They don’t believe anyone under a certain income pays taxes. “Taxpayer” just means “upper income tax bracket” in their mind.
Oddly enough, when it comes to less dense suburbs with richer people in them, the cost to the city is always more than those people pay in taxes. They pay more but they’re actually using poorer people’s taxes to pay for their shitty “neighbourhoods”, in quotes because the word implies a level of community they could only dream of.
… people under a certain income level don’t pay any taxes
Even if you discount all other forms of taxation, and only focus on income taxes, the sentiment is irrelevant to this particular vote.
His support appears to be concentrated in the middle class. (Median household income in NYC is about 80k, right about the peak of his vote share)
Thanks for that information, I had no idea
They certainly pay sales taxes, possibly property taxes too, they probably have to pay fines because the cops love to prey on the poor, and there’s also fees to use government services. That’s all taxes.
But there’s this concentrated attempt to denigrate people with lower income as useless eaters that don’t contribute to society, and so they don’t think any of that counts.
They’re just stupid and meant folks who make millions and billions don’t pay their share of taxes
Totally fair. I wasn’t thinking about all the taxes the government steals from us, just the income tax
taxes the government steals from us
No it’s not the government that is stealing from us its the Uber wealthy that use our tax money (that should be going to the greater good of the citizens of the country) for their own gain.
Right, that’s the point of the “taxpayer” dog whistle. It trains people to think that poor people don’t pay taxes, and implies they’re lesser members of society because of it.
People with great wealth don’t pay taxes. They employ loopholes only available to the wealthy. Btw, almost every state has sales tax, you dipshit.
Way to rage at and insult the guy that already admitted he was wrong. You tool.
You’re right, but people over a certain tax bracket are also pretty good at not paying taxes.
Um, good?
“employers and taxpayers” is like “job creators”.
They don’t want to say “the ultra wealthy” because that would be too accurate for the owner of the site, who is an ultra wealthy person.
It’s so backwards too, since the ultra wealthy are the ones who most dodge paying their fair share of taxes.
I am tired of the boomer narrative of that it’s always those “young people” ruining everything. Oldest millennials are now in their mid-40’s. Or even worse, the youngest gen-z people are almost 18 now. These people have been paying their taxes for years on end now.
The only terrified people in this scenario are the literal parasites who don’t pay anything, through loopholes and theft
The lone defender of the billionaires at this pointsays everything we need to knowYep it is so stupid everyone blaming the boomers when they are no longer the largest voting block. But millennials are, also nobody wants to admit young people are stupid also.
No, boomers are responsible for the mess of crap we’ve found ourselves in. That’s why people blame them for it. They voted for “i got mine, and pulled the ladders up that helped them build their wealth and education”. That’s why we blame them for shit still.
I’m so sick of this divisive generation claptrap.
The problem is that wealth inequality in the USA has an age component.
Boomers are far wealthier than previous generations at their equivalent age as a percentage of national wealth. They are also incredibly sensitive to taxes as their retirement depends on managing wealth.
In contrast, Gen X and millennials are poorer than Boomers at their equivalent age and mainly contribute to the economy with their labor.
It isn’t a perfect divide, but there is a wealth divide that represents itself somewhat as a generational divide.
Exactly. It’s not young vs old, black vs white, left vs right, etc. The ONLY enemy are the WEALTHY, and we will never have peace in this nation and this world until we force the Sociopathic Oligarchs and the Transnational Corporations to serve our people, our nation, and the world, and not just themselves.
Well, its obviously not my generation at fault. /s
OK, boomer
“The media” love nothing more than to find the absolute most disgusting scum in our country and interview them for their opinions…
Outrage generates clicks, clicks generate revenue.
We’re both here because we’re disgusted by the headline so it obviously works.While generally true, I think “the media” does what I mentioned in order to “manufacture consent” in cases like this. They want to create the image of what is “real” and what “people you should believe” think. God forbid you should think for yourself and agree with a spooky spooky socialist, no no we need to make you afraid of him! We need you to believe that only “freeloaders” vote for him and “real taxpayers” will be hurt by him!
Wait, are you telling me that because he got elected I don’t have to pay taxes? Bonus!
WANTED: KATHY WYLDE
For contributing to social murder, ideologically justifying excess deaths among the lower classes in order to keep the upper class hierarchy.
I appreciate that they say that employers don’t pay taxes.
nah it terrifies tax dodgers and leeches of society
That’s an interesting way of phrasing “has actively enabled corruption for decades”.
