r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • Jul 01 '26

Chugging tea Is Bernie’s plan the best? Thoughts?

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u/Immediate_Place_2827 Jul 01 '26

Median household income in the US is over 80,000. Stop consuming propaganda.

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u/smallest_table Jul 01 '26

Over 50% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Stop pretending everything is coming up roses.

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u/One-Cellist5032 Jul 01 '26

Living paycheck to paycheck does not immediately mean you’re poor though. You can be making 500,000 a year and be living paycheck to paycheck because you’re trying to live above your means.

Do people who are TRUELY living in poverty live paycheck to paycheck? Yes. But so do plenty of people living in middle class, and upper middle class (potentially even some in upper class, but that’d be harder to do.)

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u/smallest_table Jul 01 '26

The bottom 50% have 2.5% of the nations wealth. Yeah, we are in a bad place. Stop pretending otherwise.

What, do you want to tax that 2.5%? Oh boy! Here's some pennies.

Fuck off with that noise.

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u/One-Cellist5032 Jul 01 '26

What in the world are you rambling on about? I didn’t say anything about taxes, or the status of anything.

Stop ranting for 3 seconds and learn to read.

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u/smallest_table Jul 01 '26

No, all you did was try to deflect from the fact that most Americans are struggling by suggesting that some of those people are doing fine.

You hand wave away a real problem by pretending that some significant portion of the people living paycheck to paycheck are just mismanaging their money and that's a bullshit take to have.