AND in wages... people wouldn't be living in poverty... cutting back on senseless wars could help too...

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago

This is incredibly irritating, Bernie was saying it for corporations to pay their employees more. Do most billionaires actually work or schmooze.

[-] Melkath@kbin.social 6 points 7 months ago

Well, reportedly they do lots of drugs and then give the leadership of their companies the choice to do drugs or be fired.

... while drug testing the actual workers.

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

Creativity is a privilege for them

[-] MisterD@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 months ago

You tax their WEALTH. They make damn sure they don't get a salary to avoid taxes

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

So tax the company based on profit margin. Corporations being considered people while not being held under the same scrutiny is one of the biggest problems.

[-] psud@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Companies are taxed for their profit. They are careful to not make a taxable profit. They can spend what would be profit on R&D or advertising or expansion

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago

Fair share means ending the tyranny of individual ownership of the Means of Production. Taxes are a good start though.

[-] Snoopey@lemmy.world 61 points 7 months ago

Really took me a while to figure out they were trying to make me think of people on benefits rather than shareholders

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 40 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They’re saying this to Bernie Sanders? Bro what,.. have you heard literally anything he’s said?

[-] Melkath@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

If Bernie shot off a tweet that said "you could write me in", I would be DOWN.

Bet he would take general... we would need to make them actually count though.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

Maybe next election when Trump is in jail

[-] Melkath@kbin.social -4 points 7 months ago

Ya, gotta make sure Genocidal Joe has a solid shot of finishing the job with the Palestinians.

And that he gets us resoundingly balls deep in military conflicts with every middle eastern country.

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 39 points 7 months ago

'people working zero hours a week'

Did anyone else take this as meaning "politicians"?

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 10 points 7 months ago
[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

I mean, at this point is there a difference?

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 37 points 7 months ago

I can’t tell if this is ironic or unironic.

[-] seahorse@midwest.social 26 points 7 months ago

It has the TPUSA logo so it was made unironically.

[-] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 7 months ago

Like landlords? Investors? Heirs?

[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 11 points 7 months ago

I honestly thought this was about landlords...

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 23 points 7 months ago

Exactly! "Investing" isn't a real job.

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago

My landlord worked so hard to inherit a third of the properties in town.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago
[-] Potatisen@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

Lol, "high taxes". You think that's the problem in the US?

[-] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

When you add all of the taxes up - yeah it's pretty high, especially considering our infrastructure and healthcare situation. ROI is absolutely shit.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

You mean investors? Landlords? Capitalists? Retirees on social security?

[-] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

This is especially stupid because most low wage workers have a negative income tax due to the EITC.

[-] blazera@kbin.social 14 points 7 months ago

I was so confused not knowing what community this was in. Im like, "...but that's what Bernie's all about, not giving out money to rich executives"

[-] Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

I fucking paid my taxes to protect me from poverty if I became disabled... little did I know that disability only pays 11k/year and if you have more than $2k in the bank or in valuables, they take away your food and Medicaid. That $2k asset limit hasn't changed since 1974. We can't fix a vehicle on that, we can't pay our rent, we can't survive on max $2k at any given time. If adjusted for inflation, it would be $13k. That's enough to survive on.

[-] rgb3x3@beehaw.org 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm of the opinion that people making less than 50,000 a year should only be paying like 5% in taxes and FICA/SS. And anyone under 150,000 taxed at 10%. Because the people making above that can afford to pay the typical 20% or more, but less than 150k is not all that much these days.

And then the mega-rich need to be paying way more than they do. Not just income tax, but capital gains tax and tax on the total value of their assets above 5 million (don't @ me with this number, it's an example) or whatever.

[-] Masterblaster@kbin.social 6 points 7 months ago

conservatives>wood chipper>feet first

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Airtight Republicunt logic.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

It's my higher value contribution to profits that are going to people who don't work.

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