If you can't tax rich people on the unrealized gains from stocks then why do property taxes on middle class folks keep going up based on the unrealized value of a house?
True story!
You can’t call abortion “playing God” while using chemo, insulin, C-sections, IVF, and Viagra.
You’re not against medicine.
You’re against women choosing it.
The economy is “doing great.”
Unemployment is low.
Stock market is up.
And yet.
Nobody can afford rent.
Nobody can afford groceries.
Nobody can afford to get sick.
Nobody can afford to have kids.
Nobody can afford to retire.
The economy is great.
For the people who already had money.
For everyone else it’s just numbers on a screen that don’t show up in their bank account.
Maybe that’s why people are mad.
The data says fine.
Their life says otherwise.
When people say "I'd do anything for my child," everyone praises them, but when a parent risks crossing a border to save their child from war, poverty, or danger, suddenly they're treated like criminals.
Saw someone pose the question, “When will White Women be held accountable for raising Mass Shooters, the way Black Women are blamed for raising ‘Thugs???
Republicans in North Carolina just proposed a bill that says if a woman is caught with an IUD or attempts to get an abortion then men are allowed to use DEADLY FORCE to try and stop her. They are proposing a bill that will allow men to kill women for using birth control. It’s House Bill 1232. Keith Kidwell is the Republican who proposed the bill. He claims it counts as self defense to use deadly force to stop abortion. This is a man who claims to be pro life. Feel free to give his office a call and let him know how you feel about his opinion.
And for anyone who says “obviously this will never get passed” that’s not the point. The point is it’s fucking insanity that a government official would even try to make a law like this. It’s insanity that there are men out there who are trying to make it legal to kill women for making decisions for their own bodies. This is real and it’s happening right now in front of our eyes.
We’re obsessed with the idea that poor people might take more than they need, but we never question why the super rich are never satisfied with what they already have.
Boomers: “Houses aren’t unaffordable. Stop eating out. Stop buying coffee. Learn to budget.”
Also Boomers: “I can’t afford the property taxes on my fully paid off house.”
Sir.
You own the house free and clear.
No mortgage. No interest. No lender.
And the tax bill alone is breaking you.
But you want me to believe the problem is my Chipotle order.
The same system that’s pricing you out of a house you already own is the same system pricing us out of one we’re trying to buy.
Maybe it was never about the avocado toast.