Robert ReichRemember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich, not the poor. The richest 1% evade $163 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has a yacht tax deduction. Hello?
floydgump@rbreich Instead of the American Dream it is a Greedystopian nightmare.
Clear Sky Wanted@gumpfloyd @rbreich I mean, "Greedystopian" definitely works, and IS brilliant, but man it's hard to say out loud.. :)
@ClearSkyWanted @rbreich It just takes practice like greedom,greedocracy..ect
Phil Haigh@rbreich don’t post this on the bird site, it’ll get you banned 😬
the Stripey Goodness
Bryan Williams@rbreich I wonder if it has a golf course deduction? ☺
Sk@tterBr@iNz@rbreich and those same rich folks apparently have an outsized influence on our government at many levels. This effectively limits the power/influence of the poor, so really this is posturing on class divisions with no clear solution provided. And now overall trust in government, and election processes, is at an all-time low. I hear a lot of problems. What are your proposed solutions?
rusty@skatterbrainz @rbreich eat the rich.
@skatterbrainz @rbreich It's a metaphor to advocate for inter-class uprising or revolution amongst the lower and working classes against the corrupt billionaires.
It doesn't mean literally eat them.
@mativity @rbreich (showing my age) in 1977 I was staying with my grandparents in Denver. A story came on the news about if the Soviets nuked Colorado, Denver would evacuate to the mountains. Then they interviewed a random mountain guy (missing most of his teeth) "Oh hell no! If them city folks even try, we'll dynamite the pass to keep em out!"
@skatterbrainz @rbreich Yeah, well, you live in the US. The rest of us aren't quite so Fourth Amendment. 😉
@skatterbrainz @rbreich This might happen anyway. But there won't be any nice transition anyway.
'Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.'
WB Yeats.
@skatterbrainz @rbreich How about just doing something different then whatever the hell we are doing now.We know what works and obviously what doesn't.The way of greed is definitely failing.
@gumpfloyd @rbreich sure! Provide details on how. That's what everyone else is waiting for.
@skatterbrainz @rbreich That's what everybody else is for one person can't change the world.Ideas don't belong to me and me only.
RodneyPetersonTalentAgencyAsk not who the shithole countries are. Ask why your country is a shithole country.
CMacSBR2018
Ken J@rbreich
I was a liveaboard for several years. One of the "boat people." That vessel was my principal domicile. Why shouldn't I get the same deduction as someone buying a condo?
Please understand that that deduction also applies to those who may not have other housing options.
LukefromDC@KenJ @rbreich The actual yachting set is the folks who try to keep liveaboards out of "their" marina etc.
Upscale yuppies with multimillion dollar yachts don't want to share space with the boat you live on, your work boat, your commercial fisherman neighbor, etc etc etc. When that fishing boat fires up at 5AM they are going to SCREAM if they are having a weekend aboard. Some of those guys can barely get in and out of their slip.
I grew up around the water back in the 1970's.
When I was 14, my father's boss invited us out on his 30+ foot cutter-rigged sailboat. Once we got out and set sail, I noticed he had only two of the three sails set (the main and the jib, no forestaysail). I suggested he set the forestaysail, he responded with "what's that?"
I told him it was the third sail, like an inner jib and that setting it would pick up another knot of speed. He set it, and indeed we picked up another knot.
Later, they had me up the mast in the bosun's chair for the view (I loved it up there) and he could not figure out how to reverse the winch to get me down, which scared the crap out of my mother. They got me down, worse case they'd have had to ask someone over the radio how to work the fucking winch but it didn't come to that.
If this guy got caught in a storm...
@rbreich Politicians are bought by corporations, they will do their bidding for a comparative pittance. Liberal, Conservative, Democrat, Republican, it doesn't matter, they're ALL bought.
Unless and/or until we can keep corporate money out of politicians pockets, it'll never change.
So, it'll never change.
We're fucked.
Unless and/or until we can keep corporate money out of politicians pockets, it'll never change.
So, it'll never change.
We're fucked.
Nicole ParsonsRepublicans: champion of tax cheats.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/republicans-have-a-tax-cheating-fetish-201346200.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/06/irs-tax-evasion-study-budget/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-tax-evasion
Hypocrites in every possible way.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/16/republican-tax-plan-debt-ceiling/
Pete@rbreich but... but... but... they should be rewarded for creating all those jobs and taxing them means fewer people will create companies and create jobs!
Digg@rbreich This is why you name your child something like "Shimmer Crest". If you claim them as a yatch, you get more back on taxes.
@rbreich The poor are freeloaders as well. They suffer socially and the middle class suffers financially.
yakkoj 🦊@rbreich I just got done filling out my taxes. That yacht deduction wasn't a thing H&R Block for macOS had to ask me about. :o(
Luna chan@rbreich Kind of a common sense thing think someone would remain poor if they're good at freeloading?
Magical Cat@rbreich For those who can not imagine what these numbers, this is enough money to give monthly UBI of 39 USD to every of 341,094,314 US citizens including infants.
Not too much you would say, but:
1️⃣ this is example of the scale of that evasion
2️⃣ why not start from something small? Just because it is better than nothing.
Not too much you would say, but:
1️⃣ this is example of the scale of that evasion
2️⃣ why not start from something small? Just because it is better than nothing.
(rainynight65) has moved@rbreich and the most ingenious move they've managed to pull off is to make a large group of people want to be able to claim that tax deduction one day, instead of being angry that it even exists.
In neoliberal vernacular that is then referred to as 'aspirational'.
Angua 
@rbreich
Any country really.
NonDom Status being the best example individually.
Use of Incorporation to dodge tax etc.
Then the cost of having Multinationals in your country.
Inheritance Tax which is meaningless as the rich can dodge it like most taxes.
Any country really.
NonDom Status being the best example individually.
Use of Incorporation to dodge tax etc.
Then the cost of having Multinationals in your country.
Inheritance Tax which is meaningless as the rich can dodge it like most taxes.
catsynth / amanda c@rbreich they capped my SALT deductions but kept that?! 😾
VulcanTourist [MOVED]Ya know, if the One Percent didn't keep dreaming of ways like media and subscriptions and gadgets for the other 99 Percent to covet and spend their cash on hand acquiring, then the wages they pay the 99 Percent wouldn't come back to them to line their pockets. Hmmmm....
Fardels BearI'm guessing they also have a private jet deduction.
Christopher Walker@rbreich if we’re going to have a tax deduction for yachts, it should phase out at $83,000 of income the way our IRA deduction does.