Re: Facebook Account

On 8/28/2024 4:36 PM, Shadow wrote:

On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:10:28 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:
 

On Mon Aug 26 16:44:55 2024 Shadow  wrote:

On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 18:18:28 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:
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the Hewlitt and Packard families are so stinking rich they don't even notice the excessive taxation.

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If they don't notice it, it's obviously not "excessive".
If the working class notices taxes, maybe they should be
reduced.
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Does your representative propose making billionaires "notice"
taxes too? (AKA, abolishing loopholes in legislation).
Or do you think rich people should be exempt?
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Why don't you move to California and then tell us that it isn't excessive. The filthy stinking rich not CARING that they lose and extra $40,000 from their billion dollar a year income doesn't mean it isn't excessive.

  Excessive? They probably laugh all the way to the bank. That's
0.004%. Less irritating than a gnat bite. Fire a few thousand or cut
their benefits and blame it on "Excessive Tax". LOL.

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Do YOU want to pay 12.5% of your income to the state to do NOTHING?

  In Brazil it's 27.5%. For salaries and "self employed".
Basic food (like rice, beans, meat etc) has 40- 50% tax.
Jet-skis. helicopters and small aircraft(usually for smuggling
drugs) are tax free.
Rich people(I mean really rich, not people with a piddly 1-2
million) hardly pay any tax at all.
Right wing regimes are unfair to > 99% of the citizens.
I sometimes wonder why people vote for parties that screw them
over again and again, and then I remember that half the population has
an IQ of under 100 and many others get their news from their
cellphones....
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Interesting, thank you.
I can't speak to Brasil tax policy but 'self employed' has grown more than 'employees' under very different (some might say diametrically different) administrations:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1039345/distribution-employed-population-status-brazil/
Brasil Real to gold shows weaker currency in the present administration, similar to the US regime effect:
https://goldprice.org/gold-price-charts/10-year-gold-price-history-in-brazilian-reals-per-kilogram
Then again exports have strengthened (note: not a weaker currency effect; shown in USD):
https://trendeconomy.com/data/h2/Brazil/TOTAL
[click 'line chart' and 'exports']
So it appears that Brasil is functioning and growing, so perhaps a crappy tax code is not yet at a crisis. Again I don't know that.
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