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Don't forget the new tax plan also includes tax increases for us plebs too!
Cut benefits, increase payments! Good job Magoos!
National sales tax incoming.
Don't start giving Mango Mussolini any ideas.
What do you think Tariffs are? It's the Trump Sales Tax.
I thought the Trump sales tax was the $64B crypto rug-pull he did on his sycophants.
almost as if it were billionaires working for the benefit of other billionaires...
cutting taxes for the wealthy could risk damaging the populist image that Trump has cultivated.
It's never seemed to damage his image with his supporters before. He could hold them down and shit into their mouths and they'd find a reason to think it was an ok thing to do
Many of his supporters don't consider themselves poor or middle-class, they consider themselves pre-millionaires.
When I was a kid, I was told that "The American Dream" was a house and two cars. At some point along the way, that morphed into "anyone can be a millionaire."
Probably about the time it started taking a million dollars to comfortably maintain a house and two cars...
Have it. Don't want it. New American dream is to be able to fuck off in the woods for weeks at a time, and still have medical care.
That's because in many places you need to be a millionaire to get that two story ranch style house and 2 cars made in the last 5 years.
He's feeding the poor!!
To the rich. 🫤
Let them eat eggs.
I knew this would happen and loads of people on lemmy accused me of “fearmongering” or “only caring about myself” when I said I’d vote Harris
With me, at least, they have moved on to, "you care more about your gay daughter than Palestinians!" Which... yeah. That's called parenting. Along with, "why are you worried about a queer genocide that hasn't happened yet?!" Because I don't want to chance it? People can be such assholes.
It’s like yeah.
If both candidates mean gaza is fucked, but one of them means hundreds of thousands of extra unnecessary deaths to disabled people, homeless people, migrants, poor people, queer and trans people etc.
Of fucking course I’ll pick the least bad option instead of being apathetic about it. Especially since I’m a disabled poor person who has had bouts of homelessness.
These same people do not seem to understand that "least bad option" does not mean "good option." Some of them are now justifying it by saying Harris supports genocide but all Trump supports is ethnic cleansing. Seriously.
I have always taken the advice of W.C. Fields: "I never vote for, only against." Because there has never been a politician in my adult life that I would have voted for in a general presidential election. Or even a senatorial election,
Same. I’m an anarchist. I don’t believe in this distorted liberal democratic system that seems to benefit the elite no matter the outcome.
But I sure as hell am going to exercise my right to vote. It being a shitty system where I have little power doesn't mean I should throw away the power I do have!
"Kamala Harris is not the perfect progressive candidate in every way. How can I possibly vote for her? I'll sit this one out. That'll show 'em!"
People need to accept that the electoral system in the US is just a trolley problem at the end of the day unfortunately.
Not quite.
For starters it didn't use to be a choice of "who would you rather see killed" - or in other words, nothing was forever lost if one side won instead of the other - and beyond that it has always been a cyclical choice, so it made sense for voters who felt insufficiently catered to, to punish a side on one cycle to try and get it to offer a better deal on the next cycle.
Whether that remains the case - i.e. will Trump make himself dictator for life - is the big question.
Basically, and people let 'the enemy of perfect get in the way of good enough'. Progress is incremental unfortunately. That's just how it is. We can accept that, or we get this crap.
That’s nuts. “Only voting for yourself” is usually a trump vote. Generally, a Left-wing voter asks “What’s best for everyone?” and a Right-wing voter asks “What’s best for me?”
Of course, the Democrat party isn’t left-wing (more like middle-right) but still, it’s a far less selfish vote than trump.
I don't know about your life, but my life is made better by the acceptance and participation of all sorts of people. I'm selfishly voting for Democrats because I have 4 daughter and a gay son.
My wife and I make enough money and I could be happy on less if it improved the environment around me by improving the lives of the people I share the world with. Those brown people would be a hell of a lot less scary to us white people if so many of them weren't in desperate financial straits, and if we didn't teach them to expect hatred and cruelty from us.
I'm a selfish-as-fuck-left-wing-voter.
Amen brother, a rising tide raises all ships
This is dumb, you can do America First policies and have FDR-type socialism, or Nordic model policies, together. American permanent residents and citizens should get benefits they pay for via their taxes. Simple.
America is the land of wealth not well-being. Would you want to live out your retirement in America or Denmark?
It is dumb, as long as your goal is to be as rich as possible and not be as powerful as possible
You will generate better profit from a rich population; they'll also advocate for your business if you openly support their ascension, and you'd lose nothing in profits by doing so
But you do lose power. Power over people, and the benefit of doubt that the government won't strike down on you if you appease, and the people will have more important shit to focus on now that their benefits are gone
Both parties did this, republicans can do it more outwardly without causing a split in parties
The country already has too many homeless, this would make it worse.
Why would you be homeless when you could just ~~perform slave labor~~ grow organic lettuce on a ~~isolated off-the-grid~~ tech-free ~~camp~~ farm in Kansas?
That's the plan for people "addicted" to (prescribed) amphetamines and ssri's, right? What is that, like, 1 in 3 millennials? (no shade I'm in that group)
Why not ~~send~~ offer the homeless to go there too, if it's so great?
