Low-wage workers are in poverty due to their high taxes going to people who don't work

...maybe if the rich people paid their fair share... both in taxes AND in wages... people wouldn't be living in poverty... cutting back on senseless wars could help too...

You tax their WEALTH. They make damn sure they don't get a salary to avoid taxes
- So tax the company based on profit margin. Corporations being considered people while not being held under the same scrutiny is one of the biggest problems.
This is incredibly irritating, Bernie was saying it for corporations to pay their employees more. Do most billionaires actually work or schmooze.
- Well, reportedly they do lots of drugs and then give the leadership of their companies the choice to do drugs or be fired.
  
  ... while drug testing the actual workers.
Fair share means ending the tyranny of individual ownership of the Means of Production. Taxes are a good start though.

Really took me a while to figure out they were trying to make me think of people on benefits rather than shareholders

They’re saying this to Bernie Sanders? Bro what,.. have you heard literally anything he’s said?

If Bernie shot off a tweet that said "you could write me in", I would be DOWN.

Bet he would take general... we would need to make them actually count though.
- Maybe next election when Trump is in jail

'people working zero hours a week'

Did anyone else take this as meaning "politicians"?

I read billionaires.
- I mean, at this point is there a difference?

I can’t tell if this is ironic or unironic.

It has the TPUSA logo so it was made unironically.

Like landlords? Investors? Heirs?

I honestly thought this was about landlords...

Exactly! "Investing" isn't a real job.

My landlord worked so hard to inherit a third of the properties in town.

Lol, "high taxes". You think that's the problem in the US?

When you add all of the taxes up - yeah it's pretty high, especially considering our infrastructure and healthcare situation. ROI is absolutely shit.

You mean investors? Landlords? Capitalists? Retirees on social security?

This is especially stupid because most low wage workers have a negative income tax due to the EITC.

I was so confused not knowing what community this was in. Im like, "...but that's what Bernie's all about, not giving out money to rich executives"

I fucking paid my taxes to protect me from poverty if I became disabled... little did I know that disability only pays 11k/year and if you have more than $2k in the bank or in valuables, they take away your food and Medicaid. That $2k asset limit hasn't changed since 1974. We can't fix a vehicle on that, we can't pay our rent, we can't survive on max $2k at any given time. If adjusted for inflation, it would be $13k. That's enough to survive on.

I'm of the opinion that people making less than 50,000 a year should only be paying like 5% in taxes and FICA/SS. And anyone under 150,000 taxed at 10%. Because the people making above that can afford to pay the typical 20% or more, but less than 150k is not all that much these days.

And then the mega-rich need to be paying way more than they do. Not just income tax, but capital gains tax and tax on the total value of their assets above 5 million (don't @ me with this number, it's an example) or whatever.

Airtight Republicunt logic.