Democrats are now party of the rich

[sealybobo]

Would you like some cheese to go with that wine?

I'm not crying I'm just proving my point. The GOP is clearly the party for rich people. Soros isn't paying off Democrats to get them to give him corporate tax breaks and loopholes where he can save a buck. Harlan Crow isn't bribing Liberal Supreme Court justices. Clearly the conservative/GOP Republicans Supreme Court justices side with the rich every single time.

OMG, the other day looking at my 401K I plugged in that I wanted to live off 80% of what I make now and retire at 62. It said I was $350 a month short. This is projected in 7 years. What I WILL have when I turn 62. So you might think I will have to work till I'm 65 or 67 right? WRONG! I have a private investment broker with another $300K that is also growing. I continue to contribute to this fund too. If I didn't put another dime in, it will be $425K in 7 years. I'm sure this fund will make up for that $350 shortfall and then some.

Compared to most of you, I am rich. And I'm a Democrat. So maybe we are the party for the rich.

But isn't it Republican policies that are making me richer? Is stock market doing well because of Democrats?

 

[sealybobo]

250k is rich? No, 250k is successful, not rich. Penalizing successful folks with a large tax increase is not the answer. Extending payroll taxes on wages above 250k with no added benefit is just another Democratic plan to take from successful people and give to less or completely unsuccessful people.

You must not understand. You are one of those MAGA low information Republican voters. I'll explain it to you

It is not that $250K is rich, but rather that they stop paying social security tax once their earnings hit a specific legal limit, known as the contribution and benefit base or "taxable maximum".

• A person earning $250,000 will pay the 6.2% Social Security payroll tax on their first $184,500 of income (amounting to $11,439).
• The "exemption" point: Any earnings above that $184,500 cap escape the Social Security tax entirely.
• The outcome: Someone making $250,000 OR MORE pays the exact same amount into the system as someone making $184,500, meaning they pay a lower effective payroll tax rate on their overall income.

Under the Social Security Expansion Act proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders, the rule that high earners stop paying into Social Security at an income cap would be eliminated. His plan requires people who make over $250,000 to pay Social Security taxes on all of their income above that threshold

Now, ONLY the party for the rich would argue against this.

 

[sealybobo]

The Biden fund raiser in New York raised 25 million dollars for Joe Biden's campaign. Ther is no doubt that Biden has turned his back on middle class Americans.

Democrats being party of the rich could cost them 2024 election

A growing body of research shows wealthier Americans flocking to the Democratic Party. The working class, meanwhile, has been forgotten.

www.newsweek.com

Under the Social Security Expansion Act proposed by DEMOCRATS, the rule that high earners stop paying into Social Security at an income cap would be eliminated. His plan requires people who make over $250,000 to pay Social Security taxes on all of their income above that threshold.

Who would argue against this? ONLY people who make over $250K a year OR, people who suck up to people who make over $250K a year.

CLEARLY Republicans are the party for the rich and this is a great example of how/why. It's their policies. Their policies favor the rich.

 

[sealybobo]

I'll ask again. Do more wealthy people vote Republican or Democrat? If Democrat, then we're supposed to believe that wealthy Democrats vote against their own self-interest? That makes little sense.

Analyses from the Congressional Budget Office and various nonpartisan think tanks indicate that the "Big Beautiful Bill" (BBB) significantly favors wealthy households and corporations. Critics argue this structure creates the largest upward transfer of wealth in U.S. history by combining tax breaks for the ultrarich with deep cuts to social safety nets.

More poor people vote Democratic than vote Republican. If that's true, are we supposed to believe that elections aren't rigged in red states?

Let me explain wealthy Democrats like Taylor Swift. She's not a corporation. Corporations don't care. She's self made. She feels lucky not entitled like Baron Trump. She can always make more. People who are self made tend to be more liberal. They don't forget where they came from. The Trump's don't forget where they came from either. Started playing baseball on 3rd base.

All the actors are liberal and rich. They didn't become asshole greedy Republicans. Some do. Like Kanye West. Bruce Jenner has always been a conservative but clearly it's about money for him. Why else would Bruce Jenner vote GOP?

 

[Delldude]

Soros isn't paying off Democrats to get them to give him corporate tax breaks and loopholes where he can save a buck.

What do his payoffs to the democrats get him then?

If I didn't put another dime in, it will be $425K in 7 years. I'm sure this fund will make up for that $350 shortfall and then some.

Oh boy oh boy oh boy.

$425k is chump change dude. Inflation is eating it away.

You'll be a Walmart greeter to make ends meet.

 

[initforme]

A single person making 60k can live just fine in my state. No, they won’t be eating steak every night or living on the golf course, but not in poverty.

Then I'd have to reside thete though when that's not my place I want to live. No thanks.

 

[Lockback]

60k for one person is poverty in reality, anywhere is america.

Absolute bullshit. Not even close to the truth.

 

[initforme]

Absolute bullshit. Not even close to the truth.

For 60k one shows up and does the minimum. Punch in punch out.

 

[Lockback]

For 60k one shows up and does the minimum. Punch in punch out.

You have no idea what you're talking about.
I worked in the printing business for years making similar money and worked my ass off because I have pride in my work. And I was nowhere near living in poverty, by the way.
Where do you live ... Manhattan? San Francisco? Hong Kong?
You're just pulling stuff out of your ass.

 

[g5000]

Looks like, once again, you're wrong:


Gauger said the decision to give work release was made on the advice of the sheriff’s office attorneys, who said Epstein’s lawyers would mount a successful lawsuit to obtain work release.
“Our lawyers said, ‘We are going to lose this.’ Our attorneys told Bradshaw we aren’t going to win this,” Gauger said.

https://archive.ph/24xGt

Looks like, once again, I'm right:


After serving fewer than four months in jail, Epstein was granted a special arrangement that allowed him to leave custody for up to 16 hours a day, six days a week, as part of a work release program, allegedly to perform work at a charitable organization he had just established called the Florida Science Foundation.

This continued for the next nine months until his release to a year of supervised house arrest in July 2009.

Each day during his work release, Epstein was transported between the jail and an office in downtown West Palm Beach by his bodyguard and driver, Igor Zinoviev. His personal attorney, Darren Indyke, was listed as his official supervisor at the job. Epstein agreed to hire off-duty sheriff's deputies to monitor his movements, log visitors and provide security at his office and home.

New details about Epstein's lenient plea deal and jail term emerge from DOJ files

 

[Delldude]

Looks like, once again, I'm right:


After serving fewer than four months in jail, Epstein was granted a special arrangement that allowed him to leave custody for up to 16 hours a day, six days a week, as part of a work release program, allegedly to perform work at a charitable organization he had just established called the Florida Science Foundation.

This continued for the next nine months until his release to a year of supervised house arrest in July 2009.

Each day during his work release, Epstein was transported between the jail and an office in downtown West Palm Beach by his bodyguard and driver, Igor Zinoviev. His personal attorney, Darren Indyke, was listed as his official supervisor at the job. Epstein agreed to hire off-duty sheriff's deputies to monitor his movements, log visitors and provide security at his office and home.

New details about Epstein's lenient plea deal and jail term emerge from DOJ files

Yes and like I pointed out, approved by the sheriff's office.

 

[CowboyTed]

The Biden fund raiser in New York raised 25 million dollars for Joe Biden's campaign. Ther is no doubt that Biden has turned his back on middle class Americans.

Democrats being party of the rich could cost them 2024 election

A growing body of research shows wealthier Americans flocking to the Democratic Party. The working class, meanwhile, has been forgotten.

www.newsweek.com

Democrats have supporters who are wealthy but care about the vulnerable in our society...

Rich people also care that the President is a corrupt Peadophile as well...

There is loads of reasons to want to support Democrats... Do you want get your President get his ass handed to him by Iran....
President Bibi's ***** is not what people want...

 

[g5000]

Yes and like I pointed out, approved by the sheriff's office.

And?

I was correct. Trump's best friend got a very lenient sentence and was allowed to work in his office six days a week.

Epstein paid for the sheriff's off-duty deputies to watch him work in his office.

Trump rewarded Acosta for this incredible leniency by putting him in his Cabinet.

 

[Delldude]

I was correct.

Epstein copped to state charges to avoid federal prosecution....he was never, at that time, charged under federal statues. Maxwell was.

 

[LeftofLeft]

Analyses from the Congressional Budget Office and various nonpartisan think tanks indicate that the "Big Beautiful Bill" (BBB) significantly favors wealthy households and corporations. Critics argue this structure creates the largest upward transfer of wealth in U.S. history by combining tax breaks for the ultrarich with deep cuts to social safety nets.

More poor people vote Democratic than vote Republican. If that's true, are we supposed to believe that elections aren't rigged in red states?

Let me explain wealthy Democrats like Taylor Swift. She's not a corporation. Corporations don't care. She's self made. She feels lucky not entitled like Baron Trump. She can always make more. People who are self made tend to be more liberal. They don't forget where they came from. The Trump's don't forget where they came from either. Started playing baseball on 3rd base.

All the actors are liberal and rich. They didn't become asshole greedy Republicans. Some do. Like Kanye West. Bruce Jenner has always been a conservative but clearly it's about money for him. Why else would Bruce Jenner vote GOP?

You are in no position to complain about tax breaks when your side has done nothing to cut spending or at least engage in responsible spending.

 

[Delldude]

This:

 

[cowboy fan]

Now? Haven’t they always been?

 

[sealybobo]

What do his payoffs to the democrats get him then?


Oh boy oh boy oh boy.

$425k is chump change dude. Inflation is eating it away.

You'll be a Walmart greeter to make ends meet.

He pays Democrats 25 cents to every dollar he spends on Republicans. It's what most rich people do now a days. Hedging their bets

Only a guy in the party of the rich would say $425 is chump change.

I already have more than that right now. We're talking 6 years. I'll be a millionaire by then. And I know, that's not a lot either. But with social security I'll make just as much when I'm retired as when I worked.

Which is WAY MORE than I'll need.

 

[Delldude]

He pays Democrats 25 cents to every dollar he spends on Republicans. It's what most rich people do now a days. Hedging their bets

Only a guy in the party of the rich would say $425 is chump change.

I already have more than that right now. We're talking 6 years. I'll be a millionaire by then. And I know, that's not a lot either. But with social security I'll make just as much when I'm retired as when I worked.

Which is WAY MORE than I'll need.

Your irony is that the collapse of the dollar is in your future.

Then what?

 

[sealybobo]

This:

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This is what I'm talking about right here. Republicans have convinced poor Republicans who work that the only reason they are poor is because Democrats give their tax dollars to the poor. Wow! It really is a brilliant strategy and I bet poor working class deplorables will fall for it.

It's like the people I know who are on disability. I say "you know Trump's going to cut your medicaid right?" "so then why do you vote for him?"
2 reasons

a. I just felt like something needed to change
b. Illegals get more than I do.

Can you believe Trump got people on welfare to vote GOP by telling them that illegals get more welfare than they do. He's brilliant how he suckers the deplorables.