https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1456388071256100870?t=dkwxcxi4suhPDRZHspvETw&s=19

https://nitter.net/ryangrim/status/1456388071256100870?t=dkwxcxi4suhPDRZHspvETw&s=19

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Hey that's so weird how a tax on billionaires is something pretty much every working class person, left or right, thinks is a good idea, and yet it never seems to materialize. Almost as if the bourgeoisie DICTATE what's done or not done and the people have no real say in it.

  • Mother [any]
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    3 years ago

    We replaced a rich people tax with a poor people tax!

    • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      No new tax on the uber-wealthy

      Large new tax on the consumer side of a common consumer item

      No cuts to our bloated military spending

      Oh yeah, it's austerity time.

  • poppy_apocalypse [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    Amazing. What's left in the bill that even matters? The child tax credit? There's nothing I can do, Jack :biden-troll:

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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      3 years ago

      Nah, it's just a trillion dollars for random businesses that all made a killing off the pandemic anyway.

      But actually afaik all that's still in it is an EV tax credit and the $1000 increase to the child tax credit.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      The child tax credit

      Next time we look it'll be the child labor tax. All to make sure profits from your kid working in the coal miners are evenly split between their boss, their parents, and their government.

      What's that? The kids don't get any pay for their work? They're getting paid in valuable work experience and character building! That kind of resume padding will be worth its weight in gold when they turn 18 and become actual human beings and not property of their parents.

    • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Child tax credit, climate measures, and universal pre-k. Everything else has either been cut or so watered-down that it might as well be.

      • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        climate measures,

        Are they actually that? Or is the federal government giving the private sector mountains of cash and asking them to try to get around to fixing the problem.

        • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Mix of both. A lot of tax credits, a lot of jobs and a Civilian Climate Corps.

  • DickFuckarelli [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    So poor people are going to pay a luxury tax to subsidize what should have been a billionaire tax?

    Remind me again how or why this system is so awesome?

  • medium_adult_son [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Couldn't they sneak in a tax on billionaires? Just put in some tax for anyone with more than 3 houses or 2 swimming pools, idk.

    I forgot, the billionaires either write the bills or are the only people able to (pay others to) read the contents of every bill.

    • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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      3 years ago

      They love letting their opponents "to the right" win. Anything to their left is an actual threat that they destroy. Their purpose is to contain and eliminate any resistance from the left.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I’d elect Vermont to be the first stop of this hypothetical party.

      I know my party and PSL both have been cooperating in Vermont with local farmers and city-slickers to build a workers-and-farmers coalition to exert more power over the local political system.

    • LilComrade [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Liberals are just as likely to be the enemy as an average conservative in my experience

  • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Democrats are cowardly and will not be raising taxes on the rich nearly enough on this bill.

    That being said, cigarette taxes are good, save thousands if not millions of working-class lives every decade, and it's weird so many leftists have fallen for the tobacco industry talking point that it's classist to support them. Cigarette taxes are one of the single greatest NPIs to reduce cancer risk developed by mankind and grievously harm the tobacco industry.

    This is basically a scientific fact: https://twitter.com/nberpubs/status/1265659027779919872?s=20

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30705247/#:~:text=Results%3A%20For%20every%20one%2Ddollar,taking%2010%20years%20to%20materialise.

    EDIT: looking at the comments, I am now fully convinced cigarette companies target the working class because they know there will be "leftists" ready to lick their boots at a moment's notice.

    • Quaxamilliom [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Yea, but this is a 'nicotine' tax thats also gonna hit vapes hard and make them even more expensive than cigs. Vapes were literally the only thing that helped me quit after 15 years of nearly a pack a day smoking.

    • Three_Magpies [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      You say it saves the working class, I say it makes them more miserable because they can’t even smoke as things constantly get worse.

    • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      This is going to alienate a bunch of folks, however, and is a regressive tax that starkly contrasts with the plan supposedly being to tax the rich.

    • OgdenTO [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It's like taxing fuels and cars and road tolls are good, but predominantly (actually only) negatively affects the working class who depend on cars to get to their jobs, since in America there is no realistic public transit alternative. People are addicted to cigarettes