@QasimRashid Didn't have to bust out the puns on this one. Bravo!

@QasimRashid I'm impressed, you found the one who wasn't a nihilistic narcissistic sadist.

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Thank you for your service! 😁

@QasimRashid 👍

@QasimRashid yessss!
From an eco perspective too: I don’t know how we are okay with a few ppl taking soooo much more than their share of the planet’s resources. I don’t care how much you work/how entitled you think you are.

@QasimRashid LOL. This is epic. Well done, my friend 👏

@QasimRashid This is one of the many reasons I follow you! You reasoned with one , you achieved the impossible !

@QasimRashid You just Rabbit Season Duck Season'd him

@QasimRashid Defense contractors can't be voted out.

@QasimRashid that's amazing

@QasimRashid this is gold 🤣👍

@QasimRashid LOL... the problem is that most trolls won't recognize their circular logic on this or admit they are wrong, because they suffer from a massive case of generational gaslighting.

@QasimRashid Hey, you got them there in the end! 😂 That's more than most of us... Good job!

@QasimRashid lol

@QasimRashid Bonus points if elected representatives can only receive money from actual constituents.

@QasimRashid at least he understood the key message.

@QasimRashid Revoke the #ronaldreagan tax cuts!!!

@QasimRashid I know many who just devolve down to "billionaires allocate resources better and I trust them more than the Government" 😐 🤨

@QasimRashid people often think taxing billionaires is about closing funding gaps, when it's really about preventing inevitable economic and political distortions caused by their existence.

@QasimRashid How do you tax a billionaire?

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Eat the billionaires.

@QasimRashid I don’t agree that all of them are just trying to do PR but, since I don’t trust them to do the right thing they need to be aggressively taxed.

@QasimRashid no lecture on "trickle down economics" after that? 🤔

@QasimRashid if only speaking the truth had that effect on people/trolls in real life. Americans also “trust” insurance companies who only want profit to make their medical decision. Been talking that point for decades and no one gets it still

@QasimRashid One at a time works. Keep reeling em in.

@QasimRashid Next time you might add that government isn’t spending “our money” anyway--taxes are destroyed to remove money from the system to (among other things) prevent inflation. Removing money *progressively* also reduces inequality, which is good because inequality undermines democracy. #MMT

@QasimRashid @glennf all I want for Christmas …

@QasimRashid Go you go ✊

@QasimRashid 👍

@QasimRashid Several years ago, a billionaire said there was a minimal lifestyle change going from $200M to $500M and none going from $500M to $1Billion. You could just take it all away and they wouldn't even notice.

@QasimRashid Sometimes you gotta ask questions and troll back to make your point.

@QasimRashid Hello Qasim, my question t you is how do you feel about the celebration of Christmas as a muslim? Did it change through the years?

@QasimRashid Reminds me of a conversation I had with a hard-core #Trump supporter who also said that #billionaires shouldn’t exist

@QasimRashid So involved in their talking points they override simple logic. Shame.

@QasimRashid I feel like billionaires would be upset by not being referred to as whom

@QasimRashid LOL

@QasimRashid Andrew Carnegie was a prize b*stard, but his #philanthropy built a lot of libraries in towns that might otherwise not have them. Government programs get so wrapped up in #redtape that the majority of the money goes to meeting pointless requirements about hiring, etc., or lining politicians’ pockets, that most of the money never gets where it’s supposed to.

@QasimRashid well said!

@QasimRashid IMO it's true both that
1) the state is primarily an instrument of ruling class power and genuine democratic control on a stable basis is impossible, and
2) it can respond to sufficient mass pressure from outside, on a short-term basis.
So the best approach is arguably to focus pressure on specific reforms that don't require ongoing democratic control of the state to administer, like allocating tax money does.
So we should eliminate or weaken as many as possible of the legally-enforced mechanisms by the ruling class extracts economic rents from artificial scaricties and artificial property rights (intellectual property, absentee landlordism, subsidies to operating costs, etc.). And we should build into the system a basic income guarantee that functions automatically without a need for ongoing appropriations (like a negative income tax that would bring everyone above the poverty level for less than is currently spent on welfare).
Billionaires woudn't exist if they weren't able to extract monopoly incomes with the help of the capitalist state.

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Where did you find such a reasonable troll?

@QasimRashid LOL .. ooops :P

@QasimRashid I love it when logic rules

@QasimRashid Well played, sir. 🖖 😸

@QasimRashid PR and money laundering...

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Bingo

@QasimRashid Exactly.

@QasimRashid it's not just billionaires though. Lobbyist groups for corporations and special interests control more legislation than a handful of billionaires

@QasimRashid @natalie I’m going to have to remember this process next time I get in this conversation.