Mastodawn

@broadwaybabyto

How much are you planning to donate to these people in need?

@AlexanderKingsbury @broadwaybabyto

J. R. DePriest

:EA DATA. SF:Jun 16

Would you please explain what your comment had to do with the evil of the United States governments allowing a single wretched, racist human being to amass a wealth of one trillion United States dollars while also having allowed the same man to indiscriminately and illegally take a metaphorical chainsaw to multiple United States government bodies' budgets and staffs as well as steal gigabytes of data regarding United States citizens with no oversight or accountability?

There are not enough regular people in the country to "donate" our way out of the generational damage done by this one man. It's like asking me to take cold showers and turn off my AC so genAI datacenters can have more power. There are orders of magnitude of difference in accountability.

After the United States government cut $1,000,000,000 earmarked for PBS and NPR, they saw a flood of donations, including a single $80,000,000 donation, for a total of $113,000,000. I give PBS $5 a month. Now a single human being has been allowed to hoard $1,000,000,000,000. The scale is incomparable. He's killed 600,000 people that we know of so far. He should be in prison awaiting trial as a mass murderer not profiting off an artificially pumped IPO designed to steal from my retirement and the retirement of every other United States citizen who works an honest job.

"There are not enough regular people in the country to "donate" our way out of the generational damage done by this one man."

Then there aren't enough of us to bear the tax burden of these programs. These programs pretty much have to be funded by taxes. And no, "tax the rich" is not an answer. Confiscate every single penny of wealth from every billionaire in the US and you would 1; totally crash the economy. 2; fund the federal government for a whopping...9 months.

@AlexanderKingsbury @broadwaybabyto

J. R. DePriest

:EA DATA. SF:Jun 16

Saying "Tax the rich is not the answer" is either disengenous or trolling. Wealth at those levels used to be taxed at 90% and they still had more money than most saw in a lifetime.

IT IS THE ANSWER AND IT WORKED UNTIL IT WAS INTENTIONALLY DISMANTLED OVER TWO GENERATIONS PRECISELY TO GET US TO THIS POINT.

This has been the goal for longer than I've been alive: unchecked power for capitalism and "the people" with no recourse but to go along with it, starve, go to prison, or be executed.

Ever since The New Deal, they've been undoing it piece by piece.

If you can't see that, you need to look beyond the wall to wall propaganda they've been feeding us that this is normal.

Reagan, Citizens United, overturning Roe v. Wade, overturning VRA one decision at a time. All slowly squeezing anyone who isn't a wealthy white man into irrelevance and servitude. The SAVE Act will make it much more difficult for married women to vote and likely impossible for most transgender people to vote. Marriage equality is next.

Please, wake up and look around. We are ruled by evil, selfish men who must be held accountable and everything they have stolen must be taken back. That is the only way to end this cycle.

"Saying "Tax the rich is not the answer" is either disengenous or trolling."

It's mathematically ltiierate. I'm sorry if you hate the truth, but it's very simple. Look at the nordic nations; they don't "tax the rich" heavily, they tax EVERYONE heavily.

You can claim something is "the answer" by yelling and screaming all you want, but at the end of the day, if the numbers don't add up (hint; they don't), you don't actually have a solution.

@AlexanderKingsbury @broadwaybabyto

J. R. DePriest

:EA DATA. SF:Jun 16

Okay. Never mind. I don't have time for this level of foolishness. Please have a very pleasant evening.

Please feel free to let me know if you ever start caring about facts instead of emotions. For better or worse, it's facts that lead us towards actual solutions. Emotions do not.

Just as one example, go ahead and try to find anyone who actually paid 90% income tax historically. You can claim that that's "the answer", except...no one actually paid that amount. So it's not the answer, and never was.

Dźwiedziu Jun 16

@AlexanderKingsbury
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_taxation_in_the_United_States#Development_of_the_modern_income_tax – those facts

Also:
- don't boast that maths is on your side if you present none,
- don't do the same about economics, after the Cambridge capital controversy and the beating of “economists” by Joan Robinson so savage, that it's under those “economists'” omerta,
- emotions are valid, people can get emotional when confronted by a liar doubling down, who is using their emotions against them,
- (one in the pocket for later).