I don’t think I could ever vote left, but I could see myself buying you a beer.As a left voter most times, I enjoyed Trump debating Hillary lol. I def would have voted for him over her.
Canadian debates get pretty boring...
I don’t think I could ever vote left, but I could see myself buying you a beer.As a left voter most times, I enjoyed Trump debating Hillary lol. I def would have voted for him over her.
Canadian debates get pretty boring...
…you’re in an inflatable raft, that has an air leak, so everybody has to blow in to inflate it, but some asshole with a knife keeps poking holes in it so it leaks more air, then the asshole with the knife starts telling the people with the bigger lungs that they have to blow more, and then the asshole with the knife tells the people with medium lungs they have to blow more, and eventually everyone has an aneurysm from blowing so hard and they die and the boat sinks…. Everybody would have been just fine if they had fed the asshole poking holes in the boat to the sharks.
And there is the solution: feed tax and spend politicians to the sharks. Throw Bernie and the Titty Monster in the Gulf of America with some chum…..
…you’re in an inflatable raft, that has an air leak, so everybody has to blow in to inflate it, but some asshole with a knife keeps poking holes in it so it leaks more air, then the asshole with the knife starts telling the people with the bigger lungs that they have to blow more, and then the asshole with the knife tells the people with medium lungs they have to blow more, and eventually everyone has an aneurysm from blowing so hard and they die and the boat sinks…. Everybody would have been just fine if they had fed the asshole poking holes in the boat to the sharks.
And there is the solution: feed tax and spend politicians to the sharks. Throw Bernie and the Titty Monster in the Gulf of America with some chum…..
As someone who typically votes left she wouldnt get my vote.
You are so close to getting it... If only Regan didn't cook your brain.
The guy busting his ass to make 500k isn't your enemy. The guy who can wake up in the morning and give 500k to Doug Ford so he'll open up the greenbelt is.
But who is the asshole?
As a left voter most times, I enjoyed Trump debating Hillary lol. I def would have voted for him over her.
Canadian debates get pretty boring...
That's a funny take, as someone as far to the right as possible, I thought he did horrible in the debates and would have definitely voted for her instead.
Also this post is from April, did it turn out AOC was done as fear mongered on page 1? Someone double check.
Your post is a combination of stupid and naive. Musk/Bezos/Gates using their equities as collateral is the same thing as you or I use a HELOC. The only difference is scale. I suppose you think people should pay tax on the unrealized gains in their homes?
Yes, businesses are going to business. They are going to use some of their profits for things other than expansion. But good businesses are going to excess funds and expand, increase productivity, and the tax bases. This is the key thing that all you Marxists miss; Before wealth can be redistributed, it must be produced. Governments don’t produce wealth, academics don’t produce wealth. Businessmen like Musk create wealth.
As for shitty pay at Amazon, I fully support them forming a union and holding Bezos to account.
See, that's the difference: scale. Musk bought something for $44B without spending a dime. Think about that. He literally could have sold some of that stock, paid some tax, and would've still been the richest man on the planet. Someone once said billionaires are like dragons from Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit. They collect vast amounts of wealth, and horde it. But they don't need it.
As for your argument that government's don't create wealth. That is actually bullshit. Do you think Musk would be a billionaire without all the government funding that went into developing things like the internet? Or building roads and other infrastructure? Or funded the universities that did the research and/or trained his employees? To quote Obama (which was pathetically taken out of context), they didn't build that. Hell, Musk would be significantly poorer without all the government contracts and subsidies he gets. Musk creates wealth for himself. Bezos, the same. They could pay their workers better, and for Bezos or the Walton family, maybe they could see fewer of their employees getting SNAP benefits. I mean, they could raise the wages and still make crazy profits. That's the sad thing.
The point here is that the rich exploit the system and. don't really give a lot back. Where are the hospitals or universities that Musk is building, or other public institutions? At least the Carnegies, Rockefellers, and other rich families in the past put some of their money into trying to make the world a better place.
As for businesses: The big thing that Reagan started was "trickle down economics," the belief that by cutting taxes for the rich and businesses would see them re-invest that money to raise the standard of living for everyone else. Shockingly, that has yet to materialize, and it's been over 40 years. Up until that point, workers saw their wages grow with the increase in productivity. That ended. And, as we all should know, the rich got richer, the middle class got squeezed, and the poor grew. You can pretend this is classic capitalism, but it really isn't. You might think that politicians calling this out is "communism" or "socialism," but I honestly doubt you know the meaning of those words. Anything you put now will probably come from a quick Google search....But, maybe that's good. You might actually learn something...
So, you concede that you have the ability to raises funds the same way Musk does, but are unwilling to start at ground level. Do you have enough money for an escort?
Indeed I could mortgage my capital assets and use that money to engage in entrepreneurship, but I don’t because I simply do not have Elon Musk’s business sense, and I would wind up as broke as you are Franky. The point being that Elon has a talent for using money to create wealth for everyone and generally improve the world, and dipshits like AOC should be restrained from getting in his way.Apply those arguments to yourself.
Dude, comparing a middle class person with the financial situation of the world's richest man is pretty fucking stupid. I do not have his resources, his ability to hire tax lawyers and special accountants. And for the vast majority of people, these type of tax avoidance is not accessible. It is a pretty fucking stupid argument. Like, how out of touch with reality are you?So, you concede that you have the ability to raises funds the same way Musk does, but are unwilling to start at ground level. Do you have enough money for an escort? You don’t need an escort, so I’ll be dropping by your place to collect that money on behalf of my favourite cause because I’ve decided that will make the world a better place.
Yes, it was from hard-working people and their tax money....something that I've pointed out Bezos, Musk Et Al do their upmost to avoid paying, both personally and through their companies. You really are that clueless. I mean, I'll say it again: the US tax payer subsidies the pay for Amazon workers (and many other large companies) because they work full-time hours but don't get paid enough to pay for rent and food. That's why so many of their employees get SNAP benefits. And, as I pointed out, those billionaires and their companies don't pay anywhere close to what they should in taxes. Instead, they get massive tax cuts that go to stock buybacks. Who does that benefit? Musk/Bezos/Zuckerberg and the investor class...but again, not the broader society.Where do governments get the wealth to build all the stuff you listed? I’ll give you a hint; it wasn’t from Joe or Hillary swinging an axe.
The hospitals and universities that Bezos, Zuckerberg & Musk are all over the place. The payroll taxes their companies produce fund these things.
I know exactly what socialism and communism mean. If you understood what they meant, you would not want them implemented.
AOC is BS in that video. Did she go to the authorities when she mentions what happened to her???
I watched this last night and it tells a diff story about AOC.
AOC is someone who def should have reported it especially based on how she speaks publicly on things.
I didn't say she can't comment. I called her out on something else. Re-read it.
If she's so smart and successful then why didn't she go to the authorities? Don't smart people who value their body do stuff like that??? Especially if they seem to wanna take it very seriously.
That's the point I'm making about her.
She's free to make whatever comments she likes on things.
Dude, what in the world are you going on about? You didn't even watch the video you posted. She mentions an incident at college/uni. I'm not even talking about something her family may have done or her being very little here.
Indeed I could mortgage my capital assets and use that money to engage in entrepreneurship, but I don’t because I simply do not have Elon Musk’s business sense,
AOC has been in office for almost 8 years now. She could have brought up what happened to her shortly after getting into the office and made a big huge deal about it. She's only ranting now because it's making headlines. During her already time in office she could have taken what happened to her serious to the point to make big changes. Has she made big changes since her college/uni incident that she talked about in the video? Stuff like this has been going on at unis and colleges in America for decades if not centuries. Stuff like this has been shown in many mainstream movies/shows too. Where there's frat parties or house parties and such.
AOC also hasn't mentioned much about the Lindsay Clancy case where as someone like Nancy Mace has. Nancy Mace doesn't hide behind the mic and speaks loud.