For context: WA is close to passing a law that would add a tax to people earning 1M+ per year that would remove sales tax on various hygiene products and medicine, fund tax credits for families under the poverty line, and provide free meals for students. I guess that’s Nazism to them!

I still have no idea if it's satire or those people have lead poisoned brains.

[–] Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I live in WA and I work in a very blue collar industry, its crazy to me that literally all of my coworkers are against this. They are all so dumb and brainwashed

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 4 points 7 hours ago

It reminds me of the GOP's efforts to repeal the estate tax. They paid Frank Luntz to come up with a PR solution to get the rubes to be pro-rich. I wonder what they paid him. A million dollars? Anyway - his solution was to call it a "death tax". And that worked like a charm.

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James L. Martin, chairman of the conservative 60 Plus Association, described Luntz's role as being that of pollster and popularizer of the phrase "death tax."

Martin gained an important ally in GOP pollster Frank Luntz, whose polling revealed that 'death tax' sparked voter resentment in a way that 'inheritance tax' and 'estate tax' couldn't match. After all, who wouldn't be opposed to a 'tax on death'? Luntz shared his findings with Republicans and included the phrase in the GOP's Contract with America. Luntz went so far as to recommend in a memo to GOP lawmakers that they stage press conferences 'at your local mortuary' to dramatize the issue.

'I believe this backdrop will clearly resonate with your constituents,' he wrote. 'Death is something the American people understand.' Apparently, he's right. Spurred by Luntz, Republicans have employed the term 'death tax' so aggressively that it has entered the popular lexicon. Nonpartisan venues like newspapers and magazines have begun to use it in a neutral context—a coup for abolitionists like Martin.

In a confidential memo to the Republican party, Luntz is credited with advising the Bush administration that the phrase "global warming" should be abandoned in favour of "climate change", which he called a "less frightening" phrase than the former.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 3 points 8 hours ago

It is Holocaust and fascism denial to compare a small tax to the events alluded to. "They came for" in the original refers to torture and death. Which is certainly known to these people. So this twisting has dual effect of aggrandizing their own grievance while diminishing the reality of the historical event.

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 35 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Holy shit. This isn’t even about people who have a million dollars, but about people who ”make” a million dollars PER YEAR? Fucking kill me.

There’s no way someone wears a trump hat ironically.

[–] lil_tank@hexbear.net 10 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

Nobody is going to pay this lmao

You don't have to declare 1M of income to finance a +1M million dollars lifestyle, rich people abuse extremely obvious loopholes like declaring everything as company expenses. A lot of rich people don't even pay any income tax

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 5 points 8 hours ago

A friend of a friend of mine worked at inland revenue (UK IRS) and their entire job was trying to get one aristocratic family to pay taxes. And apparently there are (or were, this was a while ago) whole teams of such staff who toil awaybwith little success. Because these people have been lawyered up and hiring the best accountants for centuries, every time any tax or rule was created they got themselves a loophole or exemption or otherwise wormed their way out.

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 5 points 11 hours ago

Some 20,791 taxpayers would be required to pay the tax, according to a DOR-provided summary of tax year 2028 collections by legislative district.

I don’t doubt there are more people who should end up paying it but are already using loopholes that make their income appear lower, and I don’t doubt that some of those 20k would abuse loopholes to get out of paying it, but there are 20k people who are failing to abuse those loopholes right now.

[–] Runcible@hexbear.net 3 points 10 hours ago

you can have a seven figure income at the big tech companies without being someone they care enough about that you could launder expenses