The left-wing lies about taxes

[Moonglow]

The left-wing leaders are all over the media declaring that taxes have no negative impact on business, individuals, society, etc. Likewise, the left-wing minions are all over message boards like this one parroting that exact same ignorant false narrative.

And yet...every single time the left wants to prevent something, block something, change something, or otherwise influence behavior - what do they do? They place a tax on it and proudly declare the impact the tax will have on forcing the behavior and results they are looking to achieve.

Wait...what?!? Their official false narrative is that increased taxes have no affect on commerce, employment, etc. In their infinite ignorance - they aren't even bright enough to realize they are proving to the world that they are lying:

Next month, San Francisco, Oakland, and Albany, California and Boulder, Colorado will vote on whether to place a tax on sugary drinks, such as a penny-per-ounce levy on soft drinks, sports drinks, iced tea, juice, energy drinks, and syrups and powders that can be made into beverages.

“Health advocates argue that raising the price on beverages sweetened with sugar will reduce consumption and ease the nation’s exploding rates of obesity and diabetes,” the report states. “The soda industry maintains there’s no proof of that.”

As Cities Contemplate Soda Tax, Critics Say It Kills Jobs and Has No Impact on Health

The claim is that is for the greater good, like helping people lose weight. Fact is that it's just another excuse to put their slimy hands in our pockets. They want people to become less and less productive and more dependent on government. It's the only way to kill the free market. They hate capitalism and they would like to replace it with some combination of socialism/Marxism/communism. It only appeals to those who will remain the wealthy elites or those who think they'll feel better when others are brought down to their level. Some indoctrinated lunatics actually think there is some utopia to be found through liberal policies.

Liberal policies entail more than social welfare, there is has been no utopian policies that any human has thought up and enacted, to include religeous founded ones....The GOP is no better than the Dems at policy...Both have taken our nation to new lows and new heights.. There is no perfect society or perfect political system...Why, you are not perfect yourself, how can you expect others to be?

 

[Moonglow]

What is those things that the left want to tax to discourage it?

So far any labor you do over the minimum wage. A large soda. Bullet's, Breathing out. I can go a long time here but am kinda tired.

If only someone would train that monkey on how to click on links and how to read.

So you be so lazy you can't extol the virtues of your genius capabilities in type print media, you want someone else to do your job?

 

[BluesLegend]

I HATE liberals mostly because they are so goddamn stupid. Taxes, regulations, attempting to control every aspect of our lives, their stupid shit always blows up in their face yet they pretend like there was no negative fall out WTF. I want to reach out and choke your typical libwit until they are unconscious.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

What is those things that the left want to tax to discourage it?

So far any labor you do over the minimum wage. A large soda. Bullet's, Breathing out. I can go a long time here but am kinda tired.

How much tax do you pay on exhaling?

If they get that stupid carbon tax who knows. The sky's the limit.

 

[bripat9643]

What is those things that the left want to tax to discourage it?

Fossil fuels, for one major example.

 

[bripat9643]

Republican president Lincoln began the income tax..I am sorry, liberal, leftist, Marxist progressive president Lincoln....Not to mention that communist Washington and his tax policy..

Yeah? So what? Lincoln was a ******* commie.

 

[bripat9643]

Republican president Lincoln began the income tax..I am sorry, liberal, leftist, Marxist progressive president Lincoln....Not to mention that communist Washington and his tax policy..

Declared unconstitutional in 1894. That ruling should have stood. The 16th amendment was merely theft.

Perhaps a revisit?

The left was the prohibition movement which reinstated income taxes to cover the 95% revenue loss due to the feds from the loss of booze taxes on production, not really, it was a conservative movement with temperance..

The 16th Amendment was passed before the 18th Amendment, dumbass.

 

[Moonglow]

Republican president Lincoln began the income tax..I am sorry, liberal, leftist, Marxist progressive president Lincoln....Not to mention that communist Washington and his tax policy..

Yeah? So what? Lincoln was a ******* commie.

I'd like to rent you out as a worm, you're perfect?

 

[P@triot]

We have the blueprint for prosperity. It's just that the left wants everyone to be "equal" in poverty and dependent on government...

The House Republican tax reform plan introduced by Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) would create 1.7 million jobs and increase after-tax incomes on average by 8.7%, according to a report from the Tax Foundation. The plan lowers marginal tax rates on wage, investment, and business income as well as simplifying the tax code so that it could fit on a postcard. The reform package would also lower the corporate tax rate to 20 percent, broaden the tax base, and eliminate federal estate and gift taxes.

Report: House Tax Reform Plan Would Create 1.7 Million Jobs and Increase After-Tax Incomes

 

[P@triot]

Yeah? So what? Lincoln was a ******* commie.

I'd like to rent you out as a worm, you're perfect?

I'm not sure Lincoln qualified as a "commie" but he was the first president to start shredding the U.S. Constitution. Like many presidents who would follow (and because of the precedence he set) Lincoln allowed his ego to override law.

 

[easyt65]

You could have stopped at "The left-wing lies..."

 

[bripat9643]

Yeah? So what? Lincoln was a ******* commie.

I'd like to rent you out as a worm, you're perfect?

I'm not sure Lincoln qualified as a "commie" but he was the first president to start shredding the U.S. Constitution. Like many presidents who would follow (and because of the precedence he set) Lincoln allowed his ego to override law.

The Communist Manifesto was written in 1848, and Lincoln was familiar with it.

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/abrahamlin395631.html

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Abraham Lincoln
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If that doesn't sound like Marxism, I've never seen it.

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[bripat9643]

Yeah? So what? Lincoln was a ******* commie.

I'd like to rent you out as a worm, you're perfect?

I'm not sure Lincoln qualified as a "commie" but he was the first president to start shredding the U.S. Constitution. Like many presidents who would follow (and because of the precedence he set) Lincoln allowed his ego to override law.

Lincoln showed Hitler and Stalin how to implement a totalitarian dictatorship. He created dictatorship, arrested the opposition press, arrested Supreme court justices, arrested the entire state legislature of Maryland, you name it.

 

[P@triot]

Our current tax code is inexcusable...

How the Current Tax Code Disfavors American Workers

 

[P@triot]

Stuff like this illustrates the extraordinary ignorance of the left. Their greed blinds them to basic economics, basic business, and basic common sense.

After a lengthy inquiry, the committee found that the company had avoided tens of billions of dollars in taxes by shifting profits into Irish subsidiaries that the panel’s chairman called “ghost companies.”

If the U.S. had the lowest corporate tax rate in the world, guess where every company in the U.S. (and most around the globe) would stash their cash? If you’re not a progressive - you guessed it. In the U.S. Instead of “losing” billions in taxes (as progressives see it), we would be gaining trillions in taxes. Consider the following:

Apple has accumulated more than $128 billion in profits offshore, and probably much more, that is untaxed by the United States and hardly touched by any other country. Nearly all of that was made over the past decade.

If we had even a 10% tax rate, Apple would have gladly brought that money home and we would have generated $12.8 billion in additional tax revenues.

Instead of losing tens of billions in taxes from Apple (as they stashed their cash overseas to avoid the highest corporate tax rates in the world), we could have gained more than twelve billion just from them. Lower tax rates would result in exponentially higher tax revenues to the government. But the left is just too greedy (and stupid) to understand that.

After a Tax Crackdown, Apple Found a New Shelter for Its Profits

 

[P@triot]

More proof that progressives knowingly lie about the negative impact taxes have on products and services...

Despite the steep new prices, Costco was there to remind customers who live in the Seattle city limits that the tax doesn’t apply to its nearby locations outside the city.

Costco price labels perfectly expose the absurdity of Seattle’s new sugary drink tax

 

[P@triot]

It’s a really bad time in history to be a progressive. Coming off the failed Barack Insane Obama experiment, and seeing the unbelievable success of conservative policy coast-to-coast, coupled with technology, makes it impossible for them to make a reasonable case for their failed ideology.

For instance - they have long peddled the false narrative that taxes have absolutely no negative impact on businesses at all. And yet, in their infinite stupidity, they will openly declare how they will implement a tax to curb a behavior they don’t like (such as the consumption of sodas or the purchase of firearms).

The effects of Seattle’s soda tax are finally being realized — and business leaders are furious

 

[bripat9643]

What is those things that the left want to tax to discourage it?

Drinking sodapop, for one. Using fossil fuels, for another. Cigarettes, Alcohol, firearms.

 

[Thinker101]

What is those things that the left want to tax to discourage it?

Evidently you don't live in California.

 

[HenryBHough]

Consider the unintended consequences:

It was Prohibition that turned a poor immigrant Irish family into American Royalty.

Klan Kennedy.

Somebody's going to ride the tidal wave of anger over this shit and possibly lead lead the revolution that exposes liberals to the perils faced by the "let them eat cake" crowd of a few (far too few) years back.