I'm a Trump supporter, but I think a few of the democrazies ideas are OK

[Independent thinker]

I voted for Trump 3 times, and I feel that he has made America ALMOST great again. I guess that makes me a MAAGA.
So what are the good ideas ? >>>

1. Tax the VERY VERY rich more. It won't hurt to raise taxes on the top 1% (leaving the other 99% alone). C'mon folks, if you're at over TRILLION $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ net worth like Elon Musk, you could pay a lot more in taxes, and still have waaaaaaay more money than the rest of us. Those extra tax $$$$$$$$ could hire more ICE officers, hire more police to lower crime rates, get help for renters being smashed by greedy landlords, help business owners losing sales due to renters paying astronomical rents.

2 I wouldn't say say that this is really a Democrazies idea (because they oppose it about as much as Republicans do), but there really does need to be SOME degree of rent control, to stop runaway rents, which have skyrocketed to undreamed of levels over the last 4 years (200% inflation & some places even worse than that).
Before anyone comes barnstorming in here with all the decades old landlord propagandas about their costs being so high > no landlord's costs are going up 200+% or anywhere near that, and New York City has had thousands of buildings under rent control for 100 years & the buildings are still there, not abandoned, still occupied, landlords still making profits on them.

3.. This one comes in the from of a question because I'm really not sure about it. If Democrats (currently holding seats in congress) have proposed raising social security COLAs, post that (with sources).

While I'm not against a modest increase in the higher marginal tax rate, our country has a very huge spending problem. There aren't enough billionaires and trillionaires to pay for all the shit we charge on our charge card. Tax the rich more is easy to say but we just can't keep on spending the way that we do. It is unsustainable.

I'm more or less against rent control. Yes, greedy landlords can be reigned in some but, for the most part, our problem isn't greedy landlords. It's democrat policies and lack of housing and the infiltration of illegals into our country which suck up the available housing we do have, all of which cause higher rents. Landlords need their costs decreased so they don't have to charge higher rents. Same exact thing with healthcare. Our high health care costs are mostly due to no policies in place to decrease the costs to insurers and providers. We let those prices rise exponentially and then our solution is to stiff the insurers and providers instead of actually addressing the high health care costs we all pay, including them.

I'm not sure where you're coming from with #3. However, I am in favor of means testing social security and cutting out the massive fraud in Medicare.

 

[Alicia J]

Do you know how much Elon Musk pays in taxes, and do you know where his wealth is stored?

Another sad little Republican peasant....protecting the wealth of his ultra-rich Republican feudal masters.

You are a pure serf from the Middle Ages.

No self-respect. No dignity. How humiliating.

 

[Thinker101]

He has enough sitting to be able to pay far more than 1% of his wealth, without affecting anything of his activities. In 2025, he paid 11 billion, largely due to exercising Tesla stock options, and selling billions of dollars' worth of Tesla shares. Chase Bank, Piggy Bank, or any other bank, he paid it, and %wise it's a lot less than the average American paid.

Once you begin paying taxes based on your net worth, we can ask others to do the same.

 

[marvin martian]

He doesn't have to give up his companies, to pay far more than 1%, and if you pay that same %, you probably ought to be paying more than that too, to not do so isn't fair to all the millions of Americans paying the standard tax rates (10-37%)

Like I said, you're far too naive to understand how this works. The 1% Elon Musk and I pay is taxes as a percentage of our net worth. That's what you're complaining about, that he pays 1% of his net worth. Do you understand the difference between net worth and annual income? It seems like you don't.

 

[marvin martian]

Once you begin paying taxes based on your net worth, we can ask others to do the same.

I just realized protectionist has no idea of the difference between net worth and annual income. LOL!

 

[Thinker101]

I just realized protectionist has no idea of the difference between net worth and annual income. LOL!

Yeah, that's what happens to people who have zero net worth.

 

[toobfreak]

1. Tax the VERY VERY rich more.

The top 1% are already paying at the highest rate the lion's share of all taxes collected. Thing is, the money they make they reinvest in the business to create more jobs and things like SpaceX, whereas when the gov takes it as taxes, they just spend it on themselves.

C'mon folks, if you're at over TRILLION $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ net worth like Elon Musk, you could pay a lot more in taxes,

I think Elon was at 1.2 trillion only for a day. I think he is back down now to around 600 billion.

 

[jc456]

While I'm not against a modest increase in the higher marginal tax rate, our country has a very huge spending problem. There aren't enough billionaires and trillionaires to pay for all the shit we charge on our charge card. Tax the rich more is easy to say but we just can't keep on spending the way that we do. It is unsustainable.

I'm more or less against rent control. Yes, greedy landlords can be reigned in some but, for the most part, our problem isn't greedy landlords. It's democrat policies and lack of housing and the infiltration of illegals into our country which suck up the available housing we do have, all of which cause higher rents. Landlords need their costs decreased so they don't have to charge higher rents. Same exact thing with healthcare. Our high health care costs are mostly due to no policies in place to decrease the costs to insurers and providers. We let those prices rise exponentially and then our solution is to stiff the insurers and providers instead of actually addressing the high health care costs we all pay, including them.

I'm not sure where you're coming from with #3. However, I am in favor of means testing social security and cutting out the massive fraud in Medicare.

I’m against any increase. Cut the ******* spending

 

[marvin martian]

Another sad little Republican peasant....protecting the wealth of his ultra-rich Republican feudal masters.

You are a pure serf from the Middle Ages.

No self-respect. No dignity. How humiliating.

You don't understand how this works, Braunie.

You're another one of the low IQ dipshits who doesn't understand the difference between net worth and annual income.

Stick to your Nazi tats and your klan rallies.

 

[Alicia J]

You don't understand how this works, Braunie.

You're another one of the low IQ dipshits who doesn't understand the difference between net worth and annual income.

Stick to your Nazi tats and your klan rallies.

I understand that Musk would happily feed your plebian MAGA butt to his dogs for dinner......while you continue to pathetically defend his trillionaire wealth.

Musk knows what is best for MAGA peasants such as yourself. After all, he is your intellectual and moral superior and he knows what is best for you.

No self-respect. No dignity. Such a sucker, so humiliating.

 

[JohnDB]

Once you begin paying taxes based on your net worth, we can ask others to do the same.

Income tax in the USA was only supposed to be temporary for a couple years.

We see how well that worked out.

 

[protectionist]

Then be a landlord. Like your *pResident. Then everything will be hunky dory, right?

If I were a landlord, I wouldnt be GOUGING tenants with astronimical rent increases, theeby putting busineses out of business. Those guys have no soul.

 

[protectionist]

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What democrazies (AKA Communists) promise and what they deliver are two different things.

1. Musk didn't get a $trillion in a paycheck. He would pay tax on that. It's the value of his combined companies. He currently employees 160,000 worldwide and pays taxes on those employees He also always pays property taxes on his buildings in the millions. In 2021 he paid $21 billion in income tax. He didn't become wealthy by being stupid with money.

2. You're naive if you think the government just won't squander that extra income tax. We're 37 trillion in debt. Zero will go to pay down the debt. The US doesn't have a tax problem. We have a spending problem.

3. Rent control destroys communities. Proof? Just look at NYC. Landlords have to pay higher and higher property taxes and maintenance, but with rental income 20 years outdated.

4. Your last question is vague and confusing. Not sure what point you're making.

1. Why talk about 2021 when we can talk about 2025 ? Musk paid $11 Billion (1% of his net worth)

2. What the government does is dependent on how much the public holds their feet to the fire. If they dont hear from us (and 90% of the time they don't) they think we're happy. Got a gripe ? Speak up.
Don't like what they do ? Stop voting for them.
The debt is a joke. Much is it is to European countries & China, who wouldn't exist right now, if over 400,000 US military hadn't sacrificed their lives in WW2 to save their asses. And We owe THEM ?

3. Yeah, DO look at NYC. Where I was born and lived in a rent controlled apartment for the first 21 years of my life and visited there for 10 more years. NYC has thousands of apt buildings under rent control for 100 years still there, still functional, still occupied , and landlords still deriving profits from them. And all that has allowed millions of renters to have money to spend, thereby allowed millions of businesses large & small, to flourish. Sure I'm aware of the ceaseless landlord propaganda bashing rent control. Who isn't ? Thing is, reality doesn't back it up.
Look at New York City ? Yeah, let's do that >>
Here's the street I grew up on (Ellwood St-197 St & Broadway) in the Fort George neighborhood in upper Manhattan. All those buildings & thousands more like them. I'm well aware of how they are. That whole block was built in 1908, and it hardly looks a bit different now than it did then, 118 years ago (except for the cars).

4. What is so vague about my last point ? The 2025 & 2026 Social Security COLAs were 2.8%. This is supposed to sustain seniors, when rents are jumping 10, 20% and more each year. Over the 4 years of Biden, rents went up 200%, and there still up there (not coming down). What are Democrazies doing about that (or anybody ?)

 

[marvin martian]

I understand that Musk would happily feed your plebian MAGA butt to his dogs for dinner......while you continue to pathetically defend his trillionaire wealth.

Musk knows what is best for MAGA peasants such as yourself. After all, he is your intellectual and moral superior and he knows what is best for you.

No self-respect. No dignity. Such a sucker, so humiliating.

I think it's hilarious that you're SO f*cking dumb, you don't even understand the difference between net worth and annual income.

That explains why you were so easily duped into all the Nazi and KKK sh*t you're into.

You dumb white trash skanks are so easy to manipulate.

Lol

 

[protectionist]

How and which taxes?

Capital gains and income tax. The top income bracket now pays 37%. Under previous Republican presidents, taxes on the top bracket were enormous compared to now.
Eisenhower - 91%
Nixon - 70%
Ford - 70%
Reagan (first term) - 70%/50%

Historical Federal Individual Income Tax Rates & Brackets, 1862-2025

How do current federal individual income tax rates and brackets compare historically?

taxfoundation.org

Capital gains. In 2011, Warren Buffet paid 18% on Millions. His employees, on $312K were paying 35%.

Warren Buffett Wants Higher Taxes For The Ultra-Rich, Including Himself — Says 'My Friends And I Have Been Coddled Long Enough'

Warren Buffett, who is ranked among the wealthiest individuals in the world, is not only known for his vast fortune but also for his advocacy for fiscal policies aimed at improving the quality of life for the average citizen. As chairman of the powerhouse conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc...

finance.yahoo.com

 

[protectionist]

Another lying person....
Claim to be a conservative but talk exclusively verbatim like a Communist Democrat.....

Independent by voter registration (formerly Republican). VERY Conservative on most things - immigration, Islamization, crime, LGBT lunacies, etc.

But how conservative are you if/when you support runaway rent gouging that is demolishing BUSINESSES large & small, all across the country.
Got an answer for THAT ?

Very easy to throw political catchwords around. Not so easy to address the CONTENT. Thus is about REAL LIFE, and what us happening to millions of Americans.

 

[protectionist]

Dementia is a horrible disease. It has turned you into a communist.

Another catchworder, unable to discuss CONTENT.

Hey Mr Catchword. With 112 Million renters in America, what do you do for the owners of Sam Ash Music (and their thousands of employees) who went out of business in 2024, after being in business FOR 100 YEARS. Say "Shucks" ?

America is a combination of socialism & capitalism, both having their purpose,.

Capitalism - my 2 businesses (art & music lessons)
Socialism - my Social Security & VA pension.

This is how we do it in America, Don't like it ? Skiddo brother. Syria awaits your arrival..

 

[Cellblock2429]

Capital gains and income tax. The top income bracket now pays 37%. Under previous Republican presidents, taxes on the top bracket were enormous compared to now.
Eisenhower - 91%
Nixon - 70%
Ford - 70%
Reagan (first term) - 70%/50%

Historical Federal Individual Income Tax Rates & Brackets, 1862-2025

How do current federal individual income tax rates and brackets compare historically?

taxfoundation.org

Capital gains. In 2011, Warren Buffet paid 18% on Millions. His employees, on $312K were paying 35%.

Warren Buffett Wants Higher Taxes For The Ultra-Rich, Including Himself — Says 'My Friends And I Have Been Coddled Long Enough'

Warren Buffett, who is ranked among the wealthiest individuals in the world, is not only known for his vast fortune but also for his advocacy for fiscal policies aimed at improving the quality of life for the average citizen. As chairman of the powerhouse conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc...

finance.yahoo.com

/—-/ You’re ignoring the fact that no one paid 91% when Eisenhower was in office. There were to many tax write offs, tax shelters, and deductions like credit card interest that reduced taxes. Libs forget to mention that.

 

[protectionist]

Explain your version of land ownership

Owning land.

 

[jc456]

Owning land.

Who accesses it’s value?