That’s the crazy part though, it’s probably not at all cheaper in the long term but they’re incapable of seeing anything long term. Frankly it’s amazing any of them even grasp object permanence.
The marginal tax rate was 94% in 1944. That would cost them A LOT of money. It’s definitely much cheaper to pay off politicians than to have taxes go up, especially if you look in to how cheaply some of these politicians will sell you out for.
Their true shortsightedness would be causing another great depression. Once the bread runs out, they’re in actual trouble. It has yet to be seen if they can control the beast they’ve created, but I doubt it.
None of them actually paid that then either. They certainly paid a higher proportion, but it was still an income tax.
They can’t, thats why the less shortsighted rich fucks build bunkers.
they’re supposed to be smart
Being born to parents with money doesn’t make them smart.
it makes people think they’re smart
In my community it’s thought that rich people are rather stupid, narcissistic and selfish. Because that’s true 99% of the time.
They’re not paying millions to cut millions off of their taxes. They’re paying thousands to cut millions. Y’all. This is arithmetic.
Spend a while in the ISP business, for a few of 'em, had eyes on this sort of thing for that particular field.
The cable providers would drop a couple of thousands in a politician’s war chest, vote purchased. Imagine Comcast paying out $10,000 for every House and Senate seat, all of them. Chicken change.
If anything, I’m insulted our politicians don’t require a substantial bribe. C’mon guys! If you’re going to fuck millions of us over, get paid!
You’re exactly right. Politicians are an extremely cheap date. It’s disgraceful to sell out constituencies in the first place - and more disgraceful still that they do it for so little.
The revolving door between public service and private industry provides other forms of compensation while at the same time forcing subservience throughout elected tenure. It’s devious.
Of course it’s democracy. One dollar, one vote!
But “demos” mean people in ancient Greek so it should probably be renamed to “whatever the word for money is in Greek” -cracy.
Nomiscracy
Apologies to the international apes on this one, I’m sure this totally doesn’t apply to where you live ;)
No this one is fine. We only cry when it talks about an internal us subjects where most of the time we don’t even know the random people’s names. If it’s a general spit-on-the-us post, we do like it
There’s probably also power dynamics contributing here. A sense of “I don’t have to let you force me to pay taxes, because I can just change the rules”, basically.
woah, what happened with the upvotes here?!? most posts I see have a few dozen upvotes at most, here this one’s 400+
Let’s hope the bots haven’t migrated to lemmy too!
