THEY: “You can’t tax unrealized gains.”
ME: “Then why do my PROPERTY TAXES rise when my home’s value goes up?”
THEY: “That’s different.”
ME: “I didn’t sell it.”
“I didn’t cash out.”
“I didn’t make a profit.”
Yet I’m paying MORE because of a paper valuation.
Funny how “UNREALIZED GAINS” are only untouchable when the wealthy are the ones benefiting.
Adulting is realizing that you can have good dental insurance and still have to come out of pocket $1,600 to fix 1 cavity. wtf is even the point of dental insurance!?
There’s a real story in the Trump-sons defense reporting — but get the number right. It’s not “$3.2 billion netted.” It’s roughly $3.7 billion in federal funds flowing to ~10 companies tied to Don Jr. and Eric
THE LABOR DEPARTMENT JUST DROPPED NEW WAGE DATA AND IT'S BRUTAL.
Corporate profits up 47% since 2020.
Worker wages up 12% in the same period.
Meanwhile groceries up 35%, rent up 40%, utilities up 28%.
Your paycheck grew 12%. Your bills grew 35%.
The math is simple: you're getting poorer every year even when you get a raise.
You can't budget your way out of this. The system is designed so your income can never catch up to your expenses.
That's not an accident. That's policy.
PRIVATE EQUITY DESTRUCTION:
Toys R Us: 30,000 jobs lost
Bed Bath & Beyond: 20,000 jobs lost
Rite Aid: 10,000 jobs lost
RadioShack: 8,000 jobs lost
Payless ShoeSource: 22,000 jobs lost
Sears: 175,000 jobs lost
Dunkin': 10,000 wage cuts
Burger King: 15,000 wage cuts
TOTAL: 290,000+ JOBS DESTROYED
Executives made billions. Workers lost everything.
This is what private equity does.
Steal value. Destroy lives. Walk away rich.
And everyone calls it business.
MILLIONAIRE: “Wait… I’m not a thief. I just own private equity.”
CITIZENS: “You buy companies, cut jobs, strip assets, and leave workers and communities worse off.”
MILLIONAIRE: “But the government lets me.”
CITIZENS: “Legal doesn’t make it right. Profiting by hurting workers and weakening companies is still greed.”
If Democrats were rigging elections, that fat orange pedophile wouldn’t be president, you’d have universal healthcare, and your kids would be safe at school. Be fucking serious.
WE paid the tariffs but the businesses get the refunds. As long as I live, I’ll never understand why millions of Americans voted to get fucked over by this child-raping piece of shit.
This seems pretty crazy: Just handing over a U.S. Senate seat to a completely unqualified SISTER of the senator who just died? Shouldn't voters have a say in this? Or are we back to "royal bloodlines" now?
I miss when "The News" was just a guy in a suit telling you what happened, instead of a 24 hour panic machine designed to make you hate your neighbor so you don't notice your rent went up 30%.
Trump on billionaires: "I want them to be successful"
But when asked about struggling Americans, he said: "I don't think about Americans' financial situation..."
It's so cut and dry. Trump wants billionaires to be successful, and he wants the American people to pay for it.