cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6150828

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    26 days ago

    I'm not normally a "taxation is theft" guy, but that's a lifechanging amount of money for almost anyone I know and they're fucking stealing it from us to fund genocide.

    • regul [any]
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      25 days ago

      I'm normally a huge pedant, so I'll point out that using the median would change this number a lot. America is an incredibly unequal country. The average salary in the US was ~$70k, but the median is ~$43k.

      Total federal obligations on $70k is $13k.

      For $43k it's $6.5k.