Each was served with beer, two kinds of chips (thin restaurant-style and thicker homestyle), and the cheap pickled nacho slices that baseball fans know and treasure.

I don’t know, so many people practice one type of tax evasion or other that it just doesn’t seem that horrible these days. 

I think he was talking about it in terms of their coverage of US politics, which seem a bit better than their coverage, from what you’re describing, of UK politics.

Calling someone delusional is an insult. 

I don’t think the facts support your other points, but I’m not going to spend my work day researching it.

Still regressive, just not to those under the poverty line.

As an aside, our poverty line is a joke in my opinion. It’s way too low in many cities.

Agreed with your point regarding people advocating for stuff that hurts them and helps the 1%.

Thankfully there is a couple of bus routes that would get me to work if I didn’t have a car and couldn’t afford Uber/Lyft. According to Google Maps the quickest route would take 32 minutes (it’s an 8-14 minute drive), but because of buses being late, and that routes buses come every 12 minutes, I’d add an extra 12…

Look it up yourself, I found plenty of info on it.

Sales taxes are regressive, so no, fuck that idea. 

How did your pay go down? Did you get bumped into a new tax bracket? 

You can micro invest and maybe make some interest with the money you would have given to them. Not much though. 

Though now I’m worried that Turbo tax screwed up the withholding calculator I used and I’ll owe. Ugh.

You seem unnecessarily combative here, and that’s coming from a liberal.

Have yet to do my taxes, but I should do better because of the standard deduction. Have nothing really to itemize, lol. 

Ugh, Trumpers have made me appreciate true Republicans (of yore) more than I used to, that’s for sure. 

Do you have a positive net worth? If so, approximately what is it? Just curious because there are two ways to be in the top 1%. My mom was recently elevated to the top 1% by getting my dad’s life insurance in 2017 and she doesn’t work. 

I just can’t feel too bad for those fortunate to own a house right now when I’m renting a shitty studio.

That being said I was 150% against the new tax laws. A tax cut for the lower and middle class would be nice, but only if we appropriately taxed the rich, etc.

You really don’t need to have that much to be in the 1%, and there are multiple people posting that have new Porches and stuff like that, so I bet there are a few 1.5 percenters if not 1 percenters. 

At least the standard deduction went up.

Even though I’m not a states right person or anything, to me it makes sense that the state would get the first cut, as that money has a higher chance of directly affecting you.