@ramit We have two corrupt and incompetent parties electing tyrannical leaders. It just happens that Democrats have also gone into complete retard mode since the last election.
The Social Security Act of 1935 is to labor what the Invest America Act / @TrumpAccounts are to capital. Universal Capital Accounts are now an American birthright that will compound & supplement labor in the Age of AI. Every child a private shareholder in America’s upside. 🇺🇸🚀
@mehdirhasan Because Hasan Piker is a radical anti-American radical shithead hiding under the Democratic Party and wants to destroy American values. Laura is just your typical racist right-wing.
@pestctrlguy We can do the same for the healthcare savings account. You put money in your healthcare account at birth, it compounds, and you can use it for medical expenses later on when you need it. If you die early, it goes some to your family and some to the national healthcare fund.
I promise you the political class has an extremely weak understanding of how our safety net operates.
We spend $100billion/year on SNAP benefits for the poor. Single biggest spend on that program is sugary drinks.
Medicaid then pays for bariatric surgery with close to no patient cost to the tune of $10k-$15k/ procedure.
Literature for gastric sleeve is 10% have regained all their weight at 5 years. I suspect that number is a lot higher in longer term follow up.
You can talk about decreasing taxes on the poor, increasing some taxes on capital gains and corporations. You can even increase income taxes on high earners, but you progressives will go after people’s wealth and property. It doesn’t matter whether they are millionaires or billionaires, but this idea and your vision of wealth confiscation of people who are more successful than you and have done more for America than any of you is just abhorrent.
@bscholl Sure Blake, you are just another privileged white man who doesn’t see the deep, inherent system racism embedded into those yellow emojis. We people of color endure this racism every time someone sends a 😊.
@Jason@Cernovich They do not want to remove the waste or solve homelessness, healthcare affordability, or housing affordability. The system is set up so they can buy votes by offering free stuff, stay in power, and scapegoat the rich for their own incompetence.
There should be no property tax on your primary residence. California already imposes numerous other absurd taxes. If you genuinely want young people to achieve homeownership, build more houses instead of resorting to baseless arguments about increasing taxes on the elderly population who might be compelled to sell their homes. Have any of you academics ever interacted with an elderly population who have spent their whole life in their family homes, but will now might be forced to sell their primary home because of an increase in their monthly tax bill? This is a ridiculous and flawed argument!