first they came for the millionaires and I moved out of the way and let them take the millionaires because fuck the millionaires.
First they came for the millionaires and I said nothing while looking approvingly. Then they came for the Zionists and Fascists and I said nothing looking and started to slowly clap my hands. Last they came up to me and gave me housing, a job and a future, but there was noone to spoil it anymore and I started cheering. Thank you Marx
First they came for the millionaires, and I said “They’re right over there! Do you need any help?”
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For context: WA is close to passing a law that would add a tax to people earning 1M+ per year that would remove sales tax on various hygiene products and medicine, fund tax credits for families under the poverty line, and provide free meals for students. I guess that’s Nazism to them!
I still have no idea if it’s satire or those people have lead poisoned brains.
Holy shit. This isn’t even about people who have a million dollars, but about people who ”make” a million dollars PER YEAR? Fucking kill me.
There’s no way someone wears a trump hat ironically.
Nobody is going to pay this lmao
You don’t have to declare 1M of income to finance a +1M million dollars lifestyle, rich people abuse extremely obvious loopholes like declaring everything as company expenses. A lot of rich people don’t even pay any income tax
A friend of a friend of mine worked at inland revenue (UK IRS) and their entire job was trying to get one aristocratic family to pay taxes. And apparently there are (or were, this was a while ago) whole teams of such staff who toil awaybwith little success. Because these people have been lawyered up and hiring the best accountants for centuries, every time any tax or rule was created they got themselves a loophole or exemption or otherwise wormed their way out.
I don’t doubt there are more people who should end up paying it but are already using loopholes that make their income appear lower, and I don’t doubt that some of those 20k would abuse loopholes to get out of paying it, but there are 20k people who are failing to abuse those loopholes right now.
you can have a seven figure income at the big tech companies without being someone they care enough about that you could launder expenses
I live in WA and I work in a very blue collar industry, its crazy to me that literally all of my coworkers are against this. They are all so dumb and brainwashed
It reminds me of the GOP’s efforts to repeal the estate tax. They paid Frank Luntz to come up with a PR solution to get the rubes to be pro-rich. I wonder what they paid him. A million dollars? Anyway - his solution was to call it a “death tax”. And that worked like a charm.
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James L. Martin, chairman of the conservative 60 Plus Association, described Luntz’s role as being that of pollster and popularizer of the phrase “death tax.”
Martin gained an important ally in GOP pollster Frank Luntz, whose polling revealed that ‘death tax’ sparked voter resentment in a way that ‘inheritance tax’ and ‘estate tax’ couldn’t match. After all, who wouldn’t be opposed to a ‘tax on death’? Luntz shared his findings with Republicans and included the phrase in the GOP’s Contract with America. Luntz went so far as to recommend in a memo to GOP lawmakers that they stage press conferences ‘at your local mortuary’ to dramatize the issue.
‘I believe this backdrop will clearly resonate with your constituents,’ he wrote. ‘Death is something the American people understand.’ Apparently, he’s right. Spurred by Luntz, Republicans have employed the term ‘death tax’ so aggressively that it has entered the popular lexicon. Nonpartisan venues like newspapers and magazines have begun to use it in a neutral context—a coup for abolitionists like Martin.
In a confidential memo to the Republican party, Luntz is credited with advising the Bush administration that the phrase “global warming” should be abandoned in favour of “climate change”, which he called a “less frightening” phrase than the former.
It is Holocaust and fascism denial to compare a small tax to the events alluded to. “They came for” in the original refers to torture and death. Which is certainly known to these people. So this twisting has dual effect of aggrandizing their own grievance while diminishing the reality of the historical event.
If only there was a way for the rich to not be rich. it’s really too bad that there is no way out of being a parasite.
I know I say this every time these kinds of people are poster here, but why do they always have that same dead-eyed stare? Why does their smile never reach their eyes?
Because they fucking HATE you, and that’s the smile they use to tell you that they think you are a pathetic worm, beneath their contempt. The only genuine smile you’d get is if they were watching you get tortured to death.
Centuries of WASP conditioning
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
where’s a mass shooter when you want one
If we go by statistics, possibly in that group just not in the way you want/hope
for me personally it’s how the poem is about how they came for the communists and presumably they’re crying about a policy they perceive as communism. But also I’m sure it’s some kind of modest wealth tax that enables them to build something that’s not the torment nexus.
First they came for the millionaires, who then realized they had just arrested themselves
Thos people have been rendered mentally incapacitated on account of their creepy Jesus sex dreams.
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