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GOWTLOZ on 23 January 2019
Rab said:
think-man said:
I don't know who this person is xD

She triggers the establishment republicans and democrats no end, she will be big maybe even president one day as today's young emerge into politics   

Yeah by taxing the rich 70%. No I don't think so. If she does get elected and follows through with her demands, the US economy will be in shambles.



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irstupid on 23 January 2019
Rab said:
think-man said:
I don't know who this person is xD

She triggers the establishment republicans and democrats no end, she will be big maybe even president one day as today's young emerge into politics   

She better hurry up and run if she wants to be president, cause according to her the world is ending in 12 years due to climate change.



TheGamer_1995 on 23 January 2019

stalin as dlc character confirmed



deskpro2k3 on 23 January 2019
GOWTLOZ said:
Rab said:

She triggers the establishment republicans and democrats no end, she will be big maybe even president one day as today's young emerge into politics   

Yeah by taxing the rich 70%. No I don't think so. If she does get elected and follows through with her demands, the US economy will be in shambles.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower taxed the rich by 90%.
AOC's 70% deal will affect those making +10 million dollars a year. OOOoOoOoOoOoo shambles~ /s


TruckOSaurus on 23 January 2019
Shadow1980 said:
The good thing about Gen X-ers and now Millennials becoming an ever-growing portion of Congress means fewer out-of-touch Baby Boomers and Silent Generation folks who still think video games are this newfangled thing that rots kids' brains and even turn them into violent psychopaths. In 30 years, pretty much everyone in Congress will have grown up with video games. This would, I hope, entail that legislation intended to address video game violence (like, say, making ESRB ratings carry the force of law) will finally cease to be a thing.

The bad thing is that it reminds me how old I am. I was old enough to run for President in the 2016 election, and there are 26 people younger than me serving in the U.S. House of Representatives. 40 is just over 13 months away. The Reaper keeps sending me reminders that I'm approaching the halfway point.

Nah I'd say we're just a third of the way in! Ain't ready to leave for a loooong time.



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sethnintendo on 23 January 2019

She does have some big titties!



sethnintendo on 23 January 2019
irstupid said:
Rab said:

She triggers the establishment republicans and democrats no end, she will be big maybe even president one day as today's young emerge into politics   

She better hurry up and run if she wants to be president, cause according to her the world is ending in 12 years due to climate change.

Fuck still 12 more years?  Someone tell the orange president to hit the nuke buttons now. 



jason1637 on 23 January 2019
Shadow1980 said:
The good thing about Gen X-ers and now Millennials becoming an ever-growing portion of Congress means fewer out-of-touch Baby Boomers and Silent Generation folks who still think video games are this newfangled thing that rots kids' brains and even turn them into violent psychopaths. In 30 years, pretty much everyone in Congress will have grown up with video games. This would, I hope, entail that legislation intended to address video game violence (like, say, making ESRB ratings carry the force of law) will finally cease to be a thing.

The bad thing is that it reminds me how old I am. I was old enough to run for President in the 2016 election, and there are 26 people younger than me serving in the U.S. House of Representatives. 40 is just over 13 months away. The Reaper keeps sending me reminders that I'm approaching the halfway point.

Shadow 2020?



haxxiy on 23 January 2019
Hiku said:
GOWTLOZ said:

Yeah by taxing the rich 70%. No I don't think so. If she does get elected and follows through with her demands, the US economy will be in shambles.

That's not how tax brackets work. But I've seen a lot of right wing news outlets deliberately trying to make it seem that way, so I want to ask, where exactly did you hear this?

Tax brackets are already in place in the US. And she wants to add a few more. (USA have had 70 and even 90% tax brackets before, even under Republican presidents.)
It's technically possible that someone rich (qualifying for the 70% tax bracket) would only pay 70 cents extra in taxes.
Because you'll only pay 70% of your income on every dollar earned above a certain threshold.

Let's say the tax bracket looks like this:

$1 - $5 000 000 = 20%
$5 000 001 and above = 70%

If a person earns exactly 5 Million and one dollar, they will pay 20% in tax on all of it, except that one dollar that went beyond 5 million. On that dollar they'll pay 70% in tax, which is 70 cents.
So their total tax would be 1 Million dollars + 70 cents.

If that person earned 5 million and 2 dollars, they would pay 1 million + 1 dollar and 40 cents. And so on.

Curiously enough, more politically engaged Republicans consistently fail to correctly answer how taxation actually works, compared to those less engaged, possibly showcasing how much certain media outlets are spreading fake news concerning the subject:



 

 

 

 

 

GOWTLOZ on 23 January 2019
deskpro2k3 said:
GOWTLOZ said:

Yeah by taxing the rich 70%. No I don't think so. If she does get elected and follows through with her demands, the US economy will be in shambles.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower taxed the rich by 90%.
AOC's 70% deal will affect those making +10 million dollars a year. OOOoOoOoOoOoo shambles~ /s

 

SpokenTruth said:
GOWTLOZ said:

Yeah by taxing the rich 70%. No I don't think so. If she does get elected and follows through with her demands, the US economy will be in shambles.

Are you familiar with the US progressive tax system and/or her plan....or are you just confused?

She doesn't want to tax the rich 70% of their entire income.

 

Hiku said:
GOWTLOZ said:

Yeah by taxing the rich 70%. No I don't think so. If she does get elected and follows through with her demands, the US economy will be in shambles.

That's not how tax brackets work. But I've seen a lot of right wing news outlets deliberately trying to make it seem that way, so I want to ask, where exactly did you hear this?

Tax brackets are already in place in the US. And she wants to add a few more. (USA have had 70 and even 90% tax brackets before, even under Republican presidents.)
It's technically possible that someone rich (qualifying for the 70% tax bracket) would only pay 70 cents extra in taxes.
Because you'll only pay 70% of your income on every dollar earned above a certain threshold.

Let's say the tax bracket looks like this:

$1 - $5 000 000 = 20%
$5 000 001 and above = 70%

If a person earns exactly 5 Million and one dollar, they will pay 20% in tax on all of it, except that one dollar that went beyond 5 million. On that dollar they'll pay 70% in tax, which is 70 cents.
So their total tax would be 1 Million dollars + 70 cents.

If that person earned 5 million and 2 dollars, they would pay 1 million + 1 dollar and 40 cents. And so on.

Didn't know this. Sounds more palatable than what I was thinking, though its still likely that rich taxpayers will use loopholes even more than they do to avoid taxes when they are this high.

I don't live in the US btw.