All I can think of is the laughter of Nelson Muntz from the Simpson.

Pretty much

You know how I got these scars?!

Alright, I'm watching Matt's latest about Portland, and Mayor Ted Wheeler, and all I can do is 😂

https://tenor.com/view/communism-communist-stalin-gif-5148586

i love how people try to define EV vehicles and solar as affordable due to tax credits. Your still paying for it, you just do it via taxes

We're* still paying for it, comrade

@Putz exactly. Plus, ev + rooftop solar is the ultimate environmental virtue signal too.

@Agent Smith from the Hasanabi server:

🤔

Someone help me out here flat tax just means a flat percent right? So if it was 12% or something, everyone pays 12% of their income. If that's right the hell is a progressive tax and how does it work?

It doesn't

@Draco552 a progressive tax means that you pay a certain rate on your first $XX,XXX, then a higher rate on your next $XX,XXX, and a higher rate on the next level, and so on.

Sounds extremely dumb

Until you reach whatever the max rate is for that particular system and you pay that on all money above that rate.

Eh, it's not the worst system as long as the top rate isn't too high.

There is logic to it.

It's certainly more complicated than a flat tax

but a flat tax is more complicated than a poll tax and most people don't want to go back to that

Except when you get the progressives that say there's a cap on how much someone is allowed to make. The whole "make the rich pay their fair share" line

You mean like this?

Which I literally capped about 20 minutes ago?

yeah, pretty much

spooky

I've been mining Hasan Piker's server today

That server felt like drinking a gallon of brain hurting juice

Thing is, I can't tell if that cap is satirical or real thinking

He's certainly defending it when challenged

"Oh muh capitalist tears"

I need Snopes to weigh in on this one

"Won't somebody think of the poor capitalists"

Out of curiosity, how is a flat tax more complicated? Seems like it would be simpler than the progressive tax as it's the same math but less times

Flat tax would be simpler although deductions is really what complicates tax code

Flat tax is more complicated than poll tax @Draco552

poll tax means $XX per person, regardless of income

Ok, I misunderstood what you were saying there