03/20 - Phil Phails at Civics - In which we get a great example of the failing educational system.

[auroraboreanaz]

This niggo right here, goddamn son.

So some of you may have seen this post in the misc. Facebook posts thread, but now we have a follow-up that really bumps it into needing its own space to thoroughly mock.

How has this guy made it this far in life without having any understanding of cause and effect? How can someone living off of tardbux not have even the most tenuous grasp of where they come from,complain about taxes for something else, and then complain and whine that the thing those taxes were for doesn't have money, all in less than 24 hours?

 

[Rabbit Bones]

Does he think he's being personally taxed for being an artist? I don't understand how he can't understand what's going on.

 

[BILLY MAYS]

If Phil understands cause and effect he won't even have a thread tbh

 

[MasterDisaster]

Well Phil is a walking freakshow.

 

[Hyperion]

More like cis-vics amirite

 

[Rio]

Does... does he realize that the arts tax isn't a tax on artists? Like surely he's at least googled what it is before he started complaining about it?

Like how is he complaining about the art tax existing AND complaining about arts funding being too low at the same time? He must think that "arts tax" means people want to tax him for drawing or something.

 

[melty]

The Portland arts tax is actually kinda weird. I've never seen an arts tax like this anywhere else I lived. They randomly send you a letter every year requesting you pay like $20 for the arts tax. It's separate from normal taxes, and I've never responded because I'm not really sure what they will do if I don't pay lol.. so far nothing...
Apparently lots of people hate it. The art isn't even that political its like metal sculptures of animals.

 

[Michael J Hirtes]

Doesn't being on the Tugboat exempt one from such taxes*? I doubt Spuddy gets more than 25K A year (the minimum taxable income) from Soc. Sec.. Unless he gets more than $2000 a month and has some sort of job (HA HA HA HO HO HO), he doesn't have to pay taxes.

*Stuff like sales tax is another, but that's a consumption-based thing.

 

[Lesbian Sleepover]

Like a small HOA for a city perhaps ?

 

[melty]

Portland doesn't really have sales tax which is kind of cool. Not even on cigarettes or liquor. I think they just only recently started taxing weed, that's one thing with sales tax.
They just tax the hell out of your income. I'm not sure how that works with Phil's tardbux.

 

[Four-Wheeled Fedora]

Portland doesn't really have sales tax which is kind of cool. Not even on cigarettes or liquor. I think they just only recently started taxing weed, that's one thing with sales tax.
They just tax the hell out of your income. I'm not sure how that works with Phil's tardbux.

edit: I'm too high to be trying to read the federal tax rules right now but I'm fairly certain oregon doesn't tax tardbux.

 

[Darndirty]

A communist complaining about taxes everyone

 

[Dr. Tremolo]

I would hardly call this a failure of the education system. This is just Phil.
He's a fastfood commie because he believes such a system as interpreted by his cargo cult ways would give him more free shit for just sitting around all day while he shits his pants.

 

[Graffiti canvas]

Fuck, I need to stop this one before I start A-logging, normally his shit is amusing as fuck but this one, this fucking one, oh it's just so goddamn stupid.

Eventually Phil hits on something that triggers everyone.

He's just that god damn exceptional.

 

[Forever Sunrise]

'Neither I nor my partner can pay.'

>Post avatar is him holding a bunch of bills.

lol

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Phil sure likes the word "gentrification."

 

[ChurchOfGodBear]

Phil sure likes the word "gentrification."

"Gentrification" is one of those words that the fringe left latch on to, mostly because common uses of it imply the displacement of poor and/or minority residents. The fact that it occurs as a result of the construction of the fresh, urban businesses and apartments that they, personally desire the most is a connection they never seem to make. There are TONS of Phils out there bitching about the increase in rent and how it affects "the poor", while sipping on their $10 artisinal latte that was handed to them by someone with a job that doesn't involve selling crack.

Which isn't to say that gentrification is entirely good, either.

 

[Ntwadumela]

This is what I'd say to Phil in person (relevant):

 

[Ruin]

Doesn't being on the Tugboat exempt one from such taxes*? I doubt Spuddy gets more than 25K A year (the minimum taxable income) from Soc. Sec.. Unless he gets more than $2000 a month and has some sort of job (HA HA HA HO HO HO), he doesn't have to pay taxes.

*Stuff like sales tax is another, but that's a consumption-based thing.

Phil has like $300 left over after rent so I'm positive he doesn't make anything close to $2000 a month from his

 

[Lysistrata]

It's almost as if he doesn't know the first thing about his ideology of choice...