This was a great explanation supporting postmodernist emotion over scientific progress.
This was a great explanation supporting postmodernist emotion over scientific progress.
Clearly, you Americans lost your minds when Biden did it too, that's why you have Trump now.
I don't understand why you Americans vote for private corporate subsidies using public funds, and Obamacare was a massive subsidy for private insurance corporations.
I was drawing from the tax revenue data for California. 2019 was a high point, but tax revenues decreased since then as the tax rates on the rich increased from 2019 to now, and this was during a massive inflationary spike, meaning the actual dip in tax revenue is even larger than it shows on paper. This is why I say California is already to the right of the Laffer curve, and people leaving the state is another clear indicator that the rates are to the right of the Laffer curve high point.
I really wish you had something meaningful to say about the behavior of runaway spending.
My point is that you can't tax your way out of a runaway spending problem. Let's say in the best case (your case), the government somehow breaks all economic models and is able to get 6.7 trillion in tax revenue, even without taxing the working poor. If your Congress was okay spending 2 trillion more than it had before, what is there to stop your Congress from simply spending 8.7 trillion?
You can't simply tax your way out of a runaway spending problem. Runaway spending is a behavior problem, not a math problem that can be solved with taxes.
Look at your state of California. They have gone far to the right of the Laffer curve, and their revenue has fallen dramatically. Regardless of the tax revenue, runaway spending remains a serious problem.
My fault, I thought you meant culturally American, not legally American.
Your runaway spending in America isn't a problem you can simply tax your way out of.
Your country is currently very close to the top of your Laffer curve for optimal tax revenue. The U.S. collected about $4.9 trillion in 2024, but it spent around $6.7 trillion. That’s around a $1.8 trillion deficit. Most economic models predict that with an optimal tax code exploiting the top of the Laffer curve, mostly by taxing the poor and exploiting the Laffer Curve that applies to the American poor and working-class, the most revenue the government can collect is around 5.5 trillion, which is still way short of 6.7 trillion.
Runaway spending isn't a problem that you can simply tax your way out of.
where the kid is basically american,
Objectively false. If the parents never assimilated legally, then there's a high probability the children have not assimilated into America either. Your country is now littered with mini versions of third-world nations all over the globe.
if it weren't for republican tax cuts,
Much as I hate your republican party, cutting taxes is never the cause for runaway deficit spending. If anything, it should be, in a small way, solving the problem of runaway spending where your Congress spends more than you can afford every year, regardless if you raise or cut taxes. Again, Obamacare is just one of those things. You don't have enough printed money in circulation to solve that runaway spending, even if you taxed at a 100% rate...at least a tax cut speeds up the crisis point to where they have to fix it faster instead of draining the people dry over a long period.
Well said, when you treat presidents like Lincoln, FDR and JFK as legendary heroes out of an Epic poem, you eventually end up with Reagan, Clinton, Obama, and Trump. All great actors playing a part on a stage. You are right, when the debate is more on whether an American president is a worthy avatar of the federal machinery, you end up with a government that has no mandate to fix any policy, regardless of how failed it is. Birthright citizenship, runaway deficit spending, and Obamacare are great examples.
Recessions punch you in the gut once, but inflation quietly eats your paycheck every single day until there's nothing left to chew on. A recession clears out the dead weight fast and resets prices so regular people can breathe again. Inflation just rewards the people who caused it and punishes everyone who actually works for a living.
The truth about this deal is stranger than fiction. A Netflix merger this big will certainly leave Hollywood theater production in the same position as Blockbuster, as movie theaters become irrecoverably obsolete. And Trump has a sentimental attachment to Hollywood that transcends political parties. I'm sure a lot of the lobbyists from Hollywood had a huge part to play in twisting Trump's arm, which is highly ironic since the overwhelming majority of Hollywood wants to see Trump dead! Hollywood already has a bunch of coffin nails hammered in from writer strikes, AI slop, reskinned woke sequels that bombed hard, and theaters that never recovered from the COVID lockdowns. This would be that gigantic final nail.
I for one think Hollywood is garbaggio, and hope Trump turns down the lobby money from Hollywood, despite his thick skin enduring the decade of insults from that industry.
Your fascist government always finds excuses to meddle in your economy.
America was founded and prospered as a counterexample.
Lol, no it's not.
Ask the Vikings. Or the Mongols if you are into that part of the world.
It’s weird though, people talk like building castles was just medieval flexing, but those stone walls are the reason Europe even had the stability to create writing traditions, universities, architecture, and eventually the Renaissance. You don’t get Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Gallileo without a whole lot of dudes stacking rocks for 500 years instead of sleeping in boats and tents.
lol!
Are you Danielle's wife?
The left isn’t authoritarian
Oh my!
I had no idea the American left was fighting to abolish government agencies, lower taxes across the board, eliminate bureaucratic bloat, impose strict oversight on government power, dismantle extortive welfare structures, and champion widespread deregulation.
Thanks for clearing that up. The American left promotes shrinking authority and not growing it.
only educate you on what authoritarianism is and how we identify it
Oh, I am sure it will be something along the lines of "well, if we vote for someone to have authority over us, then it isn't real authoritarianism"
It's just pretend authority, right?
Or worse, "authority that I agree with isn't "real authoritarianism.""
Backflip and twist those cranial nerves!
....Determining the intent in others.....
And this is why you deserve the government you have. An intent is the same as a promise. If you promote promises over results, then you reward failure. When you value the performance artistry of intentions and when you praise theatrical virtue signalling over actual improvements, you reward incompetence and deception.
You deserve exactly what you asked for.
Our vestigial genes that drove us into hierarchical herds were a very fit evolved trait in a world of extreme scarcity.
Today, in a world of technological abundance, those genes limit us greatly on an individual level from reaching our potential to evolve and grow and leave something wonderful in our brief time on Earth. The instinct to create a class of chieftains is simply obsolete in the age of abundance. A leftover behavior from a world that no longer exists.
Good question: Why can't politicians have good policies?
Because the best policy government can ever have is to have a policy with less government. Government doesn't build anything; it just tells you what you can or cannot build. Government doesn't provide anything; it just tells you what you can or cannot buy. The only thing the government can truly build or grow is itself.
The problem isn't that they don't have good policies; it's that they have too many policies. Necessary evil sold itself as a necessary good, and that is why you can't have options to buy nice things or the freedom to build for the future. Because the working-class voters outsourced all their freedom to the white collar manager class in government seats. As long as the working-class voter fears personal responsibility more than the corruption, size, and power of the government, the only policies that can be created will be....more policies....
There really isn't such a thing as an incel, there are only unattractive men who voluntarily refuse to pay a sex worker for services, and would rather save that money and go without.
Irrelevant. There is only one thought in the mind of a raider.
You built it, now I want it.
Yup.
Maybe don't get so distracted next time, and Trump won't get re-elected.
Curiously, King Charles declared Canada to be "unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people."
So the raiders have already returned to reclaim the spoils.
They will just have American presidents busy looking at the time while the coffins are buried.
Yeah, there aren't many of the "colony culture" left alive today, those people driven to build magnificent, exotic-looking things instead of tearing it all down with a frenzied mob using the mantra: PROGRESS!!!! I'd say most of the UK and Canada are shaking off their Roman heritage and reverting to their Viking raider roots, importing raiders from many cultures around the globe to share in the fun.
mongrel cultures,
And Mongol-type cultures, raiding instead of building.
A lot more Bears in Canada though.
And Moose.
Sure, they know to keep their distance from raiders. Mostly. A lot more reasonable than humans are.
Trump is drawn badly as well.
Evolution is greed. Extinction is scarcity.