BaldManGoomba

joined 2 years ago
[–] BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago

49 years between 2000-2050. 25 would be the mid point with 24 years previous and 24 years to go. 182nd day of the year is July 1st so July 2nd is the middle point/day of the year with leap years being midnight of July 2nd into July 3rd. So this checks out

[–] BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world -2 points 23 hours ago

As a white person.

Justice can not be served for black people or other racial minorities if we pull up the wealth ladder and tax them as they get money. The system was racist and allowed white people to get ahead if you tax everyone equally who do you harm the poorer and newer wealthy people. If you don't take from a subset of the population you harm

We had a racist system that allowed wealth to go to white people. We eliminated the slave labor 164 years ago and tradition of viewing and treating other races as less than(in theory 61 years ago). But the white already wealthy people already own everything and have generational wealth. We have not had a thing that helped black people specifically. They were suppose to get 40 acres and a mule. A generation hasn't even passed of being able to discriminate against races.

If you pull up the ladder of wealth you are only hurting new wealth which would be proportionally more black people versus targeting old wealth which would proportionally be white people.

Lastly Mamdani said he was describing the neighborhood he was targeting with his changes to taxing. He wasn't going to put language into law that it had to be white people.

[–] BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

That isn't how taxes work in the usa. The government borrows money from your/our future prints it to pay all its bills. Taxes just cover a bit of the expenditures when they come in. The government can care less about balancing the budget. So it doesn't matter if they get their money throughout the year or in April you wont hurt them. Only thing at risk is general people being audited and hurt also i believe you pay a penalty for not paying through the year. Since I have been alive we never have had a surplus. It would take years of a democratic presidency for the surplus to hit as the programs take years to produce profits and reduce the deficit. Sadly a democratic president/platform never stays popular for long enough.

[–] BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

As of currently the way the government works is everything is paid for by printing money and the government taking out loans. It claws some money back with taxes but they haven't covered the government since I have been alive.

[–] BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The only access to them is media in the backroom or private event held by rich asking what do you think of protests on main street because you can't get close to their property and if you can they are probably in another house

[–] BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Democrats have always been like that so DINO doesn't make sense. Progressive is the only label that aligns with good politics these days

[–] BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

New York state it is $15.50 NYC area $16.5 most states have a higher minimum wage except the deep red states

[–] BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Usa employers did the math they fire most full-time employees and reduce staffing and only hire part-time workers walmart back in 2011-13 when I worked there only had 8-10 full time employees which were managers and even some department managers would only get 32 hours a week to avoid giving benefits or health insurance. Every one i knew who were full time worked there for 10 + years. Even if you increase minimum wage they will find ways to reduce costs in staffing so you really need to penalize companies

[–] BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Context and after some searching

  • Global Top 10% Wealth: ~$93,170 (2018)).

  • Global Top 10% Income: ~$39,382 annually (PPP-adjusted).

Wealth source

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/07/how-much-money-you-need-to-be-in-the-richest-10-percent-worldwide.html

Income source

https://wid.world/income-comparator/

[–] BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Context and after some searching

  • Global Top 10% Wealth: ~$93,170 (2018)).

  • Global Top 10% Income: ~$39,382 annually (PPP-adjusted).

Wealth source

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/07/how-much-money-you-need-to-be-in-the-richest-10-percent-worldwide.html

Income source

https://wid.world/income-comparator/

[–] BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

She Ronald Reagened the UK she usher in the privatization of public services. She believed sacrificing social good for economic gains and she was a bit of a dick and unapologetic the whole time

"I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand "I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!" or "I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!" "I am homeless, the Government must house me!" and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business and people have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations." -Margaret Thatcher

[–] BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Less of the annoying kid more of an annoying teacher, admin, and staff. Like peer pressure and desire to follow along made me do it but the teacher and the staff couldn't explain why we should and that made me question it and leading me to consider the kid right

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