is what someone told me when I took a Public Health department job for 6 mos - which I Ron Swansoned that tobacco prevention temporary grant into the fucking ground. The program would have created countless more permanent government jobs and I help kill it.
That’s the funniest part about people praising governments for giving them relief money. Although there are strong arguments for the initial relief check if the economy was to reopen almost immediately as planned, it’s still our money, and a meager fraction of it. The math is much more complicated than this, but for simplicity, let’s just say the average federal income tax is 25%, my state’s income tax is around 13%, and then you’re paying 10% sales tax on top of that across all transactions. That’s like half of everyone’s income right there. That’s not touching property taxes and capital gains taxes and the money you leave to your children after dying being taxed, or the infinite number of stupid BS taxes we have in the Bay Area, like the ‘low wage workers’ tax of around 10% if you go to some restaurants being added onto the bill on top of what you’re already tipping and paying in tax for an inflated meal. We even have additional taxes to give more money to failing public schools teaching kids to be retards and offering required reading like “Waking up White” and “Antiracism.” Not even joking.
Keeping the math simple despite it being way more complex than this, if someone’s making $50k a year, which is probably about average nation wide between the high and low earners but if not it’s an easy number, half or more of that ends up going to the government to be immediately embezzled. $25k a year on average, per working person. Then they decide to give you $1.2k of it back after putting you out of work. In the grand scheme of things year over year, that’s probably less than 1%.
That’s not even considering newer, ‘innovative’ forms of taxes on the middle class, like Obamacare. You’re now required to pay $500-1K or more a month than before to receive worse healthcare. We’re not getting anything back in public services from this, either. Public college tuitions now rival private schools, and they’ve all turned into postmodern nonsense on top of that. Public schools are largely now worthless money pits as well.
Then you look at the rest of the stimulus bill, and most of it isn’t even the $1.2k checks per person within the trillion dollar budgets. They’re even trying to give our money away to illegals now too.
Fuck anyone and everyone keeping the economy closed at this point. Stay home if you want to stay home. Let the adults go back to work. The quarantine doesn’t even seem to work very well across most available metrics anyway.
Then you look at politicians supporting it right now, like Pelosi, and she’s a multimillionaire. You should not be a multimillionaire from being a fucking politician. Even her countless facial surgeries wreak of corruption.
Yup. I don't want it, but I'll take it. Ammo money.
"If you don't spend it, somebody else will"
is what someone told me when I took a Public Health department job for 6 mos - which I Ron Swansoned that tobacco prevention temporary grant into the fucking ground. The program would have created countless more permanent government jobs and I help kill it.
I wish I could give you more than just an updoot.
I would name my first born after you but the world doesn’t need another Fredo.
We call updo*** upTrumps here
That’s the funniest part about people praising governments for giving them relief money. Although there are strong arguments for the initial relief check if the economy was to reopen almost immediately as planned, it’s still our money, and a meager fraction of it. The math is much more complicated than this, but for simplicity, let’s just say the average federal income tax is 25%, my state’s income tax is around 13%, and then you’re paying 10% sales tax on top of that across all transactions. That’s like half of everyone’s income right there. That’s not touching property taxes and capital gains taxes and the money you leave to your children after dying being taxed, or the infinite number of stupid BS taxes we have in the Bay Area, like the ‘low wage workers’ tax of around 10% if you go to some restaurants being added onto the bill on top of what you’re already tipping and paying in tax for an inflated meal. We even have additional taxes to give more money to failing public schools teaching kids to be retards and offering required reading like “Waking up White” and “Antiracism.” Not even joking.
Keeping the math simple despite it being way more complex than this, if someone’s making $50k a year, which is probably about average nation wide between the high and low earners but if not it’s an easy number, half or more of that ends up going to the government to be immediately embezzled. $25k a year on average, per working person. Then they decide to give you $1.2k of it back after putting you out of work. In the grand scheme of things year over year, that’s probably less than 1%.
That’s not even considering newer, ‘innovative’ forms of taxes on the middle class, like Obamacare. You’re now required to pay $500-1K or more a month than before to receive worse healthcare. We’re not getting anything back in public services from this, either. Public college tuitions now rival private schools, and they’ve all turned into postmodern nonsense on top of that. Public schools are largely now worthless money pits as well.
Then you look at the rest of the stimulus bill, and most of it isn’t even the $1.2k checks per person within the trillion dollar budgets. They’re even trying to give our money away to illegals now too.
Fuck anyone and everyone keeping the economy closed at this point. Stay home if you want to stay home. Let the adults go back to work. The quarantine doesn’t even seem to work very well across most available metrics anyway.
Then you look at politicians supporting it right now, like Pelosi, and she’s a multimillionaire. You should not be a multimillionaire from being a fucking politician. Even her countless facial surgeries wreak of corruption.
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Ron Swanson
Audit the FED.
End it, then audit it and start putting people in prison.
Been getting quotes to do some home improvement. A lot of quotes are very near 1200 or 2400 dollars -_-
targetsportsusa.com just restocked. 9.99 boxes of 9mm.
I need to stock up on .45s.
I mainly have only 9mms but I do have a Springfield xDm.2 in .45 and it's been fantastic, not one malfunction. Speer Lawman is my go-to.
Sweet, I just bought my first 9mm, cant find ammo anywhere locally. Havent even been able to shoot it!
Nice, congratulations! I juat came back from the local indoor range here in Chicago, which curiously enough is open. What did you buy?
Cool, I'm in IL. too, central. I got the Taurus th9, seems to have good reviews for a budget handgun...hoping thats true?
"If there is a final hour Let's hope for a higher power One by one and two by two I have ammo, what about you?" - Tech N9ne
You have no idea how hungry my brand new ps90 is.
Spend it while it's still worth something.