***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[osh kosh bosh]

he was serving looks tbh

why he got a pinkpanthress fit on?

 

[moonman818]

JD man...

You already know dude was playing tummy sticks in college. He better hope there's no evidence

 

[biggie62]

EPA reporting that spaceX polluted waters in Texas. Well good thing he moved that company there and out of Cali.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Yall making fun of JD in drag?

So much for the tolerant left.

 

[kdawg]

I don’t understand this as a stance.

I get why servers would be in favour of it but why would the rest of society want something that means that some workers get to take home a chunk of their earnings tax free? Surely that would lead to many other people being paid in “tips”.

 

[rexanglorum]

I guess I was a member of a “gay club” in high school in 1999. I was a paper member, never attended meetings. I did lobby teammates to sign on, even a lot of Fellowship of Christian Athletes members signed on.

In the Y2K era, we said the f-slur too much but fundamentally, we all signed onto the idea that people who were actually gay shouldn’t be bullied.

 

[rexanglorum]

Yall making fun of JD in drag?

So much for the tolerant left.

We just want him to live his best life.

He’s made a lot of money in VC. He doesn’t need to be Trump’s VP or be a US Senator.

He should be having a brat summer.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

We just want him to live his best life.

He’s made a lot of money in VC. He doesn’t need to be Trump’s VP or be a US Senator.

He should be having a brat summer.

 

[rexanglorum]

I don’t understand this as a stance.

I get why servers would be in favour of it but why would the rest of society want something that means that some workers get to take home a chunk of their earnings tax free? Surely that would lead to many other people being paid in “tips”.

I figure that tips are synonymous with low income (although that’s not always the case) and reducing income taxes on low income people is popular among not only rank and file Democratic voters but Republicans as well.

It seems more straightforward to just cut federal income tax for lower income people, which in many cases would mean an even larger Earned Income Tax Credit.

You could make a utilitarian argument that a dollar earned in tips should be taxed at a lower rate than a dollar earned in regular paycheck. Uncertainty and emotional labor probably do make a dollar in tips harder to earn, all other variables held constant, than a dollar in wage income.

I think that up to a certain point, tips should be taxed a little less for that reason. But the special, lower rate should phase out pretty quickly precisely to prevent the rampant tax avoidance that would happen without a phase out.


TBH, lower income Americans don’t pay very much in federal income tax and if you have kids, their federal income tax rate is effectively negative. That’s fine and how it should be. But I think that people under a certain income level should get an enhanced standard deduction for sales tax.

They wouldn’t have to itemize, unless they wanted to, just increase standard deduction based on what the average person at a given income level pays in sales tax. States and local governments get more money and lower income households pay less in overall taxes.

 

[essential1]

Yikes. What a bad look. Also incredibly hilarious as an unforced error.




Which brings back this hilarious bit

 

[osh kosh bosh]

We live in the wildest possible timeline.

 

[elpablo21]

FBA stand up

 

[rexanglorum]

Let’s do this. Let’s crush the NIMBYs all across this Country.

 

[pmatic]

Elon is worthless. Spaces with Trump isn't working.

 

[daruma]

can't handle the pressure

 

[elpablo21]

Elon is worthless. Spaces with Trump isn't working.

They were glitching out a year ago when Elon tried to do some

And it's still not working?

 

[stuntman mike]

it’s on but i’m not gonna listen. i’ll read the reviews in this thread later. i absolutely despise both of those ******* ****heads.

 

[essential1]

I hope Trump ridicules Elon for being 30 minutes late and not having the right system.

 

[IATT]

posted

 

[elpablo21]

 

[elpablo21]

 

[stuntman mike]

 

[ballinsam23]

Lmao he's an idiot. Mixed up El Salvador with Venezuela again

 

[elpablo21]

 

[Mark Antony]

Wait who owns the Epstein plane now and how did the Trump campaign come to chartering it?