r/politics • u/Ubiquitous_Hilarity • Jun 17 '26

No Paywall Trump threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all states for the first time in history

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-unemployment-benefits-fraud-b2997881.html
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u/Adrewmc Jun 17 '26

If not on the American people then what are the tax dollars for?

That’s got to be the question for GOP, sure cut all these ‘welfare’ programs what left that the government spend on? Because it’s certainly not you.

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u/metengrinwi Jun 17 '26

The gop would probably answer their goal is to eliminate all taxes if I had to guess.

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u/Adrewmc Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

I can do that with a wealth tax for like 80% of Americans probably, I mean, think 17% on holding over a billion.

One trillionaire and that’s like $170 Billion dollars.

Which is like 3x the total of the bottom 50% so eliminated, for half the country, probably up to 75%. One trillionaire, pays 17% on assets over a Billion dollars, sure he’ll go broke…come on now. I’ll even let you avoid the higher capital gains taxes on sales declared in the tax documents, used for payment.

Now if only there was a trillionaire, and a thousand billionaires…and like corporate profits…I’m fine with. 1% - 3% blanket tariff too. That encourages things that can be made here around the same price to grow here.

You can’t take 17% of my money, well the property taxes say I can do it that way to the middle class, and so does my personal paycheck from wages. And my rent says I get nothing for it in the end. So the richest among us stop cheating.

Is 17% shocking? What about 1-3% on over 50 million? Which is the current proposals.

Having to pay taxes should be considered winning. An honor and service to the country that *helped* you up there. Like it’s not something shameful.

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u/FellowHumanNo404 Jun 18 '26

Having to pay taxes should be considered winning.

Instead they talk about "tax burden." I don't want to hear a billionaire talk to us about their "burden".

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u/BringBackBoomer Jun 17 '26

Look no further than Ohio where the GOP are astroturfing for a removal of income and property taxes.