• LupusBlackfur
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    1926 days ago

    And just when do you truly think any MAGAt will propose something “good”…???

    Don’t be daft.

    🙄

    • @alkbch@lemmy.mlOP
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      -3626 days ago

      No income tax on people earning less than $150k for example.

      Trump has also passed animal protection laws during his first term.

      • Billiam
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        1826 days ago

        Yes, the rich fucking love no-income-tax schemes. Because that’s always followed by more-sales-tax-to-replace-lost-revenue schemes, which is demonstrably proven to move the tax burden from the obscenely wealthy to the other end of the economic spectrum.

        Our $800 billion war machine isn’t going to stop just because 80% of Americans don’t pay taxes anymore.

        • @alkbch@lemmy.mlOP
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          -2126 days ago

          You realize the rich would still be paying income taxes, as they make more than $150k… and they would be paying those sales taxes too.

              • @futatorius@lemm.ee
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                124 days ago

                Look at the distribution of income tax paid within that 1%. It catches the professionals getting salaries and commissions that exceed $400k/yr (that’s the approximate breakpoint for 99th percentile), but towards the high end of that 1%, most income is of non-salary origin (options and capital gains).

      • LupusBlackfur
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        26 days ago

        Pfft…

        Anyone looking seriously/hopefully/longingly at those pitiful distractions is simply missing the bigger MAGAt picture/goal of entirely subverting US democracy.

        That’s just bread and circuses.

        🙄

        • @alkbch@lemmy.mlOP
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          -2726 days ago

          You asked for good policies, I gave you good policies. You want to pretend everything MAGA does is bad? Go for it, I’m not stopping you if you don’t care about being accurate.

          • LupusBlackfur
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            1326 days ago

            Yes.

            In my world, the preponderance of MAGAt goals are bad so they are ultimately and entirely bad.

            You’re simply attempting: “Look, here’s a couple of good things in a big bucket of bad. So obviously they can’t be all bad”.

            Definition of bread and circuses.

            • @alkbch@lemmy.mlOP
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              -2426 days ago

              You might want to leave your world and join the real world back, where not everything is black and white.

              • @Fondots@lemmy.world
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                926 days ago

                Yes, it’s not all black and white, but the MAGA agenda is a big bucket of black paint with a couple tiny drops of white mixed in. You can split hairs about how that technically makes it a very dark shade of charcoal grey, but for all practical purposes it’s fucking black.