Trumpistan doesn’t intend to face another election. He’s here for the last chance; it’s grab power now or fail forever. And he knows it, that’s why he acts like that. The medicaid cuts are widely unpopular, but he doesn’t care what voters think anymore.
Police should stop and hinder ICE conductions; after all they have the duty to protect people from illegal harm. And ICE is clearly doing illegal things.
The Trumpistan party doesn’t intend to be elected ever again. That’s their last attempt. They try to take the country by a coup now. They don’t intend to face any votings, ever again. That’s why they’re acting like this.
I’m not contradicting you, just writing down some further notes:
I think the best thing would be to increase wealth tax, and decrease income and product tax.
The reason for this is: Wealth tax taxes wealth-hoarding, i.e. wealth that is stalling and not contributing to economic flow, i.e. production or re-distribution. Income and product tax inhibit the economy and slow it down, but don’t actually prevent wealth hoarding: Even if a billionaire is faced with 50% income tax, it’d simply take them twice as long to accumulate the insane amount of wealth. Wealth tax counteracts that, by reducing the size of the pile of gold these billionaires sit on effectively.
That being said, there’s 3 main types of wealth:
Some of these things can be moved easily, such as money, while other things can basically not be moved at all, such as real estate & infrastructure. It makes sense to tax the things most that are hardest to move, i guess.
An international wealth tax CAN be done, the only obstacle is mere political will.
There is real issues that need to be tackled, such as Ireland’s tax desert. There’s a couple of them around the world (around 20 countries do this iirc). I guess forcing them to close their tax deserts is difficult, because you’d either have to pressure them militarily or economically. Pressuring them militarily is a no-go in today’s time, and pressuring them economically might be challenging as these tax deserts could make a huge profit by offering lower taxes, and then taxing all the world’s rich, as they all move there.
I think the best course of action would be to exclude billionaires who do not pay a minimum amount of taxes in any country entrance to the domestic market, as they do not see themselves as a part of society, as they deny paying their fair share towards society, it’s fair to not let them participate in other parts of the society as well, such as doing business in your country. Business opportunity is a huge deal and very attractive for billionaires, who want to make even more money, so using that as leverage is very effective, i guess.
In other words, markets must be obstructed for investors who don’t pay their fair share in taxes.
That’s very good news.
As described in an announcement by the Spanish government, the initiative aims to create coordination between governments on the taxation of high-net-worth individuals to ensure they are not shuffling money abroad to avoid proper taxation.
I would like to point out that billionaires have to have an incentive to stay in one country, if their wealth is going to be taxed in that country. I.e., billionaires can only do business in a country that they pay their fair share of taxes in.
And even if it was more than three, they’d just propose the same bill again, until it passes
One could call it the “biggest” suicide note in history.
(i got this phrase from castlevania, iirc, where a heartbroken lord starts to wage lots of wars to force others to kill him, because he no longer wants to live, but for some reason is unable to just die without somebody else’s actions.)
It’s interesting that the US has civil war both at its beginning and at its end.
I suspect it illustrates some “ring of fire” that surrounds the US.
Where will this bring america in 20 years? Republicans don’t ask that question because to them, “in 20 years” is a meaningless category. that simply does not exist. the future does not exist, according to them.
They will be labeled “socialists”
a vote for bart is a vote for anarchy
These articles are supposed to create sympathy for Israel or sth?
oh they enjoy suffering! suffering builds character or something
america is truly an exceptional place, just not the kind of exception that i’d like to ever encounter
i can literally imagine an american sitting at the kitchen table and thinking “hmm, what do we need in our lives? more spice”
well, here’s the bill.
Just for comparison: NASA got $25 billion per year for the last 10 years or so. source
by “bad” he means anybody who doesn’t agree with him
In other words, trump intends to throw US citizens who disagree with trump in these camps as well.
That’s gonna mean politically motivated disappearances, abductions, a.k.a. state sponsored terrorism.
The question is, can the states protect their own people against the Federal Government?
I did some research and found that:
Just to give you an idea of troop strengths, in case a civil war does break out.
nooo! can’t you see, as a male, that you want to be with a woman means you’re sexist, because you’re reducing the women to something that you want to be with for your own well-being. how selfish of you. men are the blight of society!
i’m so sick of today’s “feminism” which plays women and men against each other, setting society up for a great divide, all to distract from actual issues such as social safety-nets, eroding wages and exploitative working conditions.
land of the free
making merch for concentration camps illegal would be un-american. think of the freedom of companies to do what they want!