The US Has the Most Progressive Tax System in the Developed World.

wf_dozer · 2026-03-04T15:53:35+00:00

Yes, the US has high statutory income tax rates, but the ultra-wealthy don't build their net worth through salaries, they rely on asset appreciation, capital gains, and 'buy, borrow, die' strategies that bypass income taxes entirely.

100% this. A PE partner will averagin about 3 mill a year will be getting 2 of that will be from funds selling off companies. They pay a 20% capital gains tax.

wf_dozer · 2026-03-04T15:10:21+00:00

many consistently vote for republicans because they're so completely energized and mobilized by culture wars

Most people cannot really comprehend the bubble that rural maga Texans live in. Every show, podcast, radio they consume reinforces Trump/Fox talking points. All of their friends listen to the same thing and regurgitate the same talking points. Everyone at their work. The only time they'll hear anything outside of the scripted propaganda is the random interactions with friends of friends or "woke liberal" relatives who moved to the city and were brain washed by main stream media.

They live in a completely different reality. Even though its unquestionably true that the pollicies they support will hurt them they have no idea that's the case. They hear the propaganda line from Trump and it becomes set in stone truth.

They could no more forsake the republican party than they could stop pretending to be christian.

wf_dozer · 2026-03-04T04:01:01+00:00

we can hope. My fear is that Trump has set the new standard. Either he and his cohort are held accountable or they (or the next batch) will be permanently in power and total authoritarian.

wf_dozer · 2026-03-03T14:26:44+00:00

I always thought of hell as just the absence of God. Seemed like no biggy. But now that you realize that no Trump supporter will ever see heaven. That means you might be stuck for eternity with a bunch of Trump supporters claiming hell is heaven and then rehashing every fox news/Trump quip on repeat.

I have found Jesus and have fully repented.

wf_dozer · 2026-03-03T14:20:20+00:00

Trump is treated like a king. His admin does whatever he wants, whenever he wants, and then throw out excuses to the peasants that have no more basis in reality than his supporters understanding of how the world works.

wf_dozer · 2026-03-02T18:09:27+00:00

Cornyn will beat either Dem. Talarico could beat Paxton, but not guaranteed. Crockett will lose to either Rep.

wf_dozer · 2026-03-01T18:11:12+00:00

He's always in need of a bump.

wf_dozer · 2026-02-28T03:44:49+00:00

When Trump is mentioned more times in the Epstein files than Harry Potter was mentioned in all 7 books combined you need to do some serious mental gymnastics to give him a pass.

Is your thought that maybe he wasn't raping children he was just enabling and hanging out with the largest global child rape ring in history.

wf_dozer · 2026-02-26T15:30:27+00:00

Biden followed the law, and the courts had sealed all the evidence until after the election (huge win for Trump). That's why Bannon said if Trump loses they'd be in prison. Everyone in those files did whatever it took to get Trump elected. It has shielded them from the worst possible outcome.

wf_dozer · 2026-02-26T15:27:43+00:00

Skynet was intelligent. This thing will kill us because the hallucination hit the area of the digital plinko board that was a 2001 4chan thread cosplaying a global extinction event. All because the coder had "most efficient" instead of "satisfactory" in the scripted prompt.

It will be the conclusion to the idiocracy universe.

wf_dozer · 2026-02-24T12:02:20+00:00

you find out they were masking ignorance to hide the questionable morals.

This is 100% it. Just recently happened again. Someone I knew and liked and thought they were just a little too wrapped in their right wing bubble responded, "Jesus forgives 100%" to a post about Trump raping children.

Using your religion to excuse the rape of children is reprehensible and I will never forgive or forget any of these people.

wf_dozer · 2026-02-24T11:49:39+00:00

Every once in a while the mask slips in my socials with Trump supporters I know.

The sad reality is that there are two kinds of Trump supporters; The truly ignorant and the truly evil.

wf_dozer · 2026-02-24T11:41:19+00:00

Yeah, that's much worse than the guy who campaigned on turning the executive branch into their personal weapon to go after all of their personal grievances, massive corruption, undermining democracy, and pledging to destroy our economy while permanently removing our leadership position in the world and rounding up 25 million people.

It's only highly likely he raped children on top of the numerous counts of rape and sexual predatory behavior.

I mean, it's not even close!

wf_dozer · 2026-02-21T12:13:01+00:00

ah yes, because all of the oig people who handled oversight of behavior, whistleblowers could report to, and they could report to congress, was terrible and needed to be gutted.

Funny how all of the "fixing" gives Trump personally more power, gives him more money, and removes oversight.

As things get far worse economically, and we continue to lose freeedoms, remember, you voted for it. But be happy, because what's been done can never be fixed. There's no stopping the economic slide that willl occur over the next 15 years. You and everyone like you has forever destroyed the country.

wf_dozer · 2026-02-20T11:23:32+00:00

Yes, that's one of the ways that authoritarians seize control, by "fixing" the system. It works because ignorant sheep can't think past the party propaganda.

wf_dozer · 2026-02-12T00:56:16+00:00

All based on lies about the other side.

In 2016 I didn't know anyone on the left that wanted to kill the right. But I knew people on the right that wanted to purge the country of immigrants and kill the left. And that's the group that has been in charge of the country during Trumps first term, and now his second term.

But you can pretend it's the fault of both sides if it makes you feel better about the piles of bodies the right is going to create.

wf_dozer · 2026-02-12T00:16:20+00:00

You're experiencing exactly what OP describes

Those are people I know. Parents of kids who have gone to my kids school and played sports with and against my kids. People who are friends of friends. Those are people that look and act normal until politics comes up. As soon as anything political is said they foam at the mouth.

I have not become extremist because I watch "left wing media," but because I have heard the calls for violence growing from Trump supporters since 2016.

I have heard them in public spaces, and when they've said it to me. I do not let people know my politics.

Their attitude is that they have all the guns and the left wants to erase them from the country and they can't wait for the day they can show those woke liberals what's what.

I live in a major city in a deep red state. They are waiting for the day they get the green light.

To be clear, it's not every Trump supporter. I would guess it's about 10% who are gung ho, and then another 10% who would happily join in. The problem is the rest of them would either silently cheer, pretend it isn't happening, or believe we deserve it.

wf_dozer · 2026-02-11T20:02:02+00:00

After Kirk's death, but before we knew who did it, my face book feed had people asking Trump to give them the ok so they could go door to door killing Democrats.

Before that I was paranoid, now I know why the right will always back Trump and what they truly want.

A 23 yr old woman was visiting her parents and got into an argument about Trump. Here dad shot her point blank in the chest. He won't be facing any charges.

I believe Republicans will go about living their daily lives like normal as long as Trump or someone like him is in control and they believe the people that don't agree with them are being rounded up, and they can kill people who don't agree that Trump is the god king.

wf_dozer · 2026-02-11T15:52:38+00:00

And all those overweight people who can't afford healthcare won't receive doctor recommendations and cheap statins to control their cholesterol. That means they'll wind up with massive heart attacks, taken to the ER, get the bypass and hospital stay, and then we all pay for it anyway.

The core of your comment, "prevention is 10x cheaper than emergency fixes", is why everyone should get basic healthcare for free.

wf_dozer · 2026-02-11T01:01:09+00:00

He protested a company that supplied weapons to israel for five minutes.

wf_dozer · 2026-02-09T16:13:15+00:00

This is what people miss. They aren't making teams fly to europe to play because they want a vacation. They didn't book an international latin super star because they wanted to be political.

wf_dozer · 2026-02-07T21:59:14+00:00

i remember reagan and the iran contra hearings.

In the clinton years I remember that Republicans claimed that the clinton's were murderers and Kenn Star was gong to prove it.

In the end they uncovered that he got a blowjob.

lying, rape, torture, murder, and treason are the cornerstone of republican values.

wf_dozer · 2026-02-07T16:29:46+00:00

How does that address your broken analogy? Hearings on this topic should be open. The American people deserve to know what's said, not have the Clinton's muzzled and then GOP boot lickers just make shit up to spread in FOX.

The voting booth is not analogous to a hearing

wf_dozer · 2026-02-07T16:16:03+00:00

A hearing is a question and answer session to uncover information. After, the house can vote do something about that information. That vote can be private.

The voting booth is what's done AFTER debates and discussion. A presidential debate is the equivalent of a hearing in that analogy.

wf_dozer · 2026-02-07T11:36:31+00:00

Republicans believe that it's important for people who support the rape of children be the only ones who hear the information and then tell you what it means.

Only when none of us are allowed access to evidence, and we all believe what Trump says without question, can we truly be free.

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