Someone PLEASE tell this woman🤦🤦🤦
“employers and taxpayers” is like “job creators”.
They don’t want to say “the ultra wealthy” because that would be too accurate for the owner of the site, who is an ultra wealthy person.
It’s so backwards too, since the ultra wealthy are the ones who most dodge paying their fair share of taxes.
millionaires? you mean taxnonpayers?
This is not specific to this post but can we please not hype the guy up too much before we see what he actually does when in office? From all the news coverage I’m getting a ‘He is the Messiah! We are rescued!’ vibe. He may still bend the knee to the rich once he has power.
It’s also just a mayor. Sure mayor of NYC but it’s barely influential.
Fuck off with your negativity
We can judge him in his role as a mayor. Maybe he will get into a more powerful position later. He wouldn’t be the first.
I think it’s because its funny to see the far-right seethe
“The media” love nothing more than to find the absolute most disgusting scum in our country and interview them for their opinions…
Outrage generates clicks, clicks generate revenue.
We’re both here because we’re disgusted by the headline so it obviously works.While generally true, I think “the media” does what I mentioned in order to “manufacture consent” in cases like this. They want to create the image of what is “real” and what “people you should believe” think. God forbid you should think for yourself and agree with a spooky spooky socialist, no no we need to make you afraid of him! We need you to believe that only “freeloaders” vote for him and “real taxpayers” will be hurt by him!
I am tired of the boomer narrative of that it’s always those “young people” ruining everything. Oldest millennials are now in their mid-40’s. Or even worse, the youngest gen-z people are almost 18 now. These people have been paying their taxes for years on end now.
The only terrified people in this scenario are the literal parasites who don’t pay anything, through loopholes and theft
[Gen-Z] the generation loosely being defined as people born around 1997 to 2012.
Yep it is so stupid everyone blaming the boomers when they are no longer the largest voting block. But millennials are, also nobody wants to admit young people are stupid also.
No, boomers are responsible for the mess of crap we’ve found ourselves in. That’s why people blame them for it. They voted for “i got mine, and pulled the ladders up that helped them build their wealth and education”. That’s why we blame them for shit still.
The issue now though is that none of the politicians, talking heads, radical fascist right wing influences are boomers. Some are X, most are Millennials. This could have been turned around according to those who insisted that “all this will.die off with the Boomers!” for the past 20 years but NO, we became even MORE radically fascist and racist.
The generation divide is silly because it isnt fucking true…not int the least.
No, its the boomers still. They created the news networks like Fox News, turned the internet into the cess pool that it is, and drove all of the propaganda that has turned millennial and gen X people into frothing right-wing nut jobs. Maybe in ten years, we can stop saying its the boomers. But they have single handedly been responsible for all of the shit we find ourselves in, the housing bubbles, the student loan crisis, everything. I’ll stop saying its the boomers when its no longer a problem of their generations making.
And when younger generations continue the same program?
Absolving them of responsibility is highly irresponsible.
You wanna know who to actually blame?:
I’m so sick of this divisive generation claptrap.
The problem is that wealth inequality in the USA has an age component.
Boomers are far wealthier than previous generations at their equivalent age as a percentage of national wealth. They are also incredibly sensitive to taxes as their retirement depends on managing wealth.
In contrast, Gen X and millennials are poorer than Boomers at their equivalent age and mainly contribute to the economy with their labor.
It isn’t a perfect divide, but there is a wealth divide that represents itself somewhat as a generational divide.
If gen Z/A/Millennials had the same opportunities as the Boomers did they would do exactly the same.
talk to me when our president isn’t geriatric
Exactly. It’s not young vs old, black vs white, left vs right, etc. The ONLY enemy are the WEALTHY, and we will never have peace in this nation and this world until we force the Sociopathic Oligarchs and the Transnational Corporations to serve our people, our nation, and the world, and not just themselves.
What’s interesting is that some people read this and think it means “bigotry isn’t a problem anymore”, instead of “the rich use bigotry to control the masses”. You have to address bigotry as well as the economic issues.
Well, its obviously not my generation at fault. /s
Boomers were responsible for Reagan and Citizens United, you could maybe blame Gen X for Bush and Trump but definitely can’t blame Millennials on that.
In fact, Millennials were even more progressive aligned than Gen Z in the last election, with a -16 point shift between Biden and Harris. A lot of outlets are reporting a large Gen Z specific move to the right as they added 8 Million more voters to the pool in 2024, although take that claim with a grain of salt because the only data I could find on it was the 18-44 age group.
OK, boomer
These comments are a shitshow. It has become not only acceptable, but the norm, to counter common sense argument with “your mom”.
Idiocracy was supposed to be a satire, we were supposed to be smart and educated, the kind of people that can’t be easily fooled. Every day we return to monke a bit more.
We’re the taxpayers that want “free” health care while simultaneously paying taxes. The Right somehow thinks we’re too stupid to know we pay taxes that makes these things happen. Heck…we want people to have nice things.
Meanwhile the Right doesn’t want to pay taxes yet somehow expects to get social services like paved roads or safe drinking water. I’d mention schools or health care but the republicans clearly DGAF about those things.
I’ll bet Kathy Wilde doesnt pay taxes. Also, that job description says “oligarch enabler”.
In a late 2020 interview, she described herself as “the lone defender of the billionaires at this point”.[1] Pro Publica reported in 2018 that Wylde’s salary exceeded $1.1 million, which would make her among the highest paid non-profit executives in the State of New York.[2]
Jesus fucking christ.
J’aime les plumbers verdes
WANTED: KATHY WYLDE
For contributing to social murder, ideologically justifying excess deaths among the lower classes in order to keep the upper class hierarchy.
That job description says it all
Mamdani’s ideological approach may terrify some employers… the ones that are currently massively dodging taxes, paying way, way lower taxes, getting all kinds of tax exemptions and deductions, getting all kinds of no strings attached subsidies… from actual taxpayers.
The idiot capital class is obviously propogandizing in overdrive mode, but they also seem to be largely legitimately delusional about realizing how astonishingly subsidized they are by public financing, so that they can concentrate private profits.
‘But it would be impossible to run my business without training wheels and floaties and a helmet all provided to me by the government!!!’
Ok fuckstick, don’t care, sounds like a skill issue to me if you can’t main as a capitalist without a bunch of handicaps on, either get gud or stop pretending you deserve your spot on the ‘free market’ league leaderboard.
what self respecting capitalist wouldn’t try to pay as little for a service they are forced to have as the possibility can?
one who likes living in a world with… things… in it
what you’re talking about is people who treat capitalism as a fucking religion, who think the only point to life is to make number go up.
A sane “capitalist” will realize that it should be a means to an end, that the actual goal is to make life nice, so it only make sense to apply capitalist practices up to the point where it causes harm.
Like, what are you going to do with billions of dollars if there’s no one to maintain the roads and airports and railways? What joy would you experience on a wasteland planet with no pretty nature and human culture?Think of an old-timey shopkeep for example, sure they operate under capitalism, but they still want to fucking talk to their customers and be part of the community, and they’ll give kids some extra candy for free because they can trivially afford to do so and it brings them joy to see happy kids, plus those kids will then grow up and remember how ol’ shopkeep Williams was nice to them and they’ll help him out in his twilight years.
This is very Boomers thinking everyone is still a 16 year old Millennial.
Boomer brains stuck in 1998, and it shows.
Oh no. Anyway…
the scariest part about tax the millionaires policies for millionaires is that we did it in massachusetts and the outcome was that it worked and raised billions for the state
Wait, are you telling me that because he got elected I don’t have to pay taxes? Bonus!
Actually unreadable with the size thing and bloat
Um, good?
