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SaschaHM

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12. Of course, it doesn't make you racist.

Reply to pnwmom (Reply #11)

Fri Aug 18, 2017, 11:37 PM

Aug 2017

You haven't been pulling a "melanin is not the reason" card on DU and you have a history here.

And personally that is fine, but I'm not voting for any political candidate that ultimately has me paying more than 50%+ of my income in taxes. I refuse to work for less than a majority of my income, which tbh is still vastly smaller than what a corporation would make off of my labor.

Deductions aside, Beyonce is still probably paying a much larger amount of taxes than most of us on DU combined. The state property taxes on a 90mil house purchases is probably more than what many posters pay in a year.

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AF-AM Group: At what point should an entertainer give him/herself up to financial servitude? [View all] SaschaHM Aug 2017 OP

Taxation as slavery? Billy Jingo Aug 2017 #1

I think that African Americans should get to keep a majority of the income that they make. SaschaHM Aug 2017 #2

No. I oppose using melanin for tax policy. Billy Jingo Aug 2017 #3

Post removed Post removed Aug 2017 #4

You really didn't think this through, did you? Billy Jingo Aug 2017 #5

Insults because a Black man would like to earn a majority of his income. SaschaHM Aug 2017 #6

Your insult was much greater, suggesting that the poster should be at Stormfront pnwmom Aug 2017 #7

I asked him a simple question. SaschaHM Aug 2017 #9

I think African Americans should pay the same tax rate as anyone else of the same income. pnwmom Aug 2017 #11

Of course, it doesn't make you racist. SaschaHM Aug 2017 #12

Someone who makes her kind of income pnwmom Aug 2017 #13

You consider that to be insulting? Billy Jingo Aug 2017 #8

Again with the insults? SaschaHM Aug 2017 #10

I haven't been on DU JustAnotherGen Aug 2017 #14

discussing tax policy is one thing. but these are aimed at usually minorities/women especially black JI7 Aug 2017 #15

This with a cherry on top JustAnotherGen Aug 2017 #16