The reason we're only hearing about spending cuts

[Mac1958]

All businesses everywhere only pay taxes on profits, not income.

$2.3B in net profits.

$25.71B in income.

 

[BackAgain]

Right on cue.

What? One of your always stale OP’s?

 

[Meister]

Is that what I said?

I just read the thread title, looked at the OP, and it kinda is what you posted.
I didn't see any other billionaire names being mentioned by you.
So I used your words.

 

[Independent thinker]

$2.3B in net profits.

$25.71B in income.

Conflicts with your OP where you said they had 2 billion in income. Anyway, tax law states that if you have losses in some years they can be offset in future years where you show profits. That's the tax law.

 

[Mac1958]

Conflicts with your OP where you said they had 2 billion in income.

Yes, I should have expected games to be played to defend it.

Now you know.

 

[jbrownson0831]

Is that what I said?

At least you are forced to admit he does this legally.

 

[Correll]

Tesla Reported Zero Federal Income Tax on $2 Billion of U.S. Income in 2024

No surprise, of course. To some of us. The least we can do is install a minimum effective tax rate.

Limbaugh convinced the guy in the trailer home that what was good for a billionaire is good for a guy in a trailer home.

That guy is still in that trailer home, voting Republican. The billionaire's net worth has increased exponentially.

I assume that is from gaming the systme with deductions that predate Trump.

So..... so what?


i mean, would you care if he had paid a lot? Would that make you like him? Is him paying less making you like him less?


You don't care, about this, why do you think I should?

 

[Independent thinker]

Yes, I should have expected games to be played to defend it.

Now you know.

LOL. You said one thing in the OP and something different later on and now you are trying to deflect from your very own discrepancies.

 

[CowboyTed]

I assume that is from gaming the systme with deductions that predate Trump.

So..... so what?


i mean, would you care if he had paid a lot? Would that make you like him? Is him paying less making you like him less?


You don't care, about this, why do you think I should?

I understand don't blame the player, blame the game...

But Elon and Trump are setting the rules of the game now...

I don't see them changing them to favour the little guy...

Trump didn't the last time.
Elon seems to have pretty much no empathy, very doubtful

 

[Mac1958]

I understand don't blame the player, blame the game...

But Elon and Trump are setting the rules of the game now...

I don't see them changing them to favour the little guy...

Trump didn't the last time.
Elon seems to have pretty much no empathy, very doubtful

And as always, it's not about Trump. It never has been.

It's about the people who enable him. Like the guy in the trailer home.

And that's why they get so cranky and try to make this about me.

 

[Orangecat]

I'm all for it, but it's not happening.

Not with that attitude.
There are other ways to fund a leaner, more constitutional government.
Those ways don't satisfy the marxist class warfare/wealth redistribution strategy, though.

 

[Rawley]

$2.3B in net profits.

$25.71B in income.

Making up your own shit that contradicts your source. Kudos

 

[sparky]

and so condemning oligarchs for our economic woes is in vouge, now that a billionaire is in office.

well that didn't happen overnight Mac.......

~S~

 

[Tommy Tainant]

I just read the thread title, looked at the OP, and it kinda is what you posted.
I didn't see any other billionaire names being mentioned by you.
So I used your words.

Using the worlds richest man as an example of tax imbalances is perfeectly understandable.

 

[Correll]

I understand don't blame the player, blame the game...

But Elon and Trump are setting the rules of the game now...

Moving forward they will be setting the rules. Tax hikes, closing loopholes, not really high priorities for the GOP or maga.

Someone said this is from tax deductions for electric car manufacturers passed by greenies.

I don't really care about that one way or another. I didn't support it, when they did it. I didn't oppose it when they did it. I don't support it now. I don't oppose it now.

If Trump lets it ride, I still don't care. If he shuts it down, I...wait for it, wait for it, don't care.

I don't see them changing them to favour the little guy...

I'm very excited about the impact of immgration and trade policy not to mention his efforts at finding peace in Ukraine.

If this issue fails to get much attention, I can respect that.

Trump didn't the last time.
Elon seems to have pretty much no empathy, very doubtful

I will settle for no empathy.. If it turns out to not be enough, maybe next time we start the purging, we can find someone meaner.

 

[1srelluc]

I thought I was gonna owe around 8-10K this year....I got a modest refund.

Well worth the cost of professionals doing your taxes and advising you what to keep track of.

 

[Thinker101]

Tesla Reported Zero Federal Income Tax on $2 Billion of U.S. Income in 2024

No surprise, of course. To some of us. The least we can do is install a minimum effective tax rate.

Limbaugh convinced the guy in the trailer home that what was good for a billionaire is good for a guy in a trailer home.

That guy is still in that trailer home, voting Republican. The billionaire's net worth has increased exponentially.

Yes, but the billionaire is sleeping on the floor.

 

[sartre play]

If we got honest for just long enough to take a look at reality's
EAZY to see, Both party's make mistakes & deliberate moves to benefit them self's
Most of those supposed to be elected to help US Have sold out to
big money,
party over country,
self interest.

 

[BlackSand]

Tesla Reported Zero Federal Income Tax on $2 Billion of U.S. Income in 2024

No surprise, of course. To some of us. The least we can do is install a minimum effective tax rate.

Limbaugh convinced the guy in the trailer home that what was good for a billionaire is good for a guy in a trailer home.

That guy is still in that trailer home, voting Republican. The billionaire's net worth has increased exponentially.

.

It's not like Elon Musk wrote the tax code.

If you have a problem with any of it ... You should talk to your Representatives ...
Because they're the ones that wrote the laws that allow billionaires to write off losses among other things ...
And avoid paying taxes on their income.

And guess what ... That includes Democrats ... Sucking up to anyone with money ...
Or protecting their own money.

Sooner or later y'all are going to figure out ...
That you're just fools for ever believing that Class Warfare shit.
It's how they keep you stupid ... But hopeful ...

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[Correll]

And as always, it's not about Trump. It never has been.

It's about the people who enable him. Like the guy in the trailer home.

And that's why they get so cranky and try to make this about me.

Myself, all the maga people I know, are pretty happy. We are loving seeing trump making a good faith effort to MAGA.

I'm optimistic about the results we will be discussing, by the mid terms, and I have been hearing interesting noises about republican voter registration.

Your need to fantasize about your enemies as being in a bad place, that's a you issue.