@haschyle@implausibleblog Then why pay taxes at all?
You just let the cat out of the bag. It has nothing to do with paying for anything. Just punishment for having more than someone else.
Marinate on that.
@digitaledacia@ItsLulu_7@toly If you haven't noticed one thing about the Communists of China, they still follow the Lav Beria School of Law.
They will arrest you for whatever reason they want. They can make up any reason they want.
@BobSikes@kenklippenstein It isn't that they jumped the shark....
They shouldn't have gotten near it once they found out about his SS tattoo....
They didn't, instead they embraced it.
That is what is utterly insane for anyone with common sense, but par for the course for the New Democrat Party.
@schatow@cturnbull1968 If nothing improved or it got worse, and they still vote D...
Then I would test the water to see if there is anything in it or just are just really into self-abuse.
@schatow@cturnbull1968 Agree on the numbers.
It was a longshot for him....but goes to a bigger issue.
Why would LA keep voting for D leadership? Let's circle back to this in 4 years and see how LA is doing. How about 8 years?
If it hasn't improved, would D's consider supporting an R?
@NotoriousPyro@FortKnoxIncome@garyseconomics That you literally tax people to control inflation.
That means you can't use taxes to pay any bills as you have to control inflation due to government deficits.
You don't seem to understand what MMT does.
@NotoriousPyro@FortKnoxIncome@garyseconomics Hoarding doesn't cause inflation.
Government printing does. That means government willingly creates budgets each year they know they don't have the revenue for.
That isn't a rich problem. That is government choosing to promise more than it can pay for.
@NotoriousPyro@FortKnoxIncome@garyseconomics They can't recirculate.
Governments already run major deficits which is inflationary on its own.
Taxes are used to soak up excess monetary liquidity and thus can't recirculate.
@NotoriousPyro@FortKnoxIncome@garyseconomics You would have a flat out tax rebellion if people understood what you propose and what government's really do with your tax money.
They burn it. It isn't used to pay bills at all.
Hence income taxes should end and those who kept it going should be in jail for life.
@NotoriousPyro@FortKnoxIncome@garyseconomics MMT nonsense.
Taxation meant to control inflation.
You are admitting that taxation isn't used to pay bills. Instead you are admitting that those taxes you paid can't recirculate.
Meaning....that money is burned in a burn barrel.
Explain it honestly to people and they rebel.
@BladeoftheS They arrested a dying kid for no reason. Handcuffed him and dragged him around...for no reason.
All the while he is begging for help. He committed no crime. Yet he was treated as a criminal.
The actual criminal wasn't touched. Equality?
@ItsLulu_7 Socialism means taking wealth from those who work hard.
Hence income taxes. Often at high rates in those socialist nations.
Naturally, that loss of wealth makes them more dependent on government throughout their lives.
Serfdom. A European specialty.
@kevindmonaghan@garyseconomics They might learn the lesson...
But then it is forgotten only to have to be retaught in blood and misery.
Rinse / Repeat.
@Heccles94 How can a same sex couple be "married?"
Civil laws could work just as well. What it boils down to Harry is the word...not the laws. Marriage conveys legitimacy after all
Ban Gay Pride? You can be proud to be gay w/o government recognition. Why do they need that recognition?
@SarahIronside6@RoKhanna@uhlandgeorge@grahamformaine Would you expect nothing less?
They are politicians. Anything to win. It isn't about principle or common sense....
It is just win at any cost. Those are the stakes.
@PeterStefanovi2 Basically what you are admitting is that once mighty Britannia has no ability to remain a sovereign nation.
That in essence, it is just a state. Incapable of independent action or thought.
Congrats. Perhaps the US can make the UK the 51st state.
@Beegie_B@garyseconomics Welcome to Socialism.
Where dependency on government is exploited by government to maintain power. The more dependent they make you, the more they will control you.
@kevindmonaghan@garyseconomics To him and those who believe him, there are no consequences.
They literally believe there are none.
There is the problem.