Government played a very large role in distributing wealth to the middle class. Post-WWII prosperity didn't arise out of shrinking government and austerity.
”Government helped distribute wealth to the middle class 80 years ago so there.”
What an absolute retard and of course he’ll just post a link and then eject. Like my idiotic mom harping about “corporations don’t pay taxes” as I offer to pull up my substantial tax contributions from a 25-year career as a high-level corporate employee in the Fortune 500 world as she sits on two husbands’ inherited stocks and SS and pays almost zero taxes on a nice chunk in her portfolio.
Post world war 2 prosperity was mostly due to the USD becoming the world’s dominate currency. Which you are hell bent on ending through insane government policy.
We're talking about prosperity enjoyed by the middle class. It arose out of "left-center" policies. It has never arisen out of a low tax, low regulation policies in all of economic history.
The policies of the past 40-50 years haven't killed prosperity. Far from it. But you gals claimed to be concerned about a shrinking middle class.
The middle class in the US arose out of the ashes of Europe. You are able to get away with 90% marginal tax rates in an environment of no competition. Do that now and see what happens.
You're free to point out some extended period of a growing and prosperous middle-class spawned by your small government ideas. (We call that a "fool's errand".) The post-WWII period belongs to Keynesian economics, heavily subsidized education, strong labor rights, high taxes and massive public projects.
You might have a point if the same left-center policies hadn't also produced a more widespread distribution of prosperity in Europe during the same period. But they did.
And yet, despite my "religious belief", I'm still waiting for your historical example of a prosperous middle class arising out of a low tax, lightly regulated, small government environment.
Strawman argument that isn’t presented in this thread.
JFC, you’re just terrible at anything other than mild insults, H.
Yet you were cheerleading for Democrats shutting down thousands of small businesses for a Covid hoax and allowing global corporations “that don’t pay taxes” to prosper as “essential” to surviving the PLandemic.
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High taxes and massive regulation built the middle class guys
When you put it that way, it’s almost as if HH isn’t a serious person.
Need To dig up the time where H actually claimed something similar to this.
something something the economy thrives under regulation.
He basically did that in this thread.
middle class to H means entry level tech jobs filled by foreign nationals who got their STEM training at UW under a student visa
Government played a very large role in distributing wealth to the middle class. Post-WWII prosperity didn't arise out of shrinking government and austerity.
”Government helped distribute wealth to the middle class 80 years ago so there.”
What an absolute retard and of course he’ll just post a link and then eject. Like my idiotic mom harping about “corporations don’t pay taxes” as I offer to pull up my substantial tax contributions from a 25-year career as a high-level corporate employee in the Fortune 500 world as she sits on two husbands’ inherited stocks and SS and pays almost zero taxes on a nice chunk in her portfolio.
Post world war 2 prosperity was mostly due to the USD becoming the world’s dominate currency. Which you are hell bent on ending through insane government policy.
the economy so fucking good that people are racking up record breaking credit card debt!!!! Fuck ya!!! Tap that plastic baby!
Might be the dumbest thing you've ever said, which is really impressive and a high bar.
We're talking about prosperity enjoyed by the middle class. It arose out of "left-center" policies. It has never arisen out of a low tax, low regulation policies in all of economic history.
The policies of the past 40-50 years haven't killed prosperity. Far from it. But you gals claimed to be concerned about a shrinking middle class.
LOL, go on....
Yet you and Cuck seem to like NAFTA and "free" trade which benefits the one percent and think manufacturing can't work here. Weird.
The middle class in the US arose out of the ashes of Europe. You are able to get away with 90% marginal tax rates in an environment of no competition. Do that now and see what happens.
You're free to point out some extended period of a growing and prosperous middle-class spawned by your small government ideas. (We call that a "fool's errand".) The post-WWII period belongs to Keynesian economics, heavily subsidized education, strong labor rights, high taxes and massive public projects.
Nobody paid the 90%.
😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡
We've been down this road before.
You have a religious belief in central planning and redistribution.
You might have a point if the same left-center policies hadn't also produced a more widespread distribution of prosperity in Europe during the same period. But they did.
And yet, despite my "religious belief", I'm still waiting for your historical example of a prosperous middle class arising out of a low tax, lightly regulated, small government environment.
Strawman argument that isn’t presented in this thread.
JFC, you’re just terrible at anything other than mild insults, H.
Yet you were cheerleading for Democrats shutting down thousands of small businesses for a Covid hoax and allowing global corporations “that don’t pay taxes” to prosper as “essential” to surviving the PLandemic.