An example of how we've lost the policy in politics vis a vis getting your panties in a twist ideologically

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My example is that all im advocating for is a ten percent increase in existing taxes and a ten percent decrease in spending and a two percent wealth tax above 10 million in assets. Ai is saying thats enough to balance the budget, though just doing 1 percent instead of two is enough to get the deficit under control.


You have a Lotta pie in the sky and the sky is falling rhetoric for something so modest. Maybe just maybe ya alls ideological beefs dont amount to much when dealing with practical reality.


Are there goon socialists and democrats? Yes. Are there goon libertarians and Republicans? Yes. But aside from getting your panties in a wad philosophically, there are plenty of pragmatic ways forward that are both sane and balanced.

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Even without a wealth tax the deficit can be gotten taken care of by increasing taxes by 15 or 33 percent and doing a likewise decrease in spending by the same amounts. That'd take the average person's average tax rate from the current 20 percent to either 23 or 27 percent respectively. Basically a 3 percent tax or 7 percent tax. Because implementing a 7 percent effective tax is way less scary sounding than increasing taxes 33 percent.


No, the sky is not falling

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@SatanLucy

Trump files 7 bankruptcies and he is still a billionaire. Not paying his debt helped him keep his money.

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Debby,

Are you going to keep repeating that lie? Trump, the man, has never filed personal bankruptcy. And 7, now? Do you have any scholastic citation other than MessNBC, or Cartoon News Network for the claim, or is it out-of-butt?


Trump Org [not Trump, personally, and no, it is not the same thing] has filed only Chapter 11 on several occasions, which is not a personal filing category.

Get it. Yet?

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Yes they were corporate bankruptcies. He is also treating America like a corporation.

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