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PGids t1_j33xqn5 wrote

Reply to comment by TimothyOilypants in $450 checks to help Mainers with heating costs expected to be sent starting in mid-January by wheresmycaketester

When the federal government stops doing shit like spending 50 million on boosting tourism in Tunisia I’ll stop bitching.

I have no problem with mutual aid, I take a lot of problem with completely braindead spending.

Cut the spending, up taxes on the gaggle of people that don’t pay shit, but stop squeezing the little guy to death and threatening to ruin his life if he doesn’t cough it up

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TimothyOilypants t1_j340wbc wrote

Ignoring your myopic and likely racist resistance to foreign aid; even if we increase corporate tax rates (which we should) the individual marginal tax rate in the US is still one of the lowest among rich 1st world countries.

Anyone over $50k should be paying at least 40% full stop.

Unless you are making less than $9,000 annually you ARE NOT "the little guy" in global terms. Stop whining about your life of privilege.

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