r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • Aug 07 '26

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Eventually something has to give...

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The bill would provide a $3,000 direct payment to every person in households making $150,000 or less during its first year, which equals $12,000 for a family of four.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '26

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u/PigglyWigglyDeluxe Aug 08 '26

You missed a zero. Should be 100%

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u/FillerKill Aug 07 '26

Make it 10% + pay the full social security tax and we wouldn't be fd as a country anymore

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u/DissonantOne Aug 07 '26

I'm so glad to hear that your 'fair share' of other people's wealth is 10% and not 5%.

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u/gluepet2074 Aug 07 '26

This argument gets more stale by the day as we watch billionaires buy the officials that help them make more and everyone else less. The masses pay their fucking tax bills.

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u/Da40kOrks Aug 07 '26

How about we reduce the power of officials so if they are bought, it's irrelevant? Sounds like a much better solution.

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u/Distinct_Bad_6276 Aug 07 '26

Far easier to vote to increase the size of government to gargantuan proportions and then rely on it to provide for your every need

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u/Open_Widen_Its_Biden Aug 07 '26

The top 1% pay over 40% of the national tax revenue. How much more would be their “fair share”?

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u/CrossFitJesus4 Aug 07 '26

well they own 90% of the wealth, so 90% is their fair share

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u/Capable_Delivery_448 Aug 07 '26

They own 36% of the wealth. Same with top 20 and top 10. They pay more than their wealth.
Only reddit you hear this bullshit numbers.

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u/LordAwesomeguy Aug 07 '26

Looks at the president's tax return who has paid $0 man hes surely paying that fair share as a billionaire

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u/Open_Widen_Its_Biden Aug 08 '26

Trump isn’t a billionaire. Lmfao.

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u/LordAwesomeguy Aug 08 '26

using a simple search shows hes worth 6.5 billion but sure hes not a billionaire

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u/gluepet2074 Aug 07 '26

How about a percentage share that looks like what the rest of us pay?

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u/FillerKill Aug 07 '26

What % of the income do they make? What % of the assets do they hold? If Elon is worth $1T and the entire US stock market is worth $75T, it sounds like he should be paying 1.3% of all taxes by himself.

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u/FillerKill Aug 07 '26

How's that boot taste? You're closer to being homeless than a billionaire, btw

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u/DissonantOne Aug 07 '26

Ah, yes. Resorting to the the ad-hominem. Your arguments must be very strong.

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u/FillerKill Aug 07 '26

I know arguing with you people using facts and data is useless, so, instead, I'll try your way with sarcasm and name calling

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u/Tesserae626 Aug 07 '26

Are you talking about primary sponsor bills? Because if you read a little more than the first line of your Google search or chatgpt query, you'd see that 218 of the over 500(615 if you go to Congress.gov) he sponsored or co-sponsored became law.

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u/Tesserae626 Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26

Well, I didn't plant goalposts in the first place sooo....

Edit: maybe you should go take your blood pressure medicine if that comment made you block me. 🤣

Edit edit: wow, replied to me twice more with personal attacks before blocking.