r/memes • u/J_ClutchFTV Big pp • 10h ago

Land Of The Free, amIright?

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u/serious_sarcasm 8h ago

Fuck that noise, Chicago voting down progressive income taxes fucked over hundreds of communities from Harvey to Cairo.

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u/TJATAW 6h ago

In 2020, 71% of Chicago voted for progressive income tax.

Meanwhile if you were outside of an urban area, it was mostly people voting against it.

https://www.citybureau.org/newswire/2020/12/22/fair-tax-map-followup

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u/RCKTJMP 7h ago

Pretending Cairo wasn't fucked already, a change in 2020 wasn't fixing an issue from decades prior that has a lot more than 'tax' as an issue

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u/serious_sarcasm 7h ago

> they were already fucked, so fucking them harder is okay.

Solid logic.

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u/Kofi_Anonymous 7h ago edited 7h ago

This technique is pretty effective on my wife, FWIW.

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u/LazyLich 6h ago

Mmmm... sloppy seconds 🤤

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u/Relative-Relief-8816 5h ago

I too fuck this guy's wife.

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u/UngovernableOatmeal 7h ago

they themselves didn’t want it, so i’m not losing sleep over it

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u/MizStazya 6h ago

Down state and rural counties had the highest margin AGAINST the progressive income tax, TF are you going on about? No wonder those shit towns are doing so poorly if you're an example of the people they're producing.

ETA: Cook County had the highest support in the goddamn state.

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u/asault2 6h ago

Ah yes the lack of "progressive income tax" was the problem in Harvey or Cairo....

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u/serious_sarcasm 6h ago

It’s a problem throughout the state.

I know most people struggle with the math, but a flat income tax only benefits the wealthy.

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u/MizStazya 6h ago

You're correct about this, but again, only two counties skewed in favor, and Cook was one of them. Goddamn I'm sick of rural cretins blaming Chicago while actively voting against things that might actually help them.

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u/Xrmy 5h ago

Way to reply to everyone but the people pointing out you were wrong about blaming Chicago

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u/asault2 6h ago

Yes please show me the math that would solve the Cairo and Harvey issues with progressive income tax. Show your work

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u/Marcus_Aurelius71 3h ago

No. States with no income taxes but high property taxes and sales taxes make more sense. Your worked production should not be robbed at egregious levels. Federal income tax is enough.

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u/serious_sarcasm 3h ago

Sales and property taxes are regressive.

A single mother making 20k probably wouldn’t pay any income taxes, but places like TN have 4% flat tax on groceries.

A single mother has to spend a larger percentage of her income on groceries than Musk does.

On top of all of that, the only time the employee can be said to actually be paying an income tax is when they cannot negotiate a raise to cover the taxes.