What's your solution, taxing the poor?

#24 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

More tax cuts for the rich. It's all they do.

It's also interesting no one mentions spending less.

#39 | Posted by oneironaut

What's interesting is that when your cult had the power to cut spending they gave tax cuts the rich instead.

Imagine being this out of touch with reality...

#26 | Posted by THEBULL

Imagine being so out of touch with reality that youre angry at biden for the USA having among the lowest inflation in the world, and thinking republicans have a magic solution to make it lower.

Just tie tax rates to wealth inequality. So when the 1% capture more than 50% of the nation's wealth, their taxes automatically go up until it's back down to 50%, or something more reasonable.

Then why is CA getting worse?

The government doesn't redistribute it to the poor, why don't you understand that?

The best way to support the poor is remove barriers to entry.

$250 business licence in CA is insane.

#51 | Posted by oneironaut

What about CA is "getting worse"?

It recently went from being the 5th largest economy in the world to the 4th largest economy in the world.

Oh no make all the success stop. Please oklahoma teach us how to fail like you do.

Income inequality. Even though has highest tax rates in country.

It's not solving it

In fact your metric would only give the government more incentive to make it worse.

#57 | Posted by oneironaut

Income inequality is worst where the people are the richest. People are richest in california because it's economy is so much more powerful than all the moocher red states where there are no economic opportunities.

It's easy to have low income inequality in a loser state where there is nowhere for anyone to make any money. Not exactly something to be proud of though.

If you remove a few outliers from tech it wouldn't be in the top 100.

I need to research this. But there was a time when Apple represented 90% of the profit in silicon valley.

#60 | Posted by oneironaut

Yeah and if you remove fossil fuels from texas they'd suck too. Not really reality though is it?

There's a reason the tech industry was born in california and not kansas. Because liberals invested in their future and it paid off, while republicans were digging flamable rocks out of the ground and blaming others for their failures.

The last time we were in a good situation with the deficit was the 90s with a democrat in the white house and the GOP controlling congress.

#65 | Posted by eberly

Yeah because reaganomics had only been implemented for a decade at that point. Now it's been implemented going on 4 decades which is why things are so much worse.

On a related note....does anybody really care about the deficit?

#70 | Posted by eberly

Well republicans always complain about it when they're NOT in the white house and then ignore it when they're IN the white house.

So I care about it as an issue that reveals republicans' absolute lack of principles.

well, that's 2 posters who gladly admit they don't care about the deficit.

It's the politics they're interested in.

And that's fine really. Deep down, almost nobody cares either. At least those 2 are honest.

#73 | Posted by eberly

I never said I don't care about it. You're strawmanning as usual.

I said republicans reveal their absolute hypocrisy and lack of principles on this issue, as they do on many others, but none as clearly as this.

The myth of republicans' fiscal responsibility has been shattered, yet they still market themselves that way.

-So I care about it as an issue that reveals republicans' absolute lack of principles.

Your words saying you care about the politics....but not the actual deficit.

#77 | Posted by eberly

I do care about the politics. Now quote me saying I don't care about the actual deficit or shut the ---- up.

-The myth of republicans' fiscal responsibility has been shattered, yet they still market themselves that way.

Because it works.

#79 | Posted by eberly

...on morons.

As long as you're going to tell me how I'm helping screw this country up by telling me who I vote for.......I'm going to keep assigning your positions to you.

You don't give a crap about the deficit.

#84 | Posted by eberly

That's your longstanding habit. Just declare you know something about someone and stick to it until you look like a fool.

Republicans ARE screwing this country, as evidenced by their attempting a coup, and therefore your support of them is helping them screw the country. Those are facts.

Me not caring about the deficit is a fantasy you pulled out of your ass in order to deflect away from your cult's massively hypocritical politics about the deficit.

-Republicans ARE screwing this country,

A fact I never disagree with.

What I disagree with is you blaming me for their ability to screw this country.

#97 | Posted by eberly

Republicans are screwing this country + you vote for republicans = you are helping republicans screw this country.

Even after I bring it up that nobody really cares about it...everybody who responded to that admitted to not caring about past the politics. Meaning the politics was all they mentioned. That's it. Nothing else. Because that's all it is to them. A political issue....not an economic one.

#97 | Posted by eberly

It's an economic issue created by politics - namely, people electing republicans who enacted reaganomics. Therefore the logical solution is to stop voting for people who are still pushing reaganomics.

"you vote for republicans = you are helping republicans screw this country."

For the 8,000th time....I vote against crazy republicans in primaries.

I won't waste my vote on a democrat in a primary election.

I don't support the republican party. I simply vote in their primaries so I have the opportunity to vote against the worst republican(s).

If a democrat could win....I'd gladly switch parties.

I know......you can't argue with me without telling this lie.

#100 | Posted by eberly

We know you're too much of a coward to switch parties to send the message to the republican party that you don't approve of their transformation into a fascist cult.

We also know that in the general, you play the "both sides are the problem" game and vote for trump cult members who spread his lies and protect him from accountability.

Why should the republican party change when even attempting a coup doesn't lose the support of limp cowards like you?

A single party state is California. It's being destroyed from the inside.

You can't blame Rs for what is happening to the State.

#102 | Posted by oneironaut

No you can't blame Rs for california having a thriving economy that's for sure.

You can blame them for the situation in west virginia though.

You're begging me to put ---- in your mouth, again. LOL

#103 | Posted by eberly

We've moved on from eberly freakout phase 1 - strawman accusations, to eberly freakout phase 3 - homosexual attacks.

You skipped over eberly freakout phase 2 - calling your opponent a female. Is that because you were whining last week when someone did that exact same thing to you and you didn't want to get called out for hipocrisy?

You're the Dems version of MAGA. Most of the voters in this country are not fans of extremists or radicals.

#108 | Posted by madbomber

Until dems throw away all their principles to become the cult of a russian-owned con man and then attempt a coup against democracy, there is no dem version of maga.