The thing is, when we had high marginal tax rates on the rich, the rich still had yachts and second and third houses and fancy vacations and really good schools for their kids, so, yes, I think most people who are really very rich would do just fine, and the rest of the US would do better than now.
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Trump tax cuts, if made permanent, stand to benefit highest income earners, Treasury analysis shows
At the very top of Republicansβ 100-day agenda with President-elect Donald Trump in the White House and GOP lawmakers in a majority is the plan to renew some $4 trillion in expiring tax cuts. On Frid...
This analysis confirms that working people should be on high alert for Trump's tax plan that overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy.
Republicans in Congress are already scheming how to pay for these billionaire handouts with painful cuts to health care services like Medicaid.
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Happy New Year!
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Support Wikipedia. Oligarchs are trying to kill it in their ongoing attempt to trap you in a cave of lies.
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Merry Christmas all!
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Actions leave ripples in time that persist long after the original action is forgotten.
24.12.2024 00:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Everyone not getting paid should just refuse to work.
20.12.2024 16:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I'd prefer to call it the circus.
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You don't need to master General Relativity to live your life, but come on folks, Newton's laws of motion? These are as fundamental as reading and counting.
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I'm doubtful.
04.12.2024 04:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Here's my incredibly popular opinion that will never get any traction:
Most software does not need new features. None. Zero. Zilch.
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The forms must be observed.
28.11.2024 04:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
You never know what you have till it's gone.
28.11.2024 01:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Itβs not that you have too many books. Itβs that you donβt have enough bookshelves.
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My grandmotherβs family was murdered in the chambers of Auschwitz. She survived and told me never let it get that far. Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in hiding. Stand up for others. Never cave in fear of the Nazis or the Holocaust will happen again.
21.11.2024 08:18 β π 565 π 195 π¬ 17 π 14
What's not to like?
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There are some things it is better just not to know.
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