Whoa... bad news for everyday folks!
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This is really valuable. I hope you'll include #AltText when you post images and screen shots in the future. It's easy, just touch the ALT on the image right before you post and you can add a description or transcript. 💜 This makes the image accessible to folks who use screen readers.
Even better you can change your settings to require ALT text on all your images so that you get a prompt when you try to post. Really great self-reinforcement to keep this kind of accessible graphic accessible to all. ☮️
It would be good to know what percentage of federal taxes are paid by the various income groups and then compare the % to the percentage of the total tax cuts that will be received by the various income groups.
This is a clear way to compare how much as a % we pay versus the % we will receive.
$28,600-$157,500 is more-or-less the Middle Class and much of the Working Class. And they're getting hosed in favor of people earning >$360,000/year? Fscking hell.
We broke off comms with our MAGA family, but even if we hadn't and were showing them this chart, they would not believe it. That is how brainwashed they are. So very sad.
Admitting you're wrong requires maturity, self esteem & with those comes graciousness. Therein lies the problem. Many of his supporters at least lack some self esteem, in my area anyway, & I observe a lack of maturity online & person often with them.
Really great graphic! When DOGE cuts those hush-money refunds to bribe supporters into complacency for the loss of their federal government, I hope you’ll consider working up another one!
“Yes, you may be getting $ in the mail.
Was it worth human rights, civil rights, human and environmental health, disaster relief, dignity in old age, transportation, innovation, global allies, security, trade partners, workplace safety, arts, culture, education, Big Bird, & a bday card to grandma?”
I want to text my cousin so bad for her to tell her husband, I fking told you so!
In 2019 I visited them in GA.🤦🏻I told him Trump was a criminal & he said but the economy is good, stock market is up.😡😡😡Poor & middle class don’t own stock, they are the fking economy!🤦🏻
The rich get richer while the poor get poorer. This actually drags the whole of society down. Playing SIMCITY should be required by every new Congress. If you’ve been in a leadership group that has done SIMCITY you know what I mean.
I had a silly neighbor tell me last night he thinks t'dump will cut our taxes in half. I laughed & told him to keep dreaming. I just can't with these idiots. Why are magats so gullible?
Also, their subconscious must realize that if they admit they’re wrong for supporting the felon in chief, then they admit responsibility for his actions.
Cognitive dissonance won’t allow it.
Because we don’t teach media literacy or critical thinking in schools and, as any public school teacher can attest, this is not being taught at home either.
This could be true in some states but I want to throw out there that Minneapolis Public Schools are the opposite of what you're describing and much of their curriculum is the same as the state of Minnesota.
When you talk about public schools, it really is a state to state conversation.
Mind if I ask a question about this? I’m trying to reconcile this with another report that looks at if TCJA expired “we estimate that 62% of filers would experience a tax increase”
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(If you don’t have time, that’s ok. I’m not sure it would sway them)
Here's another graph essentially saying the same thing: https://itep.org/a-distributional-analysis-of-donald-trumps-tax-plan-2024/
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If tax cuts pay for themselves & add more $$$ to the economy
WHY DO WE NEED TO CUT ANYTHING WE SHOULD HAVE PLENTY OF MONEY
This is a clear way to compare how much as a % we pay versus the % we will receive.
If you make more than $914K per year, why don’t care about saving $36K?
Now is our time, it's up to us.
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The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
I kid you not, even after explaining the facts.
"No that's not right, you're wrong"
I can’t imagine how to distill it this nicely…
Was it worth human rights, civil rights, human and environmental health, disaster relief, dignity in old age, transportation, innovation, global allies, security, trade partners, workplace safety, arts, culture, education, Big Bird, & a bday card to grandma?”
In 2019 I visited them in GA.🤦🏻I told him Trump was a criminal & he said but the economy is good, stock market is up.😡😡😡Poor & middle class don’t own stock, they are the fking economy!🤦🏻
Here's another graph essentially saying the same thing: https://itep.org/a-distributional-analysis-of-donald-trumps-tax-plan-2024/
Cognitive dissonance won’t allow it.
When you talk about public schools, it really is a state to state conversation.