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Let’s simply return to the 1950s, in terms of tax policy. The rich have won to the point of not being able to fail. The idea that poor people aren't working ha

Let’s simply return to the 1950s, in terms of tax policy. The rich have won to the point of not being able to fail. The idea that poor people aren't working hard enough is the most toxic thought. If you’re a software engineer making a few hundred k a year, this isn’t even talking about you. You have more in common with someone making $10 an hour than the executives that run your companies. Go look at some photos or drive by a food bank right now. There’s more people waiting in line outside of a single Brooklyn food bank for 9 hours in the freezing cold than there are people with enough wealth to feed every hungry person in America permanently and still come out ahead in 5 years. I’m sick of people with no compassion outside their own family. Society is not a zero sum game. Your life would be better in a thousand ways if we provided a real safety net.

roenxi 6y ago
> Let’s simply return to the 1950s, in terms of tax policy. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Federal_taxes_by_type.pdf https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Federal_... I dunno, 1800-1940 looks pretty promising. The high taxes of 1950-2020 doesn't seem to have done much for making people happy. I'm always happy to start a fight - I reckon the biggest impact of things like the 1950-2020 tax regime is a bunch of factories to China. Obviously there is a lot more going on than taxes, but America isn't investing in itself and it is starting to show. Where did the money go? Is the answer in that extra 10% of the GDP being directed to the Federal government? After 70 years that would be starting to show up.
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- taurath 6y ago
  > The high taxes of 1950-2020 doesn't seem to have done much for making people happy. The interstate highway system for one. We have tons of “new” infrastructure that is expensive to maintain. Also - the military, healthcare and social security is where almost all of the federal budget goes. If you take social security “out” as basically an investment account then it’s nearly all healthcare and military. We spend more on the military than the next top 7 countries combined. We also have the highest cost healthcare per capita in the world and not even top 20 outcomes. Infrastructure that could change the trajectory of whole communities is almost a rounding error.
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roenxi 6y ago

> Let’s simply return to the 1950s, in terms of tax policy. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Federal_taxes_by_type.pdf https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Federal_... I dunno, 1800-1940 looks pretty promising. The high taxes of 1950-2020 doesn't seem to have done much for making people happy. I'm always happy to start a fight - I reckon the biggest impact of things like the 1950-2020 tax regime is a bunch of factories to China. Obviously there is a lot more going on than taxes, but America isn't investing in itself and it is starting to show. Where did the money go? Is the answer in that extra 10% of the GDP being directed to the Federal government? After 70 years that would be starting to show up.

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taurath 6y ago
> The high taxes of 1950-2020 doesn't seem to have done much for making people happy. The interstate highway system for one. We have tons of “new” infrastructure that is expensive to maintain. Also - the military, healthcare and social security is where almost all of the federal budget goes. If you take social security “out” as basically an investment account then it’s nearly all healthcare and military. We spend more on the military than the next top 7 countries combined. We also have the highest cost healthcare per capita in the world and not even top 20 outcomes. Infrastructure that could change the trajectory of whole communities is almost a rounding error.

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