leh-nerd skin-erd Posted Thursday at 08:07 PM Posted Thursday at 08:07 PM 3 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said: so a family would need to buy and pay 8% tax on roughly 200 minivans to accumulate your posted lifetime tax burden of $525k. keep digging.... Your contention is the only thing taxed in our country besides federal income is a minivan? Strong play.
Joe Ferguson forever Posted Thursday at 08:15 PM Posted Thursday at 08:15 PM (edited) 27 minutes ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said: Your contention is the only thing taxed in our country besides federal income is a minivan? Strong play. you posted grossly misleading tax figure. simple as that. assume an individual aerages 40k per year over 30 years or 1.2 mil lifetime earnings. if half of that is spent on untaxed housing or education or medical care combined, that leaves 600k at 8% =0.08 48k in sales tax. the number you posted is 10x that. you're smarter than this. was gonna say you're better than this but decided against it. Edited Thursday at 08:36 PM by Joe Ferguson forever
4th&long Posted Thursday at 09:49 PM Posted Thursday at 09:49 PM 1 hour ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said: Your contention is the only thing taxed in our country besides federal income is a minivan? Strong play. You're completely detached from reality.
Joe Ferguson forever Posted Thursday at 09:51 PM Posted Thursday at 09:51 PM 1 minute ago, 4th&long said: You're completely detached from reality. nah, he's just playing a stupid maga game - typing nonsense and pretending he has a point.
Big Blitz Posted Thursday at 10:12 PM Author Posted Thursday at 10:12 PM Selling shirts! “I survived the Great Recession of April 2025!” 1
leh-nerd skin-erd Posted Thursday at 10:24 PM Posted Thursday at 10:24 PM 2 hours ago, Joe Ferguson forever said: you posted grossly misleading tax figure. simple as that. assume an individual aerages 40k per year over 30 years or 1.2 mil lifetime earnings. if half of that is spent on untaxed housing or education or medical care combined, that leaves 600k at 8% =0.08 48k in sales tax. the number you posted is 10x that. you're smarter than this. was gonna say you're better than this but decided against it. Ah, I see the genesis of your confusion. Thank you.
Joe Ferguson forever Posted Thursday at 10:27 PM Posted Thursday at 10:27 PM Just now, leh-nerd skin-erd said: Ah, I see the genesis of your confusion. Thank you. the genesis of your misunderstanding is that bs lifetime tax number you posted and continue to crash and burn over...
leh-nerd skin-erd Posted Thursday at 10:28 PM Posted Thursday at 10:28 PM 36 minutes ago, 4th&long said: You're completely detached from reality. I see. How does that make you feel? 2
leh-nerd skin-erd Posted Thursday at 10:33 PM Posted Thursday at 10:33 PM Just now, Joe Ferguson forever said: the genesis of your misunderstanding is that bs lifetime tax number you posted and continue to crash and burn over... “Crash and burn”? Take it easy, Iceman. 🙄
4th&long Posted Thursday at 11:56 PM Posted Thursday at 11:56 PM 1 hour ago, Big Blitz said: Selling shirts! “I survived the Great Recession of April 2025!” It's over? It hasn't even gotten started yet.
B-Man Posted yesterday at 12:38 AM Posted yesterday at 12:38 AM Just now, Doc Brown said: Economy should be thriving like it was his first 100 days in 2017 with the S&P going up 5%. Instead it's down 7.9% in his first 100 days in 2025. Only difference was the tariffs. And the fact that it followed four years of Biden/Harris misadministration. 1
Doc Brown Posted yesterday at 12:40 AM Posted yesterday at 12:40 AM 1 minute ago, B-Man said: And the fact that it followed four years of Biden/Harris misadministration. No. It was the tariffs. Stock market spiked his first couple of weeks before he started with his tariff nonsense. 1
Big Blitz Posted yesterday at 01:08 AM Author Posted yesterday at 01:08 AM 26 minutes ago, Doc Brown said: No. It was the tariffs. Stock market spiked his first couple of weeks before he started with his tariff nonsense. And now it’s rebounded bc of talks of trade DEALS. Not ending the tariffs. Deals. There is zero indication the tariffs are going anywhere.
Doc Brown Posted yesterday at 02:00 AM Posted yesterday at 02:00 AM 33 minutes ago, Big Blitz said: And now it’s rebounded bc of talks of trade DEALS. Not ending the tariffs. Deals. There is zero indication the tariffs are going anywhere. Man. You guys will swallow anything. It rebounded because investors are making a bet that Trump will continue to back down on tariff implementation because it'll spook the markets too much. 1 1
Big Blitz Posted yesterday at 02:49 AM Author Posted yesterday at 02:49 AM 4 minutes ago, Homelander said: AI. But carry on. Now let’s AI the federal workforce
Homelander Posted yesterday at 03:02 AM Posted yesterday at 03:02 AM This isn’t politics - it’s cult.
The Frankish Reich Posted yesterday at 03:37 AM Posted yesterday at 03:37 AM 9 hours ago, Big Blitz said: An increase from 30 percent to 50 percent almost led to secession in 1832. The increase in the 1922 was significant. Still a shock. No economic meltdown. I posted an article from my own research who’s a far more informed expert then the Frankish Reich or Big Blitz on an Internet forum. You can belittle the info and try and puncture all the holes you want in his argument. That if ALL tariffs (now there’s a percentage threshold you’ve created) are bad isn’t true. And doesn’t mean economic disaster. Especially if the vast amount of goods we need are elastic. And it’s 10 percent. Not 25%. Unless you’re the CCP and it’s 2 satellite states - Canada and Mexico. What nonsense. Even if we did only go from an average weighted tariff of 1.5% to 10%, you do get that that's a 6.5X increase? 650 percent increase? Nothing has ever been close. Not even 1832 (boy you went digging, I gotta give that to you!) And of course we only have (ostensibly) a 90 day pause on the big ones. Mr. 90 day/180 day/270 day/oh, let's forget I ever said something that stupid with my confusing chart in hand and move on with things. 1
Big Blitz Posted yesterday at 04:00 AM Author Posted yesterday at 04:00 AM 10 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said: What nonsense. Even if we did only go from an average weighted tariff of 1.5% to 10%, you do get that that's a 6.5X increase? 650 percent increase? And? Is it our fault the EU for example puts what - a 20 percent VAT on all our good sold there - they can argue all they want that it’s a tax that’s applied to their domestic goods equally. But those aren’t the free trade rules we play by. Why are they collecting the same percentage on US produced goods - the VAT is designed to help their own domestic producers due to the rebates they get along the supply chain. Our imported goods - hit their consumers directly with their 20 percent VAT. Our sales tax by state is on average 3-5 percent? Now you’ve been doing a lot of math today. How much of a percentage increase is that on our finished good in the EU vs their finished goods in America? And that’s why Team Trump used that “insane” formula they did. I get it. And we all have to remember - there is no rule that can apply with what they’re doing because it’s 2025 and the global economy is not the same as 1935. This is all theory. I don’t think it’s a magic fix. I don’t think it’s going to lead to the ridiculous price increases the “experts” claim they will lead to either. The costs we would like to increase are American real wages.
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