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Roy Rolling

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8. Unearned income

Reply to slightlv (Reply #6)

Sun Feb 18, 2024, 08:16 PM

Feb 2024

It should be taxed at a low capital gains rate, if they paid tax at all. “Unearned income” is already a well-established tax category and Arizona senators can’t redefine it to mean something else.

Republicans are so stupid with the English language, grammar, and logic.

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Arizona Republicans call basic income payments 'unearned,' introduce a bill to ban them [View all] BumRushDaShow Feb 2024 OP

Ban corporate subsidies, then. TwilightZone Feb 2024 #1

The fact is "unearned" slightlv Feb 2024 #6

Unearned income Roy Rolling Feb 2024 #8

And corporations are people per SCOTUS so tax the hell out of their subsidies! mpcamb Feb 2024 #13

And stock market dividends.... DemocraticPatriot Feb 2024 #17

Are there no workhouses? FalloutShelter Feb 2024 #2

Don't give them any ideas. Voltaire2 Feb 2024 #3

The GOP is Scrooge. Oneironaut Feb 2024 #15

What does "earning" have to do with it? Think. Again. Feb 2024 #4

Perhaps a bill in which days spent in recess are 'unearned income' EarthFirst Feb 2024 #5

"Unearned income," Bayard Feb 2024 #7

So, conceivably ... willamette Feb 2024 #9

Ah, the party of small/limited government. area51 Feb 2024 #10

Republicans love them when they are called block grants. eggplant Feb 2024 #11

Gifts from daddy Trump are unearned and the same goes for inheritance. TAX 'EM! Wonder Why Feb 2024 #12

Unearned income. Isn't that dividends, capital gains, and interest? tclambert Feb 2024 #14

Does this logic apply to farm subsidies too? AZLD4Candidate Feb 2024 #16

Guaranteed income is going to have to be the way if AI keeps going along ck4829 Feb 2024 #18

A civilization is to be judged by how it treats its lowest, not by the splendor of its richest Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2024 #19

A basic income keeps more money in circulation KS Toronado Feb 2024 #20

And the mantra has always been BumRushDaShow Feb 2024 #21

Let 'em whine KS Toronado Feb 2024 #22