Under 16 social media ban in the UK. Think critically. Not emotionally. How do you verify age? With ID. This is about ending anonymity and rounding up dissidents. Has nothing to do with protecting children. They'll try it here eventually. The answer is NO.
That’s not the reason based on all of the research. It’s a social problem (due to feminism, social media, and high opportunity costs) it has almost nothing to do with supposedly not being able to afford them. The research shows clearly. And the low fertility began n the west back in the 70’s and has remained below replacement since then, dropping even more in the last decade and a half.
The timeline is filled to the brim with 95-IQ midwits saying things like "it's crazy that poverty still exists and we have a trillionaire"
Oblivious to the fact 'The War on Poverty' started 62 years ago, the welfare state is exponentially larger, and poverty is unchanged.
The revelations six years later are pouring out so quickly that it is impossible to keep up much less mentally process all this:
* The Director of National Intelligence has documented 120 US-funded/owned biolabs in 30 countries many of which are manufacturing and manipulating infectious diseases.
* Senator Rand Paul's committee has released the receipts concerning US funding/backing of the manufactured SARS-CoV-2 virus/vaccine as part of this program.
* Senator Johnson has produced definitive evidence that US public health agencies knew of the grave dangers of the shot to everyone but said nothing.
* Many officials are privately admitting/proving that the whole point of lockdowns was to preserve population immunity for the shot and block other avenues toward wellness.
* Hardly any of this makes the national news and one wonders if the public mind has any awareness at all.
If you're angry about Elon Musk becoming the first trillionaire after a lifetime of innovation just wait until you hear about how the federal government steals over five trillion dollars from the American tax payer per year.
It took Elon 36 years of work.
In that time the federal government stole 105 trillion dollars in taxes. Not to mention the 40 trillion they took out in debt.
Did they solve world hunger? Did they give you free healthcare? Did they give everyone a house?
No. They blew up a couple million people living near Israel.
But, yeah. Elon is the real problem.
Either you’re dumb or a liar. If there was a 5% wealth tax it is likely SpaceX wouldn’t exist, and the wealth that Elon created would be a fraction what it is today (meaning society would be poorer, thousands of the people currently employed by Elon’s companies would not be employed, not to mention tax revenues would be significantly lower from fewer income earners and lower waged workers in this alternative universe). He would have had to liquidate assets/capital which would have significantly decreased future growth (and made everyone poorer).
In addition, taxing his wealth 5%—which again, would be on a decreasing amount every year due to the capital destruction caused and reduction of future productivity—would absolutely NOT provide universal health care. We already spend WAY more than this wealth tax and do not have universal health care. It’s not even close to true. Lefties (and many on the right, to be fair) are so ignorant of basic economics, and how an economy functions, it is terrifying you are allowed to vote.
@SenSanders Rich coming from someone who has lived off the backs of tax paying Americans. You’ve never created a thing of value in your life, and you’ve created an income for yourself by taxing wealth away from American workers. You’re a massive hypocrite and a drain on society.
John thinks Elon has a trillion one-dollar bills in his house, and if only he'd spend it on philanthropy, we'd solve lots of problems.
In fact, what Elon has is lots of capital, which is used to improve the general standard of living. Liquidating that capital so everyone can get a one-time check for $50 would be destructive and idiotic.
John has also managed to think, despite all the evidence everywhere he looks, that social problems are a matter of not enough money spent, that homelessness (for example) is a simple matter of people not having physical houses, and all we have to do is hand them some houses.
The more you like mankind, the more capital accumulation you should want, because that is the only way real incomes are increased for everyone, as opposed to the loot-and-redistribute model that eats the seed corn. ("Why do we have all this seed corn! I could feed so many people with it," poor John would be saying.)
@maryjan34114869@BenSwann_ This is the same braindead talking point the GOP used in 2003–I know I was saying it then, before I learned to think for myself and actually knew anything at all.
This is Tiburon, California.
Residents can be fined up to $500 for not separating their trash in an “eco-friendly” way.
Then the city shows up… and everything gets dumped into one bin and sent to the landfill anyway.
Compliance is mandatory. Logic is optional.