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I make more money than I did in 2019, but spend a significant amount more too. Price of vehicles went crazy (somewhat going down), groceries and consumables are much higher. Equipment for my work are incredibly high. I will say that probably the smartest thing I did was put a bunch of money in...

RFK doesn’t like agriculture. He’s out for me.

Please keep RFK away from any important jobs.

A fair measured response. Appreciate it.

Agreed! So to get them involved, incentivize it! Don’t create policy to encourage people to do otherwise.

If you put on a capital gain tax of 45%, there’s hardly any incentive for the middle class to even risk the stock market! I mean, to put your post tax dollars into an investment that hopefully you get an 8-10% return on, but there’s always the chance of losing it, and see that when you take it...

I didn’t say anything about fair. And yeah, the wealthy have access to resources that others don’t…that’s life. And honestly, they should! Why should Joe Schmoe who makes $40k have the same resources that a person who makes $100 million have? One of them creates a lot more worth to the system...

I literally wrote out what the hypocrisy was. Do you need everything spelled out for you? You’re willing to learn, and call out, a program that whether you believe it or not, Trump hasn’t been endorsed because you view it as likely. When it comes to a policy that Harris has endorsed, you...

Will I ever have enough money for it to matter under the proposed law? Unlikely, but I know how this goes. It won’t generate enough tax dollars to cover all the spending, so the floor gets expanded. Rinse and repeat. We’ve all seen it happen with taxes before. It will depress the market in a...

Im just pointing out the hypocrisy.

I think if I don’t know what something is, and I’m discussing it, I’d go try to learn what it is and not be apathetic. You whine about Project 2025, and how it’s guaranteed Trump will do it, while likely knowing nothing about it, but actual proposed policy from Harris is just, “non-existent...

So to clarify, your main stance on one of the few proposed policy pieces from the Harris campaign is, “maybe it will never go into effect. Don’t know what it is anyways. Don’t care.” No desire to figure out what it could be. Just go with the flow. The average “educated” voter!

I’ve asked for anybody to explain how taxing unrealized capital gains makes sense and so far no takers, would you care to be the first? Maybe talk about actual proposed policy rather than the ranting word salad you do?

I mean, it doesn’t need to be complicated. You make this, you pay this. Period. Or, I guess we could continue to hire more people to sic em after people we don’t like with a lot of ambiguous rules designed to favor those who have enough money to hire somebody who knows the most about it. Tough...

You understand what I’m getting at though. Eliminate the loopholes. Make it easy. It doesn’t need to be as complicated as it does. I don’t think it’s necessarily good for the lowest earners to pay nothing either. Everybody has to be involved for this thing to work. The wealthy already pay the...

So discussing proposed policy that I disagree with is “getting triggered”? Policy that doesn’t affect you is still important. Ignorance isn’t bliss, my friend.

You could do different percentages for different income levels. And yes, the wealthier people will have more take home and disposable money, that’s to be expected. That’s fair, if we’re being honest.

See this is part of the problem. You don’t care if it’s stupid. You don’t care if it’s not going to work. You don’t care if you don’t understand it. It will never, ever, affect you, so why bother caring? Screw the rich! What have they ever done for anybody?

Easiest way to increase the tax on high wealth individuals is to simplify the tax code and make it a flat tax. Don’t create a billion ways to get out of things. But creating a tax on a wealth gain that hasn’t physically materialized doesn’t make any sense! Are they going to credit if a stock...

And in a few years it’ll get dropped down to a lower level of income. We’ve seen it before. Regardless, the point is that it doesn’t make sense to tax a gain that hasn’t physically materialized yet. It would be like if your house gained value, you’d have to pay a tax on the amount it...