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What’s Trump thinking? People are barely getting by after COVID, and now with these tariffs? This just makes things worse.
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“It all amounted to a dramatic move that, if it holds, could reorient the global trading system. It also represents the climax of Trump’s decades-long focus on tariffs and unfair trading relationship that he says led to America being ripped off.”
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Federal Taxes
Long-term capital gains tax rates (2025):
- 0% for income up to $44,625 (single filer).
- 15% for income between $44,626 and $492,300.
California State Taxes
California does not have a separate tax rate for capital gains; they’re taxed as regular income.
2025 California income tax brackets (estimated, based on recent years):
- For income up to $10,099 (single filer), the tax rate is 1%.
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Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought. Each man’s rubber stamps are the duplicates of millions of others, so that when those millions are exposed to the same stimuli, all receive identical imprints. It may seem an exaggeration to say that the American public gets most of its ideas in this wholesale fashion. The mechanism by which ideas are disseminated on a large scale is propaganda, in the broad sense of an organized effort to spread a particular belief or doctrine.
— Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda