So basically the upper middle class get screwed over again just like with his last tax cut. I’m fine with poor people not paying as much but all this just so the super rich can continue to not pay anything is super aggravating.
Yet every American will pay 1,000$/year to use the roads, 3,000$/year for the protection of the military, will have to hire their own private police for protection and fire fighters if there’s a fire, and pay for private education. You can pay for all this on the X platform with meme coin.
I mean it's likely bullshit but it'll get people to vote for him in a third term or whoever he picks as a successor. Then the economy will collapse lol. No one paying income tax will bankrupt the country.
So, where will be make up the $$$? Is he going to share his grifting? He surely is not going to impose on his donors!!!
Is this a move to try and silence the protests?
It will not work!!
Bullshit. What do y'all prefer? Paying 12-22% in federal taxes, or paying for goods and services that have doubled or tripled in price. I know my answer
If those people aren't paying taxes, and Billionaires aren't paying taxes, and corporations aren't paying taxes, who is going to pay taxes and actually keep the government functioning...oh wait, I just answered my own question.
If the poor and lower middle class pay no taxes- they get no vote. No taxation without representation will be used the other way around to prevent people from having a say.
The same merry-go-round as before. Even if that were true, that lowers the cost of nothing, solves no old problems, and serves to screw with society in general. Severing the ties that bind creates chaos. Are these people on the Hegseth diet?
that applies also to “poor” people like Bezos who had a very small annual salary from Amazon, i think $80k ?(to not pay federal taxes on his investments)
Trump is free-wheeling. He pulls proposals out of his butt with little or no chance of succeeding, but all his people have to run in circles, shout and scream.
They would never follow through with that, but even if they did, all these tariffs are taxes paid disproportionately by people in the lower income groups.
Unless Trump is proposing dissolving the union, I don't see how this works on a basic mathmatic level. Even assuming consistent revenue from tariffs would not be enough to make this up. This is just a promise they don't actually intend to keep.
In 2021, if you made 160k or over you were in the top 10% of earners. According to https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/latest-federal-income-tax-data-2024/, the top 10% of earners paid 75.8% of total income tax in 2024. So they have figure out how replace that 25% of revenue while cutting taxes on the top 1% and the only answer is debt
If I'm not paying taxes, and Zuck isn't paying taxes... Who's paying taxes? Where does the money come from?
This is just another promise that will go unfulfilled, meant to grab more support from an uneducated population that doesn't know any better. It'll be Biden's fault when it goes undelivered.
On this, if you guys haven't already seen, please watch this video. It demonstrates how effective misinformation has been. These are the people that voted for Trump. They refuse facts for what they've been told to believe.
Civics and education have truly taken a nosedive…. But holy crap those people aren’t debating, they’re just believing whatever clickbait that engages with them.
People who make 150 to 500,000 will get hit the worst. At a little over 200, your in 37%. I pay a small portion at that rate and am fine doing so when it helps build bridges and educate and feed children - not to line pockets of oligarchs!
And taxes the churches ffs!!!
Because everyone will be paying in for the disaster tariffs which ARE A TAX on Americans. Republicans keep selling “no taxes” and they just shift everything to a regressive tax system! Which just means the poor and middle class pay MORE. Jesus Christ it’s not rocket science
Gotta love how the White House tosses a small bone to the MAGA crowd, hoping to keep them content while everything falls apart around them. They'll cling to this shiny little nugget of information even as they lose their jobs or homes.
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Please don't spread this without adding the caveats, it will never happen and it's all a distraction.
Is this a move to try and silence the protests?
It will not work!!
We're going run a modern industrialized information economy by bake sale.
And everyone gets a pony.
Move onto your next distraction WH.
This is just another promise that will go unfulfilled, meant to grab more support from an uneducated population that doesn't know any better. It'll be Biden's fault when it goes undelivered.
Sadly the easily persuadables will believe it
Complete brain rot, so easily persuadable because they have zero idea about how anything works.
"I love the uneducated" donald trump.
And taxes the churches ffs!!!