Alan Thompson

Happy husband, proud father, handyman extraordinaire, and pastor of an amazing church.

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@ImBreckWorsham DR provides a strategy for getting oneself out of poverty. JS provides excuses (blaming what you can’t control) for why you shouldn’t even try. I’ll take Dave’s approach.

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@PattyMurray No. Reduce taxes so both parents don’t need to work and/or provide tax credits that offset childcare costs.

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@jeremyct This what you get when government “helps” you in some area of life vs taking care of yourself.

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@_karaeastman I have Medicare now. It’s not all that great. I’d love other options, but I’m forced to be on Medicare. I don’t want the government in my healthcare.

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@Ariszn12 I guess you’ve never seen a 1099-INT or a 1099-DIV.

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@omgsidewalks So you’re not talking about Musk, because he has made a lot of his employees rich.

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@ToddHagopian I would be for a plan to phase it out. It will always be a broken system open to abuse. No amount of band aids will change that.

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@DarrigoMelanie Socialism is not going to stop the abuse of tax dollars to benefit the power brokers in government. I’m all for stopping subsidies and benefiting “friends” for kickbacks to politicians. But how about they just let us keep our money and let us benefit ourselves?

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@chrisorzy Where are these boomers supposedly getting free healthcare? We are forced to pay for Medicare coverage which still have deductibles.

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@DerekDenhamAlan @jbhenneman No. When the government gets to take a percentage of your home’s value every year AND they get to decide what that value is, that’s a scam. Charge a flat resident tax to fund services, or use a local sales tax. But don’t drive the poor out of their homes.

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@Sonderisfon I agree. If the company wants to donate to a charity, they can do so. I’m capable of choosing my own charity to donate to.

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@paulswaney3 There are multiple other ways to fund local services that don’t cost widows, the elderly, and low income residents their homes when escalating subjective home values inflate taxes owed beyond what they can bear. But, yeah, let’s paint everyone with the same brush.

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@texasrunnerDFW Property taxes need to be eliminated and replaced with a local consumption tax and/or resident tax.

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@tobyhardtospell EVERY tax is a tax for services. That has zero impact on the conversation. Property taxes can drive low income and elderly homeowners out of their homes as values escalate. No other tax I pay is based on a subjectively assigned value that could force me into homelessness.

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@GreenPlusAnE You either confused about human lifespans or you don’t know the definition of “infinite.”

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@justjargons The minimum wage will always be zero.

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@dividendology True

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@AlexAtWonk Nothing unpatriotic about it. There are numerous ways to fund government services that do not force people (elderly, low income) out of their homes just because they can’t pay a tax based on a grossly inflated value that has been assigned to their home which they aren’t selling.

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@CoFoundersNik @RogueAgentRants So if the landlord opts out, the renters pay for the services they use? …because it’s not the landlord that used the services when the renters had to be visited by the police, or had to call EMS for grandma’s tumble in the driveway.