@ryandbusse The top marginal rate of 91% only applied to 10,000 households in the USA, the true 1%. Effective rates were 40-42%. Recreating those rates today will drive even more high earners into alternate compensation, which will be untaxed.
@SpearFishFella Wrong. Musk has no control to end USAID. That was done by Marco Rubio - and since he is Sec of State that's his perogative. Stop blaming Musk for pointing out the waste fraud and abuse of USAID.
@mary_pezzulo Water consumed by data centers is not wasted - it's used for cooling and recycled or it's evaporated and goes right back into the environment. The data center pays for the water it consumes.
@Kadotttt I want taxes to pay for current obligations until the debt load is drastically reduced and manageable again. That means keeping our promises on Medicare and Medicaid but not adding new ones.
Trump was able to do just that in NYC building boom in the 1980s. But that's when NYC was hungry for success. What opportunity zone do you see now for such a need? Blue zones are restricting builds. Only Red zones are welcoming capital investment. Texas and Florida. We'll see if Texas can continue.
@JayBird59kl@biigrem As far as donating to help fight disease goes, go ask Ken Blackwell about some of his donations, quietly given, that became protests against the research institutions because the Leftist hate him. Why give at all?
@_itzsammy Ridiculous. Extreme poverty has existed long before there was capitalism in the first place. Only now with capitalism do you have a chance to achieve wealth without being born into a royal family
@vegetapr69@biigrem You may not like our history, but tearing down the statue is not the act of peaceful citizens. Start a petition, elect local leaders in your city or county to remove or replace them. Going about destroying them is the act of conquest
@vegetapr69@biigrem Yes. Those Confederate soldiers were given monuments by US citizens after the war, only to be torn down by barbarians. From there it continues (domino effect) George Washington, Christopher Columbus and ironically Hans Christian Heg, an abolitionist.
@matthewstoller You are completely unhinged. SpaceX doesn't belong to nor does it continue to exist at the will of the American people. You would have to dismantle the Constitution and before that happens SpaceX would leave.
@Dylanszn01 Slightly more in taxes? Universal healthcare would cost 3-4 Trillion dollars in new taxes, plus care rationing and price controls. For every worker collecting a paycheck it's an additional ten thousand dollars annually.
@jesutumilara_s Human beings throughout the world, their natural condition is poverty. It's only through the work of many generations of our ancestors that we don't live in poverty. All the billions in the world won't eradicate it.
@normalandwise No, we didn't have extrajudicial killings by masked secret police. We had delusional savior-complex morons thinking they could impede or attack law enforcement because of their moral superiority. The 2nd Amendment supporters see through your bullshit.
@_itzsammy People who are homeless hungry and without medical care are largely drug addicts or have mental health issues and will never have money. Capitalism didn't put them there. They are misfits.
@Joexor My father sold his business and went back to work at $3.35/hr in 1978. The money he earned as a laborer would never have supported a family. He did this to put Mom through dental school. It was lean times. A single income has never been enough