The top 2% or so in the US have about 53% of the total wealth/assets of the US.

Also, this appear to be a false statement, iits 38-42%, when you're trying to correct someone don't be wrong. You look stupider than the person you're calling stupid..

And the distribution really hasn't changed at least since the 90s ... with all the new taxes and all the new regulations ... what has changed is the scale.

Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, The Walton Family, the Koch's, BUY policy through political donations and open Corruption.

I have stated as such for quite sometime, no one wants the hear how congressmen get rich with such frequency.

Only when Trump does it do they get upset.

This isn't about wealth this is about greed, and jealousy. Taking what isn't yours, showing power of over the "rich."

But really it will just make them wealthier, and hurts those at the bottom. Thats all regulations and taxation seem to do at this point, add more the administration of the revenue, friction locking out newcomers, and in theend not end up helping the people.

Newsom signed 7000 laws, does CA need 7000 more laws in the books, was it that ------ up? Did it solve anything it claimed?

For instance NGO's can't solve the reason they exist, or else they would need to disappear, so its absorbed as payroll by the organization itself.
This is true across all bureaucratic systems.

Concentration of Assets is about Power,POLITICAL Power.

Exactly always has been, thats why they print more $$$$ not to help you, but increase the wealth of those that have it.

When the US went through the housing bust the only cities that weren't affected was WashingtonDC. Taxing them won't solve the issue you think it will.

There will always be someone with 0, printing more money just makes the distribution more skewed, unless you want everyone to be the same, then you have everyone in poverty.

The top 2% or so in the US have about 53% of the total wealth/assets of the US.

So what?

Understand more money doesn't mean more even distribution.

The more the US prints the greater the inequality the will exist. You can't fix this.

Again you're just greedy, you can't accept your greediness so you call people stupid.

Remember Obama's 'the eighties called' comment? That aged badly.

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idk Germany is collapsing, it needs to strike fear in its youth so it joins the military, it needs to divert attention from its collapsing demographic, manufacturing and political power.

If the treatment is outside America and alternative don't do it.
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Especially in Canada.

As I stated, Boomers will sink the country with Medicare spending, and the last dime of their children's inheritance on "health" care.

DeflectionDan is in rare form today.

He plugs his ears, then claims things he didn't hear don't exist.

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The Baltic states need the war.

The EuroTrash need to drum up fear about Russia to distract from its economic, energy and demographic collapse.

Putin kills those who get in his way or threaten him.
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Nixon was a huge bigot.

Not as bad as LBJ or JFK, but I am sure you won't tear down their statues.

Just more made up fear mongering.

Most people don't give 2 schitts about anything Hunter did.

These are the same people willing to over look fraud, strange relationship.

Get back to us when Jarod (or any of the Trump progeny) has experienced anything close to the same amount of scrutiny by Congress that Hunter has. Until then, STFU.

Well Hunter was on the board of a Ukrainian firm known for being on the take. So yeah I can understand the scrutiny.

But then again I understand your frustration, you love fraud, grift, graft so long as it's only about Trump. But in the rest of the country, you really don't give two ----- about how much its stolen from the government.

Did you care :
Between October 2023 and October 2024, the Office of Refugee Resettlement received 1,669 reports of sponsor-related fraud within the UAC Program. ORR reviewed these cases and found that the average rate of intentional document or information fraud exceeded 75%.

Can't wait to hear how Fauci was paying for this.

Seems like this is a more productive use of his money than going to taxes that Gaslighter, FootPoser and Borky want.

35 acres+ in Miami's Wynwood neighborhood could be pretty vibrant, if it ever happens. But, it's Florida, so be advised: bring your own infrastructure.

I will say this about Florida, at least they made private companies build out their HSR fantasies.

In CA they seem to tax the crap out of everyone and never lay a mile of track.

So in this way Doc is correct FL > CA.

Rejoice that they're leaving and expand the Economy without massive concentration of Assests making government vulnerable to being Captured by Cash.

How would you "expand the economy" by taking away investment?

For every Billionaire, there's 25,000 Millionaires. This is all hog wash, there is no "massive" concentration of assets, the money is spread pretty well given the totality of the amount. You're just upset you don't have someone elses stack.

Just say you're greedy.

Good for America.

I bet Qatar won't be affected.
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Well given the US doesn't actually own any bases in Qatar this would make sense.

This is all one big deflection to the 100s of Billions of dollars in GRIFT and CORRUPTION permeating the US Federal/State/Local governments on a yearly basis.

Completely oblivious to the fact that they already were by either paying insurance premiums or paying increased premiums due to ER abuse as PCP due to uninsured people needing care.

You're oblivious, paying insurance and its distribution of risk is nowhere near the idea of paying for someone else's healthcare (and their "insurance"). No where was anyone paying for someone elses "insurance", except through taxation.

ER abuse? You make it sound like a good thing.

The idea that I as a tax payer have to pay for illegal immigrants healthcare"insurance" is outrageous, and is absolutely driving people out of California.

A less than a 2.5% tax rate on that increase?

Those are unrealized gains.

The idea that someone has to sell personal property to pay taxes on the same property should make a true liberal cringe.

In the 50's Beirut was considered the Paris of the Middle East.'

Today, Paris is considered the Beirut of Europe!

Boomers would take that $100 any day of the week.

Did you know boomers have a higher mortality rate than previous generations.

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over "native" Americans isn't because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we're really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:

Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn't start in college, it starts YOUNG.

A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

A culture that venerates Cory from "Boy Meets World," or Zach & Slater over Screech in "Saved by the Bell," or Stefan' over Steve Urkel in "Family Matters," will not produce the best engineers.

(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity ... and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).

More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of "Friends." More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less "chillin." More extracurriculars, less "hanging out at the mall."

Most normal American parents look skeptically at "those kinds of parents." More normal American kids view such "those kinds of kids" with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.

Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.

"Normalcy" doesn't cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we'll have our asses handed to us by China.

This can be our Sputnik moment. We've awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump's election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.