congrats to our president-elect joe biden
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that's pretty much it. good going, america. i cast my vote way back in early october. don't know if those fascist fucks in TN counted it or not, but never mind.
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
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Those fascist fucks better learn that respect for workers means taxing everything workers earn and giving it to those who don't. The racists fucks better learn that there is nothing the USA needs more than mass immigration of desperately poor people to overcrowd cities in the middle of a pandemic.
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. --Mark Skousen
surprise surprise, you're the first to comment.
You should be happy to know this election has convinced me to become a Socialist. I've vowed to never pay another dime in taxes to a government in USA, I'm going to work the system as welfare queen. If this works out, I'll be voting Democrat soon. If I can't beat them, join the kleptocracy. Changing my race and gender to whatever is the most oppressed. It is my fucking birthright to demand free stuff while contributing nothing.
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. --Mark Skousen
pfft. democrats are about as socialist as margaret thatcher. leftist politics don't exist in america.
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
Funny how Socialists and Communists have united with Wall Street, Silicon Valley and corporate America, to push creepy Joe over the finish line.
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. --Mark Skousen
don't forget goblins and unicorns. also i'm pretty sure hitler's brain was involved somehow.
That's it. Unicorns voting. How else to explain 200% voter turnout in Democrat cities? Unicorn lives matter.
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. --Mark Skousen
We've had corprorate socialism since Reagan.
I am really fucking sick of the old cold war slurs. Liberals do not want Stalin's Russia or Castro's Cuba.
Our tax rates between 1945 and 1980 at one point were as high as 90% on the top, 50% after deductions. FDR gave us the New Deal which gave rise to our middle class. Now are you going to stupidly claim FDR was a dictator?
If one argues that they want people to be indepenant, it would be far cheaper on society to pay livable wages and have afordable health care. If people can pay for themselves, then they won't depend on government as much.
Giving billionaires and giant corporations tax breaks they do not need adds to the long term national debt as to wich the rest of us have to compensate for.
Taxes are not robbery. They are how we pay for SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE, our military, our police our fire departments, our roads and bridges. It is one thing to argue how much to tax, or what to spend taxes on, but taxes are something we all pay.
I promise you your dick won't fall off if you pull your head out of your ass.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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You know business just passed the costs of minimum wage onto consumers? We don't have affordable healthcare because few want to take care of the sick, you have to pay hospital workers more to attract more workers.
What is the incentive to get an education or work hard in a field like healthcare or home building? You want a world where the lazy and poorly education do just about as well as a hard working professional. Why should dads support their families? You say everyone gets just about the same. So why should a dad support his family if the goverment does it instead?
Do you understant the concept of a moral hazard? You can not reward failure and punish success and not expect the result to be a collapsed, bankrupt society.
If you really believed that, why don't we send everyone a bill to pay for these services and if they don't pay it, they go to jail or some form of punishment? Intead, if you don't have income to pay the bill for essential services, you get welfare. Why are not welfare recipient required to work instead? Why do we let people that can't support the kids they have more.
I'm not paying anymore for people that don't. I'm not a fucking slave.
You never want to answer these question and instead repeat leftist talking points like a mindless brainwashed zombie. Think for yourself about these questions.
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. --Mark Skousen
and yet most countries in the world have affordable healthcare, including the one where i live. our COVID infection and mortality rates are also among the lowest in the world.
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
It's free in the USA as long as you pretend to be poor or an illegal alien. It is only unaffordable if you work a middle class job, which is why I quit the USA middle class.
Suppose good doctors in your country were hit with 90% income tax as Brian proposes, why wouldn't they leave? Why would anyone go into nursing in your country if welfare paid about the same after taxes? Why would anyooe be a janitor in a hospital? Did your country lockdown its borders early this year, unlike USA which could not because the Democrat party would call that xenophobic and racist? Do you have illegal aliens pushing people into the streets due to overcrowded housing? Do you have a millions of illegal aliens receiving free healthcare while not paying taxes?
What is the incentive to develop adavanced drugs and medical technology in your country if your reward for sucess is 90% taxation? A lot of socialist countries like Cuba have 100% free coverage, but if you get sick, there is not much technology to help you out. If you get sick, isn't the technology to make you better likely developed by capitalist pigs with a selfish profit motive?
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. --Mark Skousen
Hey asshole, I just spent two seperate days in the ER with one overnight stay. Not for covid, but still, when I got the bill, it was like buying a NEW CAR.
So fuck you! I am lucky it wasn't covid, because I heard a guy with INSURANCE getting an almost 1,000,000 bill for almost a month, and that guy doesn't know how much his insurance will pay.
BTY taxation at one point between 1945 and 1980 WAS FUCKING 90% on the top 1% which ended up being 50% after tax deductions.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
Check out my poetry here on Rational Responders Like my poetry thread on Facebook under Brian James Rational Poet, @Brianrrs37 on Twitter and my blog at www.brianjamesrationalpoet.blog
So why are bitching about people making low wages? Have everyone that now makes low wages become a healthcare provider and charge massive amounts for work over a short period of time. End of their fucking low wages. Stop giving money to schools and teachers unions that don't produce healthcare providers.
Look at fucking Karl Marx, he was certainly smart enough to become a wealthy doctor, but he decided to follow his heart an be a writer, his wife knew this and married him anyways. So they lived in fucking poverty and just bitched about the rich and the need for a revolution to steal from the productive to give to the non productive. That is what the left in this country is now.
The Democrat party in this country is just gang of fucking theives.
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. --Mark Skousen
if "ifs" and "buts" were candies and nuts...
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
Hate to burst your selfish bubble, but taxes are NOT robbery you stupid fuck.
How do you think roads, and bridges, and soical security and medicare, and fire departments and police are paid for? MAGIC?
There is only one class contributing the least and that is the billionaire class, such as Jeff Bezos and the Walmart family.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
Check out my poetry here on Rational Responders Like my poetry thread on Facebook under Brian James Rational Poet, @Brianrrs37 on Twitter and my blog at www.brianjamesrationalpoet.blog
Then why aren't the poor required to pay for the 'essential' services they use? Send everyone the same tax bill, if someone can't pay, have the police come out and say work or go to jail. And not let them have more kids till they can afford them. Why is having producttive people pay for unproductive people a good solution?
How do you explain income tax? It is not a charge for services used, it is a essentially a penalty for working and investing. How do you explain welfare? it is a reward for being too poor to pay for these essential services. You can't let the poor steal from grocery stores because eventually farmers stop working.
I have no problem paying user fees for anything I want. If I use a road, I want to pay the workers that built the road. I don't want to pay people not to work, which is the current system of theft.
If really fucking believed these services were essential, why not make everyone pay? If they don't pay, make them work.
There is no need for taxes, everything can be made a user fee for a service provided.
Bezos got rich by pretending to be poor. He hired the best accountants and lawyers who advised him to reinvest all profits so he did not need to claim them for income tax. So his business has been subsidised by people that do pay taxes and can't write off everything. The only rational solution to this problem is pay as you go, which would eliminate the need for tax accounts and tax lawyers. But people like you are way to indoctrinated with BS to ever see that the current system is enslavement of workers for the benefit of welfare queens both corporate and in the ghettos.
Taxation is theft and government monopolies for services like fire and police are inefficient and overly expensive.
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. --Mark Skousen