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OutOfHere 1y ago
I completely agree that taxes are insane, but what I find particularly insane about it is there are so many of them: income, sales, property, payroll, inflation, tariffs. It would make sense to have just one form of it, probably just inflation or otherwise a population-normalized land ownership tax. An alternative tax could be minor gas fees on a government-managed privacy-enabled gold-weighted crypto coin. Do you know how rich people actually spend their money? They squander most of it on frivolous nonsense. Most of them are not looking to improve the lives of other people, and they mostly just want the gravy to continue while they take their scheduled monthly vacation in a distant land. I wouldn't exactly call them productive people. The person making your food delivery at low wages is more productive. The person struggling with problems, working to solve them, also is productive. As for the government, it has both good and bad programs. A simple metric to measure is -- could they increase the life expectancy of people cumulatively over the next one hundred years, and by how much? This is the ultimate metric really. You continue with your entitled feeling, now at the national level, and it will be your downfall. The truth is that West (mostly the UK) is actually what divided too many countries quite arbitrarily and unfairly in the previous century, leading to many unnecessary wars between them, also sowing terrorism. There is nothing but contempt toward the West for these actions. Consider it good fortune that the US didn't do it. Trump voters look to have zero capability for independent thought, as they always agree with what their master does, as if he can do no wrong.
- BuckRogers 1y ago
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  - OutOfHere 1y ago
    Your beliefs are your own. Personally I would consider those beliefs to be a clown show for the most part with few exceptions. GDP alone does nothing for the human condition. To me, productive actions are not those that increase GDP or the stock price, but those that improve the human condition. The rich have a moral obligation to fund activities that improve the human condition, preferably by themselves without governmental intervention. The alternative path is to destroy the planet with CO2, microplastics, and PFAS as we have been doing. Tariffs are going to be a complete and utter failure due to the "first sale rule", and this rule is a just one that cannot go away either. Have you tried ordering anything from abroad lately? Odds are good that it will get stuck in Customs forever. Their system is utterly dysfunctional, more so than it was previously. Will Customs pay me interest on the cost for the time they hold my item? Why not? If I take quality of life to be healthspan, meaning the length of a healthy life, then life expectancy absolutely drives it. The two are tightly interlinked. If instead you mean QoL to the size of your SUV, then it's true, it doesn't drive life expectancy. Food is program too. In effect, you're not anti-program; you're just anti everything you don't understand or aren't even aware of. Money doesn't solve problems for the vast majority of people who don't know how to use money to solve problems. It solves numerous problems for those who know how to use it intelligently. Pretty much the dumbest thing I have ever read on this site is money doesn't solve poverty. It solves that, and a lot more, including resolving trauma if ones knows how. It's true that most people waste their money, but the few that don't are the ones that matter. It is not "entitled" to have certain expectations about the stability of the legal visa system. If one has been informed legally that action X will lead to result Y, then one purses the action. The feeling of entitlement comes in when one wants to bypass the action to get the result, like you do.
    - BuckRogers 1y ago
      >Personally I would consider those beliefs to be a clown show for the most part with few exceptions. You call my views a clown show, but I find your views just naive and childish. As well as antiquated. Just old school Marxism that has failed countless times, never once in history actually ending-well. >The rich have a moral obligation to fund activities...CO2, microplastics, and PFAS as we have been doing... The rich aren't responsible for microplastics and everything else. This is just silly thus I can't address it further. >Tariffs are going to be a complete and utter failure due to the "first sale rule", ... Tariffs are in use and have been by every other country in the world. This anti-Trump narrative that somehow they're only bad when Trump enacts them is something that no serious person could tolerate. I'm surprised those of you on the left are still reaching for this one. Tariffs work, and they worked in the USA 100 years ago before the personal income tax, which is truly a criminal policy. And not just because it's an unapportioned direct tax. >Money doesn't solve problems for the vast majority of people who don't know how to use money to solve problems. It solves numerous problems for those who know how to use it intelligently. Which is exactly why money hasn't solved any problems. Anyone prepared to handle money, earns it themselves and handles it. And that's why handing out money doesn't solve poverty. This is where your views are naive, if it were so easy- most of our problems would be solved by the Year of Our Lord 2025. Yet we're not even close, and took many steps back because of antiquated, backwards views like yours. >It is not "entitled" to have certain expectations about the stability of the legal visa system. Yes it is. We owe them nothing, that's why it's entitlement to have any expectations of someone else's country. >entitlement comes in when one wants to bypass the action to get the result, like you do. No basis for your assertion exists. Native Americans like myself have been here over 300 years and built everything around you. The action was already done, the actual building and settlement of this country was done by a specific population, for their ancestors, not the world. Just like every other country on Earth. Time travel and ask them if their struggle is for someone else's children, or their own. What this debate comes down to is a power struggle, who is going to hold power, and given Donald Trump had everything possible thrown at him, constant Nazi name calling, and still elected president says that more native Americans- brown, black, and white, agree with me than with you. The enemy here isn't racial as you think, no one is actually racist. That's left wing propaganda that everyone is done falling for. While you live in moral outrage at "how dare he!", the rest of us are tired of the left, with ideas like you espouse. Giving it all away to everyone else, and selling us down the river for shekels.

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I completely agree that taxes are insane, but what I find particularly insane about it is there are so many of them: income, sales, property, payroll, inflation, tariffs. It would make sense to have just one form of it, probably just inflation or otherwise a population-normalized land ownership tax. An alternative tax could be minor gas fees on a government-managed privacy-enabled gold-weighted crypto coin. Do you know how rich people actually spend their money? They squander most of it on frivolous nonsense. Most of them are not looking to improve the lives of other people, and they mostly just want the gravy to continue while they take their scheduled monthly vacation in a distant land. I wouldn't exactly call them productive people. The person making your food delivery at low wages is more productive. The person struggling with problems, working to solve them, also is productive. As for the government, it has both good and bad programs. A simple metric to measure is -- could they increase the life expectancy of people cumulatively over the next one hundred years, and by how much? This is the ultimate metric really. You continue with your entitled feeling, now at the national level, and it will be your downfall. The truth is that West (mostly the UK) is actually what divided too many countries quite arbitrarily and unfairly in the previous century, leading to many unnecessary wars between them, also sowing terrorism. There is nothing but contempt toward the West for these actions. Consider it good fortune that the US didn't do it. Trump voters look to have zero capability for independent thought, as they always agree with what their master does, as if he can do no wrong.

BuckRogers 1y ago
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- OutOfHere 1y ago
  Your beliefs are your own. Personally I would consider those beliefs to be a clown show for the most part with few exceptions. GDP alone does nothing for the human condition. To me, productive actions are not those that increase GDP or the stock price, but those that improve the human condition. The rich have a moral obligation to fund activities that improve the human condition, preferably by themselves without governmental intervention. The alternative path is to destroy the planet with CO2, microplastics, and PFAS as we have been doing. Tariffs are going to be a complete and utter failure due to the "first sale rule", and this rule is a just one that cannot go away either. Have you tried ordering anything from abroad lately? Odds are good that it will get stuck in Customs forever. Their system is utterly dysfunctional, more so than it was previously. Will Customs pay me interest on the cost for the time they hold my item? Why not? If I take quality of life to be healthspan, meaning the length of a healthy life, then life expectancy absolutely drives it. The two are tightly interlinked. If instead you mean QoL to the size of your SUV, then it's true, it doesn't drive life expectancy. Food is program too. In effect, you're not anti-program; you're just anti everything you don't understand or aren't even aware of. Money doesn't solve problems for the vast majority of people who don't know how to use money to solve problems. It solves numerous problems for those who know how to use it intelligently. Pretty much the dumbest thing I have ever read on this site is money doesn't solve poverty. It solves that, and a lot more, including resolving trauma if ones knows how. It's true that most people waste their money, but the few that don't are the ones that matter. It is not "entitled" to have certain expectations about the stability of the legal visa system. If one has been informed legally that action X will lead to result Y, then one purses the action. The feeling of entitlement comes in when one wants to bypass the action to get the result, like you do.
  - BuckRogers 1y ago
    >Personally I would consider those beliefs to be a clown show for the most part with few exceptions. You call my views a clown show, but I find your views just naive and childish. As well as antiquated. Just old school Marxism that has failed countless times, never once in history actually ending-well. >The rich have a moral obligation to fund activities...CO2, microplastics, and PFAS as we have been doing... The rich aren't responsible for microplastics and everything else. This is just silly thus I can't address it further. >Tariffs are going to be a complete and utter failure due to the "first sale rule", ... Tariffs are in use and have been by every other country in the world. This anti-Trump narrative that somehow they're only bad when Trump enacts them is something that no serious person could tolerate. I'm surprised those of you on the left are still reaching for this one. Tariffs work, and they worked in the USA 100 years ago before the personal income tax, which is truly a criminal policy. And not just because it's an unapportioned direct tax. >Money doesn't solve problems for the vast majority of people who don't know how to use money to solve problems. It solves numerous problems for those who know how to use it intelligently. Which is exactly why money hasn't solved any problems. Anyone prepared to handle money, earns it themselves and handles it. And that's why handing out money doesn't solve poverty. This is where your views are naive, if it were so easy- most of our problems would be solved by the Year of Our Lord 2025. Yet we're not even close, and took many steps back because of antiquated, backwards views like yours. >It is not "entitled" to have certain expectations about the stability of the legal visa system. Yes it is. We owe them nothing, that's why it's entitlement to have any expectations of someone else's country. >entitlement comes in when one wants to bypass the action to get the result, like you do. No basis for your assertion exists. Native Americans like myself have been here over 300 years and built everything around you. The action was already done, the actual building and settlement of this country was done by a specific population, for their ancestors, not the world. Just like every other country on Earth. Time travel and ask them if their struggle is for someone else's children, or their own. What this debate comes down to is a power struggle, who is going to hold power, and given Donald Trump had everything possible thrown at him, constant Nazi name calling, and still elected president says that more native Americans- brown, black, and white, agree with me than with you. The enemy here isn't racial as you think, no one is actually racist. That's left wing propaganda that everyone is done falling for. While you live in moral outrage at "how dare he!", the rest of us are tired of the left, with ideas like you espouse. Giving it all away to everyone else, and selling us down the river for shekels.