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I have heard the same refrain for 40 years. It's a vacuous non-statement which is 0% profound and yet always, always hides a deep disdain for helping actual peo

by titzer 3y ago

I have heard the same refrain for 40 years. It's a vacuous non-statement which is 0% profound and yet always, always hides a deep disdain for helping actual people with an ironic exuberance for stimulus spending the second corporate profits are threatened. We'd have more than enough money if we had sensible tax policies (read: higher taxes on corporations and the rich) and didn't literally set it on fire by blowing so much dough on weapons. I mean, I'd like to give you the benefit of the doubt here, because I can't really know what you really think in depth about such issues, but if you wanna sling meme solutions then it's hard for me to not to fill in the blanks with the rest of it, which is a bunch of corporatist stuff masquerading as today's libertarianism.

WalterBright 3y ago
Do you really think that the non-deficit spending of the government is not helping people? The growth in government spending in the last handful of years has been unprecedented and enormous. > We'd have more than enough money if we had sensible tax policies (read: higher taxes on corporations and the rich) There isn't enough there to fund the trillions in deficits. As for who benefits from corporations doing well, did you know that something like 60% of Americans have investments in the stock markets and much of the rest have pension plans invested in stocks?