• EABOD25@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    You’re not wrong, but it was a difficult vote because all she lobbies for is “The Middle Class”. Like I don’t give a rat’s balloon knot about the middle class. What about people who are stuck in a lower tax bracket trying to get a house? What about those same people trying to get enough money to save so their children can be in a higher tax bracket. Dem reps are throwing “Middle Class” around like they’re an unrepresented minority, and haven’t said anything about lower Class people that are having to live paycheck to paycheck because of inflation and shit peasant pay.

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      2 months ago

      I propose that once Kamala officially assumes the position and we can ignore demented Hitler again we do our best to yeet her straight back out the Whitehouse.

      We have to start getting actually mad, but in such a way where we keep thinking clearly and do not expose ourselves to emotional manipulation.

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        No. Don’t yeet her out, but lobbying, absolutely. We as Americans need to start pushing OUR representatives to do what WE want. The official middle-class annual income is around $54K - $161K. Huge window, and those numbers are obviously embellished because it’s claimed those numbers make up 50% of Americans. 11% of the percentage left over is poverty level, lower Class is 29%, and the rest is upper or upper-middle class.

        So 41% of Americans can’t or struggle affording the American Dream.

        Now, let’s look at tax brackets (which socially in America is what really defines your class)

        $0-$11,000 essentially means you’re homeless or in prison $11,001-$44,275 means you’re impoverished $44,276-$95,375 is lower Class $95,376-182,100 is lower-middle class $182,101-231,250 is middle class $231,251-$578,125 is upper-middle class $578,126 and up is upper class.

        So in substance, there are 7 tax brackets that represent “all” of the American people. When they say “Middle Class,” they include all of the tax brackets that include the word “middle” and take the higher ends of lower-class. So they are embellishing the numbers to make it look like the majority is being spoken for, but what they’re actually doing is fudging statistical numbers to try and cover the “majority” of Americans in 3 tax brackets.

        Edit: Forgot resources

        https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/16/are-you-in-the-american-middle-class/#:~:text=We use your size-adjusted,to be considered middle class.

        https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/07/22/salary-needed-to-be-middle-class-in-largest-us-cities.html

        https://www.irs.gov/filing/federal-income-tax-rates-and-brackets

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          2 months ago

          You appear much more knowledged about taxes then i am.

          What way can a laymen worker lobby effectively?

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            2 months ago

            Proportional taxes, inflation defense, lower credit standards. My wife and I live in the lower-class bracket. We have been trying to move to a different state, and even with a credit score within the standards, the missing pre req is a standard income. Since my VA disability is tax-free, it is not supposed to be registered for income, and if one person uses that as their primary income, It’s shown that one spouse has zero income and that the other spouse is paying an amount that’s shows that income is hemorrhaging