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If Trump cut my taxes, I would use two-thirds (of the additional part of my income that wasn't confiscated) to invest more in my future in order to be able to self-sustain in retirement, and one-third to spend in the local economy (farmer's market, restaurants, local events). I'd probably increase the amount I give through Patreon to content creators I support.
Most of the tax cuts will go to the richest 1% who will hoard most of the money in the Cayman Islands, and spend some of it on foreign vacations (benefiting foreign economies) and hijack the political system with bribes. This is what it is designed to do. Less power for Joe Sixpack.
I said what I would do if my confiscation percentage was lowered.
Everyone should be concerned about the massive gap between public policy and public opinion in America. The 1% own the political system already. More political power to the 1% at a time of the highest inequality since 1929 is a recipe for disaster.
Your far right libertarian agenda has historically led to far left revolutions by the way. I am sure many libertarians are closet communists because the best way to ensure communism is to support the libertarian agenda.
There's a lot of 1%ers on this forum... that's the reason.
No, there isn't.
This board demonstrates the veracity of the old quote that American poor "see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
Are you basically saying you want to help me increase my individual power.......... by taking more of my money away from me?
How can you not understand that my economic liberty and financial self-determination are REDUCED when you take more of what I earn away from me by force?
How can you not understand that growing the government concentrates MORE power in this authoritarian institution?
Are you basically saying you want to help me increase my individual power.......... by taking more of my money away from me?
How can you not understand that my economic liberty and financial self-determination are REDUCED when you take more of what I earn away from me by force?
How can you not understand that growing the government concentrates MORE power in this authoritarian institution?
Your libertarian agenda is the agenda that best paves the way for a communist revolution. Pretty sure many of your friends in the party are closet communists. Something that should concern you.
Your libertarian agenda is the agenda that best paves the way for a communist revolution.
So... having more of my money taken from me actually makes me more free? And being able to keep more of my money from the authorities actually causes us to slip further into communism? That's the logic you're gonna stick with here?
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Pretty sure many of your friends in the party are closet communists.
I'm not now nor have I ever been a member of any "party." If you want go around thinking people who advocate for things like individual freedom and limits on collectivist authority are actually commies in disguise, I can't stop you.
So... having more of my money taken from me actually makes me more free? And being able to keep more of my money from the authorities actually causes us to slip further into communism? That's the logic you're gonna stick with here?I'm not now nor have I ever been a member of any "party." If you want go around thinking people who advocate for things like individual freedom and limits on collectivist authority are actually commies in disguise, I can't stop you.
Historically, your type of libertarian extremism has led to far left revolutions, yes. Because libertarianism leads to so much pain and suffering. So if you are on the extreme left, it makes perfect sense to push the libertarian agenda to pave the way for a revolution.
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