• Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    For most of my life I blissfully had no idea who Trump was, as I grew up in the Middle East and not North America. While I did hear his name a few times I had no idea who he was or what he did or anything about him.

    But the first time I heard him was back in 2010 when I saw YouTube interviews with Trump I wasn’t initially sure of what to make of his proposed tariffs with China (and he was talking about them back then), but after just some thinking (I had just graduated with a Bachelors in business at the time) and more reading I concluded that his idea was bonkers.

    Then cracked.com made an entire series of articles that were wildly successful that documented just what a horrific businessman and human being he was. You know on how comments sections anywhere are often highly toxic and conflict ridden? The comments on the Trump articles were actually quite unanimous on how much everyone hated Trump!

    I still can’t believe that he won and I cannot believe that his presidency was real.

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    Now, do the correlation between the people who wouldnt have their texes increased with the people who hold most of the national wealth. Hm.

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      Yeah TBH they still support him after the 2016 tax shitshow that cut taxes for the rich and raised it for everyone else.

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        Well remember many of them got $1000 bonuses as a reward from their employers for voting Trump, or something.

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    21 hours ago

    I’m still pissed about having to pay more in taxes this year thanks to this moron’s prior “tax cuts.” The fact that this jackass wants normal Americans to pay even more in taxes should be enough to sink his campaign but here we are.

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    Trump supporters don’t care, they’re happy to pay the Trump tax as long as the “right” people are being hurt/killed/displaced

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      And they will look at you with a straight face and say how much better the economy was under Trump. They really don’t care about any other factors, they will literally attribute any good thing to have been the masterwork of Trump, and anything they don’t like is some evil plot by Democrats intentionally structured to hurt them specifically.

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    18 hours ago

    Only 95%? You gotta pump those numbers up to 99%, those are rookie numbers.

    Peter Thiel or the Heritage Foundation, probably

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      18 hours ago

      Well yeah, it’s called trickle down economics. The top 5% are all job creators, they invest in companies. It’s not true that the 5% just let their wealth sit there and accumulate on an imaginary score board to beat the next richest person.

      It’s not like the richest people in the world are hurtling human civilization into a extinction level events to hoard more wealth.

      It’s not like the rich are looting this country to pad their bank accounts.

      The rich are going to use all that money to benefit everyone./s

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    19 hours ago

    Would the anti-tax lobby be for such massive tax increases? Surely, the anti-tax lobby is made more than 1%ers?

    I wish the common American would finally understand how all the wealth just wasting away in a few accounts is such a detriment to this country. From creating lobbying power to underfunding public works; it hurts the people and economy severely. I’m always asked, should a person be punished for making a lot of money… the answer is yes, they should find something more productive to do.

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    22 hours ago

    We need Musk to swoop in and optimize…haha jk I wouldn’t let either of these jokers clean my golf balls and I don’t even play golf.