• TheMage@lemmy.world
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      Young people vote blue because thats what the public edumacation system has been jamming down their throats for 12+ years. Many of them change their tune when they get the BILL for all the freebies & handouts.

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        Funny, the older I get the more progressive I get. Same for most of the people I know (I’m a millennial). It used to be you got more conservative as you got older but i think the consensus now is you get more conservative the richer you get and well, my generation isn’t getting richer. I think we all just realize how easy it would be to pay the bill if we would just tax the rich.

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          Not defending the other douche but im willing to bet you’d probably be surprised at how expensive it is to live in European countries with all of those things you’re hoping for. Like 60p of your paycheck goes to taxes and services. I think most folks who want those things Carte Blanche haven’t done the math

          That said, I think not having to worry about being bankrupted over a medical diagnosis would be worth it.

          Source - am a dual citizen and have spent years living in Europe and USA

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          Whats rich? What bill to pay, exactly? What is it you dont have that someone else should be funding. Serious question.

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            You have that backwards. What taxes aren’t we collecting that could be going to everyone? Why should some 40K a year guy have to pay 10% of his income as taxes and someone like Bezos doesn’t?

            The US used to have a 69% tax rate for the ultra wealthy before Regan took office. We should bring that back.

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              Bezos like most wealthy people have no standard income per se like us on regular payrolls do. So, what you want is a net worth tax. Not sure how easy that is to implement or who decides what stuff is worth. Whats wrong with a flat tax on any and all sources of income? I thing Rep. Dick Armey tried to come up with that way back when.

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        Lol, no they don’t. The biggest predictor into who you voted for POTUS the last two times is how racist adjacent your views are. The kids just aren’t racist enough to go blue but there are people trying to make the more racist and less educated in red states.