Is this opinion signed by Putin?

More satisfied racists…

It provides incentive to keep your money in the market.

No it doesn’t. The vast majority of my stock has LTCG treatment. When I sell, I sell that stock because of the preferential tax treatment and let my non-qualified stock bake longer. You either have the wealth to be in the market and can play the game or you don’t and you’re not in the market. I’ve lived both lives.

Yep - an extra $288/yr for the same shitty service.

There’s a whole bunch of Republicans (and a few Dems) who have violated international law, so of course they’re going to attack it…

LTCG means that I can 15% or 20% (depending on income) on selling stock even if I’m otherwise in a high tax bracket. Why should I get to have a massive tax break just because I already have a lot of income? There’s nothing special about my income from stock vs. my income from employment other than I work a hell of a lot harder for my income from employment than I do my income from stock.

They’re complicit in this. They could absolutely string him up for this, but they never will.

The other thing to get rid of is long term capital gains taxes and just tax capital gains as regular income.

TIL - interesting language… even the article goes on to call it a cap multiple times even though the official title is what you listed. Thanks for sharing!

We’re talking about a cap and not a base, but yeah… remove the cap and everything gets better.

Trump probably personally told Putin the where and when of the visit.

Not really… pretty sure I saw somewhere else saying this is only for 10 years, then it’s back to the same old shit.

Why would they do this favor to the U.S.?

Thank you… unfortunately, the system is working exactly as it was designed to do. If people can’t lose their job because they’ll also lose their health/healthcare then they won’t fight back even against little injustices, let alone large ones. I dream of a day when the U.S. has universal healthcare, but I don’t think I’ll see it in what’s left of my lifetime.

Can start looking forward to retirement maybe?

I long for (early) retirement, but I’m pretty sure I’ll have to continue working until I die just so that I have health insurance. :(

There is some truth to this… I’ve moved on from the ideas that I might be highly influential or consequential. Now I just focus on trying to be a good person, do good deeds that keep me happy, tell nazis to DIAF, etc. No fame to be had for me. Other than a few immediate family members, I’ll be forgotten to time when I die.

To a very limited degree, you get a little more ‘respect’, but it’s often fake and fragile. Otherwise, nothing… body starts degrading and it’s all down-hill.

Establishment Democrats have racked up disastrous electoral losses over the past decade

Why does anyone think that’s accidental? These bozos are owned by the same oligarchs as the GOP.

Thanks…

Just watched the sunset there…