this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2025
1771 points (99.7% liked)
Political Memes
7279 readers
2659 users here now
Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
My dad (long time conservative but can't get on the trump train which is good at least) thinks that "tax the rich" means people like high end doctors and surgeons. People who are absolutely in the top 1% but like "has a nice weekend car and maybe a lake house" not people making millions of dollars per month or week (or more)
"The difference in wealth between a surgeon and a billionaire is about one billion dollars, it's the billionaires that need to pay more taxes, they pay a smaller % than you."
How the the story of the nurses who pay more tax than Bezos didn't result in a landslide for progressives, I'll never understand.
Propaganda is a helluva drug
including misinformation and disinformation from right wing sources.
Yes...that's what I said
More as a percentage* than nurses.
That's one of the arguments my dad makes too, depending on the source he pays like 1-2% in taxes on a given year which was over a billion dollars last year.
Which is hilarious. That percentage should be around 40-50% if not more.
And at one point it was pretty close to that in many parts of the West. For as much as American conservatives want to go back to the 50s socially, they don’t seem keen on bringing back the fiscal policies of the time…
And the people who want to go back to the 50s don't realise that the fiscal policies were what made that time great, not the social norms.
For example, the great thing wasn't that women had to do the housework, the great thing was that you only needed one worker per household to live a good life.
Your dad thinks that people earn money by working for it. In other words, he's what would be a normal person in a socialist society.
All you have to do now is teach him what capitalism is.
Yeah, it's hard for the human mind to comprehend how much money a billion dollars actually is and neither of the two major political parties in this country want to expand it to them
The top 1% make roughly $600k per year, or probably more significantly (as not all rich people get "income"), a net worth of $11million according to this article
So yeah, maybe some doctors are in that category, but it's probably just the real big earners.
mostly the actualy 0.5% to .05% which are the hundred millionaires and billionaires. MDs are close to 1%
Yes that's why I called them "people absolutely in the top 1%"