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Comment Re:If they were balancing the federal budget (Score 1) 825

Usually, people making such accusations are the ones who like to move goal posts. Today's regulation, tax, and borrowing is never enough for tomorrow, right? The government is too big to fail, too? It's bad enough that the banks were treated this way (if that wasn't a prime example of the 1% treading on the rest of us, what is?).

I've never advocated for anarchy. All I said was that the state should have to work within budgets just like the rest of us, whether we're the top 1% or the bottom 99. I don't mind hitting up the top 10% or so to help pay off the debt, esp the large organizations that've benefited from taxpayer loans over the years, but the system that allowed the abuse to happen still needs to be fixed first. The democrat and republican parties are too mired in their ideological purity and/or political alliances to do this.

Comment Re:If they were balancing the federal budget (Score 1) 825

Exactly. If this plan also included banning the limitless deficit spending, as well as substantial simplification of the tax code, I'd support this. Close the loopholes for the 1%, reduce government expenditures and force it to levy specific taxes that fund specific needed public programs. Reduce the bloat of those programs and junk the rest. Reduce or eliminate all other tax besides income. Leftover cash goes back to the taxpayer as refunds. No more slush funds. No more state sponsored monopolies. The state should not be aiding multinationals' ability to corner markets.

Otherwise, you're right, 2 trillion will just disappear across the event horizon of the growing deficit singularity with no effect.

Comment In other words (Score 1) 307

Younger people don't have the life experience to realize the implications of encroaching states, making the idea of 'lets all work together towards the radiant future a powerful lure. They were brought up in the most recent iterations of the pro-state propaganda in the public schools and universities which encourage and value individual achievement a lot less than just a few generations ago. Those in previous generations who grew up with one system and watched their kids go through the other realize what was sacrificed.

Anecdotally, I think that younger people ARE aware and disapprove but I think they're less likely to do anything about it.

Comment Re:Two reasons (Score 2) 495

No, corporations have low/no tax burden because the ruling class running them use the republicans to lobby the state for exemptions.. When people get sick of this, they vote in the socialists who then grow the size of the state, passing new taxes, regulations, and expenditures that end up hurting everyone, including the middle/lower classes they claim to care about. When people get sick of THAT, they vote the republicans back in, who then reenforce the loopholes protecting the ruling class from these new encroachments. During election years, we get to hear how much more they're going to 'reach across the aisle' by increasing our deficit for the next go around, driving up inflation and taxes, which, again, hurt the middle/lower classes much more than the ruling elite. I just wonder when people will stop bandwagoneering for these ivy league lawyer brat tyrants, regardless of party.

I don't know where you live, but it sounds like you get your info from western europe propaganda. That's hardly better than fox or msnbc over here. It's nearly impossible to find good journalism these days, so the best any of us can do is get news from multiple sources and connect the implied dots. Don't let them channel your thinking.

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