I was told this would not be an issue
And that suggesting it might be was "Transphobic"
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White suburban women should not be allowed to vote. I’ll take the small loss on the GOP side of things.
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JFC the Democrats will elect anyone who openly identifies as “Deranged Sex Weirdo.”
@MelloDawg approves.
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Possibly your best ever retort.
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guys it’s not a pattern it’s just something that keeps happening
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Who’s the new downvoting fag, Mello alt?
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We have recorded history and good data on centuries of industrial capitalism in Western Europe and the US. The only extended period of widely shared prosperity and industrial capitalism followed two world wars and the Great Depression, crises which ushered in unabashedly redistributionist policies. But things have been gradually moving back in the direction of typical and less equal during the past five decades as anything that smacks of redistribution is vilified.
I know you gals get nostalgic for the 1950s—nostalgic at least for the way you picture the 1950s. But you want the policies of the 1870s. The natural state of industrial capitalism is not widely shared prosperity. Only morons and demagogues refer to progressive taxation as "punishment for success".
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The only move has been to more and more government and regulations Doris
No one buys your bullshit
Well maybe Tequilla
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Really? I think you may have been asleep.
Race is Rip Van Winkle?
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Claiming the gilded age was the result of "unfettered capitalism" ignores all the monopolies or near monopolies granted by government to oil, banking, shipping, and rail during that same period. You know, all the industries that had vast inequalities.
Of course, we've been over this lie before.
Tldr you're either an imbecile or a liar. Abundance.
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The gilded age is but a small segment of the history of industrial capitalism, which is itself older than the United States. I merely mention the 1870s because of Daddy's professed affection for the period, its tariffs and "prosperity".
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H going full blown socialismo in an effort to keep up with the DNC is amusing.
We won the cold war H, and it wasn't because of redistribution.
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I think you're terminally stupid
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If you prefer the concentration of wealth, just keep doing what you're doing.
Don't wanna look socialist!
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Wealth got concentrated during the blue state lockdowns. It's almost like you never lived through it or thought about it. Nothing screws up wealth concentration statistics like importing 12 million dirt poor illegal aliens during the dementia patient's administration. Just denying they largely came from third world shit holes was how to avoid the topic. They were saving social security don't you know.
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There it is. Socialismo! Thanks for finally admitting it.
Baby steps, what's the end goal of Socialism?
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“It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.” —Adam Smith, famous socialist (apparently)
"When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny." — ("Comrade") John Adams
"In every political society, parties are unavoidable. A difference of interests, real or supposed, is the most natural and fruitful source of them. The great object should be to combat the evil: 1. By establishing a political equality among all. 2. By withholding unnecessary opportunities from a few, to increase the inequality of property, by an immoderate, and especially an unmerited, accumulation of riches. 3. By the silent operation of laws, which, without violating the rights of property, reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort. 4. By abstaining from measures which operate differently on different interests, and particularly such as favor one interest at the expence of another. 5. By making one party a check on the other, so far as the existence of parties cannot be prevented, nor their views accommodated. If this is not the language of reason, it is that of republicanism."—James Madison, fucking radical socialist
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We have a progressive tax system. The rich pay far far more than their per capita share. Most are not a burden on the public fisc. Private education. Private insurance. No welfare. Low incarceration rate. We have plenty of money to accomplish the things the government should accomplish. When the more public money gets poured into education and the homeless "problems" the worse the problem gets. All we get from the left is not a reform, like removing waste and fraud, is that the mere examination of those issues is verborten and racist. Hundreds of billions into the great green gaia CO2 fraud has accomplished what? Dems and our mythical MBA don't do cost-benefit analysis. Just spend more money.
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"Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise." —Thomas ("the Bolshevik") Jefferson
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That's what we do now. And we have plenty of money. A 100% tax rate raises how much money? Taking money from the productive to give to the lazy doesn't reduce the number of lazy people does it? Making the US the world's welfare magnet does not improve the wealth inequality and punishes productive American citizens.
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H is not data driven
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We're not currently within a country mile of such confiscatory tax rates, Gasbag. I spent time with a family of business owners in Sweden one Summer when I was in college. I know the difference between a marginal rate of 98% or 99% like they were facing and being taxed at a marginal rate of 37% on my next fee. Those people had little incentive to take on more work. That's not even close to the case for me.
And I don't share your very Calvinist reaction that people on welfare are by and large lazy. They too are behaving rationally in response to the incentives they are faced with. Milton Friedman had a very straight forward solution. You like Milton. I like Milton too. Why don't we give his idea a try? It might not work perfectly. Would it be worse?
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His idea is with way less government. That’s a non starter for you though right?
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Dazzler is a true communist. He admits it. Glad that's settled.
Considering the founders started a revolution over a1.5% tax on tea in addition to their other tax burdens is all we really need to know.
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I agree his idea removes a lot of government's involvement. I literally just proposed we try it.
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I need to be honest.
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That is hilarious. hh quoting Friedman. Priceless. Cherry picker extraordinaire.
Hey hh, better not let your small circle of likeminded friends know you were backing a Conservative economist, especially a Jewish one. That might get you thrown into re-education camp.
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He’s quoted Friedman before on tariffs and totally botched that one, too.
