re: Why do poor people pretend they're rich?

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You are either incredibly misinformed or trolling.

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Oh he believes it.

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Just because you are not rich does NOT mean you can't out of principle believe that taxes should overall be lower in America.

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So you supported Obama over Boehner, right? Obama wanted to cut your taxes. Boehner didn't care about you, only those making considerably more money.

Tax cuts benefit the top earners disproportionately because they pay a massively disproportionate amount of taxes relative to low income earners. There is no way to cut taxes across the board and not disproportionately benefit the top brackets.

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So you supported Obama over Boehner, right?

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What a lame attempt at a gotcha.

Boehner wanted it all to be preserved. Obama was the only one that wanted to raise taxes on anybody.

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Your entire OP is absurd on face value. 

Just because you are not rich does NOT mean you can't out of principle believe that taxes should overall be lower in America. 

That is like saying you shouldn't support marijuana legalization if you never actually will consume any. 

Or that you shouldn't support civil asset forfeiture reform if you will never be in that position where they will seize your assets.

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Thanks for translating because I kept zoning out reading the OP.

Yeah OP is a doofus if he can't grasp this simple concept.

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Boehner wanted it all to be preserved. Obama was the only one that wanted to raise taxes on anybody.

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So you supported the man working against your own pocketbook. Got it. That's the entire fricking point of this thread.

But hey, at least you can still tell ole Jim Bob you're a republican...a MAN'S MAN...MAGA bitch!

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Yeah OP is a doofus if he can't grasp this simple concept.

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The OP's worldview is actually more than just stupid, it is fundamentally dangerous.

Voting solely for your financial self-interest, while ignoring everything else, opens the door to all kinds of potential abuses against minority groups, whether ethnic, class-based, etc, in the name of "self interest"

It was in the financial self interest of a southerner to support slavery, it was in the financial self interest of a 1930s german to support the Nazis against wealthy jews.

All kinds of persecution against minority groups by the majority, for financial self-gain, all across the globe have historically taken place, often by the less well off for financial gain.

The Ibos in nigeria

the parsees in India

Armenians in ottoman empire

chinese in malyasia

lebanese in west africa

tamils in sri lanka

all these groups faced violence, persecution, etc, by a majority who solely were thinking of their financial self interest.

What if I just want to keep my money and you keep your money?

I haven't read all the replies, but you do realize that all the traditional left programs require much higher (on the order of 15 - 20%) taxes for the middle and upper-middle classes, right? That's still where the great bulk of income - taxable or not - is in this country. It's what the Scandanavians require.

Oh, we also spend more per capita in education (which is largely through public avenues) and healthcare (about half of which is through public avenues) than anyone else in the world and get about the 25th - 30th best outcomes in both? Clearly, public spending on the marginal dollar doesn't work out that well right now in the U.S.

Maybe these people are a little smarter than you give them credit.

I’m not sure wtf I just read but I have no idea how you hoodwinked someone into paying you minimum wage let alone the income you just claimed.