We'll have a Jesse Owens before Hitler opportunity today. What message will the athletes and celebrities give? “End Racism” vs. “Choose Love.”,,, there’s no competition here at all. It’s “End Racism” by a mile." Steve Buckley, NYTimes https://bit.ly/42N1pAU
The Strategy:
Resistance shouldn't mimic fox/maga comms!
Resistance SHOULD
1Do the cheering; gather the electorate roll out comms
2CONSISTENTLY
3CONSISTENTLY
4Share our WINS
5Cogently: call out maga! Not for Canada/Panama/Greenland
6CALL THEM OUT ON HOW THEY'RE KILLING THE AMERICAN VOTERS WALLET!
If the rich paid their fair share of taxes, it would easily fund the very programs that affect "living". Pro-life groups should be fighting FOR providing a liveable minimum wage; affordable healthcare, housing, childcare, school meals, and everything else for a child to live after birth.
The MAGA Supreme Court only gave Trump "absolute immunity" for whatever he does WITHIN the core presidential duties". Destroying America is NOT part of his"core duties" - kick Trump and his insurrectionist criminals out of the White House!
When the rich won’t and when my taxes are going toward implementing policies geared toward destroying the earth and lining the pockets of those determined to marginalize people.
Boni pastoris est tondere pecus, non deglubere
—It is the duty of a good shepherd to Shear his sheep, not to flay them. – Tiberius Cæsar, in reference to taxation.
Your system is flaying the lower classes because the rich are unwilling to pay their fair share of tax according to their means.
I also don’t mind paying taxes when my government spends them in congressionally approved ways. What upsets me is when the mega rich don’t pay taxes and then spend ours on things that benefit them. Eminent domain for Starlink and SpaceX.
Folks blaming wealthy folks for their lack of hustle is the problem. Not trying to be a jerk but speaking from experience it is not hard to be successful in the US. Our system is setup for those who put in effort. Btw- a 40hr work week is not effort
It’s 50/50 then from what you are saying. I call bullshit. The haves never wanted the have nots to be successful. We were never invited to the club period.
I was a “have not”. It absolutely can be done if you really commit to it. Tune out the BS,don’t look to blame others,have a little faith in yourself and don’t stop until you’re proud. Given your username- you absolutely can make money on the side writing code.
I am a have for now. The way things are going with this incoming administration it’s not blaming problems on others. I understand getting a second hustle as it has always been that way. As I have said before the rich don’t want us to be with them. So I enjoy staying to myself and spending time with
That’s true and yes I am strengthening my skills every day. Being in the IT field it’s a constant learning process. Constantly working on myself and coding as well.
That’s pretty much what it’s all about.Learn, then learn some more. Which has always been the draw for me. I’m thinking most all of us are going to end up looking more like DevOps than our core skill set within the next few years. You current skill set aligns well with that.
The Arab Spring uprising was triggered by, among other things
Energy prices
Authoritarianism
Inflation
Kleptocracy
Political corruption
Poverty
Sectarianism
Other countries with higher taxes are still happier because they see a return of investment. We get nothing here, it's all funneled back to the ruling class and the military and cops they use to oppress us. There's no point in a system that doesn't work for us.
Now if we can just enlighten the poor working class and the farmers that they been duped. Also the tradesmen/civil servants whose unions sold them out. 😔
And that is why America is bankrupted. The rich haven't paid since the 80' when we did. But we were middle class and poor. It's not enough. Everybody needs to pay, Everybody. We are so fucked
This is the oh so old pardine. We pay over a trillion dollars of Interest a year on our debt. So far DOGE has found over 76 Billion in savings. Almost a trillion. Funding Alqueda Talaban and ISIS. That is where some of our tax payer money is going. No consent to that. https://www.usdebtclock.org/#
Really , where are you getting your information from and even if it were true do you think the American public is going to see one penny of it Destroying institutions that are here for our well being really isn’t saving amount you just keep on thinking that
Jersey girl. Back in the day when Victory Nuland said we are funding the Taliban in one country and fighting them in another for starters. Oh yes and she also said before Congress under oath the we fund gain of function including that in Wuhan China and Ukraine. aka bioweapons labs.
Until the American people are willing to leave their comfort zones and actually confront this instead of waiting for it to come to them, things will get considerably worse.
A Teamster will walk the picket line with the gay dude in a dress and buy her a Bud light, draw her picture on it with a sharpie. My point? It's a green thing. It's a middle class's money thing. It a working class and immigrants money thing. Money equals freedom.
Hey everyone can we go to this YouTube story and flood the comment section with support for Federal Workers! Let's try for 3,000 comments saying "I support Federal Workers and Trans Rights!" https://youtu.be/9xajeh7UsFI?si=EFzY7LQH8epzEg7l
This is where they pay taxes and on time, or chain their doors up and shut them down until they do. If they don't REVOKE THEIR BUSINESS LICENSE AND KICK THEIR ASSES OUT OF TOWN. There is ALWAYS a competitor that can move into their spot. Leverage "location" for them owning their fair share of taxes.
MAGA BLOCK LISTS are not for me! I find too many times that decent liberal posters, with informative and factual content, are put on these published block lists! So, as far as it's worth to you, I will block MAGAs as they pop up, one by one! No thanks!
Pete Hegseth asked for $49,900 “emergency” paint job & $150,00 for repairs on his government-supplied home, after making $2M at FOX!
Fleecing American taxpayers as antithetical trump goes on cost-cutting spree, slashing medical research on cancer, Alzheimer’s!
The company receives “credits” which can be sold on to other car companies
Nevada exempted Tesla from property taxes for ten years and sales taxes for twenty years, approx $1.1 billion
Energy at a 10-30% discount to Tesla over the next eight years.
Etc. https://journals.law.unc.edu/ncjolt/blogs/tesla-motors-government-income/
Tesla has not been a good neighbor in NV. While they do employ 9000, it is a horrific place to work. They have very high turnover, atrocious safety issues, public humiliation, nonresponsive HR. He built with out of state contractors and recruits out of state. Has not given back to area as agreed.
Yes especially when Tesla for example , made 2.3 Billion dollars , yet Musk paid 0 in federal taxes. I will probably end up paying 8 k as Crisis interventionist/ Casemanager, in immigration who makes 100k , the worlds richest man???? He’ll pay 0 $
I just figured out how much I owe. I'm not comfortable sending my money to the Federal government since I don't trust the financial systems. I wonder if there is a way we could all put our taxes in escrow until trust can be verified?
I’m Latina I’m not filing on April 15 th. My tax dollars are now going to Billionaire Welfare Queens for their 3 rd yacht and War Mongers. I’m doing a Henry David Thoreau. They can come after this 10 k
Now a multi-billionaire, who gets billions in tax payer funded subsidies, has his finger on the American people's allocated money: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.
Even if they get all the money and power in the world, they will never be satisfied
Musk is sharing selected Treasury data on X for his fan people to see and share suggestions. I guess our Constitution is toilet paper now. He'll be coming for your country next!
Truth!
What kills me about this is that they will continue to sell "trickle down economics" while gutting every mechanism to help the poor and make our country safe.
Lol! The top 20% pays about 80% of all the taxes. The top 2% pay about 20%. The "poor" don't pay at all. If you taxed the rich 100% you'd run the government for a year, maybe 18 months (longer once DOGE gets done). Then what, genius?
Paying my taxes to subsidize the untouched piles of money in the money bins of the rich, when I don't have enough for me and mine, when the government isn't meeting it's bare minimum requirements and obligations to "The people",.. that's the one that chaps my ass.
When the upper tax bracket was 75% we built Highways and built a strong space program and the middle class grew. Now the GOP claims the only way forward is more tax breaks for the rich.
So, it's perfectly fine with you that Tesla has not paid any taxes in the last 4 years and that Musk has not paid nearly what he should have? If that doesn't bother you, you're part of the problem.
It doesn't bother you that Tesla has gotten over 8 million in "research grants and subsidies" in those same 4 years? Why would it bother me that Muskrat didn't pay himself?
Every single thing about Tesla and musk bothers me. Every penny he's stolen from the American people, every vote he stole during the last election, every stupid thing he does/says is evil and I hope that he will rot somewhere that is extremely hot and flame-y and full of demons.
Agreed. Yes, all rich people should pay their fair share, but first we need to get DODGE the hell out of the Whitehouse, and send Muskrat back to Texas before they take what little tax money actually goes to people who need it.
Completely agree. My family is firmly in the upper, middle class. Every time we have levies proposed, we vote “yes.” We think about how our vote will benefit our community (even the racist, bigoted a-holes who support the orange anus)
It's how they make a new slave class a class of people that pay taxes in a class of people that don't. This is what they're doing again, they convince all the idiots that they are in proximity of power because they support the fuckery via the southern strategy of making a white man feel he's better
I have said this for years. Rich white men wind up poor whites, middle class whites and wannabes to do their dirty work. They do this to avoid paying taxes. And buy yachts, fly to outer space and pretend they don’t have bodily functions like the rest of us.
That upsets me greatly. Eliminate the billionaire class. Limit that kind of wealth —they use it to buy politicians and judges. There are very few if any billionaires who help in meaningful ways to better society for everyone. They could do so much good! It changes the world positively.
I just read Musk's goal is to be a trillionaire,proving he can Never have enough!He could wipe out world-wide hunger by himself but he has no interest in that! Instead, he currently has containers of food rotting rather than allowing the food to reach the people who are literally starving to death!
Make it an uprising then! What dictator ever went peacefully without being removed by a ferociously angry mob? I'm angry as hell & I hope everyone who goes to the capital is as well. Official have been fighting for us, but with the wave of a hand, they are being stripped of their power. It's on us.
I agree—there should be a tax system that has everyone paying according an amount determined by their amount of income whatever that is with NO loopholes. Everyone needs to support the cost of running the country.
That raises a question. The fascists keep talking about MORE tax cuts for The Rich ... BUT THEY DON'T PAY ANY TAXES! So WTF are they going to do with all the money they're stealing from the FAA, science, education, healthcare, etc??? Start giving incentives for mega-bunkers and private planes???
Big Oil and their money has corrupted our government and taken over our US Supreme Court justices. We cannot drive there gasoline pollution machines anymore!
Citizens United in fascism. Take away their power, take away their dirty polluting Big Oil money!
Totally agree. And no one human being deserves to have the government cheat the poor and working class so an oligarch can become a trillionaire on shafting those same people. (like the muskrat does the American people at trump's encouragement)
I don't wanna pay taxes to elmo this year. He just got rid of all the services we pay for and getting our country. He doesn't even pay taxes. Now I'm supposed to pay him???
It’s for the little people to pay for the wealthy so they can have more & poor & middle class struggle to survive. What an ugly trump administration and Country they want to create.
The Mormon church has a stock portfolio valued at 55 billion. Conservative estimate. While continuing to collect 10% (tax free) from each and every member of the church. No wonder they want to populate…
when the federal government is disbanding programs that we the taxpayers have paid for, don’t we have a just reason for not paying? I’m not throwing money to the feds to put more money in Elons bank accounts.
And if churches don’t have to pay, why should we? Just look at the LDS stock portfolio.
When will leftards ever realize all the ways that "the rich" pay taxes that the working class and poor never will (unless they also become rich someday?)
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Elon Musk personally paid about 3.7% income taxes.
Resistance shouldn't mimic fox/maga comms!
Resistance SHOULD
1Do the cheering; gather the electorate roll out comms
2CONSISTENTLY
3CONSISTENTLY
4Share our WINS
5Cogently: call out maga! Not for Canada/Panama/Greenland
6CALL THEM OUT ON HOW THEY'RE KILLING THE AMERICAN VOTERS WALLET!
—It is the duty of a good shepherd to Shear his sheep, not to flay them. – Tiberius Cæsar, in reference to taxation.
Your system is flaying the lower classes because the rich are unwilling to pay their fair share of tax according to their means.
Energy prices
Authoritarianism
Inflation
Kleptocracy
Political corruption
Poverty
Sectarianism
We the people …..
should be prepared and willing.
Fleecing American taxpayers as antithetical trump goes on cost-cutting spree, slashing medical research on cancer, Alzheimer’s!
Nevada exempted Tesla from property taxes for ten years and sales taxes for twenty years, approx $1.1 billion
Energy at a 10-30% discount to Tesla over the next eight years.
Etc.
https://journals.law.unc.edu/ncjolt/blogs/tesla-motors-government-income/
#foolishandbroke
Now a multi-billionaire, who gets billions in tax payer funded subsidies, has his finger on the American people's allocated money: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.
Even if they get all the money and power in the world, they will never be satisfied
Feb 17, 2025
What kills me about this is that they will continue to sell "trickle down economics" while gutting every mechanism to help the poor and make our country safe.
https://bsky.app/profile/davetroy.com/post/3lhi77wsop22r
(202) 224-3121 #Bluestormrising
What upsets me is having to pay higher taxes to fund corporate bailouts and pointless military conflicts.
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Put a STOP to the MADNESS NOW because the country will come to a GRINDING HALT if the kids can't go to school.
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RESIST! REBEL! REVOLT!
RESIST! REBEL! REVOLT!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-indoctrination-in-k-12-schooling/
#FUCKGOP
Need an uprising of real people stopping this..
Similar to J6. 💪🏼 better / Smarter - more powerful!
They won’t listen to the courts. We need to stop Fascism FAST!
Give me another solution?
Citizens United in fascism. Take away their power, take away their dirty polluting Big Oil money!
And no gains taxed w/zero transparency.
This is America!
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2024/11/17/lds-church-investments-with-ensign/
And if churches don’t have to pay, why should we? Just look at the LDS stock portfolio.