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MsStevieMarie said:
Anyone who really thinks Biden is in the lead or even has a shot just needs to look at the past 2 weeks. I can smell the desperation from the other side of the Pacific. Those internal polls must be getting worse and worse.
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I'd say his odds improved a bit purely because now there's something for the Democrats to give a shit about in the form of a Supreme Court Justice, but it's still about 75-25 Orange Man IMO. Sore sight better than 85-15 that I predicted earlier in the year tho.

Biggest reason it's that skewed is the ballot bullshit I predict being something in play.
 
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Fanatical Pragmatist said:
Meanwhile what righties actually think of Trump's tax returns:
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They do not understand that conservative, right-leaning and even a good fragment of libertarians fundamentally hate taxes and at best see taxation as a necessary evil.
This plan to "EXPOSE DRUMPF!" would be the same as Republicans trying to "expose" a Liberal by leaking that they had an abortion or are an illegal immigrant - it'd be useless because their base loves those things.


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greengrilledcheese said:
Some of them think Trump has done no prep for the debates:
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https://twitter.com/PKRJKR/status/1310224340785430529 (https://archive.vn/Oqq6L)
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Yeah Trump needs to prepare seriously by calling lids for most of the week, not rally, and mumble incoherently to the media...oh wait...

I hate doing this whataboutism but calling Trump out for supposedly not doing Debate prep while supporting a candidate who doesn't even bother to campaign for most of the week on average is really a sign of cognitive dissonance.
 
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so does every teenager on twitter think your employers deducting 6% off of your paycheck the same as paying taxes or something?

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>surprised pikachu face that Drumpf pays a few hundred dollars of income tax when he literally donates his entire paycheck
>also Drumpf loses a bunch of money and is broke and not a real billionaire lol
This whole tax thing is just them trying to have their cake and eat it. They must be seething that they didn't find a bunch of wire transfers straight from Putin in there.
 
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samuraicrack said:
so does every teenager on twitter think your employers deducting 6% off of your paycheck the same as paying taxes or something?

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She also earns more money monthly than a south american engineer working full time. But she is not a millionaire so something something life is unfair to her
 
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Getting tard comed said:
Did you ask him why? Also ask him how is he supposed to pay income taxes off of $1?
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It was actually a woman who brought it up (younger and wearing glasses too), and I couldn't really continue on as much as I wished, both because the news was new to me, and my workplace isn't exactly open to having political discussions.
 
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My workplace has us all automatically subscribed to Apple News, and holy shit they spend so much time unabashedly sucking the DNC's wrinkled cocks, their mouths must have gone numb by now. I had to unsubscribe, every three hours or so I'd get an e-mail with "BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP PANICS AFTER TAX SCANDAL" and other shit written in big, bold letters. Fucking trash.
 
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HumanHive said:
This entire incident is why we need a flat tax.
No accountants. It can be somewhat adjusted based on income, but everyone fucking pays something.
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That's one of those things that sounds great and fair on paper, but when you think about it, would be unfair in that it would hurt the poor and middle class more than the rich that it's supposed to be targeting in the name of "Fairness". Because if you sit down to think through the numbers, taking 8% of everyone's income impacts the purchase power of your lower-income brackets more drastically.

Like, if I have $100, 8% of it gone leaves me with $92... that doesn't sound bad, but, think about what you can buy with a fresh hundee in your pocket versus having just a bit less, that's a make-or-break threshold for a lot of things.

Now, consider the guy with $10,000.... 8% of that gone leaves him with $9,200. The drop in money by percentile is the same, but, going from five figures to four doesn't close off your financial options as much as crossing from three digits to two.

Having $88,000 instead of $100,000? It may affect the ability to buy luxuries or cap some investments below where they'd make the most return, but that guy isn't going to hurt for covering basic necessities. However, saying you have $88 vs $100 to a regular working person will have immediate effects on the grocery budget, suddenly that one measly extra box of whatever or better-cut of meat is out of reach. Or that repair bill on the car may now not leave the $20 behind for gas in the budget too. See how it sneaks up on you?

The loss of discretionary buying power is more acutely felt by those with less when taxes go up. A flat tax is something that will disproportionately hurt poor people, but not be even noticed by the wealthy. That's why taxes are graduated in brackets, paying the same % across the board expressed in dollars is not the same as paying the same % across the board in terms of your potential total income.

Also, a huge chunk of taxes are paid by a small % of wealthy payers, reducing the rates to a single-digit flat tax would immediately cause major shortfalls. Now, if you're not a fan of Government or taxes, and I'm certainly not, that's not a bad thing per se. But, as we stand now, until we wean ourselves off the bloated gibs machine, nobody in government is going to seriously CONSIDER the flat tax, or much tax reform, because they know it would, overnight, cost half the revenue, and nobody in the bureaucracy wants to tighten their belt.

So, not only is one-rate-for-all not really fair, but the system as it stands now, addicted to tax revenue, would talk a nice game about it, but never seriously consider it since they can tax the highest brackets at 80%, and not really have anyone except the super-wealthy mad at them, and having the wealthy upset at their tax rates has been accepted as a moral imperative of progressive government for a long time. And that's another reason why it won't change, the wealthy would WELCOME flat tax rates, it'd immediately cut their obligations, and happy rich taxpayers are bad optics for the left.
 
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Catgirl IRL said:
Please I beg you, whatever your political affiliation might be, if you want to remain an atheist in the US, vote Democrat up and down the ballot.

I love the idea of these fedora wearing dorks being forced to pray every so often, not gonna lie, but fucking hell the paranoia on show.
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I guess it's only when it's Christians, these atheists are "atheists in name only" when it come to Muslims....

As for Trump's tax returns. one Youtuber dropped that comment on Styx's vlog worth to save for posterity.

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Why is the New York Times so obsessed with Trump’s tax returns but they’ve never once investigated Warren Buffett or George Soros of the tax loopholes that they have probably used?
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Gehenna said:
Then they go from "merely devastated" to "Actively suicidal".

I know people joke about it, but I'd legit see mass suicide and exodus as a result.It would mean the 'majority' of the country is at BEST apathetic to the fascist but at worst that a majority SUPPORTS him. They have driven themselves to such emotional weakness and fervor that there'd be no other options.
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Good! That means less competition and cheaper appartments for rent, then when the boomers die off, I can finally afford a house.
 
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