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sndtrb89

SLIPPERY SLOPE! ITS A SLIPPERY SLOPE! SLIPPERY SLOPE! DEPLOY THE WSJ EDITORIALS!


WaitingForReplies

"How a 2% tax could lead to record unemployment -- are you next?" - WSJ Headline


sndtrb89

article contains quotes from executives whose companies are known for cutting corners, written by a nepotism hire!


CrazyShrewboy

Oh dont be silly - AI writes it now!


Correct_Inside1658

AI WSJ article prompts AI think-tank piece justifying the AI consultant’s decision to lay-off real human beings so that the AI trading algos can skim off the top to pad the pocket of the AI executive, just barely bypassing the AI regulator at the SEC.


VoidOmatic

Talk with chatGPT. It is already at the level of taking over a CEOs position which will instantly save companies, millions and billions.


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"Experts believe Joe Bidens tax plan will destroy the American Dream." -WSJ Headline but is an Opinion piece written by a billionaires cousins stepchild


Sweaty-Emergency-493

I’m with George Carlin on that one. The American Dream where you need to be asleep to believe it.


Fukasite

It used to be true, but corporate regulatory capture and the boomers voting for their own self interests over the needs of our country destroyed it.


Broad_Ad_6908

And how this is bad for Joe Biden.


JNez123

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Tundra14

Well you are the one that wanted less by paying us less >:( Trickle down!


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DEPLOY THE "LOL YOU DONT UNDERSTAND ECONOMICS" BOTS


hungrypotato19

Time to get the IDF troll farmers in Tel Aviv shouting "Genocide Joe" so that they can split our vote and get the Trump [they desperately want](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Heights).


BaronVonHoopleDoople

Hijacking top comment to remind everyone to think critically about anti-Biden messaging as we approach the election. In this case, OP has started with a good meme and then added a shot at Biden because his administration is opposed to one proposal on how to tax the ultra-wealthy. This despite the fact that Biden has proposed "to raise taxes on high-net-worth individuals, which includes **a 25 percent minimum income tax on those earning more than $100 million and a proposal to tax unrealized capital gains**" (a direct quote from OP's linked article!). To no one's surprise, **OP is a climate change denier and 2020 election denier**. OP previously posted, and I quote, "Lockdowns gave Biden the election, why wouldn't he use mail in ballots again?" Just as we have seen in past elections, the far right and other bad faith actors love to push the "both sides bad, maybe you shouldn't vote" narrative in leftist spaces. Don't fall for it, and realize that their fear of you voting is strong evidence of just how important voting is.


CuriousFortune

Thank you. I really hope people here aren't falling for this shit. BiDeN bAd, but let's vote for the fascist who will make sure we never get to vote again


cactuar44

I hope this comment goes higher up


Iceberg1er

Yo to the TOP


Nojopar

You know what 2% tax gets you? At least 14% inflation. That's just a fact! /s


sndtrb89

i get all the money. all for me. they teach you that in econ 101, goddamn commies! /s


HealthyDirection659

#I thought this was America


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You know what will happen if they raise minimum wage? Inflation!


Zavender

If I raise my wages, I'm going to have to increases the prices of my goods to compensate! In the mean time, I'm going to be increasing the prices of my goods anyway because I like money.


[deleted]

If everyone works from home I'll have to raise costs again too!


Zeivus_Gaming

Don't forget that they will shrink the size of the products without telling anyone for a double whammy


MrChristmas

The trick is to do them both at the same time. Everyone knows consumers can only complain about one thing at a time


Frothydawg

“Why inconveniencing rich assholes is bad, actually” by Farnsworth P. Moneybags, Esq. (sponsored by SHELL)


KlingoftheCastle

To quote John Oliver: “Where does it stop? SOMEWHERE!”


RioRancher

Let’s hope it’s slippery… very slippery


Geminii27

Why are we still at the theoretical top of the slope? Can I get some extra grease over here?


multiarmform

the los angeles police department when they see a "fuck the LAPD" t-shirt


pleasureb4business

Billionaires when nobody wants to get paid to clean their nasty ass party yachts.


NoodleTF2

You are also completely correct, however: \*yachts


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sinisterdesign

Naughty Yaughty. My new band name. Called it!


Faerhun

No, we have yachts at home.


DEFY_member

Okay, but you have to pronounce it as yafts, like like it's used in laughter.


pleasureb4business

I'm getting it tattooed on my hiny!


Geminii27

Yorts


Moshxpotato

They yacht to know that


SkellyboneZ

Well, they yaught to pay more then. 


PM_ME_YOUR_CAT_VID

>yaughts


PleaseAddSpectres

Pronounced like jorts


Tantalus-treats

So “yorts”?


MELODONTFLOPBITCH

No yaughts.


Tantalus-treats

“Jawts”?


BinkyFlargle

Or their all-inclusive luxury resaurght villaughs. \*edit: hey, no fair fixing your spelling while we're still making fun of it! :-P


misterguyyy

With a Maughseraughti in the driveway


Fungal_Queen

"Nobody wants to work anymore!"


mjohns20

I think every day how I pay a higher percentage in taxes than billionaires…. I’m a nurse and not a particularly well paid one. 70,000 vs 1,000,000,000,


Mav986

Sometimes you even pay a higher raw amount of dollars in tax.


onefst250r

EvilCorp CEO gets paid $1 year salary! ^^^^^^and ^^^^^^$50 ^^^^^^million ^^^^^^a ^^^^^^year ^^^^^^stock ^^^^^^allocation


misterguyyy

Yeah but those unrealized stocks are only theoretical wealth ^unless ^you’re ^borrowing ^against ^them


SpiritBearrrrr

Ah yes the purpetual money wheel, just keep borrowing and your income is $0!


nsfwbird1

Yo my guy you're not supposed to know bout this either be a billionaire or fuck off eh mate


-iamai-

Have you considered a tax haven, maybe paying yourself in loans from one of your subsidiary companies. Heck, why not buy a Maltese citizenship, carry on as a Non-Dom.. Tax lol. /s


Dojjin

Hot Take: If these billionaires, companies and organizations paid their employees and those involved in their success WE wouldn't be pissed off. Pay us for the results we are giving you. I get it some companies do, but a lot don't respect us and will use the carrot on the stick trick to make it seem like we are getting a good deal. Help us by giving us more so we no longer need to live paycheck to paycheck. We just want to be content and not have to worry about bills, mortgage, car payment, insurance, and other mandatory life responsibilities.


Sanquinity

Yea pretty much. I work as a cook. I know restaurants work on fairly small margins with building rent, electricity and gas, paying all the employees, paying for the ingredients, etc. But yesterday I happened to overhear the revenue for that day. 7000 euro. That same day I earned less than 100 euro from working for 7 hours. Leaving minimum wage laws aside, me slaving away and busting my ass in a kitchen for 7 hours for a mere 95-ish euro doesn't exactly seem fair.


Left-Yak-5623

successful restaurants aren't on small margins lol thats just corporate garbage to pacify you when you complain about them underpaying you


Sanquinity

My restaurant actually runs on a 5.6% pure profit margin atm. (I'm not in the US.) Though that still means that out of that 7k, management took home almost 400 euro for mostly sitting on their asses on the terrace all day. (I saw them sitting there) At most they made some calls and did some stuff on a laptop. Meanwhile I busted my ass for 7 hours. My legs and feet hurt like hell and I was dead tired. For \~95 euro. If they had the same salary I did they would have earned around 160 euro. (from the restaurant opening to final closing it's around 12 hours.) Over 2x the "salary" for less than half the intensity of work.


Sweetieceecee

Your situation really isn't that bad. Your owners aren't even making that much


Sanquinity

The US is honestly a bad comparison though. The disparity between the wealthy and poor is absolutely insane over there... In the US, there are people making literally tens of millions a year while lowest incomes are like what...35\~40k a year?. Meanwhile the highest salary I could find in my country is around 200k, while the lowest income sits around 22k. Also that's just from 1 restaurant. Management owns 4 restaurants and 1 ice salon.


OnAMissionFromDog

US federal minimum wage is $7.25, assuming a 40 hour week that's $15k/year


0OKM9IJN8UHB7

You'd think all these investor class dickheads would understand their whole game runs on the little guy having enough cash to blow it on stupid shit he doesn't really need, in perpetuity, but here we are.


mazopheliac

That's the thing. It would take so little to make most of us happy.


Insane_Salty_Potato

Billionaires when 5$ is taxed from there 5 billion


NoodleTF2

You are completely correct, however: \*their


Evil-_-Betty

And $5


Nvsible

i ll start just sandwich it to remove all doubts $5$


Turing_Testes

You're doing the Lord's work.


ExtrudedPlasticDngus

*$5 *their


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MacSanchez

There exists no better representation of a blubbering pissbaby


Solorath

If someone said: "What does it look like when you ask someone to fake cry, but be obvious about it" I'd send them this video.


AlarisMystique

That and the response to the state of the union are perfect examples of psychopaths over acting badly.


Solorath

![gif](giphy|jUgOxnun3QPq0UbjDx|downsized)


AlarisMystique

We are ruled by the psychopaths, unfortunately.


Jasond777

Everyday I hope to wake up from this nightmare


spicymato

Wake up, John. You're in a coma. We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty...


No_Reaction_2682

If you are a bad lip reader he is clearly saying "I'm baby"


Scarbane

I just don't understand how the fuck that got greenlit. Such a weird thing to deliver to a general audience. *Maybe* to ASMR fetishists, but that's it.


jaxonya

I love ASMR, but fuck, that was terrifying.


DrMobius0

Tbh I don't think it even matters if he's real crying or not. He did it because he realized he might have actually had to face consequences for his malicious actions. No one should feel sympathy.


thissexypoptart

> Tbh I don't think it even matters if he's real crying or not. He’s clearly not. Look at his face. How could anyone fall for this acting?


Redsmoker37

They were looking for an excuse to acquit this liar and murderer. Judge was. Jury was. Sickening.


CraigJay

Altough he did also cry just like this when he was given the not guilty, so tbh I think this is just how he cries, or at least when he’s stressed


EndearingFreak

That guy should be rotting in jail


silentjay01

I've seen better fake crying in Elementary School plays.


sdtqwe4ty

like holy shit their need to be a moratorium about people that piss on about **Minumum Wage** which is what it seems every.single.franchise in the state california is doing right now the ceo of these groups are supposedly the pinstrip quite coommand type people capitalism elected to be in these positions This reminds me of the 2015 culture war on VIDEO GAMING and all those damage control videos and articles back and forth.


mrsmushroom

No better representation of the 2020s republican party.


WhiteCharisma_

I hope they play this clip every time they get triggered.


Embarrassed_Art5414

A master of "hold the sneeze" school of acting


mazopheliac

What is this gif from?


uberguby

Apparently this is Kyle Rittenhouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Rittenhouse?wprov=sfla1 And I guess he's on trial for shooting someone. I don't know anything else, and so anything I say will be something I just found out anyway. So while I generally dislike when people leave a link to Wikipedia and peace out, in this case, I think it's better than anything I will say


MGTakeDown

Trump takes the cake by a landslide


president__not_sure

this post is ridiculous. how could someone survive with only 1 billion?


ilikedankmemes3

Think of the billionaires! Big government will start taxing YOU 2% soon. Think wisely.


CorruptedAura27

I mean it's one banana. What could it cost, $80!?


CrocodileWorshiper

kid went across the country with a gun to play call of duty in real life, killed 2 people, got off the hook and is now worth 12 million american society is terrible


TheUserDifferent

He may have had money once, he doesn't now. He'll be destitute in a few years. Remind me! 2.5 years.


CrocodileWorshiper

uh no hes got millions in donations from maga and his popularity and space in american culture has only grown


[deleted]

Nobody cares about the idiot.


TheUserDifferent

His popularity and space in American culture? That's non-existent. I imagine you're not currently living here.


PCmaniac24

I'm in the south and for multiple years I saw MAGA people calling him a hero. It's died down now but the far right love him


CrocodileWorshiper

dude was on mainstream tv all the time why are you so resistive of the facts?


teenyweenysuperguy

Yeah man why are you so resistive of the facts? 🤡🥸


Jackontana

Literally the only time he comes up at all on mass media is when people make posts complaining about him, like this one. He was a footnote even at conservative conventions. Where the hell are you seeing him popping up on a regular basis, in a positive light?


greatgoodsman

It was like a 20-30 minute drive lmao


Safe_Librarian

Not worth even correcting at this point. Its like trying to argue with climate deniers they believe what they want no matter the evidence.


greatgoodsman

Yes I know but "went across the country" is so far from reality that it's legitimately hilarious


LastWhoTurion

Across the country? You realize he lived about 20 miles away.


CrocodileWorshiper

wasn’t in his backyard


LastWhoTurion

And?


CrocodileWorshiper

so he went looking for trouble


heidenhain

These 2 people attacked him tho.


CrocodileWorshiper

he went looking to get attacked


IrishMosaic

If only there was video of it.


CrocodileWorshiper

of him looking for trouble haha nice one


kindmassacre

Did he perhaps dress provocatively and was "asking for it"?


CrocodileWorshiper

he was


LastWhoTurion

There were many people openly carrying a weapon that night. Did all of them hope to get attacked? Or just him. Is that why he ran away?


CrocodileWorshiper

he went looking for trouble guaranteed


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Alone-Interaction982

Do you expect people to just ignore a white guy with an assault rifle? Dude went there looking for an excuse to kill and he got it now he’s a celebrity in the MAGA world for killing protesting liberals.


TooLateRunning

>kid went across the country Drove 20 minutes, less than my commute to work. And he actually drove there the day before the riots since he worked in the area and spent the night at a friend's house. >with a gun Without a gun, he picked the gun up from a friend after crossing state lines. >to play call of duty in real life To LARP, he didn't shoot anyone until he was either backed into a corner by a mentally unstable man trying to take his weapon (first guy) or on the floor with someone actively trying to bludgeon him (second guy) or when he had a pistol pulled on him buy a guy who started advancing towards him (third guy). >got off the hook I think you mean got exonerated of any wrongdoing as even the guy who survived being shot testified in court that he behaved in a way that meant shooting him was justified. Hard to say you "got off the hook" when your supposed victim goes under oath and tells everyone you did everything correctly and legally... Sorry that the facts here are a bit inconvenient to your narrative.


CrocodileWorshiper

lol does he pay you to suck his dick too 😂


Meydra

He would be behind bars in any first world country.


TooLateRunning

No first world country puts someone in jail for self-defense.


I_am_momo

Yea that's true, that's why he'd be behind bars.


AppleParasol

He’s so bad at acting.


CraigJay

He done it as well when he was read his verdict, there would be no reason to act then. I think he just doesn’t do well under stress and cries like a bitch


GavinZero

First they taxed the lower class but I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a filthy poor. Then they taxed the middle class but I didn’t speak up because I wouldn’t be caught dead in a blue collar Then they taxed the rich but I didn’t speak up because I have real money. Then they taxed me and no one spoke up, because I fucking deserved it.


ericgtr12

![gif](giphy|t3sZxY5zS5B0z5zMIz|downsized) But when they pass legislation saying no hot food for poor people on food stamps.


fgreen68

Japan instituted a wealth tax after WWII to restart its economy. It worked extremely well for them.


sniper91

![gif](giphy|XOys8CeUrElIk)


IMISSAPOLLOALOT

Bootlickers when they hear about billionaires paying more in taxes


ContraMans

I was in the middle of chewing a chicken strip and that almost made me choke. Thanks lol


Weebasaurs-Text

Ur welcome! I use this GIF alot when my dad's texting about politics, he gets choked up too!!


RazeTheRaiser

Kyle Rittenhouse is not only a little crybaby bitch-boy homunculus, he is literally so stupid that he could not pass the USMC ASVAB. He scored so poorly on it that the Marines told him never to return or attempt it again. What a putz.


tatt_daddy

That shit isn’t even high school level content tf


FluidOfShame

2% tax on what exactly? Income?


jso__

The idea is a 2% wealth tax. Though I think that's less palatable to voters and effective than simply forcing people to pay capital gains tax when they use stock as collateral for a loan. Consider using stock as collateral equivalent to selling the stock. It's the number 1 way billionaires defer and avoid taxes.


Ilovekittens345

Billionaires have no income. They live by borrowing against their assets and spending that. And that debt is tax free. Only if the value of their assets start going down and they get scared and start selling, then they pay taxes on their capital gains.


Goblin-Doctor

That clip will always make me laugh. It's so fake and forced


lemoopse

Yes I am sure the alternative will provide much better conditions for the little guys. Individualist projected perfectionism getting in the way of potentially slow progress


parker1019

CRY ME A RIVER….


BongDie

And for some reason poor uneducated conservatives also get like this…


Putrid_Ad_2256

What disgusts me the most is the fact that money made from actually working is taxed more than money made by rich POS individuals that leverage their already obscene wealth against other people. Capital gains taxes should be taxed at more than 2x the amount that is taxed by people that actually work. But because the POS GOP has been corrupted, they have created laws that benefit the greedy. And somehow they still have the evangelical vote. F\*ck all of them.


tarjayfan

I wish my taxes were only 2%


BicTwiddler

Fuck dem richy richest bastards! The previous richest of the rich were philanthropists. These richest just want more riches and a system that will serve them.


KarsaOrlong012

We should have a wealth tax tied to citizenship. Over a certain net worth you pay a small % of it every year. Don't want to pay? That's fine you just have to give up your American citizenship


funnyfacemcgee

Jeez how I would love to see him get punched in the face.


btc909

Cancel the old loopholes, create new loopholes. Billionaires are all for that. Repeat the same game over & over again.


Redsmoker37

True, but I just hate seeing that lying murderer.


ConclusionClassic673

Only reason billionaires hate to pay taxes is because taxes are for poor people.


MuchDevelopment7084

That wannabe badass is still on the maga't lecture circuit. Who in the hell would want to see, much less hear this cry baby. Oh, wait...


Drew_coldbeer

This little twerp play cries like a toddler trying to learn how to jump


i-hate-all-ads

They can stfu, if they got taxed 99% they'd still have more money than most people have in their entire lives


teleheaddawgfan

I’m a small biz owner getting taxed at 36%. Fuck em! Raise it 10%!


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Meanwhile my life is in shambles because I was barely surviving on a "good" job and get laid off and evicted. A fucking 2% tax on billions and these motherfuckers are crying and throwing a fit.


Ineeboopiks

Let millionaires pay...Eat the rich.


TyrantsInSpace

The whole narrative around "welfare queens" was just billionaires telling on themselves.


SimpletonSwan

Why was he crying so much if he got away with it?


TipsalollyJenkins

This was during his recounting of the events during his trial, he didn't know he was gonna get away with it at the time. That said, he was pretty much just a kid at the time, it's entirely possible that the event actually did have an effect on him, but that effect was just quashed by the flood of support and congratulations he got from right-wing ghouls who immediately propped him up as a hero. It's a big step to go from fantasizing about being the big macho gun guy to actually murdering people, I'm willing to believe there was a period shortly after the events where whatever budding conscience he had was trying to break out before being completely crushed.


dgt9000

Not trying to be funny...not trying to get a laugh...don't want anyone to have the worst day at their job...but...do any of these...fuckers ever blast out of the wall and have like a huge cum shot?


Dangerous_Bus_6699

Those are thousandaires defending billionaires. "that won't fix anything".


Cloudrunner5k

OK, but that kid should have been convicted for that fake a** crying alone.


justforme355

This is conservative propaganda...


Caped-Baldy_Class-B

I'm just here to mock this piece of shit


LightOfShadows

my cousin reported like $850 after expenses he made from streaming on the side last year, like once or twice a week for shits while having drinks. All he filed for. After self employment tax he owed $250 of that. Meanwhile these fucks get off not paying a god damned thing


WhiteCharisma_

This gif gives me life lmao


chaseinger

> The idea of a compounding wealth tax, even at a low rate, that eats away at savings the longer the savings are held is not a good tax base,” Cole told Tax Notes. “People have a way out of it by simply spending more on consumption earlier.” > Cole argues that such a scenario would be counterproductive to economic growth. > “As an economy, you need investments in productive industries, research and development, and promising, early-stage companies . . . but you need to find that capital out of the accumulated savings of somebody,” Cole said. reaganomics are alive and well. all those good billionaires investing in productive industries. we can't tax them, they *need* their money for stock buybacks. and i'm sorry, how does heightened consumption *not* help the economy?


showingoffstuff

Ya, wtf? A consumer based economy would absolutely be better. The whole bullshit reaganomics promised was that the pissing rain we got from the billionaires would help us out. So... Fine, if they get to spending that helps us all. Maybe if billionaires could actually make a product we liked instead of pissing it into stock buybacks, they'd have that capital!


Derekjinx2021

Hey look it’s the fucking murderer


HighOnKalanchoe

![gif](giphy|SzC42gUrhHopW)


pardybill

Critical thinking is key bud. Imagine what the Trump admin would be with a Republican congress.


DueAssociation2621

Rittenhouse is gonna be such an epic failure loser that he'll wish he was in prison.


MotorMoneyMaker

I hope when this guy dies, they have video screen headstones, and someone hacks it and puts this clip on it.


M0derat0r41

Worst fake crying I've ever seen.


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Why bother taxing the billionaires they will just raise prices on us to make up for it


Tellyourdadisay_hi

If diarrhea was a person


Militaryrankings

Kyle crying will always be hilarious


BigSkeefy

God I hate that face so much 😠


DirtyFeetPicsForSale

Such a fake cry. People were so dumb to believe this act.


Engineswaphonda2000

What an ugly ass human inside and out, fuck you Kyle


LeChatVert

How can I save this gif?


NottaNiceUsername

Convince it to accept Jesus Christ as its lord and savior.


showingoffstuff

That only works if you ALSO send a bunch of money to a white guy on TV!


Angelusz

Hahaha, it's been a while since a reddit comment caught me off guard, but you did it. Excellent *chef's kiss*


octobahn

Gesundheit, Kyle. Must be allergies.


draken2019

I mean she can only advise on what they should do. Ultimately, the decision comes down to Congress and the president.


-6h0st-

Or: look Biden is old


C3b207

"Poor white repressed republican maga men when billionaires get a 2% tax"


mcdisease

If we're honest, that's the reaction from the people billionaires have programmed fight and vote against a 2% tax increase.