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With 1970s deductions, and tax brackets adjusted for inflation, I'd HAPPILY take a 90% top marginal tax rate.

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Which is why every time some lefty argues for tax increase by telling me, "but, back in such and such year, they were much higher", I know I'm dealing with an idiot and the person can be summarily dismissed.

I don't mind having a real conversation about where taxes should sit in terms of rates. But, if the person doesn't even know that the rates back then came with a shite TON of special deductions, we just can't talk.

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So we should craft tax law for every corporation based on one corporation we don't like? K. You seem sensible.

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The funny part is, this kind of thinking is what created the absurdities of the past with hilariously high top bracket rates that basically, no one really paid because the congress was handing out this that or the other special treatment.

We spent decades pretty much eliminating REAL loopholes and today's democrats STILL talk like it's 1970.

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One of the tiredest talking points ever. Exept for employee retirement... USPS receives almost no federal funding. LINK / And USPS runs a profit on AMZN shipments. So...

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But but but........Democrat Underground said!!!!

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Why would you want poor people to pay taxes? Is that good for the society? Or good for your own fee fees?

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There are virtually zero poor people in America. Our fricking homeless are better off than at least 4 billion people on the planet.

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The response by the MSN/government to those of us doing this will a 180 from Maxine's constituents doing this.

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And, that would just INCREASE the numbers of those willing to do it.

People really do VASTLY over estimate the ability of our, or any other government to repel a significant percentage of the population. And, by significant, I'm still talking single digits.

STOP PROTESTING GOVERNMENT!!!!

Australia's, and our government officials are NOTHING without their propagandists and their enforcers.

Protesting congress is stupid. Even Jan 6th was stupid.

You want to have an impact? Invade CNN HQ. Invate Twitter HQ. Find out where people who work in senior roles of FB and Twitter live(this really ain't hard). Identify and DOX police officers like those in the OP.

Make being a shill or enabler of the totalitarians HIGHLY unpleasant if not downright dangerous.

Yes. Basically, follow Maxine's orders.............it works.

I still love how so many Democrats run around acting like conservatives and Republicans should be OMG appalled about her and MTG.

Do you realize the chutzpah it takes to throw stones when you STILL have Hank Johnson, Cori Bush and Maxine Waters on committees and holding significant power? No one in all of congress is more racist than Waters or Bush and I'm sorry, I don't care how many little green men MTG sees, you have some ground to cover before you can beat out Hank "Islands can Tip Over" Johnson for dumbest shite in congress.

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Blacks also agree by majority not to take the vaccine….something seems amiss?

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Nothing is amiss.

They're fricking dumb. Yes, there are exceptions. But the group? Dumb as a fricking stone.

If you took 100 of them at random and put them in a room.......and went down a list of all the policies........they'd hate most of them.........then, even after that. If you said, "do you support Biden's response"? They'd say yep.

Pavlov's dogs had more independent agency than blacks do.

Seriously. Go up to ANY unvaxxed black person and say, "is it OK if we prevent you from eating at a restaurant and fire you from your job" you'd be getting a massive "Aw hellll no".........

Followed by, "I still loves my massa Biden"

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I call foul on 75% blacks agree . I’m around them constantly and I’ve never seen one yet that trusted the government entities on this

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Sheesh. I know several blacks who are vaccinated.......STILL wear masks everywhere.......STILL social distance.........and refuse to go to public places like restaurants.

You'd think we were dealing with ebola

Ya know, everyone talks about "no guns" etc in Australia. But, the reality is, if everyone unvaccinated decided, "we're gonna drag their asses in the street and hang them, there's literally nothing the government could do to stop that many people.

And, let's be honest here. You don't even have to target the hard to get at people like the heads of government.

shite would change in a heartbeat if the Aussies simply starting hanging mainstream journalists pushing this shite.

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I still think he’s a great coach but I’m glad that Tom has taken a big dump on his legacy. He deserves it for being an arse.

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^^^^^^
THIS

His so incurably arrogant, that I don't care if the questions now are unfair. frick him.

That said, OP stats are not really a reasonable comparison.

"Stats without Brady" includes the Browns run which, well, the Browns. But, more importantly, a much more reasonable comparison would be of his run with the Patriouts "stats without Brady" vs all of those other coaches "stats when their starting QB went down".

At least that would be a more direct comparison.

Regardless. frick Bill Belichick. LOL

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I root for the New York Islanders hockey team.

Last year they almost made the Stanley Cup finals and this year they are moving in to a new stadium. Ticket prices are double what they were last year and I don't consider that an increase in my taxes.

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This rebuttal is just spectacularly stupid.

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ETA - you are NOT a conservative.

frick off RINO.

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He's not a RINO so much as he's just ignorant. He, for whatever reason, thinks of himself as "conservative" but has no real idea of why or what that even means. He's really no more informed than your average Starbucks Barrista with a Gender Studies degree and his conservatism is almost certainly nothing more than a product of socialization and not much else.

I'm a conservative because, at one time, when I was young, I thought of myself as liberal. But, then, after about the 10,oooth time I started a sentence with "they ought to......", I started asking myself "who the frick are these they that I keep referring to?"

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Why would you expect manual labor to "keep up with inflation"? Manual labor has been deflating in value since the industrial revolution

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While somewhat true, I'd argue that manual labor has actually one reasonably well up against inflation.

As I pointed out in my earlier post, in today's dollars, 1980 minimum wage would be 10.29. And, almost everyone in Fast food STARTED at min wage.

TODAY, fast food joints are paying at least that and literally every FF joint in my are is 30ish % more.

In practical terms, if you are making minimum wage today, you are in a job that could not have even existed in 1980. You are literally ONLY employed BECAUSE minimum wage hasn't kept pace.

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I'm conservative as they come but it's a joke that wages haven't kept up with inflation

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In 1980, minimum wage was $3.10. In today's dollars, that's $10.29

EVERY fast food joint near me is starting people at wages greater than that. Wendy's down the road is starting at $13 per hour. Another place has a sign for $15 per hour.

Do NOT confuse "min wage hasn't risen with inflation to mean anything. There are NOWHERE NEAR as many people on min wage as a percent of population today as then. It's not even close.

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He’s anti-woke to a point, but he will never vote any other way but Democrat so it’s a wash.

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True. And, liberals like him ARE a problem.

That said, we need as many like him to openly talk about what liberalism REALLY is.

We can operate as a nation that disagrees on SS, abortion, the death penalty, taxes, etc etc. That's a thing in every nation that votes.

We cannot operate as a nation of people who simply hold elections to see who can frick the other guy.

And, it's affecting us all. I'm not going to lie. If an Earthquake somehow hit California and San Francisco fell into the sea killing every living being in the city, I just wouldn't give a frick. And, that's wrong. I know it's wrong. But, I also STILL know that I just wouldn't give a frick.

And the truth is, if New Orleans wasn't full of black people, liberals in those types of places wouldn't have given a frick about it after Katrina.

I don't know how we get back from where we are. But, where we are has a lot of kindling in it and, sparks are everywhere.

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f Maricopa county was worried about it they wouldn't be mocking them on Twitter like that they would be working through lawyers and circling wagons.

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Dear lord

Were you born yesterday?