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Sabotaging your life ain't going to bring him back, man. Dude had made up his mind and it really didn't matter whether you were available or not....it was inevitable.

Go see a shrink. You're depressed. Take a med if you have to to help you get past what is clearly deep grief.

ETA: The VA has a ton of resources available to you and there's NO ONE who knows more about veteran suicide than the VA. If you've shut them out, you're making a tragic mistake.

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punished for it.

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Taxes aren't punishment. Taxes are the bill you pay to live in our country and become wildly successful. These folks couldn't have done it without us.

I also believe that, yes, there is such a thing as too much wealth being held by a single individual. These people should be ashamed of themselves to hold wealth like that. Props to people like Buffet and Gates who at least recognize they've been given an incredible gift and have, or will, give away the vast majority of their wealth.

I go back to my example from earlier. I believe you're an IT/tech guy...not sure what your wife does but let's ballpark it and say your household income is about $200k/yr. Pretty solid and puts you in the top 20% of American households.

To reach just $1B in wealth at your current income level, you would have to work every year since 2975 fricking BC. 5000 years at $200k year and you'd reach your first billy.

So what about reaching the wealth of a guy like Elon Musk, currently estimated net worth of $400,000,000,000. At your current income level, that's 2 million years, dude. 2 million. You know what was happening on Earth 2 million years ago? HomoSapiens first appeared 2.8 million years ago.....so you'd basically have to work since the dawn of mankind until now to be worth what Elon Musk is worth.

No man, no matter what the frick they do or have done, should be worth that much money. It's unethical, unfair, and a fricking embarrassment to our capitalist beliefs.

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Can we talk about 50% of Americans paying effectively 0% in income taxes? It's pretty impossible for any tax cuts to benefit people that don't pay any

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They own 2.5% of American wealth. They don't matter, frankly. 67,000,000 households essentially shut out of the wealth generated by the American economy.

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Friendly reminder that america has the most progressive income tax system in the western world

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Keep moving that goal post.

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This is one of the dumbest things I’ve read on here. Putting aside the fact that numerous nations have tried wealth taxes and they failed, your 3% wealth tax plan would be a great way to crash the stock market.

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Oh really? During the boom of the US economy after WWII until 1970ish, what were the top marginal rates, Mr. Dumbest?

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Milley, Tillerson, Pompeo, Wray

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Wow. We definitely aren't going to agree.

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beers would be a piece of cake, hot dogs not so much

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With the pitch timer, games are now only like 2-2.5hrs long. 150 mins. 9 beers. One beer every 17 minutes. That's not easy, especially while downing hot dogs. The beer will bloat your gut drinking them that fast and then the hot dogs!?

I would fail horribly.

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These are considered to be malware, as they’re designed to disable a target system by crashing it. However, Diallo has flipped the script and is now using zip bombs as a way to defend against malware attacks.

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Some mutually assured destruction shite.

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The thought was that American farmers were going to be hurt worst by reciprocal tariffs as Trump fought to level the playing field/return industry to America. So yes, some people would be paying more so that some others would regain the lost industrial jobs.

This might come as a shock to you, but always selling out your fellow man on the global market place in return for marginally cheaper products out of the third world results in all but the massive multi-nationals being reduced to peasant status. These are the sacrifices that must be made to rebuild our nation.

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Specifics, dude.

What industrial jobs are we bringing back? Which industries? Who is going to work there and for what wages? Can we compete with Chinese wages? Are you saying Americans should accept 35%, 45%, 55% inflationary pressures so we can have a fricking steel plant up the road?

In the real world, unlike the political world, facts, numbers, forecasting, and pragmatism matter. This pie-in-the-sky bullshite doesn't fly.

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With HHS cutting its budget by over 1/3rd a lot of that targets tax credits and subsidies which rural hospitals and health care centers rely on as they basically operate in the red without the fed gov.

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USAID spent $2B last year buying food from our farmers to ship to poor nations. Needless to say, that program is long gone.


So we're going to take "income" from these tariffs and turn right around and send it to American farmers losing money because of the tariffs? And Americans will pay more in the process?

WTF are we doing here?