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I believe they do think this through. I think your mistake is thinking they want to help the country.

They want to help themselves. They think they’ll be just fine no matter the damage, because they have all the power and control so they can pilfer all the resources until they’re “secure.”

And they’re right.

No one is stopping them.

No one.

95 % upper limit for income tax.

Don’t argue against things I didn’t say.

You don’t see an exodus of homeowners for their property tax.

Why is that? Hmmm? Is it the case that rich people wanna be where money is? And nice services are? Where the culture is? Where the art is? Where their family is? Their friends? Their children’s life?

Show me a study that unequivocally shows that raising taxes leads to mass capital flight. I haven’t seen one yet. At best, its mixed.

They say this about minimum wage “you can’t raise it to $15 business will leave and go under!”

And every fucking time states or cities increase the minimum wage, that doesn’t happen.

Stop fucking carrying water for the rich

They don’t leave. At least, not in the scary mass exodus they always try to imply.

So nothing?

We truly are creatures of habit and prefer something known. Also, people just don’t have the fucking time to know anything but passively absorbing it. We’ve collectively gone from requiring 40 hours of work to support a whole family, to now needing 80, as a minimum, for most families.

Who the fuck has time to research candidates policies? Lmao Susie needs to be at soccer practice 5 minutes ago. We’ve allowed ourselves, bit by bit, to have our time stolen because of all the wage theft we’ve allowed by not keeping the minimum wage pegged to inflation automatically. Every year they push on 2% inflation target. And every year they didn’t raise the minimum wage, they stole 2% from us.

It also makes any progress we make for ourselves, so brittle. Before, you could have two part time jobs help support a family for a bit. Now being out of work could mean homelessness.

I’ve got the same jade. It’s nice to be realistic, but knowing that there might actually be solutions some day keeps it from becoming nihilism.

Every fucking year hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans pay a tax on an illiquid asset: the property tax.

Don’t fucking tell me “oh it’s too difficult, there’s too many effects.” Tax. Them.

Progressive tax rate on long term and short term capital gains. 95 % upper limit for income tax. Kneecap their bullshit “buy, borrow, die” cycle.

Get back to the fucking WW2 tax levels, back when we had a middle class, and then we can maybe finally have a balanced budget, at least.

What would shape your opinion more: being bombarded by ads or the candidate showing up at your school to do a town hall and answer questions?

If we make things small enough, where in a typical campaign a candidate can meet their constituents at least once, does being outspent on ads matter as much? Doesn’t it at least make break-through candidates more likely if only because national parties have to spread out their spend?

The other commenter is correct, but another way to think or visualize is that any subtraction or division operation can be understood as an addition or multiplication.

X - 5 = X + (-5)

X / 5 = X * (1/5)

You can think of subtraction and division not being distinct or separated from addition and multiplication; instead, they’re just a shortcut notation in mathematics because everyone was tired of having to write extra characters.

Figuratively, at least.