2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBoy that Bernie Sanders sure is a "tax-and-spend liberal"
eh Reaganites democrats?
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you -- Friedrich Nietzsche
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)but not everyone's income will not go up.
I will be on pension and social security in 7 months. Raise my taxes and I have less to live on. I am not going to college. I have no kids.
Young people get free education if they go to college. Others who do not go to college get squat.
Most people will still be struggling as Bernie raises their taxes.
The socialist utopia the revolution will bring is not good for everyone.
I am not the 1%
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)This is much more complicated than some Bernie Sanders supporters suggest.
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)you will not be paying income taxes. I live nice, have nice things a small pension, some 401K money and some savings, to have to pay taxes though you would have to be making some nice money on your stocks, heck I even cashed in stock options and did not pay income taxes.
Vinca
(50,310 posts)We have a responsibility to people other than ourselves. I've never even considered bitching about the taxes I pay that go to public schools even though I'm childless by choice. I'll gleefully chip in for healthcare for everyone, free college at public schools, etc. FYI, I'm guessing I'm older than you are since I've been collecting SS for a couple of years and I wouldn't rule out taking a free course in something at a public college.
Armstead
(47,803 posts)Oooooooo the horror, the horror
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)GET THOSE WHIPPERSNAPPERS OFF MY LAWN!!1!
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)"I don't have kids. Why should I pay for public schools?"
"I'm healthy, why should I pay for medicaid?"
"I'm only 25, why should I pay for social security?"
"I don't drive in that part of town, why should I pay for street repair?"
TheBlackAdder
(28,222 posts).
Nietzsche, who ultimately went insane, has an anti-semite sister who published his 'Will to Power,' the Uber Mensche used by the Nazi's, though some claimed on Wiki that wasn't true... but it was.
Now, the stated queue dealt with the 'Death of God, expanding 'Beyond Good and Evil.' Society is animated by a decadent morality, a 'Christian' morality without its religious roots. Christianity is now something we can never truly go back to, as society moved on, forsaking it.
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Yet, what we see are people who claim to be Christians, or moral, acting in a self-centered manner.
The argument or gripe against taxes actually reinforces that quote, on the one citing it.
In NJ, we are one of the few states with Paid Family Leave. As a former residential employer, last year it cost my former employee just a little over $1 a week.
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99Forever
(14,524 posts)"I got mine! Fuck everyone else."
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)So other than that, your complaint seems to be that you will retire with enough income to have an income tax burden. That's something to be grateful for.
You are the second anti Bernie poster today to openly say they want to keep their own precious taxes low. Barf.
azmom
(5,208 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)that I'm aware of on this board.
What's up with the coy strike through?
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)you just don't seem to know it.
azmom
(5,208 posts)Proposed is minimal and the cause so worthy. I hope for their sake it's just something they oppose because it's part of Bernie's campaign. I am truly saddened.
What the hell happened to this party in terms of morality and values? What have we become? Maybe we are no better than the republicans we despise so much.
Evergreen Emerald
(13,070 posts)I thought the rich were paying for it?