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Joe Biden wants to raise taxes on 82% of all Americans.

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I have been poor my whole life, my parents were poor, and I have just finally started making more than 400k a year after tons of high risk hard work. The thought Biden wants to punish me for this is infuriating. I worked so hard for this. I'm already paying nearly 50% in taxes!!

6:14 PM · Sep 2, 2020

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It's not punishment. But congrats on your success

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It feels like punishment - if I do x, (earn over a certain amount) a bad thing happens (a higher % of my money is taken away from me), and this was deliberately instituted by someone. You know he checked income populations to make sure 400k limit wouldn't impact votes too much

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Your parents weren’t poor. I just read one of your posts that said they made too much for you to qualify for financial aid at college. If that’s true - you don’t know poor.

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yeah, around 60-80k (through my dad building his own business), but almost all of that was funneled straight into my dad's student loans which he hadn't paid when he was young, and they didn't have enough left over for me to help for college.

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So, just to be clear here, after you struggled and worked "tons of high risk hard work" and are now comfortably wealthy, you're ok with status quo, and all others trying to get ahead be damned??? How very Trump of you!

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I hate trump wtf? Just because Biden's proposal is stupid doesn't mean I like Trump either. I also absolutely think we should help people, but I think taxes and government redistribution are one of the worst possible ways to do that.

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His plan is ridiculous, imagine trying to give unemployed people who don’t want to work more money from the rich, I’d go unemployed in a heartbeat I guess and so would many others! Taxing even higher is crazy

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Aella

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Sep 2, 2020

I'm self employed and living in California. Both of these things incur more taxes.

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you don't believe me because you don't want to believe that a poor, uneducated person can work hard and get rich? Cause I absolutely fuckin did, and I know others who did too. If it was 120 years ago I'd be paying 0% in income tax.