NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
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Also rich people tend to hoard their money, unless FORCED to part with it. They primarily, not always, never give money freely.
https://www.youtube.com/live/GW2hRMYVhjQ?si=iUWuDPTSZ5u_wAp7
MAGA hasnt felt enough pain
from MAGA yet.
But it’s coming.
Dems have ended their tenure as a viable pol party.
Yes asshole, past a certain point you don’t need more money, another yacht, etc.
The lack of empathy the rich show is astounding. They’d rather their imaginary number go up than other people have food or a place to live.
He’s like: Why would we not want them to keep building their island?
They don’t get how mad working people are at them.
Like “trickle down economics”, as if the rich have ever had any money they’re willing to part with
I think that’s what’s so disturbing about it, is that they don’t feel the need to avoid saying the quiet part out loud
Not much different than the crazy old lady who has 10,000 empty cat food tins in her pantry.
Flood listened to his voters.
He verified their position.
What will he do as a congressman elected to represent his voters?
Absolutely nothing.
I was giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Democrats lean towards equality.
Republicans lean towards freedom.
It's the reason that they can actually work together in government.
Conservatives are just a different form of liberal.
Year | CEO Pay ↑ | Worker Pay ↑
------|----------|-------------
1979 | Base | Base
1990 | +160% | +20%
2000 | +400% | +30%
2010 | +700% | +40%
2020 | +1,300% | +50%
Today | +1,500%+ | +60%
Source: EPI, Fed Data
Does he not know how money works???
Republican Town Hall Reps promise Social Security won't be cut... but they don't even know. How embarrassing for them 😳
Rep Mike Flood #NE Nebraska
Rep Chuck Edwards #NC North Carolina
Tax the rich and let tworking and low income families pay less in taxes and we will have another boom.
Workers and consumers drive 2/3 of the economy so it stands to reason we should see the lions share of the benefits from govt programs.
Just saying.
about $2,146,425.68 in 2025
I’d like to see that.
Don’t stop!
Ever!
Quite honestly, for the latter, he should have faced capital charges.
One thing he did do correctly -
People think a top marginal rate of 40% means all their income is taxed at 40%. Cartoons like this make a good historical argument but add to the confusion.
Tax the rich
Don’t let them get away with telling us “ to eat cake “ hopefully they remember how well that turned out
OH NOES!!!
Return to that.
The middle class boomed during that time. Unions gained power and inequality was drastically reduced.
Billionaires aren't people. Mulch the rich
Question: Why did Jesse James rob banks?
Answer: Because that's where the money was.
Why tax the rich? Because they have the money.
Why tax the rich? Because they’re not paying their fair share of taxes, that’s why.
Just gotta marinate in the tears of their shareholders.
“Tax, eat or kill”
We taxed the rich, built the entire highway system..and guess what? The Rich were still wealthy AF!
I'm so done with the insatiable greed of these billionaires. It's a parasitic mental illness epidemic.
(I would have preferred a messenger pigeon or a dove or something, but who am I to question God?)
Did his astute retort gobsmack the crowd?!
Somehow I doubt it.
#TAXtheRICH
They don’t pay taxes either.
Tax free, free money.
IF YOU KNOW ANYONE ON SOCICAL SECURITY HELP THEM NOW!!!
Socical Security now will demand the all to be set up to Socical Security online or loose benefits or go to a office.. INSANE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCP5fjrTP8o
Those in small town USA will need to be setup online or drive miles to wait in longer lines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCP5fjrTP8o
People are beginning to understand.
And your proposal, Mr. Flood, is to tax the poor?
I'm not putting one of those in my mouth
Curiously enough, pig farms, dog shelters, and the homeless seem to be always short on food.
If your goal is to actually balance the budget, you need to address both revenues and spending. Impossible to do with spending alone.
Whew. Needed that
LETS GO HUSKERS!!!!
They are about the inequality between people who have property and people who have to work for a living.
As long as they own the country like a troll under a bridge we will always have to pay their toll.
Take it away from them.
#EatTheRich
#EatTheRich
There’s the side that says it’s a spending problem and they cut vital investments.
But neither can point to the actual problem they are trying to solve. And they cause great pain.
Or the solution to illness is to give people health care.
The madness!
Wait what
I mean, he wouldn't be THAT stupid, right?... Right?
This whole thing is so screwed up that I wonder if there's a way out.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/fortenberry-googly-eyes-vandalism-professor-751618/
Also, its designed to be JUST safe enough to weather normal back and forth electoral dynamics. This isn't normal electoral dynamics.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHGnaSKu6XP/?igsh=MXV0YWx1eWd6dml2OA==
People are starting to wake up & identifying the TRUE problem & finding the COMMON GROUND that unites us.
Keep spreading the word!
It will take *a million and one small victories* to save our Democratic Republic against authoritarianism.
So, Congressman Flood, your proposal to solve the debt is to hand the reins to the guy who ballooned the debt like no other president ever?
https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump
Be proud that you can punch politicians! Lol
He’s throwing them under the bus to enrich himself.
They know what they’re doing.
AND controls the media
AND is a lawyer
His dug in like a tick in Nebraska
Instead of calling each other names, we take it out for n the billionaires.
People put differences aside when they have a common enemy.
pay les in taxes than we do per dollar of wealth. It’s that or cut programs we use.
Also, if their attachment and loyalty to this country is so weak that they’ll leave as soon as we asked them to do a little more, then screw’em.
“Did we stutter?”
“Did we stutter?”
“Did we stutter?”
I will say, it's been 10 years, I still don't... get it? Like. Speaking to cultic behaviors, latent bigotry, sure. But he's also the loudest dipshit alive, and I don't get it.
But also, given voter turn out, he didn't, like, do great. Dems just did worse.
At some point you've pretty much got all the real deep bigots on your side, and what's left is the shallow bigots: the ones who say "Well yeah I don't like [group] but I'm more tired of getting ripped off."
Without trump the GOP would disintegrate.
ohttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nGPytZeWDCg&list=PLmh4YIWteoGignTN03oyUmN2fFbsfJIuY&index=7&pp=iAQB