Well its part of it.....I have nowhere near the success as Trump, but I have found some nice loopholes for my business ventures. I still had to pay, but it was dramatically cut thanks to the tax code.
You want fair.....go to a consumer tax or flat tax. The ones that bitch about those are the liberals tho because they feel their broke asses are not paying less than the ones who have made something of themselves
I have an accountant who's pretty sharp but I still get nailed always..Part of that is my checks look big weekly but I don't work anymore than 180 days a year usually.
If I get a monthly check..I get crushed it looks like I'm in some insane bracket with monthly checks..
Incorporating and paying quarterly is what I should have done honestly..But I'm almost done with the old career and have plans for something more fulfilling with less money and happy with that.
I'm not rich by many standards but I'm not wanting for anything and don't think much about what I can and can't have.
Money is a tool at it best at it worst it'll run your life and you'll be a slaved to it.
Jesus Christ. I've NEVER seen a forum so polluted with semi-literate dropouts.
From junior high schools, apparently.
Somewhere, Baskin & Robbins is missing a night clerk: Bozzie. He wouldn't know high taxes
from low; you have to make well over minimum wage to even owe anything.
(Stifles a cruel laugh)
(Then says f*ck it and laughs anyway at the poor clown....)
ointer:
From junior high schools, apparently.
Somewhere, Baskin & Robbins is missing a night clerk: Bozzie. He wouldn't know high taxes
from low; you have to make well over minimum wage to even owe anything.
(Stifles a cruel laugh)
(Then says f*ck it and laughs anyway at the poor clown....)
ointer:
The question should read why is he so popular with his base? As his approval ratings here and world wide are about as poor as any world leader....
*uses the greatest motivator of all: fear
*plays on nationalist pride
*always gives followers someone else to blame; whoever is different than them.. in most cases; usually people of color or democrats
*provides hope to those that feel left behind
*built distrust in media, so only his word matters
these aren't me being a dick either. it's why he is successful with his base, the white, under-educated males. Nationalism is playing out across the globe. It's an instinctual survival mechanism to want things the way they were, in US case, where whites succeed, the working class was respected and bread winners. As we get more diverse, as manufacturing and other blue collar gigs because less rare, its easier to see the changing landscape and blame the change, instead of ones self and ability to evolve. He spoke to a very real issue in the country, one where clearly somewhere 20% of population land...
*uses the greatest motivator of all: fear
*plays on nationalist pride
*always gives followers someone else to blame; whoever is different than them.. in most cases; usually people of color or democrats
*provides hope to those that feel left behind
*built distrust in media, so only his word matters
these aren't me being a dick either. it's why he is successful with his base, the white, under-educated males. Nationalism is playing out across the globe. It's an instinctual survival mechanism to want things the way they were, in US case, where whites succeed, the working class was respected and bread winners. As we get more diverse, as manufacturing and other blue collar gigs because less rare, its easier to see the changing landscape and blame the change, instead of ones self and ability to evolve. He spoke to a very real issue in the country, one where clearly somewhere 20% of population land...
lolol...that's awful
it is GOP or the party that wants to give hormonal blockers to 10 year olds and put Michael Brown's mom on stage at the DNC....Not much to choose from, but when your side owns every institution, you can certainly craft some interesting narratives.
Trump won 58-41 people making 100k-200k...Yeah, real "left behind" vote
It isn't good analysis man
As opposed to ones ability to assimilate to the country you are in.
As opposed to blaming white people and using fear of being called racist to gain power
As opposed to telling white people less white people is their strength and opposition to that is the racism and not the intention of making a majority who were the ones who built the country a minority
As opposed to the huge negatives mass immigration and changing demographics brought about
Many of which are not simply about someone who looks different
lol
But that isn't even what Trump did
But I am saying ...and what?
White people are going to be a minorirty regardless. They are now under 18
What people are asking for is America First
Why are people so obsessed with mass immigration and mass floods of poor uneducated minorities?
Maybe people should look their at the lust for power and the the racism/tribalism of those minorities who seem to want it so bad
Not to mention corporations and left
Look at their motives for once
Stop buying into everything they do being for justice and equality
What people are asking for is America First
Why are people so obsessed with mass immigration and mass floods of poor uneducated minorities?
Maybe people should look their at the lust for power and the the racism/tribalism of those minorities who seem to want it so bad
Not to mention corporations and left
Look at their motives for once
Stop buying into everything they do being for justice and equality
I realize the thread is satire but the reason people like Defying got so swept up in that Hillbilly Elegy narrative is because the media pushed it and it was pretty much good for everyone. Worked for liberals because they could call GOP voters dumb, uneducated whites and it worked for some Republicans because they could point to that group as salt of the earth voters that side with them.
The reality is the GOP base is middle to upper-middle class people that strive for self-sufficiency. More likely to have a lot of attributes that we associate w/ success in life and less likely to have a lot of attributes that we associate w/ dysfunction.
Dem base is basically a total mishmash of rich and poor now. Need massive urban turnout to win elections (we'll see how durable that political alignment is I suppose, seems thin)
I've never been much of a culture warrior but liberals really do make you need to point these things out
The reality is the GOP base is middle to upper-middle class people that strive for self-sufficiency. More likely to have a lot of attributes that we associate w/ success in life and less likely to have a lot of attributes that we associate w/ dysfunction.
Dem base is basically a total mishmash of rich and poor now. Need massive urban turnout to win elections (we'll see how durable that political alignment is I suppose, seems thin)
I've never been much of a culture warrior but liberals really do make you need to point these things out
It's really very easy to figure out
Biden wins Detroit by more than he wins MI
Biden wins Philly by more than he wins PA
Biden wins Chicago by more than he wins IL
Biden wins Atlanta by more than he wins GA
Biden wins Milwaukee by more than he wins WI
Biden wins NYC by more than he wins NY
No spin, no exit polling, just look at the actual results. It's all easy to find
And I'm going to suggest the best and the brightest and the most successful people do not all reside in the most impoverished crime ridden urban areas
I didn't choose to go down this path, I'm just responding to the false narrative the left likes to sell
Ditto, if we could ever truly split the country up, it would be clear in about a week which side was more morally, culturally and intellectually deficient.
Not trying to be a dick about it or anything, but when nonstop told the completely opposite, it gets pretty laughable.
Defying, you might need to beg HC for an hour of his time to show you the light, there is value in mentorship
Not trying to be a dick about it or anything, but when nonstop told the completely opposite, it gets pretty laughable.
Defying, you might need to beg HC for an hour of his time to show you the light, there is value in mentorship
It is all a projection.
The left is the coalition that blames others, doesn't believe in self-determinism, personal responsibility, wants simple solutions to complex problems
I like Defying but I doubt he could hold a serious conservation about politics with someone that disagreed with him for more than 5 minutes, he's just been too brainwashed with liberal talking points.
Georgia is the state that had the most voter fraud, stacey abrams was using the temporary ballot boxes in these suburbs as fraud dumps, if she dumped the votes in the ghetto it would look to obvious, so she spread the illegal ballots around to the suburbs, Pollster Richard Baris and lawyer Robert Barnes explained this very wellThe demographic that won Joe Biden the election: Higher-earning, college-educated white people near major cities
- Areas with higher concentrations of white people with college degrees made a huge difference for President-elect Joe Biden in the 2020 election, with margins in particular counties pushing him over the top in states he needed to win.
- While Biden performed strongly in these precincts with higher earners with degrees, it does not necessarily mean he cleaned up exclusively among more wealthy voters.
- The counties that saw the biggest swing away from President Donald Trump's margins in 2016 largely fit a pattern: Substantial population growth over recent years, with higher median earnings, more white people with college degrees, and often lots of transplants from other states.
- Of the 202 counties in the United States with a Whole Foods Market, Biden won 171 of them.
- A recent FiveThirtyEight data analysis of the returns showed how the more college-educated white people there are in a given area, the more likely it was to go for Biden in 2020.
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- A diverse coalition of more than 81 million Americans secured President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election, but specific places where he performed better than Hillary Clinton did in 2016 explain how he locked up the Electoral College.
Record turnout among voters under the age of 30 certainly helped Biden, but he also underperformed among Black and Latino voters compared to former President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.
What ultimately pushed Biden over the top was his dominance in areas with concentrations of higher-earning, college-educated white people, often with higher numbers of transplants from other parts of the country.
In an analysis of how Biden's victory changed the electoral map, Elena Majía and Geoffrey Skelley of FiveThirtyEight describe how Biden's strength in these suburban and exurban pockets ended up counteracting issues he faced elsewhere.
"Biden was able to win these three states [Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania] by improving on Clinton's margins in predominantly suburban and exurban counties around big cities like Detroit, Milwaukee and Philadelphia, where more white voters with a college degree backed the Democratic presidential ticket — a trend that was true across the country," they wrote.
"In fact," they added, "it was thanks to gains in these types of places that Biden was able to offset Trump's otherwise much stronger performance in rural areas, as well as Trump's slight improvement in the city of Philadelphia proper."
Whole Foods voters
While many of these counties have high median incomes, that does not necessarily mean that Biden cleaned up among the high-earners. It just means that these precincts were particularly strong for him because of this longer-brewing demographic trend of geographic sorting based on education level.
In federal elections, this dynamic began to emerge more clearly around the 2018 midterms, propelling Democrats back into the House majority. In 2020, particularly in states like Arizona and Georgia as well as in the Midwest, this demographic of college-educated whites was Biden's first line of defense against President Donald Trump.
For example, of the 202 counties with a Whole Foods Market — a decent signifier for affluent communities — Biden won 171 of them, according to Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report.
Wasserman compared his Whole Foods tally with counties that have a Cracker Barrel, more of a culturally conservative signifier. In almost a mirror image of the Whole Foods phenomenon, counties with Cracker Barrel locations were heavily correlated with strong Trump performances in both 2016 and 2020.
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Beyond the Whole Foods anecdote, many of the counties that saw the biggest swings away from Trump in 2016 fit a similar profile.
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In Georgia, several suburban counties made it into the top 10. These counties with big swings toward Biden in the Peach State form an arc around Atlanta, helping carry a state that hadn't gone for a Democrat in a presidential election since 1992.
Henry County, like others that proved crucial for Biden in swing states, underwent sizable population increases since the turn of the 21st century, and more acutely since the Great Recession.
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Henry County went from being reliably Republican in the 1980s and 1990s to firmly in Biden's column in 2020 with a 20-point margin.
Each of these counties trending toward Democrats have unique characteristics, but an overarching theme is population growth spurred by college-educated transplants.
In the "blue wall" states that Trump locked up to win the 2016 election — Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin — FiveThirtyEight ran an analysis of the returns showing how the more college-educated white people there are in a given area, the more likely it was to go for Biden in 2020.
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A Duke University political scientist offered one explanation for why this shift was so pronounced in FiveThirtyEight's analysis.
"A lot of college-educated whites were not that turned off by Trump's rhetoric about women or people of color," Professor Ashley Jardina told FiveThirtyEight. "But we're now in the middle of a pandemic and if you're a college-educated person who cares about good government, Trump's handling of the response might really matter to you."
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While many of these voters may not necessarily identify as Democrats, they defected from Trump in large enough numbers to outweigh the gains he made in turnout among whites without a college degree in addition to his improved results among Black and Latino men.
Despite Biden performing well among this segment of the electorate, Democrats lost House seats in several of the same areas with higher concentrations of college-educated whites.
But white, college-educated voters did not single-handedly carry Biden to victory.
People of color under the age of 30 came out in droves, with their votes offsetting boosts in GOP turnout in several states.
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Still, on 2020's Electoral College map, precincts and counties with more college-educated whites made the difference between Biden winning the states he needed to hit the necessary 270 electoral votes and coming up just short. If these areas had voted the way they did in 2016 or 2012, Biden would have had to find tens of thousands of votes elsewhere to offset that loss.
Biden's coalition was diverse and historic in its sheer size, but history may remember his victory in large part because of the demographic makeup of these Whole Foods counties.
How's the banana milkshakes tonight bozzie w-thumbs!^Jesus Christ. I've NEVER seen a forum so polluted with semi-literate dropouts.
From junior high schools, apparently.
Somewhere, Baskin & Robbins is missing a night clerk: Bozzie. He wouldn't know high taxes
from low; you have to make well over minimum wage to even owe anything.
(Stifles a cruel laugh)
(Then says f*ck it and laughs anyway at the poor clown....)
