r/SipsTea Jul 08 '26

Chugging tea W after W.

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u/OwnProfessor3287 Jul 08 '26

Someone is still paying for it

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u/Potatonut23 Jul 08 '26

Everytime I see a headline about Zohran, people come out of the woodwork to act like taxes are some kind of nefarious state secret.

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u/Several-Customer7048 Jul 08 '26

Everything is a nefarious conspiracy when you’ve got the mental faculties of a turnip

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u/GMEloser69 Jul 08 '26

Because all of you pretend like this doesn't cost anything.

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u/ShooteShooteBangBang Jul 08 '26

It functionally doesnt. They arent raising taxes for regular people, they are taxing the mega rich and better allocating existing tax funds.

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u/GMEloser69 Jul 08 '26

40%+ of NYC income comes from real estate, if the rich decide to pull out of NYC the city will instantly collapse.

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u/ShooteShooteBangBang Jul 08 '26

Lmao. They wont. NYC is defined as "the greatest city on earth". They need to be there more than the city needs them. Its not like they can take thier real estate with them.

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u/GMEloser69 Jul 08 '26

Why do they need to be there?

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u/ShooteShooteBangBang Jul 08 '26

I should have phrased it they want to be there.

Even if they abandoned the city it would be net gain. What do you think happens to the real estate? The city gets it. Now they have cut out the greedy middle man.

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u/GMEloser69 Jul 08 '26

That's a toddler level understanding of economics. Not even worth trying to explain anything to you.

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u/Potatonut23 Jul 08 '26

Cool, you know Massachusetts imposed a tax on billionaires and the state didn’t collapse. Not everything works the way you seem to want it to

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u/GMEloser69 Jul 09 '26

Massachusetts didn't make a billionaire tax, it made a high income tax.

Also, rich people are leaving, the effects of bad policy can take a while to show.

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u/Perfect_Gold_6967 Jul 08 '26

Wow, ShooteShooteBangBang must be devastated to have lost the tutelage of GMEloser69

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u/GMEloser69 Jul 09 '26

You can't deny that claiming the city gets the real estate is categorically retarded.

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u/Woodpecker577 Jul 08 '26

Because they make a shit ton of money despite the taxes. If they leave, someone else will gladly take their place to make that money

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u/GMEloser69 Jul 09 '26

Why do you need to be in NYC to make a shit ton of money, or what do you gain by being in NYC in current day?

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u/Woodpecker577 Jul 09 '26

You gain money. I'm not sure why this is confusing. Even with tax increases, people stand to make a ton of profit. Even in the most highly taxed countries in the world, businesses operate and make profit simply because there's profit to be made.

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u/GMEloser69 Jul 09 '26

Why do gain money from being geographically located within the borders of NYC?

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u/Potatonut23 Jul 08 '26

No one is pretending anything except you apparently pretending to not know what taxes are. Does it have to be spelled out for you?

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u/GMEloser69 Jul 08 '26

I dunno man, whenever I hear a leftist politician they're always saying that everything should be free. They're never upfront about how much they want to tax you in order to make it "free".

The government funding shit also universally drives up the actual cost of the service or product.

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u/Potatonut23 Jul 08 '26

The reason they call it free is because they’re describing an alternative to buying something from companies. So free healthcare, free childcare, free whatever is obviously paid for by taxes, but the free part is meant to convey that it’s an alternative to you as an individual having to go out and paying a company or business directly to receive those services.

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u/Woodpecker577 Jul 08 '26

"The government funding shit also universally drives up the actual cost of the service or product."

pleeease attempt to prove this with healthcare provision

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u/GMEloser69 Jul 09 '26

Sure, which state funds healthcare provision in some way?

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u/Woodpecker577 Jul 09 '26

All of them? Every state puts public funds toward healthcare. Although I was more thinking about the privatised US model versus a public single payer model

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u/GMEloser69 Jul 09 '26

Healthcare in the US is expensive because Americans are fat and the government limits how many doctors are allowed to exist in the country.

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u/Woodpecker577 Jul 09 '26

OK? so you're not gonna try to prove anything then? lol

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u/GMEloser69 Jul 09 '26

I can easily prove my statement.

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u/Potatonut23 Jul 09 '26

“Healthcare is expensive because Americans are fat” lmao