Comments by "Debany Doombringer" (@debanydoombringer1385) on "" video.

I've experienced this. My husband's pay increased. It threw us into the next tax bracket, but just barely. By the time the money was taken out for taxes, he was bringing home less than before. We're avoiding reaching the next tax bracket like it's the plague.
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Poor people aren't taxed in the US. They get back everything they pay in by a refund. I know. I was poor.
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More people die waiting for care in Europe than the US. Usually waiting for cardiac surgery. The US has better results than Europe that's time based. They use a broken hip as the measure. In the US it's less than 60 days from it happening to being fully repaired. It's closer to 30. In Europe it's close to year or over. The reason they use a broken hip is because the faster it's replaced, the better the outcome. Life expectancy has more to do with diet and not being obese when it comes to Europe. Just attributing it to healthcare is disingenuous or means you don't understand there's a lot more involved.
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@adriant240 You give yourself away with "the money stolen" bit. It's not "stolen." They agreed to that pay. Stop taking agency away from people. The poverty level globally is $2 a day. If they're making more than that, they'll be considered well off. To you $3 a day is ridiculously low because you're looking at it from where you live. To them it's decent. Taxes are not for "redistribution." They're to provide services to the population that they use like roads, police, fire, military to protect citizens from outside invaders, etc. Redistribution is socialism at minimum. Communism at maximum. My father-in-law is a multimillionaire. He's extremely frugal. He worked hard his entire life to reach the level he did. Who the f are you to decide he doesn't deserve it? Me and my husband will retire as multimillionaires because we worked, skimped, and saved for decades so we'd have enough to not have to worry about burdening our kids. Hopefully having some left over to make their lives a little bit better. You don't get to decide we didn't do enough to be worthy of what we made.
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Did you not watch it? He explained how taxing the rich isn't a tax on the rich but everyone else. If they're 20% they'll just increase their pay by that much or increase the price of good. Making the tax affect others instead of them. The government doesn't really care where that 20% comes from as long as they get it.
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That's a lovely fantasy you've got there for a time that never existed. Homeownership was 44% in 1940. It's 65% now. How was that better than today exactly? 21% fewer people could afford to own a home. Edit: You want to go back to a time period the majority could never afford to own their own home?
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They pay taxes on what they bought the house with. Technically they don't actually have much money. It's unrealized wealth. Its sitting there, invested, building businesses. If they sell that stock, they pay capital gains plus income tax. They pay sales tax on everything they purchase. Since what they buy is more expensive, they pay more. They pay business taxes too. Yes, they pay taxes. Just not so much income tax because they technically don't have one. Edit: You pay income tax, they pay business tax.
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I figured up how much of our 401k we'd lose by the time all taxes were taken out. Including income tax if everything she proposed went in. 80%.
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France. France tried taxing anyone making over $1 million I think it was 75%. It didn't last long because they just moved their money out of the country.
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Lifetime earnings? So I pay them when? And given that taxes fluctuate how am I supposed to know what I'm going to owe? You've got to figure possible future inflation, downturn or upturns in the economy, possible future skill increases, etc. Yeah, no.
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Thank you for explaining CEOs aren't just sitting around collecting a pay check. I've been around a few and it's insane the amount of time they devote to business. Way more than their workers as much as they think they're doing more.
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@VladLad Nothing is guaranteed. Every person with a 401k is an investor. The rich aren't buying up land. Nobody except Gates. Blackrock was buying newly built subdivisions that they'd already invested in. The bids people were getting were from realtors looking to flip houses. I was purchasing a home during the height of that insanity. Almost every house we were shown that was turnkey ready was owned by a couple of realtors. We were having to bid against them on houses that needed a bit of work. If you'll look on the market now, you'll see several houses that were gutted because the renovation wasn't completed. It started to cost too much for them to turn it around quickly and make a fast buck so they abandoned it. Flippers are the problem. Edit: They bid anonymously because a lot of people won't sell if they know that's what it's being bought for.
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BS! Complete bs! The percentage of the population that were homeowners in 1940 was 44%. The percentage today is 65%. Ya'll want a time that never existed. You think it did because you think movies and TV shows reflected real life. No more than they do today.
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Seriously? Musk works almost 24/7. People around him have talked about his working hours. This is a misunderstanding of what they do. They're constantly working, networking, taking calls, etc. Even when they're golfing, they're working. They're talking business and making deals. Most are very hands on in their businesses and dealings.
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That term was used by Democrats to smear Reagan. I really don't know why it's still around. It just explains how money flows from the rich down. Which it does.
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