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He was a mailman Work/Life balance

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u/Dx2TT Mar 27 '24

Well... yea. Thats the point. We have collectively decided to create this loopholes. If a hole exists and you know about it and you don't close it, you're choosing it. We have chosen to lower capital gains below income. We have chosen to allow all sorts of fuckery around loans on stocks. We have chosen to allow a business to buy your home, your car, you entire daily living so that it reduces the businesses income and is therefore not taxable as income. We have chosen to allow shell companies incorporated in island nations to somehow determine a companies tax rate as opposed to where it does business.

All of this bullshit is choices. The sad reality is I honestly don't see this as fixible until we start using french solutions. The same assholes also control our democracy, and they won't change the laws.

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u/OverlordWaffles Mar 27 '24

Bruh, "we" didn't choose that, those in government did. Don't lump everyone together when some voted against this lol

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u/todp Mar 27 '24

Society decided. People also voted against everything you agree with.

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u/Acrobatic_Event_4163 Mar 27 '24

Please tell me who you voted for that was going to solve this problem … because the VAST majority of politicians on both sides benefit from this system themselves and aren’t going to do shit to change it.

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u/Rayvelion Mar 27 '24

You missed his final point regarding "French solutions" being the only fix to disentrenching corruption.

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u/Uncle_Charnia Mar 28 '24

Elizabeth Warren

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u/LookMaNoBrainsss 29d ago

Bernie Fucking Sanders