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26. Where the heck you getting your calculator?

Mon Mar 9, 2026, 10:03 PM

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Someone making $100,000,000 would pay almost $20M in taxes.

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Booker Pushes Bill to Make $75,000 in Income Tax Free [View all] applegrove Monday OP

No. Just no n/t leftstreet Monday #1

Why not? moose65 Monday #6

How about an explanation of your "no". Not real useful otherwise NoRethugFriends Monday #9

Tax higher incomes, slash pork spending leftstreet Monday #18

I don't know what neighborhood you live in.... SergeStorms Monday #20

That's not the effective rate for most leftstreet Monday #21

Yes please! at140 Monday #2

Squirrel! 50 Shades Of Blue Monday #3

Or to raise, or eliminate, the cap on Social Security displacedvermoter Monday #5

This instead. Ferrets are Cool Monday #13

THIS!☝️👆🖕 RainCaster Monday #30

Yes! Johnny2X2X Monday #4

No. No flat taxes moose65 Monday #8

No. Flat taxes are regressive NoRethugFriends Monday #10

It could be the trade off Johnny2X2X Monday #12

Why should somebody at 100,000 pay same rate as 1,000,000,000 NoRethugFriends Monday #15

They wouldn't Johnny2X2X Monday #16

It's essentially a flat tax Dave says Monday #25

Where the heck you getting your calculator? Johnny2X2X Monday #26

Oops! Dave says Monday #28

It's not perfect. Johnny2X2X Monday #29

This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Monday #14

Louder for the folks in the back... nt EarthFirst Monday #23

But what about the poor billionaires? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday #24

It'll go nowhere. Just look at the liberals here. DJ Synikus Makisimus Monday #27