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[–] netburnr@lemmy.world 110 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's funny because the rich don't pay taxes.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They do if you have taxes on captial gains :)

[–] IDontHavePantsOn@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't get taxed if you never cash out.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most tax programs which apply to capital gains apply to the sell and exchange of the stock. Dividends are also taxed (at least here in the states). So yes, you get taxed no matter what you do unless it's a net loss

Exactly why dividends need to be mandatory for profitable companies if we are not going to change the tax system.

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[–] BanditMcDougal@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Taxes from the middle class. Ftfy.

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bout to say. We barely have a middle class in the US anymore. Lol

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

The US taxes the middle class some of the least in the world.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I left a private sector job where I did increasingly evil things for a good amount of money for a public works job where I'm doing something beneficial to society. I have to work a shit-ton of OT to make the same money but the OT is there for the working and I ultimately maybe work a hair more than I used to in my salary position.

[–] chicagohuman@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Living the ducking dream man, have at it!

[–] RoryButlerMusic@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have a public service job.

Can't afford to live, get shouted at by callers irrelevant to my role each day just cos I am at a phone, can't work from home despite the whole organisation doing so, higher paid people throw their workload at me cos they don't want to do it.

Feels no different from when i was in the private sector really.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No offense due but I hope you're interviewing

[–] RoryButlerMusic@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Looking, not much on the market right now, but it's a process I suppose!

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Probably not taxes of the rich, who use havens and methods to avoid paying taxes. It's the people paying.

[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 year ago

I keep reading unionized as un-ionized...

[–] ieightpi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Mind elaborating on this rich tax? I'm honestly curious but also feeling skeptical. I'm starting to think this is just a joke since it's in meme form.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] thorbot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Piss man, is not hiring

[–] dipshit@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing better than taking rich people’s money!

[–] berot3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

That’s right, @dipshit

[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Federal government spending is not funded by taxes. When the federal government spends, it credits accounts with the press of a keystroke, creating money from nothing. The federal government issues money by spending and destroys money by collecting taxes. https://medium.com/@nicholasadiaz7/on-the-role-of-taxes-mmt-707fb4b3b80b

[–] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I've been working at a rich ladies house the last few weeks.

If you used her money to feed an entire town for a month, she wouldn't even know.

[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A facebook meme that isn't nuclear waste level toxic dogshit? Either this is breaking my brain or I'm misinterpreting it.

[–] unfreeradical@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I feel you have a very low bar.

I am really tiring of the shitposts

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

I’ll take, β€œThings that will never happen,” for 200, Alex.

[–] Taringano@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Hmmm where does public service build wind turbines?

Stop it you're starting to tax me 😜

[–] jcdenton@lemy.lol 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] bullant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

100% they mean average working class families. We all know the real rich don't pay proper taxes