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Debt of only $2.9 trillion? Amateurs. 😆

Nobody has any money.


@spruce112358 said
Debt of only $2.9 trillion? Amateurs. 😆

Nobody has any money.
Nobody except the billionaires who get richer every year.


@AThousandYoung said
Nobody except the billionaires who get richer every year.
Well. First, we have to get rid of the capital gains tax because IT'S A TAX!!! GET RID OF IT!!!

And then we lower interest rates to create a FUUKINAWESOME bubble!

I think... yeah... I think that'll do'er. 😆


@AThousandYoung said
Nobody except the billionaires who get richer every year.
Impossible to stop that.


@Rajk999 said
Impossible to stop that.
No it isn’t. The billionaires and the abject poverty of today were caused by right wing tax cuts.


@AThousandYoung said
No it isn’t. The billionaires and the abject poverty of today were caused by right wing tax cuts.
What exactly is abject poverty ?


@Rajk999 said
What exactly is abject poverty ?
Inability to shelter oneself, eating food provided by charity, exposed to violence and diseases that are normally easy to control by avoiding sick people but because of homelessness and anti loitering laws they are concentrated together and germs spread easily.

Yes I know there are people worse off in the world but the USA has this idea that it is better than South Sudan. We are not interested in attaining equal levels of poverty as the most wretched places on Earth.


@AThousandYoung said
Inability to shelter oneself, eating food provided by charity, exposed to violence and diseases that are normally easy to control by avoiding sick people but because of homelessness and anti loitering laws they are concentrated together and germs spread easily.

Yes I know there are people worse off in the world but the USA has this idea that it is better than South ...[text shortened]... n. We are not interested in attaining equal levels of poverty as the most wretched places on Earth.
When I said "what exactly", I meant what is the $$$ income that people are considered poor or like in your expression, 'abject poverty'. Is there such a thing as the poverty line in the US? If so what is it?


@Rajk999 said
When I said "what exactly", I meant what is the $$$ income that people are considered poor or like in your expression, 'abject poverty'. Is there such a thing as the poverty line in the US? If so what is it?
I don’t know. You can look up those numbers yourself if you want. When I used the phrase I meant what I just said I meant.


@AThousandYoung said
I don’t know. You can look up those numbers yourself if you want. When I used the phrase I meant what I just said I meant.
So using your expression and description, do those people you describe pay taxes?


@Rajk999 said
So using your expression and description, do those people you describe pay taxes?
Other than sales taxes, no.


@AThousandYoung said
Other than sales taxes, no.
So how did the right wing tax cuts cause abject poverty?


@Rajk999 said
So how did the right wing tax cuts cause abject poverty?
Because the billionaires are using government muscle to compete with the poor for resources and are not paying for these services with taxes.

If the Right can manage it they will start taxing the poor with a flat tax on top of this.


https://itep.org/a-distributional-analysis-of-donald-trumps-tax-plan-2024/

Trump wants to increase taxes on all income below $360,000 per year and drastically cut taxes above that.

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