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ironically the leverage that poor people had and have is their children, once upon a time for farming landlords & factory owners, today for government revenues,
by kwere 4y ago
ironically the leverage that poor people had and have is their children, once upon a time for farming landlords & factory owners, today for government revenues, bcs poor people & middle class pay the most taxes in % as VAT, income tax, fees, contributions, etc... and dont have tax planning while making the welfarism looking remotely sustainable, but with modern demographic trends things are changing for the worse, and
with printing money and "eating the rich" as the only policies on the table, we dont solve anything except kicking the can down the road
And for the invading France via Belgium joke, it is hilarious bcs one of the compelling reasons why he started his aggressions in 1939 before the nation was ready was because he emptied German coffers to prop up his Nationalsocialistic welfare system and (he felt he) needed just an imperialistic trip to refill them[0]. the rest is history
[0]https://youtu.be/mLHG4IfYE1w?t=1108 https://youtu.be/mLHG4IfYE1w?t=1108