At least since the French Revolution, equality has served as one of the leading ideals of society, yet the further we get into human history, the less likely it feels that we’ll ever get to its truest form. And yet people keep fighting, keep searching for a means of achieving it for the 98% of the population.
The first step—call out the ridiculousness that the privileged are pushing as the norm. The Facebook group called “The Other 98%” has been trying to do just that with their informative yet witty memes and posts. Bored Panda has previously covered the good work they do, so if you’re interested in reading more about that, please click here.
But today, dear reader, we’ve got you some more hilarious remarks on the current state of affairs shared by people sitting in the same boat as the rest of us, whilst the millionaires laugh at their tax write-offs. As you scroll through, please upvote your favorites and leave your opinions in the comments below. Now let’s dive straight into it!
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Class conflict, also referred to as class struggle and class warfare, is the political tension and economic friction that exists between the rich and the poor. In the political and economic philosophies of Karl Marx and Mikhail Bakunin, class struggle is a central point and a practical means for effecting radical socio-political changes for the social majority, known as the working class.
Mike Savage noted back in 2016 that economic shifts started to pose challenges to understanding how social classes are changing more broadly. The shifts—especially the wealthy elites pulling away from the majority of middle- and low-income earners—seem to be shaping world events. There is a strong anti-elite feeling across developed nations, and it’s not difficult to see why.
Before we dive further into these topics, we must touch upon a very important aspect of the current world, and that is the trade war. According to Investopedia, a trade war happens when one country retaliates against another by raising import tariffs or placing other restrictions on the other country’s imports.
Despite Donald Trump’s claim that “trade wars are good, and easy to win,” neoliberal economists generally believe that it is a poor policy choice, as they restrict, rather than liberalize, trade. As argued by Ka Zeng and Wei Liang, the effect of trade wars is uneven and complex.
And the rest of America is still convinced that they live in a country with “FreEDoM fOr alL”. Come on yall, wake up. Congress ain’t doing s**t, and everybody is still following them like dogs.
The fact that children can go into "lunch debt" sorta proves that the American ideal of freedom is total b******t.
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Yay Colorado! I live here and have no kids. Even being broke I would gladly pay a bit more in taxes to make sure that children are fed.
Half the country believes feeding hungry children is socialism & socialism is worse than letting a child go hungry. People su*k!
When working in the financial world, I had to take classes on the US tax system. That experience made me realize how rich get all tax breaks...why should anyone get to write of their failures? Why should the US subsidized poor investments by the rich? Our tax system is insanity, thanks to Congress.
The thing is, the US *used to* have higher tax rates on the wealthy, with a top bracket of 91% back in the 1950s. Now it's only 37%, with billionaires using every loophole they can find to avoid paying anything at all.
TAX THE RICH! IF ANYONE HAS MORE THAN $1B, THEIR PERSONAL TAXES SHOULDN'T BE ZERO!
There have been calls for many in the UK to ensure that at least all the children from low income families get free meals (the income threshold is ridiculous). It hasn't come close to fruition. The US isn't the only government pandering to rich people.
From 19 April 2022, children whose families have no recourse to public funds can get free school meals if their annual household income is: less than £22,700 for families outside London with one child, less than £31,200 for families in London with one child, less than £26,300 for families outside London with two or more children, less than £34,800 for families in London with two or more children or if they are in receipt of benefits such as income support, job seeker allowance, etc. Of the 10.6 m schoolchildren in the UK 1.89m get free school meals. This includes years 1 and 2 which are automatically free. With the cost of living as it is the definition for low income needs rethinking sadly.
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Educate the people who will be taking care of you when you're s******g and pissing into a bag. That requires food. Pay you stingy f***s.
The measure passed here with 55.1% voter approval. Apparently 44.9% are happy with hungry children.
Ngl, it does make me feel sad seeing the lunches that American kids got in their school, most of them are terrible and very heartless :(
Education of children up to 18 should basically be free and kids whose parents struggle financially should not be starving at school. It would probably be beneficial to the balance of the society if rich kids were more mingling with kids from all kinds of layers in society. Maybe they'd be more aware of their struggle.
Just crazy. Had to pay for supplies, like kleenex and others for other students' parents for not having the money to pay for said items, pay breakfast and lunches. And a kicker, at the end of school year, not getting reimbursed for the extra pencils and kleenex you've provided at the beginning of the school year...
I say tax anyone making more than $100,000 enough that their take home is exactly $100,000. Plenty of money to live on. If I can get by on a quarter of that, they're fine.
Yeah, I can't agree with that. 100K isn't what it was even ten years ago. You're suggesting the middle class carry even more of the burden when, in fact, they already bear too much of it. We need Republicans to stop pushing for massive tax cuts for the rich, crack down on the tax law loopholes, and get Democrats to take action.
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Go educate yourself as to what happens when you let war in Europe break out.
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How do you forget that once you already know it? The man is the biggest charlatan since The Music Man.
And yet everytime corporations lose a dollar of profits, they fire 1000 people. Why doesn't anyone talk about the millions that the corporations saved by cutting back on office space, by not having to provide everyone a desk anymore or a phone, and having the employee now pay for their own electricity and internet so we can work. We could all get our phone, internet and part of our electric bills paid and they would still be saving hundreds of thousands.
New trade barriers imposed by the initiator of trade wars will protect or even create jobs in specific industries, but other related downstream sectors will lose due to the higher costs associated with their imported parts and intermediate goods. In addition to creating winners and losers at the domestic level, trade wars will also have an impact on the rest of the countries that are not directly involved in them.
What is it that drives class wars? A common answer is taxation and a seeming lack of fairness. Polls show that most voters across the political spectrum support higher taxes on the rich, with about 80% of Americans saying they are frustrated that very wealthy people and corporations don’t seem to be paying their fair share of taxes, according to the Pew Research Center.
And yet, for whatever reason, it seems like an impossibility. A lot of the wealth that we are talking about is in the form of private business wealth, and therefore, there’s not a readily available market value for this form of wealth on which a wealth tax might be based.
Dirk Krueger—Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and professor of economics—argues that if you then impose a wealth tax on this form of wealth, the owners of these businesses might take all kinds of actions to artificially lower the value of this form of wealth.
Furthermore, Jim Powell argued that class warfare is a mortal enemy of economic growth and jobs. At the very least, class warfare means “progressive” taxation—higher tax rates on investors and entrepreneurs, eventually reaching confiscatory levels.
Yes all folk have the right to believe what they want UNLESS it harms other Folk or is an Unspeakable Crime
Whatever tax revenue is realized means less money available for private employers to hire people and less money for consumers to buy things. He continues to say that pay is a matter of supply and demand, meaning that whilst progressive taxation can make the rich poorer, it makes the poor poorer, too.
So what should be focused on? The first priority should be to ensure that taxes are indeed raised to finance the infrastructure spending plans and to maximize the share of spending that is in fact an investment into infrastructure for the future. “The biggest potential injustice I see is leaving our kids with a rotten, overheated planet and a lot of government debt to pay for the spending programs discussed now,” discussed experts on Penn Today.
what the moses is this censorship "dOnT leT tHe ChIlDren SeE tHe WorD 'do' or 'ce' oR hEaveN fOrBid TheY BecoMe GaY"
It seems like we’re all in this together, and yet we’re very much apart. If taxing the rich is not the way forward, then what is, as people that are living paycheck to paycheck have very little to grasp onto. I suppose another revolution is inevitable one day or another, but we shall have to live forth to see it.
Dear readers, as you continue scrolling through this list, make sure you’re upvoting your favorites and leaving your opinions in the comments below. I wish you the best of luck in this chaotic world in which we live and a very Merry Christmas!
I'm starting to become nervous for my son, but I also know he has me and everyone in this family, and we won't ever let him feel as if he's alone. At the very least, he will have that love from us.
A man who barely knows how to write his own name, who "opposes" abortion, but paid for multiple abortions for women he was not married to.
okay but unrelated that's the most badarse looking wheelchair I've ever seen
We are watching, and waiting, for the perfect moment… and then we revolt!
I'm old enough to remember when Newt Gingrich, a man who cheated on multiple wives, went after Bill Clinton. I have yet to see the apex of Republican hypocrisy.
no but that would be the funniest bugging c**p I've ever seen PLEASE
Correction: good things can happen when decent people with brains get organized
smh. sometimes I wonder how many brain cells some of those people have put together. anyone wanting to take a gander?
Yes! But also in all seriousness, I hate daylight savings time, it completely throws off my already wack circadian rhythm
Damn right he is, I need to work on expressing my emotions :/ thanks DAD
Christians confuse me, no offense to any of you Christians out there, unless you choose to take offense then that’s not my problem
But who picks up the bill??? Taxes? None of the above paid enough so surely that comes out of the pocket of the working man??
what the heck? I just looked up the $8 thing and I'm amazed. wasn't verification supposed to DETER spam bots or impersonators? now I could get verified and I've never even BEEN on twitter much less amassed a group of people who agree with what I say or anything
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I'm a little puzzled by the title of this -- if you read the memes, they're beating up on 1)Christians, 2)white people (guys, predominantly) and 3) anyone who might agree with Republicans. How does this mean "insanely rich people??"
Someone didn't read the definition of "Billionaire" very closely, nor check the latest list of world's wealthiest.
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🎶Old Scroogey loves his money 'cause he thinks it gives him power/If he became a flavour you can bet it would be sour. There goes Mr Skinflint, there goes Mr Greed/The undisputed master of the underhanded deed. He charges folks a fortune for his dark and draughty houses/Us poor folk live in misery/It's even worse for mouses! There goes Mr Heartless, there goes Mr Cruel/He never gives, he only takes, he lets his hunger rule/If being mean's a way of life you practise and rehearse, then all that work is paying off - 'cause Scrooge is getting worse!🎶
Dickens knew what was going on. Unions pulled us out of this but now we're heading back into it.
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Sorry, rest of the world. This was obviously another “what’s wrong with America” post lol
It's a what's wrong with capitalism post
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Whoever collected these tweets has an obvious bias. Just an observation...
A word about Dickens who wrote good books. He also gave his wife TEN children and blamed her because she didn't prevent pregnancy. Because of having given birth to TEN children sex with her was no longer satisfying. He kicked her out and wouldn't ket her see her children. While he had a long affair with a young famous actress of his time. His sad story of the blacking factory distorted the fact that he was enraged that he, with his brilliance etc. was forced into such a place. How dare they! He wasn't one of the filthy poor! The man had an enormous ego, was utterly selfish and revelled in his fame. I'm an English lit major with two degrees in my subject. He wrote well but Dickens was not a Saint just because he wrote stories about the poor. Look it up.
(I majored in Literature too!) It's one of life's depressing truths that the people who make it to the top are very often insufferable egomaniacs who treat other people like dirt. It's *why* they make it to the top, as often as not, and I've seen it happen more times than I can count. :(
Load More Replies... Down with Capital for the Working Folk, the Brain-washed Soldier the Young child, the Student, and the Intellectuals!
Thanks for this, sorry about what I replied earlier. FYI, @ing someone doesn't alert them, and people are down voting you because it seems like spam. I'd delete the comments to avoid being banned or suspended if I were you
Load More Replies... I'm a little puzzled by the title of this -- if you read the memes, they're beating up on 1)Christians, 2)white people (guys, predominantly) and 3) anyone who might agree with Republicans. How does this mean "insanely rich people??"
Someone didn't read the definition of "Billionaire" very closely, nor check the latest list of world's wealthiest.
Load More Replies... 🎶Old Scroogey loves his money 'cause he thinks it gives him power/If he became a flavour you can bet it would be sour. There goes Mr Skinflint, there goes Mr Greed/The undisputed master of the underhanded deed. He charges folks a fortune for his dark and draughty houses/Us poor folk live in misery/It's even worse for mouses! There goes Mr Heartless, there goes Mr Cruel/He never gives, he only takes, he lets his hunger rule/If being mean's a way of life you practise and rehearse, then all that work is paying off - 'cause Scrooge is getting worse!🎶
Dickens knew what was going on. Unions pulled us out of this but now we're heading back into it.
Load More Replies... Sorry, rest of the world. This was obviously another “what’s wrong with America” post lol
It's a what's wrong with capitalism post
Load More Replies... Whoever collected these tweets has an obvious bias. Just an observation...
A word about Dickens who wrote good books. He also gave his wife TEN children and blamed her because she didn't prevent pregnancy. Because of having given birth to TEN children sex with her was no longer satisfying. He kicked her out and wouldn't ket her see her children. While he had a long affair with a young famous actress of his time. His sad story of the blacking factory distorted the fact that he was enraged that he, with his brilliance etc. was forced into such a place. How dare they! He wasn't one of the filthy poor! The man had an enormous ego, was utterly selfish and revelled in his fame. I'm an English lit major with two degrees in my subject. He wrote well but Dickens was not a Saint just because he wrote stories about the poor. Look it up.
(I majored in Literature too!) It's one of life's depressing truths that the people who make it to the top are very often insufferable egomaniacs who treat other people like dirt. It's *why* they make it to the top, as often as not, and I've seen it happen more times than I can count. :(
Load More Replies... Down with Capital for the Working Folk, the Brain-washed Soldier the Young child, the Student, and the Intellectuals!
Thanks for this, sorry about what I replied earlier. FYI, @ing someone doesn't alert them, and people are down voting you because it seems like spam. I'd delete the comments to avoid being banned or suspended if I were you
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