Saw this on Facebook 😍

It's funny because the rich don't pay taxes.

They do if you have taxes on captial gains :)
- Can't get taxed if you never cash out.
The top 1% pays 42% of taxes.
- They pay 42% of INCOME taxes, which are only 40% of the annual federal tax receipts. Which means their income tax only amounts to about 17% of the overall tax receipts. Their FICA contributions are capped and they pay no FICA on anything over about $140,000. FICA tax accounts for 25% of overall federal tax receipts. The majority of remaining tax receipts are consumption taxes and property taxes, both of which are regressive and impact lower income citizens more.
  https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/us-tax-revenue-by-tax-type-2020/
  https://www.bench.co/blog/tax-tips/fica-tax
  https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/regressivetax.asp

Taxes from the middle class. Ftfy.

Might not be American.
- Bout to say. We barely have a middle class in the US anymore. Lol
- The US taxes the middle class some of the least in the world.

I left a private sector job where I did increasingly evil things for a good amount of money for a public works job where I'm doing something beneficial to society. I have to work a shit-ton of OT to make the same money but the OT is there for the working and I ultimately maybe work a hair more than I used to in my salary position.

Living the ducking dream man, have at it!

I have a public service job.

Can't afford to live, get shouted at by callers irrelevant to my role each day just cos I am at a phone, can't work from home despite the whole organisation doing so, higher paid people throw their workload at me cos they don't want to do it.

Feels no different from when i was in the private sector really.

- Looking, not much on the market right now, but it's a process I suppose!
Can’t afford to live
At what quality of life?
I find it hard to believe you have a public service job that can't pay for your peanut butter sandwiches and vegetables to stay alive.
- Lol damn, God forbid someone want more out of life than scraping by getting basic needs barely met. I've been looking around while in school, and plenty of jobs are still paying $15-19/hr. That is barely enough to get by, depending where you live and rent may not even be enough, let alone take a vacation once a year or even think of raising a family.
- The wording was a tad dramatic.
  I can afford to eat. But I can't afford housing and any enjoyment comes with guilt from knowing itll have a knock on effect to my finances. I'm living with a parent (who similarly struggles to pay bills)
  It's more a case of finding it hard to hit the bills and not being able to see a future where I'm comfortable.
  I'd say it's mostly due to the cost of living rather than the pay. 10 years ago I'd be doing quite well, but the pay grades haven't changed to meet inflation or accommodate for the high cost of living.

Probably not taxes of the rich, who use havens and methods to avoid paying taxes. It's the people paying.

Mind elaborating on this rich tax? I'm honestly curious but also feeling skeptical. I'm starting to think this is just a joke since it's in meme form.

A grant (taxpayer money) funded company creating jobs that will eventually run out of money while having the double benefit of poors feeling empowered and forgetting/not caring who is siphoning off the value of the company slowly.
Context: https://lemmy.ninja/comment/2180478

I keep reading unionized as un-ionized...

I think you're thinking of deionized.
- First rule of English: learn every word
  Second rule of English: Consistency is one of those words
  Third rule of English: Consistency does not apply to English

Federal government spending is not funded by taxes. When the federal government spends, it credits accounts with the press of a keystroke, creating money from nothing. The federal government issues money by spending and destroys money by collecting taxes. https://medium.com/@nicholasadiaz7/on-the-role-of-taxes-mmt-707fb4b3b80b