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I think if I don’t know what something is, and I’m discussing it, I’d go try to learn what it is and not be apathetic. You whine about Project 2025, and how it’s guaranteed Trump will do it, while likely knowing nothing about it, but actual proposed policy from Harris is just, “non-existent...

So to clarify, your main stance on one of the few proposed policy pieces from the Harris campaign is, “maybe it will never go into effect. Don’t know what it is anyways. Don’t care.” No desire to figure out what it could be. Just go with the flow. The average “educated” voter!

I’ve asked for anybody to explain how taxing unrealized capital gains makes sense and so far no takers, would you care to be the first? Maybe talk about actual proposed policy rather than the ranting word salad you do?

I mean, it doesn’t need to be complicated. You make this, you pay this. Period. Or, I guess we could continue to hire more people to sic em after people we don’t like with a lot of ambiguous rules designed to favor those who have enough money to hire somebody who knows the most about it. Tough...

You understand what I’m getting at though. Eliminate the loopholes. Make it easy. It doesn’t need to be as complicated as it does. I don’t think it’s necessarily good for the lowest earners to pay nothing either. Everybody has to be involved for this thing to work. The wealthy already pay the...

So discussing proposed policy that I disagree with is “getting triggered”? Policy that doesn’t affect you is still important. Ignorance isn’t bliss, my friend.

You could do different percentages for different income levels. And yes, the wealthier people will have more take home and disposable money, that’s to be expected. That’s fair, if we’re being honest.

See this is part of the problem. You don’t care if it’s stupid. You don’t care if it’s not going to work. You don’t care if you don’t understand it. It will never, ever, affect you, so why bother caring? Screw the rich! What have they ever done for anybody?

Easiest way to increase the tax on high wealth individuals is to simplify the tax code and make it a flat tax. Don’t create a billion ways to get out of things. But creating a tax on a wealth gain that hasn’t physically materialized doesn’t make any sense! Are they going to credit if a stock...

And in a few years it’ll get dropped down to a lower level of income. We’ve seen it before. Regardless, the point is that it doesn’t make sense to tax a gain that hasn’t physically materialized yet. It would be like if your house gained value, you’d have to pay a tax on the amount it...

I’d kinda like our economy to do well, and if the stock market crashes…well, I mean, it’s kinda obvious.

Nothing you said has anything to do with why taxing unrealized capital gains makes any sense. It’s a really nice word salad, but completely irrelevant.

I don’t see how anybody can support a tax on unrealized capital gains. Unless the goal is to severely reduce the stock market.

This is very minor in the grand scheme, but my industry saw something similar. We have multi year contracts, so it’s a little different. Regardless, few years ago our inputs doubled in some places, up 50% in others. Couldn’t raise our contract price for two years. Then we adjusted, got our...

I’m shocked that the Harris campaign hasn’t given specifics yet. ;) I mostly laugh at this because the average voter doesn’t care about specifics. They want to hear what makes them feel good. And this is absolutely on both sides. I try not to care too much. We’re on a downhill side that...

Like I said, I copied it.

Perhaps you just missed it, but I have already posted on how his triggers were very harmful to our economy and agriculture particularly. His comment is beyond stupid

Regarding price gouging and some misconceptions, I saw this online and copied it to post here. $47.61 for paper towels and TP at Target today. Absolutely insane example of corporate greed and price gouging. In fact, it made me so angry, I decided to do some analysis. Many prices have...

I’m not a very frequent poster, but for sure several months.

I’ve seen numerous posts on grocery stores, and others, making record breaking profits. I’d like to expound on that, just a touch. For simplicity sake, we’re going to use 5% as our profit margin. So let’s say we make $50,000 on $1,000,000 worth of sales. That’s a 5% margin. Next year the...