I work from home, doing marketing and sales type things. So I never got out much even before the plandemic. That being said, every time I do get out I have no mask. Also every single time I get out the trump signs seem to multiply by 2 😂 I used to see none. Now every time I go out I see people with bumper stickers. People with flags. Its great. You cant even drive to the town over which is where the closest Walmart is without seeing trump signs. I know there's biden voters out there. My family is pretty lefty sadly. So I know they exist among us, but they don't seem to ever put out many signs! I hardly ever see any, if at all. Good sign!
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Yup. The type of people that say "I make a lot of money, I pay a lot of taxes. Im fine with paying a little more, why not!"
They dont understand that all of us poor people are disenfranchised when we know that working harder will earn us less rewards and all of our hard work goes towards paying people for doing nothing. The harder I work, the more of my money I'd like to keep. I would already be paying more taxes than most others at that point right??
I also believe those people don't realise just how much they are paying in taxes, or they aren't thinking and theyre just trying to justify their argument not realizing a week before they were complaining about how much taxes they pay.
They are the type of people that missed the whole point of the Boston tea party. If you want to pay more taxes, they should volunteer their own wallet before volunteering mine. I personally believe taxation is theft. If I wasn't taxed at all, I'd be able to make way more money, way easier and I'd have the money to just willingly throw at the government as a thank you for staying out of my way and letting me actually use the money I worked for, to make more money.
If I make 100k a year, and I have to pay 40k in taxes, my take home is only 60k. If they dont tax me, my take home would be 100k. In two years if I didn't spend a penny, theoretically speaking, id be worth 200k, instead of 120k. The year after that id be worth 300k instead of 180k. Thats 120 thousand more dollars in my pocket every 3 years. Multiply that over ten years, and I could willingly volunteer to pay way more money to the government volunterily than if the government had kneecaped me and taken my tax money beforehand. If im taxed 40% of 100k for ten years, thats 400,000 dollars I wouldnt be able to invest, or start a business with. If they didn't do that, I could keep my 100k, and in ten years be worth a million dollars if I didnt spend a penny, and the money I make off that I could pay more taxes than ever before and probably even at a lower tax rate. Of course the government doesn't trust us, and they want our money, claiming that its theirs. We also have to spend that money to live, so keep that in mind. The government isn't willing to do a deal and say "you know what, we won't tax you at all for ten years but in ten years, we will start taxing you again, but at half of what we used too" because id bet if you played your cards right, they'd be taking in just as much tax money, but you'd be almost twice as wealthy, and taxed at half of what you used to be taxed at.
Of course, we dont live in a world like that. And who knows how it would actually work out once you look take into account that not everyone would throw money at the government willingly if they weren't taxed. They'd probably keep it all. Maybe thats a good answer too. Whats the government even for? Seems like most the time they waste our money almost to a level id call terrorism, or extreme and willing neglect of duty. Unless someone like trump gets to man the wheel of the ship Lol. Trump gets that stuff. He understands if you lower the taxes people pay, the more money they have to spend, and the government makes money off of what you buy, thus by lowering the tax rate, you increase the amount of money you make in sales tax.
NM is such an interesting place its hard to say tbh. Some areas are red, some are blue. The big cities are the reason its blue. All the small towns like the one im in are all red. Us being on the border of Mexico concerns me greatly. The people here want the USA the way it is.
So that being said, I've lived here essentially my whole life and I believe there is a fairly good chance we flip red. I hope at least. Its very hard to tell. Its a very interesting place. Its blue but its still only got a few million people total so for the most part in a lot of ways depending on where you go, its still nearly the wild west. For example, you have to take a class in order to conceal carry, which is dumb, but its a shall issue state. There isn't a whole lot of regulation in our way concerning a lot of things. I think the people here love that deep in their bones and I think that's why they will flip red. They want more freedom, not less. Less regulation in our way, not more.
I had a history teacher in highschool and he had pictures of native Americans that fought in ww2 all over his walls and spent months teaching us our rights straight out of the consitution. We are one people here in nm and for that reason, I wouldnt put it past them that they switch sides, and flip us from blue to red. I could be wrong of course, but there's an energy here that I've never seen since Trump got in and really flipped the script.
Keep in mind we're only worth like 5 points in the electoral college lol. I still root for us flipping though. If nm flips, anything can flip, in my opinion. I hope that answers your question.
I have too many dogs as it is lol. Sorry pal