i empathize. it is a real problem. i think we get so many bad faith posters that people have forgotten how to be respectful and open-minded toward our good faith ones. or not forgotten, so much as apply it inconsistently. or maybe it's just the nature of anonymous message board posting.
But you didn't make it clear yet...at least not to me. Do you think that the actions of the insurance company are more culpable in this instance than the shooter himself?
Which option is accurate? The post supposed two possible motives for answering the question in that way.
glad to be of assistance.
Using AGI as the measure there is the problem. The truly wealthy generally have an AGI close to 0. By time you have calculated an AGI the rich have already used their loopholes to eliminate their taxes.Does this look like the poor and middle class are paying disproportionately?
I think I've about worn a hole in the internet googling this stuff. The poor don't pay squat in income taxes, thanks to George W. Bush. They pay some sales tax imposed by the states and SS, for which they receive an oversized benefit in relation to what they pay in.
Summary of the Latest Federal Income Tax Data, 2024 Update
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) made many significant, but temporary, changes to the individual income tax code to lower tax rates, widen brackets, increase the standard deduction and child tax credit, and more.taxfoundation.org
High-Income Taxpayers Paid the Highest Average Income Tax Rates
In 2021, taxpayers with higher incomes paid much higher average income tax rates than taxpayers with lower incomes.
The bottom half of taxpayers, or taxpayers making under $46,637, faced an average income tax rate of 3.3 percent. As household income increases, average income tax rates rise. For example, taxpayers with AGI between the 10th and 5th percentiles ($169,800 and $252,840) paid an average income tax rate of 14.3 percent—four times the rate paid by taxpayers in the bottom half.
The top 1 percent of taxpayers (AGI of $682,577 and above) paid the highest average income tax rate of 25.93 percent—nearly eight times the rate faced by the bottom half of taxpayers.
High-Income Taxpayers Paid the Majority of Federal Income Taxes
In 2021, the bottom half of taxpayers earned 10.4 percent of total AGI and paid 2.3 percent of all federal individual income taxes. The top 1 percent earned 26.3 percent of total AGI and paid 45.8 percent of all federal income taxes.
In all, the top 1 percent of taxpayers accounted for more income taxes paid than the bottom 90 percent combined. The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid more than $1 trillion in income taxes while the bottom 90 percent paid $531 billion.
the post suggested that the second option, the protest vote option so to speak, was more likely. when he agreed, i take him to mean that he would have seen the poll as an opportunity to be heard.
And im fine with (and agree with) this stance, but that is NOT what those survey results say to me and based on what I see on social media the survey is indicative of a more sinister view than that.
People are sick of the oligarchs and the country is much closer than many people realize to violent revolution. People voted for Trump because they want to tear the system down, because the system no longer works for ordinary people. They’re just too dumb to realize what Trump is offering is much worse than even the broken current system.
one downside of communication-by-meme, which is a dominant form of communication on social media, is that it rarely allows for any sort of nuance. the whole point of a meme -- or one of them -- is to avoid having to express any specific opinion. you can be all things to all people (or the opposite).
This is all true, but it isnt just the memes themselves. It is the overall response to them. When someone does express the more nuanced view, people pile on with "that fucker got what he deserved"
Yes. They are definitely justifying the murder.
this is incorrect. you can have whatever opinion you like about the merits, but it is simply not true that contextualizing is justifying. it can be the case, but it isn't necessarily so.
Gee, thank you so much for pointing out that justification and contextualization are clearly not the same thing. Without you, I wouldn’t have a clue about that.
Message boards are a form of social media, although they are almost all niche social media and quite archaic at this point.
Sorry to veer off the general topic for a moment, but this post made me think back to the old ACCBoards.com and how things were about 25 years ago. It’s funny to think that there were A LOT of college students— even high school students— on those boards at the time. At that time, I was a recent college grad in my mid-20s. Definitely a far cry from the demographics we see on these boards today.
As an of ACCBoards poster, a lot of us have aged like vinegar, I guess, and stuck with these sorts of boards as our social media forums even as they’ve become backwaters for dinosaurs. My son would probably die laughing at the idea of posting on a board like this, but there was an ACCBoards betting pool on when he would be born back in the day.
I remember there was a poster back in the old ACCBoards with “1951” in his username (something like “1951 Tar Heel”). He was a 1951 UNC grad, which would put him in his early-70s during most of those ACCBoards days. I remember thinking at the time how surprised I was that he figured out how to get to and use internet message boards based on his age at the time we were in (most folks over 70 at the time didn’t have a lot of experience with computers or the internet). And now we have a number of posters in their 70s, many (all?) of whom were younger than I am now back in the ACCBoards days.As an of ACCBoards poster, a lot of us have aged like vinegar, I guess, and stuck with these sorts of boards as our social media forums even as they’ve become backwaters for dinosaurs. My son would probably die laughing at the idea of posting on a board like this, but there was an ACCBoards betting pool on when he would be born back in the day.
It is. And it can be. But it has an enormous dark side as well. I’m still not sure how it nets out, but the world would be an extremely different place without it.