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3 hours ago, Curious1997 said:

I find it amazing that you folks are defending these people! Maybe I am beginning to understand the Trump's appeal? 

3.4% 0f 400 billion dollars! 

I think that you misread and misunderstood his meaning. 

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8 hours ago, Curious1997 said:

Even if I Generalized which I didn't, because if you use your common sense, 3.4% on a 60k salary is still over 2k which in buying power re mortgage, local taxes, insurance, food, education etc etc is a lot of money to that person who normally foots an average of 25% at a minimum say 15k. Now 3.4% to a billionaire using your common sense again and what's relative, $20 million is NOTHING compared to someone who has $1000 million dollars! 

$1000 million at 15% guaranteed return is about $140 million dollars minus fees which is then reinvested so no capital gains minus the $20 million for taxes. In the mean time you can borrow at no interest on that billion.. That is tax free living! In fact we have to actually pay them for living like that. And using your common sense, do you really think that the tax attorneys and accountants and investment portfolios etc etc that these people can afford, actually pay taxes? 

Unless you are as blatant as Leona Helmsley?, you never get caught! 

How much taxes did Trump pay in the last ten years? Just by offsetting losses or pretending that they were losses? Did Deutsche not throw money at him? 

Maybe you do, but if you had any idea how the really rich live, and I only know the moderately wealthy, you would lose your mind! $10,000 a DAY spending is how the moderately rich live. And these are people who work HARD for their money.

IMAGINE, how the really wealthy live! Chateau in France, Villa in Italy, Super yachts in Monaco, Lambos and Ferraris, Bugattis and Bentleys! 

Why are you quoting me as if you're trying to convince me of something when I already said the wealthy should pay more taxes?  This is an idea I've had for many years and had many discussion here about (especially during the discussions about the Bush tax cuts and expiration), but thanks for the rant I guess.

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6 hours ago, Curious1997 said:

They are screwing Nurses again!

Again?  Did they ever stop.  

I will say staffing wise 2021 is a pretty rough year where I work.  I try to be understanding that it's not our particular organizations fault.  They have 100 positions open and very little applicants.  They've hired dozens of travel nurses but they are now getting sucked up again in our surge here in Florida.  

Nursing and healthcare providers are also getting a lot of bad press lately for what is considered a low rate of vaccination ini the minds of some people.

 

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On 7/27/2021 at 12:37 PM, Beerman said:

Correct link:

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/26/democrats-school-critical-race-theory-500729

 

 

"One parent in Novi, Mich., a diverse suburb outside Detroit with prized public schools, said she started reading up on critical race theory after her daughter, a recent high school graduate, started raising the idea of defunding police departments and arguing that rioters who looted stores during 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests were justified."

I think if CRT weren't even invented, this kid would have been hawking the conventional youth mantra that she hears among her peers.  So, this paragraph is meaningless.  CRT, IMHO, is an academic concept based on some faulty assumptions that is only discussed seriously in graduate school classes as a THEORY.  Schools certainly have the right to teach the history of the people as opposed to the history of the elite white power brokers.  I would have to see an example of teachers attempting to not lie about historical racism while trying to lay white guilt on children at the same time.  Certainly we can raise a more sensitive generation without implementing all of the assumptions about CRT.  But it's really just a bogus Fox issue that only they care about since it seems that most people don't even know what the initials stand for.  

If you had children involved in the slave trade game, how would you handle it?  I can only hope that they will be thoroughly shunned at school and think about it because their parents sound like idiots.  

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This publication is rated as conservative so it's figures may be more trusted by conservatives....and it still ain't pretty!  

How Much Income Puts You in the Top 1%, 5%, or 10%? (investopedia.com)

Ugh.  Can't get it to link but if you are interested, there are lots of good illustrations.  Does ANYBODY believe that we are becoming more just in terms of distribution of wealth?  I couldn't find a single source that indicated that to be true.

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34 minutes ago, subee said:

This publication is rated as conservative so it's figures may be more trusted by conservatives....and it still ain't pretty!  

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Out of curiosity, by whom? 

How Much Income Puts You in the Top 1%, 5%, 10%?

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39 minutes ago, subee said:

This publication is rated as conservative so it's figures may be more trusted by conservatives....and it still ain't pretty!  

How Much Income Puts You in the Top 1%, 5%, or 10%? (investopedia.com)

Ugh.  Can't get it to link but if you are interested, there are lots of good illustrations.  Does ANYBODY believe that we are becoming more just in terms of distribution of wealth?  I couldn't find a single source that indicated that to be true.

https://eig.org/news/the-income-and-wealth-inequality-crisis-in-america-testimony

Wealth and income inequality in the USA is not on a sustainable trajectory. 

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21 minutes ago, chare said:

Out of curiosity, by whom? 

How Much Income Puts You in the Top 1%, 5%, 10%?

mediabiasfactcheck.com

 

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2 hours ago, subee said:

mediabiasfactcheck.com

 

That's interesting.  I visited Media Bia/Fact Check before I last posted, and again just now, and they list Investopedia as least biased, without either left or right bias.

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On 7/28/2021 at 9:16 AM, Tweety said:

I've learned a lot this year.  Learning about "Critical Race Theory".

Also learned a new term today:  Crisis Actor.  Referring to the officers testifying yesterday to congress about their experiences on Jan. 6.

 

Oh, that nasty Laura Ingraham.  If would be worth going to hell just to get to supervise her for eternity.  She would pack my groceries all day, every day, for eternity.

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3 hours ago, chare said:

That's interesting.  I visited Media Bia/Fact Check before I last posted, and again just now, and they list Investopedia as least biased, without either left or right bias. 

If you continue to read further down in the report, they mention that MBFC leans conservative in some narratives.  I was only trying to find an unbiased source (is it even possible anymore?:)  because I've seen some pretty wild numbers thrown around about the wealth owned by the top1%.  What impressed me the most was that each succeeding group's income fell by 50% to the point that people in the top 10% were making average income in the $300,000's which wouldn't keep a family in luxury in NYC or San Francisco.  But I wouldn't mind testing out that theory. 

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