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    Yes, but corporations pay into the system in other ways. Take for example the time Duke Energy had a big coal ash spill into a river. They took the income resources they had and not only paid a fair fine price, cleaned up the…

    Wait. No they didn’t. They passed on all the costs to their customers. Fortunately those customers were able to use the free market and choose another provider…

    Wait. No, they can’t. Huh. That IS a freeloader.

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    Its funny how much owning a successful business sound exactly like being a lazy, work-shy layabout who does nothing while living off of other people’s hard work.

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    Posts like this are important, but unfortunately in vain, I’m afraid. Those who still don’t understand it will never understand it. I think they don’t want to. I don’t get it.

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      I’d say it’s still important to post and talk about, not for the people who know and don’t care, but for the people who don’t know and do care.

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        Yes, I think so too. I just can’t understand why so many people aren’t able to hold those who are to blame for their misery to account. Instead, they allow themselves to be duped by their own enemies. It is incomprehensible to me how people can be so stupid.

        • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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          Oh yes. For the individual, very few costs can be deducted from taxes, and investments are not considered costs.

          There’s also different tax rates and subsidies available to businesses that individuals can’t access.

          But my point stands. People always get angry about large revenues which are not taxed. Changing the system so that a tax is also levied above the line is not impossible.

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    Freeloaders are the people taking up dramatically more resources than the value one human can produce.

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    I don’t think they care. I think they just say they are free loaders because what they really feel is hate towards people of other races and ethnicities, but they can’t say it out load or often even admit it to themselves.

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      More often than not they’re ashamed their wic is funded in large part by illegals. Pride is dangerous as fuck.

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    Trump is not a free-loader though!? And now that I’ve planted that thought… can you remind me why not exactly - asking for a friend? :-P

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        He’s not a freeloader because he pays his fair share of taxes…. Wait a minute

        He’s not a freeloader because he takes on the risks of a job creator, including any financial losses…. Crap, nope

        He’s not a freeloader because when he contracts put work he pays on time what was agreed …… can you see the pattern?

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          - “conservatives” Republicans

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          Oh wait my bad that’s 1 Thessalonians 5:21, oh well nobody seems to care.

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    The duty of the working person is to pay tithes to the ruling class. But these workers are also using public services and benefiting from public works.

    The only solution is to privatize more state functions, in order to make sure all immigrants continue to surrender their surplus value to the native aristocracy.

    And no more eating! I don’t want to see any Haitians who look well fed. We all know what that means. Haitians are supposed to be in a half starved state at all times. Otherwise, I just know they’re up to something.

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    Did those companies make billions in profit? Or just billions in revenue and did creative accounting and investing so that they didn’t actually make a profit so they don’t need to pay tax?

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    I notice we’re comparing “taxes” in one column to “federal income taxes” in the other column. I wonder why.

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    the US Constitution puts the ENTIRE TAX BILL as the responsibilty of corporations, this was illegally changed during WW2. This is why prior to WW2 there was no income tax. We are living in a fascist hell hole because we are not following the legal Constitution. We are following a partial fake. The full text of the original Constitution is available when you read the Constitution, then turn it upside down and read the additional text which is in Latin. Democrats and Republicans are fully aware and refuse to reinstate the Full Constitution. They are both Traitors to the Republic.