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Estimated tax rates on how much income?
[QUOTE=Tiny12;3060532]Here's what Gemini Deep Research says, as to its estimates of federal tax rates borne by Democrats vs. Republicans for the last 8 presidential elections, based on exit polls. Please note that party affiliation was based on who the respondent voted for President. So when Trump ran, there were a lot of upper income, highly taxed Republicans who didn't vote for him. They would show up as Democrats or "other" in the polls.
Average estimated tax rates:
1996 Democrat: 9. 2% Republican: 17.5%.
2000 Democrat: 9. 8% Republican: 16.2%.
2004 Democrat: 8. 5% Republican: 15.4%.
2008 Democrat: 10.1% Republican: 14.8%..[/QUOTE]Melania said the baby was delicious although a tad bit overdone. Swear to god.
Um. AI and all the pertinent links in the universe have pointed out that incomes are generally higher in Blue states and there are more Americans with those higher incomes in Blue states. Percentages are fun. But you must already know that smaller percentages of larger incomes can pay for more stuff than larger percentages of smaller incomes.
A 3 percentage point increase in tax rates for higher income earning Dems between 2020 and 2024 in the midst of one of the greatest Dem recoveries and private-sector jobs creation from another Great Repub Economic Disaster had nothing to do with Trump squeaking out another razor-thin election win.
Not one typically Blue state flipped to Trump in 2024.
Only one typically Dem voting demographic in the only three swing states that mattered swung just enough votes from Dem to Repub to secure the win for Trump. And it was on one issue having nothing to do with the economy, inflation, immigration, crime, pronouns or where trannies pee.
Even Trump knows he owes nothing to America's "poor and middle class" for that squeaker of a razor-thin election win by a swing of less than a single percentage point of that one demographic's votes from Dem to Repub spread across those three states. And so does Netanyahu and the Muslim Community of voters in PA, MI and WI whose less than a single percentage point swing of their potential votes in those three states secured that win for Trump.
Which is why Trump has no interest whatsoever in making life easier for the "poor and middle class" in America with his Liberation From Your Job Day Tariffs, his little bit of an excursion to skyrocket gas and energy prices, his total reversal of rally after rally promises to use only USA-made steel for his construction projects LOL etc. He knows there is nothing they gifted him with to pay them back for!
He and Netanyahu and the Muslims in those Gulf States that were to benefit from Trump's utter fiasco Iran War are the ones he is paying back for his razor-thin squeaker of an election win in 2024:
To Netanyahu for delaying the May 2024 Biden-negotiated ceasefire until after the election.
To the less than a single percentage point of Muslim Community voters in those three swing states whose anger with the Biden Administration over its support for Israel which they took for support for Netanyahu was stoked by that move by Netanyahu to swing just enough of their votes from a member of the Biden Administration to Trump in order to squeak out that razor-thin win.
To Qatar for that sweet bribe of a $400 Million airliner.
To the UAE for that sweet bribe of $Billions to bail out the Trump Crime Family's failed crypto venture.
To Saudi Arabia for that sweet bribe of $Billions to Trump's son-in-law and daughter.
Trump figured out paying back those huge favors and sweet bribes with Americans' blood, lives and tax dollars in an unprovoked Iran War was a nifty idea.
But his only interest was in pleasing his benefactors by fulfilling their wishes of America starting the Iran War. After that, he really doesn't give a shit. Of course. As far as he's concerned he did his part to pay back those folks for the great favors and bribes they lavished on him and his Crime Family. The colossal mess and expense that follows is up to them and America to deal with.
LOL. Trump, Netanyahu and those Muslim country leaders would crack up with a laugh "unlike anyone has ever heard" at your assertion that the poor and middle class in America were responsible for Trump's razor-thin squeaker of an election win in 2024. Lolol. You ought to send that to them in a tweet, a text, an email or whatever.
WTF are you talking about?
With your spiel about porn stars and dems, and election losses.
It takes a level of derangement that I am incapable of even fathoming to say "But just because Trump is rational ". I cannot fathom how any sane person could see rationality in any of this.
The DF got roped into this by the nefarious nation of Israel which holds America by the balls and America does its bidding. Not because of Epstein but because 90% of the senate are taking money from AIPAC. And that's just scratching the surface. America is subservient to Israel. If you don't know that then your level of delusions are more than I can deal with.
There was no other reason for America to go to war- for the Uranium? The one they "obliterated" last year? Or the one that they were in active negotiations on with Iran? But wait, that's not the reason that he morphed into: it was regime change. But wait, it wasn't even that. It was liberating the Iranian people. In life when people throw out reasons like darts, the fact usually is that all of them are bullshit reasons and excuses. In life if you have a purpose for doing something, it's clear and lucid and doesn't need multiple other supposed reasons. And a cassus bellus needs to be just that.
Don't BS me with your "he's rational". That's crap as hell. He is capricious, naive beyond hell, has little ability to see beyond his nose let alone 2 steps ahead, and got roped into this by the Israelis who saw an opportunity to rid themselves of their biggest adversary in the region using America as their tool as they always do. THAT is the truth of the matter, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Keep bullshitting yourself if you wish but that won't change the reality.
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3060510]And this is why you have TDS. You are so anti-Trump that you do not even get what the mission is. Yes, Israel roped Trump into this war but why? Because of how much uranium Iran has. This is like Maduro all over again. You are so anti-Trump that you wanted 30 million Venezuelans to suffer. And now you have such TDS that you are okay with Iran having the bomb and being able to kill millions.
As for the "I am a fucking crazy loon" tactic, Trump keeps playing that card, and you dumb Dems (and now the Iranians) keep buying it. It just blows me away how much this tactic keeps working. You have lost two (and probably three) elections to him and you TDS fools still do not get how you are being played. You keep coming up with all these dumb excuses for why you have been so wrong about Trump, but you do not get the truth: Trump is rational, and his "I am a crazy loon" tactic keeps working because you all want him to be that crazy..[/QUOTE]
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Neither you nor anyone else paid into my retirement income.
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3060564]Seeing as how two out of three tax dollars is just redistributed, the fucking blue states can keep right on paying for your hookers abroad. God, what a thing for someone banging hookers in Thailand to say! Here is novel idea for you and the other parasites: Pay for your own hookers and leave taxpayers the fuck alone![/QUOTE]At most an employer kicked in 6.75% or so of income they could have paid me but paid into FICA instead while I was delivering far more value to them than I was getting back in compensation.
Similar to Blue states like California relative to America in general and Red states in particular.
But, yeah, in a sense you are absolutely right that Blue states are now and will in the future be paying you and other deadbeat Repub MAGAs in Red states a disproportionately high percentage of any Social Security income and Medicare reimbursement you Repub MAGA Red staters need and enjoy in your retirement years.
To continue an ongoing theme over the past several decades, we American tax-payers from Blue states like California offer a very heartfelt "You're welcome" to Aunt Bea, Jethro, Granny, Gomer, Goober, Barney Fife, Uncle Jed, Tony, you and Ellie-Mae, whose butt was too big for me to be interested in fucking her, 3-4 kilos bigger than the butts of the sweet young Asian girls I prefer to fuck and get royally blown by for my well-earned retirement income money.
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It's nice to hear about that again. But
[QUOTE=Tiny12;3060646]We have a steeply progressive income tax system. The more money you make, the higher the tax rate. So a Republican who pays at an effective tax rate of 15% probably pays much more than 2 X the tax that a Democrat with a rate of 7. 5% pays.
Yummy![/QUOTE]What does that have to do with the fact that Blue states "run by Dems" contribute more to the Fed coffers than they get back in order to carry the load for deadbeat Red states "run by Repubs" who get back more than they pay and can't or won't cut it by paying for their own damn government entitlements and handouts they need so desperately?
Or will you change the subject to something about some dude named Simpson again since you changing the subject so dramatically and often whenever you slam into a brick wall on these issues seems not to bother fellow Repub MAGA Elvis at all?
And he delivers a gut punch to USA Steel workers he conned into supporting him.
[QUOTE=TheCane;3060647][b]Inflation Spikes![/b]
Inflation is up. But, we know the clown in the White House will continue to threaten, harass, and harangue the Fed to lower interest rates. Which would only serve to drive inflation up even more! What an incredible bozo of a clown we have in the White House right now! A totally stupid, ignorant, dangerous, and ineffective clown of a little man!
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/10/cpi-inflation-report-march-2026.html[/URL][/QUOTE]Yep. Biden-Harris handed him a dramatically declined CPI Inflation Rate down from the peak due to Trump's Pandemic to a more manageable 2. 9% at the end of 2024. But from that moment on Trump has been determined to drive it right back up to and beyond what his disastrous economic and national security policy decisions produced in his first term. Again, after inheriting historically positive economic results and trajectories from Obama-Biden in 2017. As GW Bush did from Clinton-Gore in 2001, Reagan-Bush did from Carter-Mondale in 1981, Nixon-Agnew did from Johnson-Humpfrey in 1969 and on and on all the way back to the beginning of the Republican MAGA Party.[/QUOTE]Not that Trump owes anything to those MAGA suckers for squeaking out that razor-thin election win in 2024 anyway. He knows full well the sole reason for that happening was that relatively tiny handful of angry Muslims in the only three swing states that mattered that Netanyahu stirred up to vote against anyone from the Biden Administration by his crafty timing of not honoring thr May 2024 Biden-negotiated ceasefire agreement until after the election.
America shedding its blood, lives and money for Trump's Iran War of choice is his payback to Netanyahu and Muslims from a few Gulf States that might benefit from it. He knows there is no need to payback USA steel or other USA manufacturing suckers he conned into supporting him for anything having to do with him squeaking out that razor-thin election win.
