help is a privilege that cost money and makes life harder. With millions of people canceling health insurance. I expect suicides to rise as people loose the ability for help. Every aspect of mental health is a money pit. People think by reporting people they are helping, but that just incures a massive debt to the victim.

America is an abomination.

How Trump Ruined the housing market, like how he bankrupted a casino

The Change: The TCJA slashed that rate to a flat 21%.

The Result: If a firm made $10 million in profit from renting out suburban homes, they suddenly kept $1.4 million more every single year than they used to, just from that one change. This extra cash allowed them to outbid families who are paying with "post-tax" dollars from their salaries.

The Change: The 2017 law created a new rule: owners of these businesses can deduct 20% of their business income right off the top before paying any taxes.

How it helps the "Giant Landlord": For a firm owning 5,000 houses, this is like a "20% off coupon" on their tax bill. It essentially lowered their effective tax rate from the top individual bracket (37%) down to roughly 29.6%.

The 2025 Impact: This was originally supposed to expire this year, but the 2025 "One Big Beautiful Bill" made this 20% deduction permanent. This gives Wall Street certainty that their "discount" isn't going away.

The Change: The 2017 law allowed for 100% Bonus Depreciation. This meant if an investment firm bought a massive portfolio of homes and upgraded the appliances, roofs, or HVAC systems, they could deduct the entire cost in the first year instead of spreading it out over 27 years.

The 2025 Impact: This "100% expensing" was phasing out (down to 40% in 2025), but the new 2025 law restored it back to 100% permanently.

The Result: A firm can buy $100 million worth of homes, do some renovations, and show a "loss" on their tax return for the year—meaning they pay zero taxes despite collecting millions in rent.

Go to Europe if you get sick or injured. Our taxes just seem to fund mechanisms we don't directly benefit from. I have observed people claiming we are the best, if not perfect, and that our shortcomings come from small countries outperforming us because we have a larger scale. However, we pay more per capita than the countries that outperform us. Clearly, being objective, the excuse of scale is bogus when we pay an extremely high premium for mediocre services.
​Our healthcare ranks the lowest of all developed nations, yet we rank first in cost. In education, we rank low and our schools underperform; we even import talent from other countries that pay less per person. Arguably, the only thing we rank first in is imperial expansion and military dominance, but we only use it to enrich companies by providing new areas to exploit resources.
Our administrative overhead does nothing more than enrich stock holders, the board members from stock buy back options. It is clearly a scheme to enrich the wealthy further.

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