I'd be happy paying taxes if they went to social works and infrastructure and whatnot, but yeah.
Now let's talk about spending 60-80% of my remaining income on rent
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Love my taxes going to committing genocide and protecting Israel
"You forgot your briefcase!"
*and actively destroys/dismantles anything one could remotely be proud of having their tax money go to.
I'd gladly fund NASA and scientific research any day of the week, but nooooo gotta feed the poor poor billionaires.
My republican coworkers are complaining about NASA because they always flake when buying our products (we sell electronic stuff to defense related military contractors) because they don't have enough budget.
Fucking idiots don't realize that their political party doesn't even want a NASA
- issuing currency
- collecting taxes
- suppressing evidence of child sex trafficking
One of these things is so outrageously unlike the others that it makes me kinda sus of whoever decided to put them all in the same list
*Corrupt Government
*Has the ability to print money out of thin air with no downside.
*Forces you pay taxes anyway making you technically complicit in its crimes.
*Uses Its infinite wealth and power to openly protect child predators instead of something good because it is a corrupt government. (The most recent thing in the news cycle)
Interesting how all these things line up together when you don't abstract these things into nothingness. It makes me very sus of the person who decide to reword these so they don't fit on the same list.
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A charitable interpretation of "printing money out of thin air" is how they bail out corporations and landlords. Why even save if the game is so obviously rigged?
-genocide
Okay but we all get that Douglas was the bad guy, right? OP??
I'm pretty sure the bad guy was the fucked-up system that tortured him into his behavior. He's a victim as much as any of the people he hurt.
Well...
Yeah, originally I was going to say I don't agree at all with his character, but the progression is so great, leading up to the "I'm the bad guy?" moment.
He is bad guy, but he is not bad guy
He was pretty alright when he killed that nazi
I didn't see that part ;)
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I can hear Iron Maiden's 'Man on the Edge' music.
That's it, I'm walking directly home in a straight line
1/3, huh? You must be a high-earning Californian or New Yorker. I don't think anyone else pays that much.
In California as a single person, with only the standard deductions and not deducting anything else (no health insurance or 401k) you would have to make 210k to pay 1/3 of your salary. If you pay $100 a month in health insurance premiums and put 5% into 401k then you have to make over 275k to pay 1/3 of your salary in income tax
top tax bracket in those states is somewhere in the 50% neighborhood
Top tax rate in California is 12.5%. and it marginal so only the portion you make above the cutoff is what's taxed at that percent.
You also have to pay federal tax. And if you are in the top tax bracket you are earning somewhere between 700k and infinity money so what you are taxed on in that bracket can be almost nothing or it can asymptotically approach 100% of your earnings. In any case the top federal tax brackets is 37% and the top california tax bracket as you said is 12.5% which so happens to add up to 49.5%. Plus all the other stuff like social security and whatnot.
Those tax rates are marginal. That's not the literal rate you pay.
D-FENS is so aspirational especially the part where he stands up to the brown people and foreigners and then
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tries to murder suicide his daughter on her birthday
I don't want to be your buddy, Rick. I just want a little breakfast....
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And now your going to die wearing that stupid little hat
If you were part of the billionaire class, you'd be paying less. Sucker.
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