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One of the many quaint beliefs the Left has about the US is that it's a relatively low-tax country

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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,099 Founders Club
    What happened to austerity killed Greece?

    No one argues out of both sides of their mouth like a leftist

    But sure H wants spending cuts. Sure.
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 23,965
    SFGbob said:

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    SFGbob said:

    HHusky said:

    Your government has decided that you can't be trusted to invest for your retirement so we are going to steal that money from you and not invest it for your retirement.

    I'm old enough to have fallen for the Al Gore LOCKBOX for social security. I was actually impressed because for years I had been saying the same thing Bob pointed out. We are getting shit for a return because the SS money goes into the general fund.

    Already spent. Ponzi scheme.

    blob and I aren’t that far apart here. But he still believes a unicorn is coming.
    And there's the strawman ass fuck. I don't believe it's coming because there are too many people who vote like you Dazzler. I'm under no illusions that the parasites and their enablers have won.
    So you just vote to put ever more on the credit card. As you did personally when you allegedly were pining to make small index fund purchases.
    No, I vote to blow-up the entire system of Social Security and I don't shit on political movements and politicians who support doing the same like you do Dazzler.
    As if your desires were limited to blowing up SS.
    How's the system you support working out Dazzler? Have you seen the deficit? Have you seen the additional spending your party wants right now? Was your claim about fiscal responsibility a total fucking fraud?
    You’ve seen the deficit and applauded cutting revenues. I’ve seen the deficit and easily discerned that most people who talk about wanting small government are liars.
    Weird how you completely leave off my support of taking a chainsaw to the Federal budget.
    You don't have the votes, lady.

    That's always been the point.

    I'm living in reality and the possible.

    You're at Ayn Rand fantasy camp.
    Yes, we don't have the votes because of people like you. We've come full circle Dazzler, you and the people you vote for are the fucking problem.
    The people I vote for have never taken raising more money off the table. The people you vote for have cut taxes and increased spending.
    Have they proposed enough tax increases to cover their current spending, the spending they want to do and the deficit spending? Because if no, fuck off.
    Absolutely not. My people still want to put more stuff on the credit card and your people want to put everything on the credit card.
    Another lie. Make me king and you'd have a budget surplus. I'd cut spending and eliminate Federal departments and programs. My government wouldn't require anyone to pay more than 15% of the income in taxes.
    So we're really back to your fantasy island smaller government--something neither the people I vote for nor the people you vote for will EVER preside over. I'll live in reality, thanks.
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 23,965

    What happened to austerity killed Greece?

    No one argues out of both sides of their mouth like a leftist

    But sure H wants spending cuts. Sure.

    It's ridiculous to talk about spending cuts. The spending increases were baked in long ago.
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 23,965

    Bring back Newt. You leftards just loved his spending restraint.

    Aren't you getting awfully old to fantasize about how much better we'd play with the fifth string quarterback?
  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 17,622 Standard Supporter
    HHusky said:

    Bring back Newt. You leftards just loved his spending restraint.

    Aren't you getting awfully old to fantasize about how much better we'd play with the fifth string quarterback?
    Have no idea what this means as I don't speak gibberish. Maybe it means that you don't support spending restraints and this somehow gives you the youthful moral high ground as only fiscally responsible democrats support massive spending increases because that's what the more fiscally responsible alternative candidates do. Just the pie in the sky additional revenue from more IRS agents is a fantasy. The spending is real, however.
  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,181 Founders Club
    So then we've agreed that the US is a high tax country that we get little in return for.

    H is just stating there's no way to fix it.

    Sounds like a hell of an argument for not passing any future spending. We can at least shrink government as a % of gdp that way.
  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,183

    So then we've agreed that the US is a high tax country that we get little in return for.

    H is just stating there's no way to fix it.

    Sounds like a hell of an argument for not passing any future spending. We can at least shrink government as a % of gdp that way.

    No, he is saying that we need to raise taxes even higher.
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 23,965

    HHusky said:

    Bring back Newt. You leftards just loved his spending restraint.

    Aren't you getting awfully old to fantasize about how much better we'd play with the fifth string quarterback?
    Have no idea what this means as I don't speak gibberish. Maybe it means that you don't support spending restraints and this somehow gives you the youthful moral high ground as only fiscally responsible democrats support massive spending increases because that's what the more fiscally responsible alternative candidates do. Just the pie in the sky additional revenue from more IRS agents is a fantasy. The spending is real, however.
    Oh please, Gasbag.

    You've fallen in and out of love with so many so-called "fiscal hawks" over the past 20 years it'd be embarrassing to someone without senile dementia.
  • hardhat
    hardhat Member Posts: 8,344
    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    Bring back Newt. You leftards just loved his spending restraint.

    Aren't you getting awfully old to fantasize about how much better we'd play with the fifth string quarterback?
    Have no idea what this means as I don't speak gibberish. Maybe it means that you don't support spending restraints and this somehow gives you the youthful moral high ground as only fiscally responsible democrats support massive spending increases because that's what the more fiscally responsible alternative candidates do. Just the pie in the sky additional revenue from more IRS agents is a fantasy. The spending is real, however.
    Oh please, Gasbag.

    You've fallen in and out of love with so many so-called "fiscal hawks" over the past 20 years it'd be embarrassing to someone without senile dementia.
    Biden has dementia.
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 23,965
    edited November 2021
    SFGbob said:

    So then we've agreed that the US is a high tax country that we get little in return for.

    H is just stating there's no way to fix it.

    Sounds like a hell of an argument for not passing any future spending. We can at least shrink government as a % of gdp that way.

    No, he is saying that we need to raise taxes even higher.
    We're not a high tax country, at all. We do need to raise taxes without even considering any new discretionary spending, which will also happen . . . under either party.
  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,181 Founders Club
    HHusky said:

    SFGbob said:

    So then we've agreed that the US is a high tax country that we get little in return for.

    H is just stating there's no way to fix it.

    Sounds like a hell of an argument for not passing any future spending. We can at least shrink government as a % of gdp that way.

    No, he is saying that we need to raise taxes even higher.
    We're not a high tax country, at all. We do need to raise taxes without even considering any new discretionary spending, which will also happen . . . under either party.
    So we can get nothing good in return. Genius!
  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 17,622 Standard Supporter
    HHusky said:

    SFGbob said:

    So then we've agreed that the US is a high tax country that we get little in return for.

    H is just stating there's no way to fix it.

    Sounds like a hell of an argument for not passing any future spending. We can at least shrink government as a % of gdp that way.

    No, he is saying that we need to raise taxes even higher.
    We're not a high tax country, at all. We do need to raise taxes without even considering any new discretionary spending, which will also happen . . . under either party.
    Somebody needs to pay for those programs that we can't do without - like open borders, the green gaia religious fraud, public education that doesn't educate and welfare payments to able bodied people and to end the homeless problem that we treat like spreading more pigeon feed and then can't figure out why there are more pigeons.
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 23,965

    HHusky said:

    SFGbob said:

    So then we've agreed that the US is a high tax country that we get little in return for.

    H is just stating there's no way to fix it.

    Sounds like a hell of an argument for not passing any future spending. We can at least shrink government as a % of gdp that way.

    No, he is saying that we need to raise taxes even higher.
    We're not a high tax country, at all. We do need to raise taxes without even considering any new discretionary spending, which will also happen . . . under either party.
    So we can get nothing good in return. Genius!
    Telling you that you will die someday is not the same as rooting for you to die.

    There is no political will to shrink government.
  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,181 Founders Club
    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    SFGbob said:

    So then we've agreed that the US is a high tax country that we get little in return for.

    H is just stating there's no way to fix it.

    Sounds like a hell of an argument for not passing any future spending. We can at least shrink government as a % of gdp that way.

    No, he is saying that we need to raise taxes even higher.
    We're not a high tax country, at all. We do need to raise taxes without even considering any new discretionary spending, which will also happen . . . under either party.
    So we can get nothing good in return. Genius!
    Telling you that you will die someday is not the same as rooting for you to die.

    There is no political will to shrink government.
    There's a difference between small and large growth.

    Good job, good effort.
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 23,965

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    SFGbob said:

    So then we've agreed that the US is a high tax country that we get little in return for.

    H is just stating there's no way to fix it.

    Sounds like a hell of an argument for not passing any future spending. We can at least shrink government as a % of gdp that way.

    No, he is saying that we need to raise taxes even higher.
    We're not a high tax country, at all. We do need to raise taxes without even considering any new discretionary spending, which will also happen . . . under either party.
    So we can get nothing good in return. Genius!
    Telling you that you will die someday is not the same as rooting for you to die.

    There is no political will to shrink government.
    There's a difference between small and large growth.

    Good job, good effort.
    There are differences between large and small deficits and good and bad economies too. The GOP has run up massive deficits when the economy was humming; its claims to fiscal prudence require we ignore its recent history.
  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,181 Founders Club
    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    SFGbob said:

    So then we've agreed that the US is a high tax country that we get little in return for.

    H is just stating there's no way to fix it.

    Sounds like a hell of an argument for not passing any future spending. We can at least shrink government as a % of gdp that way.

    No, he is saying that we need to raise taxes even higher.
    We're not a high tax country, at all. We do need to raise taxes without even considering any new discretionary spending, which will also happen . . . under either party.
    So we can get nothing good in return. Genius!
    Telling you that you will die someday is not the same as rooting for you to die.

    There is no political will to shrink government.
    There's a difference between small and large growth.

    Good job, good effort.
    There are differences between large and small deficits and good and bad economies too. The GOP has run up massive deficits when the economy was humming; its claims to fiscal prudence require we ignore its recent history.
    I'm impressed you agree with the criticism most here have of the swamp GOP.

    Kind of at odds with your defense of Liz though.
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 23,965

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    SFGbob said:

    So then we've agreed that the US is a high tax country that we get little in return for.

    H is just stating there's no way to fix it.

    Sounds like a hell of an argument for not passing any future spending. We can at least shrink government as a % of gdp that way.

    No, he is saying that we need to raise taxes even higher.
    We're not a high tax country, at all. We do need to raise taxes without even considering any new discretionary spending, which will also happen . . . under either party.
    So we can get nothing good in return. Genius!
    Telling you that you will die someday is not the same as rooting for you to die.

    There is no political will to shrink government.
    There's a difference between small and large growth.

    Good job, good effort.
    There are differences between large and small deficits and good and bad economies too. The GOP has run up massive deficits when the economy was humming; its claims to fiscal prudence require we ignore its recent history.
    I'm impressed you agree with the criticism most here have of the swamp GOP.

    Kind of at odds with your defense of Liz though.
    Cuz Daddy is the figurehead of fiscal discipline, of course.
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 23,965
    edited November 2021

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    SFGbob said:

    So then we've agreed that the US is a high tax country that we get little in return for.

    H is just stating there's no way to fix it.

    Sounds like a hell of an argument for not passing any future spending. We can at least shrink government as a % of gdp that way.

    No, he is saying that we need to raise taxes even higher.
    We're not a high tax country, at all. We do need to raise taxes without even considering any new discretionary spending, which will also happen . . . under either party.
    So we can get nothing good in return. Genius!
    Telling you that you will die someday is not the same as rooting for you to die.

    There is no political will to shrink government.
    There's a difference between small and large growth.

    Good job, good effort.
    There are differences between large and small deficits and good and bad economies too. The GOP has run up massive deficits when the economy was humming; its claims to fiscal prudence require we ignore its recent history.
    I'm impressed you agree with the criticism most here have of the swamp GOP.

    Kind of at odds with your defense of Liz though.
    Cuz Daddy is the figurehead of fiscal discipline, of course.
    There's the cope.

    But daddy!

    Welcome to 2021. Care to discuss the current trillions in entitlement stimulus for an economy that is already overheated with inflation?
    "Swamp GOP" were your words.

    How is referencing your support for Daddy not responsive?
  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,181 Founders Club
    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    SFGbob said:

    So then we've agreed that the US is a high tax country that we get little in return for.

    H is just stating there's no way to fix it.

    Sounds like a hell of an argument for not passing any future spending. We can at least shrink government as a % of gdp that way.

    No, he is saying that we need to raise taxes even higher.
    We're not a high tax country, at all. We do need to raise taxes without even considering any new discretionary spending, which will also happen . . . under either party.
    So we can get nothing good in return. Genius!
    Telling you that you will die someday is not the same as rooting for you to die.

    There is no political will to shrink government.
    There's a difference between small and large growth.

    Good job, good effort.
    There are differences between large and small deficits and good and bad economies too. The GOP has run up massive deficits when the economy was humming; its claims to fiscal prudence require we ignore its recent history.
    I'm impressed you agree with the criticism most here have of the swamp GOP.

    Kind of at odds with your defense of Liz though.
    Cuz Daddy is the figurehead of fiscal discipline, of course.
    There's the cope.

    But daddy!

    Welcome to 2021. Care to discuss the current trillions in entitlement stimulus for an economy that is already overheated with inflation?
    "Swamp GOP" were your words.

    How is your support for Daddy not responsive?
    "Everyone does it" is your conflationary argument.

    Yeah, sure, there's literally no difference in any government spending or context whatsoever. 1 trillion on infrastructure in a recession vs. 3 trillion on entitlements during stagflation. Send out the checks for $1,000,000 because it's all the same.

    I mean, I guess we've established you are bad at economics but this is right there with oil production doesn't effect price.
  • hardhat
    hardhat Member Posts: 8,344
    edited November 2021
    The US is not a low tax country, and does a much worse job spending and allocating its tax revenue.
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 23,965

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    SFGbob said:

    So then we've agreed that the US is a high tax country that we get little in return for.

    H is just stating there's no way to fix it.

    Sounds like a hell of an argument for not passing any future spending. We can at least shrink government as a % of gdp that way.

    No, he is saying that we need to raise taxes even higher.
    We're not a high tax country, at all. We do need to raise taxes without even considering any new discretionary spending, which will also happen . . . under either party.
    So we can get nothing good in return. Genius!
    Telling you that you will die someday is not the same as rooting for you to die.

    There is no political will to shrink government.
    There's a difference between small and large growth.

    Good job, good effort.
    There are differences between large and small deficits and good and bad economies too. The GOP has run up massive deficits when the economy was humming; its claims to fiscal prudence require we ignore its recent history.
    I'm impressed you agree with the criticism most here have of the swamp GOP.

    Kind of at odds with your defense of Liz though.
    Cuz Daddy is the figurehead of fiscal discipline, of course.
    There's the cope.

    But daddy!

    Welcome to 2021. Care to discuss the current trillions in entitlement stimulus for an economy that is already overheated with inflation?
    "Swamp GOP" were your words.

    How is your support for Daddy not responsive?
    "Everyone does it" is your conflationary argument.

    Yeah, sure, there's literally no difference in any government spending or context whatsoever. 1 trillion on infrastructure in a recession vs. 3 trillion on entitlements during stagflation. Send out the checks for $1,000,000 because it's all the same.

    I mean, I guess we've established you are bad at economics but this is right there with oil production doesn't effect price.
    Daddy was all on board with the tax cut bill when everything seemed to be going fine. Growing deficits in fat times, just like the "swamp GOP".
  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,181 Founders Club
    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    SFGbob said:

    So then we've agreed that the US is a high tax country that we get little in return for.

    H is just stating there's no way to fix it.

    Sounds like a hell of an argument for not passing any future spending. We can at least shrink government as a % of gdp that way.

    No, he is saying that we need to raise taxes even higher.
    We're not a high tax country, at all. We do need to raise taxes without even considering any new discretionary spending, which will also happen . . . under either party.
    So we can get nothing good in return. Genius!
    Telling you that you will die someday is not the same as rooting for you to die.

    There is no political will to shrink government.
    There's a difference between small and large growth.

    Good job, good effort.
    There are differences between large and small deficits and good and bad economies too. The GOP has run up massive deficits when the economy was humming; its claims to fiscal prudence require we ignore its recent history.
    I'm impressed you agree with the criticism most here have of the swamp GOP.

    Kind of at odds with your defense of Liz though.
    Cuz Daddy is the figurehead of fiscal discipline, of course.
    There's the cope.

    But daddy!

    Welcome to 2021. Care to discuss the current trillions in entitlement stimulus for an economy that is already overheated with inflation?
    "Swamp GOP" were your words.

    How is your support for Daddy not responsive?
    "Everyone does it" is your conflationary argument.

    Yeah, sure, there's literally no difference in any government spending or context whatsoever. 1 trillion on infrastructure in a recession vs. 3 trillion on entitlements during stagflation. Send out the checks for $1,000,000 because it's all the same.

    I mean, I guess we've established you are bad at economics but this is right there with oil production doesn't effect price.
    Daddy was all on board with the tax cut bill when everything seemed to be going fine. Growing deficits in fat times, just like the "swamp GOP".
    Tax cuts are literally part of how you shrink government but sure, good argument?

    Are you going to go ahead with the "how do we pay for tax cuts" fallacy next?
  • hardhat
    hardhat Member Posts: 8,344
    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    SFGbob said:

    So then we've agreed that the US is a high tax country that we get little in return for.

    H is just stating there's no way to fix it.

    Sounds like a hell of an argument for not passing any future spending. We can at least shrink government as a % of gdp that way.

    No, he is saying that we need to raise taxes even higher.
    We're not a high tax country, at all. We do need to raise taxes without even considering any new discretionary spending, which will also happen . . . under either party.
    So we can get nothing good in return. Genius!
    Telling you that you will die someday is not the same as rooting for you to die.

    There is no political will to shrink government.
    There's a difference between small and large growth.

    Good job, good effort.
    There are differences between large and small deficits and good and bad economies too. The GOP has run up massive deficits when the economy was humming; its claims to fiscal prudence require we ignore its recent history.
    I'm impressed you agree with the criticism most here have of the swamp GOP.

    Kind of at odds with your defense of Liz though.
    Cuz Daddy is the figurehead of fiscal discipline, of course.
    There's the cope.

    But daddy!

    Welcome to 2021. Care to discuss the current trillions in entitlement stimulus for an economy that is already overheated with inflation?
    "Swamp GOP" were your words.

    How is your support for Daddy not responsive?
    "Everyone does it" is your conflationary argument.

    Yeah, sure, there's literally no difference in any government spending or context whatsoever. 1 trillion on infrastructure in a recession vs. 3 trillion on entitlements during stagflation. Send out the checks for $1,000,000 because it's all the same.

    I mean, I guess we've established you are bad at economics but this is right there with oil production doesn't effect price.
    Daddy was all on board with the tax cut bill when everything seemed to be going fine. Growing deficits in fat times, just like the "swamp GOP".
    Daddy made the maximum SALT deduction $10,000. Senile daddy got rid of that.
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,117 Standard Supporter
    Too bad Ross Perot is dead.

    That motherfucker explained government finance/deficits/debt better than any human over the past 100 years.
  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,913

    100% this. Add up all the fed, state, and local level taxes and the tax burden goes way up.</blockquote

    If you are even gainfully employed you see about half of your take home go to taxes. 20-30% goes away to payroll taxes. 20% of your heat and light bills are taxes. 15% of your rent or mortgage payment goes to pay property taxes. 30% of your gasoline cost goes to taxes.

    And then we have the indirect taxes. For everything else that you buy has a cost built into it to cover the taxes that the business pays.

  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,560
    You guys made HHusky angry, Biden is fucking with his mojo.
  • thechatch
    thechatch Member Posts: 7,268 Standard Supporter
    HHusky said:

    hardhat said:

    HHusky said:

    Paid 42% tax rate in Sweden, got free health care, free full time childcare (8:30am to 4pm), and $100 a month unlimited metro card.

    US I get taxed 28% and get toll roads

    I get taxed a lot more than 28% and still get toll roads.
    Bullshit. No you don’t.
    I'm really disappointed in you ladies. This is one of your favorite subjects, that we're not taxed enough. Did your booster shot have some side effects?
    There is zero chance any of you gals pays 28% of your income in taxes. Basic math fail.
    Is this where we drop our 941s and 1120S filings on the table or would you rather see a FY2020 P&L and figure it out for yourself?

    Fuck off.
  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,181 Founders Club
    thechatch said:

    HHusky said:

    hardhat said:

    HHusky said:

    Paid 42% tax rate in Sweden, got free health care, free full time childcare (8:30am to 4pm), and $100 a month unlimited metro card.

    US I get taxed 28% and get toll roads

    I get taxed a lot more than 28% and still get toll roads.
    Bullshit. No you don’t.
    I'm really disappointed in you ladies. This is one of your favorite subjects, that we're not taxed enough. Did your booster shot have some side effects?
    There is zero chance any of you gals pays 28% of your income in taxes. Basic math fail.
    Is this where we drop our 941s and 1120S filings on the table or would you rather see a FY2020 P&L and figure it out for yourself?

    Fuck off.
    H is such a big shot lawyer he fails to understand most blue states have income tax on top of federal income tax. So worldly that one.