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>What is next? Having more money in your bank than the police believe you should have? The police? Shit, this is exactly what the youth are demanding now. Weal

• sianemo 4y ago
  A congressionally passed wealth tax is not the same as the FBI doing asset forfeiture on secured valuables storage but you already knew that before you posted.
• ClumsyPilot 4y ago
  Oh I love this complaint - so it's cool if we leave younger generation with massive national debt, unaffordable housing and a climate disaster, but how dare they make any demands on us? Ungrateful little shits, should be happy we didn't send them into the coalmines!
  • yucky 4y ago
    >massive national debt I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess you're not for smaller government though, right?
    • ClumsyPilot 4y ago
      Life experience has taught me that people who advocate 'small government' don't have my best interests in mind. I am happy with the concept of 'small government', but typically folks who use it dont mean what I think it should mean. They are happy to spend a lot of my tax money on the prosecutor that will charge me for jaywalking, but want to cut spending on the public defence attorney that will defend me from the very same 'small government' they advocate. They tend to invoke 'small government should not interfere' when I ask whether a companies should be able to screw me over, but they want 'full force of the law' when I do anything they dislike.
      • yucky 4y ago
        You spent a lot of words attacking strawmen rather that just addressing the question. If you are as deeply concerned about National Debt as you claim, are you fully bought into the idea that we need smaller, more efficient government? Because otherwise I can answer the same way you did and say that my experience is the people who complain the most about us burdening future generations with debt are the same ones demanding expensive far-reaching government programs for everything under the sun.
        • ClumsyPilot 4y ago
          i diasagree with your comment on every level Originally I expressed no opinion about national debt, I merely point out hypocracy of making demands of future generation, but acting angry and righteous when those generations make requests of us. also I spesifically stated that I do not buy into ideology typically attached to 'small government'. also the premise that the only way to deal with national debt is to have smaller government is wrong, we could have higher taxes or print money Lastly the idea that smaller government is more efficient or cheaper is wrong too - industries where the government is the only buyer, like prisons, tend to do terribly when they are given to the private sector - it creates insentive for corruption and fraud and is actually harder to manage as a market than it is for a government to run them directly. In every meteic, from recisevism to in prison murder rate, private prisons do worse.
          • yucky 4y ago
            I love that your alternate solution includes printing money, which is why we have this astronomical inflation now. Inflation which is hurting the poor and middle class more than the wealthy.