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  Yeah, fucking restart the tax code.  Progressive tax bracket, no exemptions, tax summary comes from the government annually and citizens can challenge if they do decide.
context: I'm so glad I paid over 36k worth in taxes while billionaires get refunds and minuscule payments.
  I don't mind paying even more if I could be guaranteed that it's going to help out anyone who's genuinely struggling.  But it's probably going to go to some corporate welfare. >
  
  Right?
  It's kind of like how we have a "healthcare market", but we're just subsidizing people to rip us off. 
  Hell, it's also like how the USDA buys produce and destroys it to keep prices high "for farmers".  We literally subsidize waste, greed and nothing else in this shithole country. >
  
  Privatized profits, socialized losses. Any company that has full time workers on food stamps is a welfare queen. >
  
  About 7-8 years ago, my niece got a job at wal mart. Part of her initial training included how to apply for Medicaid and food stamps. >
  
  Did she also have to watch the anti-union propaganda video as part of her training? I had to watch that one \~20 years ago. >
  
  all that and more nowadays, walmart employment even comes with an additional chance of being involved in a shooting or hostage situation as we saw last week 🤮 >
  
  Living in a world where guns are at the same time too dangerous to bring to work but not dangerous enough to do universal background checks on >
  
  That’s when you know you have a full blown gun problem. We should probably call it a gun pandemic.
  I say this as a responsible firearm owner: the second amendment proved its worthlessness on Jan 6th and I’m ready for it to be scrapped. 
  1st reason: Fucking armed traitors went to the capitol and many of them just got slaps on the wrist. The 2nd Amendment is for forming a well-regulated militia, meaning at the time it was written - whatever fire arm you had didn’t matter. It just mattered that you belonged to a state-recognized militia and that militia knew it could count on you if called on to defend your homeland. Where were all those “good guys with guns” on Jan 6th? Far the fuck away from the capitol and for good reason: NO ONE should have been there.
  2nd reason: Trump showed us that this country is playing fascy-footsie and loving it. The 2nd amendment is about stopping traitors like trump and their administration from abusing power. The idea of an armed populace was to help keep the govt in check (back then, it meant by wealthy land-owning white men… and since many legal firearm owners of color can still be outright killed because “they had a gun!”… there is no constitutionally protected right to own one then for anybody) If the second amendment failed at keeping modern-day fascism from rearing it’s disfigured and putrid head, then the amendment A. Doesnt mean what it says. B. Doesn’t protect any firearm owner, and doesnt serve its initial purpose.
  The second amendment needs to be rewritten entirely or tossed. And because we can’t have a level head about how that process would go due ti exasperated polarization in this country… we’re fucked.
  Go to walmart with kevlar on kids and pray the shooter isn’t a “headshot harry.” >
  
  He wrote off the Stormy payment. Trump really does not care >
  
  He doesn't care because he knows there are no consequences.  He knows he is above the law and that is why he acts the way he does. >
  
  He’s been doing this shit on his taxes for probably a long time. The tax code is like 75,000 pages long, that’s a lotta hoops you can jump through. I’m not a trump fan, but if they want people like him to pay taxes there is definitely a way, but they won’t do it because they’re all benefiting from the same shit he is.