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PenelopeWitherspoon

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  1. I meant that 1M is that line that makes you the 1%. There is a recent study on Adjusted AGIs, and for a lot of locations, that is the number that is now required to be part of the 1%. I am saying that you set that at the point in time, then you adjust each year for inflation. I think a lot of folks that make 400k to 999k are doing well, but they are not building wealth. It is hard to build wealth in locations where the cost of living is incredibly high, even if you make really good money.
  2. We would need to clearly define the 1%. The average appears to be aroudn 685k in Adjusted AGI. But in some states, you have to make 1M or more to be the 1%. That is one of the things I thought the Democrats did poorly. That 400k line they kept using was pretty arbitrary. I think 1M sounds about right for a single person. You make more than 1M a year, consistently, you are the 1%. That amount of scratch allows you to build wealth.
  3. I would do the following: Bring corporate tax rates back up to 35%. Corporations don't fucking pay their share. If they are going to be people, they should fucking pay taxes like the rest of us. I would cap the federal tax rate for individuals making under 1M at 35%. You make more than 1M a year, back up to 39%. I'd bring back the full salt deduction so there is more equality. I'd tax LT capital gains at 20% unless you have over 100M of wealth. 100M or more in net assets, your capital gains rate is 39%. And this is only charged on sale. No unrealized tax. I'd want to fix the estate tax, but I'd need to think on that more. For social security, I'd get rid of the income cap on contributions, but I'd make it deductible, especially since for many folks, they pay tax on SS proceeds (this eliminates double taxation). I'd prohibit private equity from buying single family homes. I'd need to look at SF and NYC on their unique issues of affordability. And that's just a start. I have tons of ideas about energy transition. The US being the global leader is a tide that raises all boats. However, there is the right way to message and the wrong way to message.
  4. If you do this, I would say you should give people the ability to borrow from this for certain things, like the down payment on a first home or higher education. You can put stipulations as to what kind of higher education (no for profit college, but trade school should be allowed) or stipulations on the home purchase. That would give a lot of folks a leg up that would be needed.
  5. It's on brand that a moron like you is an Elmo stan. Please crawl back under your rock.
  6. Holy shit, you are so fucking stupid it's unreal.
  7. This I think is just a chorus (not a church). The one I posted is a church. And there about 10 different ones out there. Jimmy Fallon asked Madonna about it. lol.
  8. Crazy Eyes Karen version is the best.
  9. v12044gd0000csv0h6fog65s6ogmjsj0.mp4
  10. Evangelical Churches have started to sing Like a Prayer in services. Having these folks who think a song about fellatio is appropriate for a Sunday service being in charge of education curriculum is absolutely on point for how fucking idiotic this country has become.
  11. Well, that is because the SEC is shit at calling PI in general.
  12. I’m still confused how the defensive line got called for delay of game.
  13. Well, I guess I have been to Keens for the last time. Fuck Fertitta. I just got back from Los Angeles and London. Glad to be back in NYC.
  14. Please go back to the rock you were under.
  15. Welp...Elmo and Vivek, Department of Government Efficiency. Just an absolute fucking joke. Elmo shouldn't sniff a damned thing since he lied about his immigration status. Only seems fair. Need to find out if these positions need confirmation. If not, every Republican that bitched and moaned about Obama's unconfirmed czars can go fuck themselves.
  16. Marco Rubio, Secretary of State
  17. Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense. You have to be fucking kidding me. @Anastasis, the thread you asked for.
  18. Taking off to London this evening.
  19. I agree with this. There is a lot going on.
  20. Were you paying attention from 2021 to 2023? They did push it. It failed in the Senate, where you need 60 votes. Are you being obtuse on purpose?
  21. They used all their political capital in 2009-2011 to get ACA passed. They then quickly lost control of the house in 2011. You know the answer to 2021 - 2023 . They controlled the Senate, but barely, and thanks to Manchin and KS, not really. They couldn't get Manchin to agree to kill the filibuster to enshrine women's rights. But, you could ask the same thing about immigration and Republican control. Look at all the times the GQP has been in control since Reagan. 2001-2003, 2003, 2005, 2005-2007 (they even had a bi-partisan plan and sunk it), and 2017-2019. I mean, the Democrats couldn't even get enough votes in the Senate to get IVF over the hump or the right to birth control. Really think they were going to get a woman's right to bodily autonomy over the hump? Now you have women in states like Texas dying due to lack of timely medical care. While @immamac is droning on about greed, women are losing their lives. If you really want to talk about the two underlying, problems, greed is one (greed for money and power), and the other is people seeing others who are not like them (religion, race, sex, etc..) as other and beneath them is the other. And Evangelical Christians do both of those really fucking well.
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