I paid over $4200 last year to the IRS. Worst was when I owed over $8k.
All because my stocks did well, I sold them, and lived off of them until I could find a job. The fact I was living off of investments instead of taking fucking welfare cost me money.
Clearly, the "safety net" is not for those of us who keep their shit together.
The "welfare state" was actually started by a German politican most people today consider "conservative" as a way of staving power shifting to commies and their related dumbasses. He outright stated it was a means of buying votes.
Obviously I was half-serious. Lots of great things came out of Germany and Austria and whatever we call them now (those names didn't exist for most of history).
But those nuts went from being rather caveman like to being philosophers and musicians in a very short amount of time, and that is...concerning. I blame aliens.
Only thing it missed was the Frankfurt School of Thought which founded cultural marxism and glassed over dominating the EU to flood the region with rapefugees under threat of economic destruction.
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck really hated the Communists, his old age pensioner fund was the only viable success out of his attempts to subvert the Marxists.
I paid over $4200 last year to the IRS. Worst was when I owed over $8k.
All because my stocks did well, I sold them, and lived off of them until I could find a job. The fact I was living off of investments instead of taking fucking welfare cost me money.
Clearly, the "safety net" is not for those of us who keep their shit together.
The "welfare state" was actually started by a German politican most people today consider "conservative" as a way of staving power shifting to commies and their related dumbasses. He outright stated it was a means of buying votes.
Why is it, that most of the problems in our world, dating back to the middle of the first millennia, came from Germanic people?
Related. Ignore the obvious ironic statements but it never fails to make me laugh.
But yeah, it pisses me off that people keep on attributing Austrian/Romanian/Prussian accomplishments to worst Germany.
Obviously I was half-serious. Lots of great things came out of Germany and Austria and whatever we call them now (those names didn't exist for most of history).
But those nuts went from being rather caveman like to being philosophers and musicians in a very short amount of time, and that is...concerning. I blame aliens.
That video is a beautiful parody. It's the video version of this meme: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/137/265/e4e.jpg
Only thing it missed was the Frankfurt School of Thought which founded cultural marxism and glassed over dominating the EU to flood the region with rapefugees under threat of economic destruction.
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck really hated the Communists, his old age pensioner fund was the only viable success out of his attempts to subvert the Marxists.
Gains are taxed. If you lose or break even, you're fine.
Different tax rates for gains, depending on time. Long term gains are taxed roughly half the rate.
It really is BS that investing gets taxed. It kind of chokes investing by normies and keeps investing in the realm of the "professionals".
You take all the risk and the government says “nah, some of that payoff is mine”