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Are you disputing something he's saying in this video? It's all just statements of facts, he's not sharing opinions beyond "there's a debt problem" and "we shou

• Clubber 2y ago
  It's statements of selective facts. He ignores all the tax loopholes people like him get. He focuses just on federal income tax (what rich people pay) and ignores (mostly) payroll tax, sales tax, gas tax, etc, which regular people pay. He focuses on what the top 1% pay in regard of federal income taxes, and the listener is supposed to ignore that having such a concentration of wealth is crippling to most people (and tax income in general). Also, he seems to focus highly on SS and Medicaid, which means he's leading the listener in identifying those as what to cut. When he mentions military spending, he minimizes it and hand waves it off as necessary (MS gets a lot of money from military contracts). He neglects to mention that SS tax is hard capped at around $168K or so and he pays relatively nothing into that system. He doesn't mention tariffs, which would go a long way to fund government. The US government was completely funded by tariffs for quite a long time. Assigning a tariff on, say offshore labor, would fund a lot of government, but it would make Ballmer's portfolio not grow as fast, etc, because MS would have to pay more for offshore talent. It's largely a propaganda piece trying to lead the listener into agreeing to cut SS and Medicaid, which of course would be even more devastating to anyone not in the top 1 or 2%. It's pretty disgusting actually. Fuck that guy. DEFICITS! DEFICITS! DEFICITS! DEFICITS! DEFICITS! DEFICITS! (a pun on DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!)