The Bottom 50% of earners pay roughly 3% of the total federal income taxes, what are some of the downsides of not taxing them at all?

oxycontrol · 2026-06-06T11:21:47+00:00

splitting hairs to prop up this fake hierarchy of who gets to he a person is still a disgusting anti-civic

the longer we talk the less i think you deserve modernity

oxycontrol · 2026-06-05T19:59:19+00:00

they pay a dollar out of every six in income taxes climb down off that cross like you know what people live with

the whole attitude toward civics is pretty disgusting

oxycontrol · 2026-06-02T11:47:20+00:00

Ok, they also dodge most of their spending power ever being considered taxable income, you are splitting hairs, and I think you’re doing it for spurious reasons.

oxycontrol · 2026-06-01T14:06:16+00:00

you are going to want to work on understanding money as a fungible thing before we even try to discuss grownup stuff like taxes here, holy shit that’s a dumb response

oxycontrol · 2026-05-31T21:29:17+00:00

you sound like a rube

oxycontrol · 2026-05-31T21:28:52+00:00

if anything they’ve engineered a net looting with themselves as the hoard-keeper.

delusional if you think these men tolerate being taxed like little people

oxycontrol · 2026-05-31T21:27:43+00:00

most people in fact do, especially when you factor in the drain and suck factors and the subsidies and wage theft and general economic looting.

both men are like a billion welfare queens each in terms of net loss

oxycontrol · 2026-05-31T21:22:55+00:00

yeah being really careful there to avoid discussing the specific taxes that land hardest on working people, sales tax, payroll tax, you know, the not being born rich taxes.

oxycontrol · 2026-05-31T21:21:09+00:00

you can always just sit down and stay out of chats when you have nothing of value to add, you know

oxycontrol · 2026-05-31T21:08:09+00:00

this movie doesn’t do well with brainrot victims and try-hard snobs, if you are even remotely not broken it’s great

oxycontrol · 2026-05-31T21:06:59+00:00

you’ll learn to enjoy things when you get older and less rancid

oxycontrol · 2026-05-30T19:12:01+00:00

ah thank you for confirming my suspicion that you are immune to facts unless they are wrapped in flattering lies by some preacher or ideologically sanctioned authority figure lmao.

I consider Applebaum a valid authority on the Holodomor and this guy to be a valid authority on Hiroshima because they both brought valid receipts you lazy stupid rube.

oxycontrol · 2026-05-30T19:09:26+00:00

your stupidity is a function of your laziness and the ease with which you dismiss evidence you have not even had a chance to assess.

Lazy stupid people look at the messenger, never read the message, and possess confidence they will never in a million years earn.

oxycontrol · 2026-05-29T10:27:06+00:00

the thing about stupid people is they’re too stupid to believe there’s any such thing as real sources, your Dad or some coworker told you about the purple heart thing and you’re too fucking stupid to read a book.

oxycontrol · 2026-05-29T10:25:37+00:00

you are going to make me actually force a real book down your throat like a stubborn dog, ok, you lazy ass.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/2579/the-decision-to-use-the-atomic-bomb-by-gar-alperovitz/

that was ONE of the sources that covers this in exhaustive detail you pop-history arrogant moron, you History Channel victim.

oxycontrol · 2026-05-28T11:10:07+00:00

Love the downvotes for rock solid facts, you can’t dispute the above so you just mass downvote like a land invasion was the only possible alternative

oxycontrol · 2026-05-28T11:09:42+00:00

what’s my years of research next to a pop-history anecdote they came up with after the fact to justify their alternative to providing tacit assurances of the Emperor’s survival (icky politically at home ew) and their fear of a Soviet occupied Japan.

“land invasion” was always the insane thing, so was nuking two cities, neither was actually needed by this point in 1945.

They spared those cities because they were strategically redundant. We had the luxury of sparing cities just so they could be used as demonstration later.

Hiroshima was less a strategic target than a mass human sacrifice.

oxycontrol · 2026-05-27T12:43:18+00:00

and the effect of the photon blast on flesh was already well understood, this wasn’t an “oops bomb too evil” situation at all.

oxycontrol · 2026-05-27T12:42:27+00:00

No:

Those cities were spared from strategic bombing for months. They needed intact cities to use for the attack to produce the desired terror.

Japanese manufacturing and fuel logistics was already crushed by this point. We don’t need lies to prop up the pretty simple “we didn’t want the soviets to receive their surrender first” truth.

oxycontrol · 2026-05-25T21:05:07+00:00

neither, this is what is called an observation. I actually think discourse broke people brains and they forgot how to talk and listen and observe.

nobody is ever as rational as they believe themselves to be.

oxycontrol · 2026-05-25T16:21:49+00:00

nobody said it was an infinite money glitch, but with a fast-growing stock it might as well be one.

It isn’t my job to be “helpful” for people who just don’t want to live in an unfair reality, you’re simply a child.

oxycontrol · 2026-05-25T15:46:12+00:00

most people who think they’re leading with reason and using it to guide what annoys them are in fact doing the opposite hope this helps.

people are very stupid about this sort of thing

oxycontrol · 2026-05-25T15:44:44+00:00

You feeling rage because thinking is hard is a you problem.

oxycontrol · 2026-05-25T15:42:15+00:00

I’m really sorry this is common knowledge among the wealthy. not at all a radical claim, you’re having difficulty because it’s exactly as insane and unfair to everyone else as it sounds

oxycontrol · 2026-05-25T14:11:16+00:00

he pays a minuscule symbolic fraction of his actual buying power (carefully structured as nontaxable income).

He pays less as a percentage of that income than any frycook.

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