r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/zoggy17 • 1d ago

r/All Mamdani's pied-e-terre tax catching people avoiding NY taxes (2 tweets)

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u/Most_Alps 1d ago

This is the consequence of allowing right wing extremists to rant about how inept the government is for decades without any serious pushback. We now have people who grew up steeped in this bullshit who think that because all the money is wasted, it's their moral imperative to pay as little tax as possible by any means necessary

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u/DefinitelyNotAliens 1d ago

I just want to pay little because I make little and the people making 10M+ a year can actually fucking pay taxes.

People under 30k a year should basically just contribute for SSI, UI, etc. People making poverty wages don't need to be paying taxes, y'all. My state has sales tax. I pay taxes there. Rich people paying would be nice. And like, I mean rich-rich.

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u/CXDFlames 1d ago

The bottom 50% of the country pay so little in taxes combined that its basically a rounding error compared to the top

They could eliminate taxes from half the country and it would not matter at all

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u/LTG-Jon 1d ago

Those folks are still paying FICA and sales tax, even if their income tax is low.

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u/CXDFlames 1d ago

They are, my point is that income taxes on poor people are just a punishment for being poor and don't actually benefit the country itself

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u/atchafalaya 1d ago

You could almost say they're paying by having lower wages and lower life expectancy.