Re:Peter Thiel Pledges to Support Trump’s 2020 Campaign
by colpabar on Friday November 02, 2018 @12:26PM
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Everyone who has a job directly benefits from the tax cuts.
Re:Peter Thiel Pledges to Support Trump’s 2020 Campaign
by dragonwriter on Friday November 02, 2018 @12:48PM
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Untrue, because the tax cuts aren't unilateral cuts and inclide increases,and even the cuts alone don't affect all people with jobs.
Re:Peter Thiel Pledges to Support Trump’s 2020 Campaign
by sebringj on Friday November 02, 2018 @12:04PM
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The media one is a really interesting point. I did not consider that but makes sense.
Re:Peter Thiel Pledges to Support Trump’s 2020 Campaign
by ams6110 on Friday November 02, 2018 @12:00PM
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The rich pay most of the taxes, therefore they will "benefit" most from tax cuts, if you define "benefit" as "keeping your own money." How can someone who pays no or little income tax get a huge benefit from a tax cut?
Re:Peter Thiel Pledges to Support Trump’s 2020 Campaign
by rchaud on Friday November 02, 2018 @12:19PM
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Why are you framing your question as though there aren't 10s of millions of Americans who live somewhere between "billionaire" and "poverty level". They are the <$100k household income level that are paying a bigger % of their income on taxes than Thiel ever will.
And unlike Thiel, they don't have access to accountants that can shuttle their cash away into tax shelters or lobbyists who will buy off politicians for peanuts to get them to vote for even more cuts.
2) The cuts to social services don't affect people in his pay grade.
3) He lives in a gated community and wouldn't be targeted for harm by the sort of people that are now emboldened to say the quiet part out loud.
4) He founded Palantir and wants to secure more government contracts
5) His experience with being outed by Gawker (completely unethical IMO) probably also led to him viewing "the media" as a monolithic force out to get him.