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The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
now that he said that... (Score:5, Interesting)
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Good question. But something not so different happened in the past. A bunch of people angry over reddit’s policies and content started a new uncensored site called voat.co
You’ll notice it didn’t last long. Head over to archive.org and look at the final few weeks. It’s a bit difficult to attract advertisers when half the posts on the front page were just complaints about how the jews and n******* were ruining these people’s already terrible lives.
Re: now that he said that... (Score:0, Insightful)
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Sorry, bud, but "normal people," which is to say the majority of Americans, support people living however they please. We are not authoritarian by nature, quite the contrary. We believe in individual rights to self expression, and if you don't, I kindly suggest it you may not be a real American.
As for left wing narratives, the majority of voters in both parties favor economic policies to the left of what we have now. Medicare is left wing socialism, and the most popular government program ever made. That's
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I think in 10 years at the rate of expenditure growth vs GDP is that all the taxes combined won't exceed the interest alone.
Given what happens at that point, would you still say it's working? The biggest expense in the US in mandatory algorithmic spending. Support programs, medicare stuff, anything that just increases without anyone deciding the budget just based on the number of the people in the country.
Senators have been presenting this problem. Anyway until you revert to slavery you're not going to be a
Re: now that he said that... (Score:2, Interesting)
We need to raise taxes on the rich back to what they were in the good old days Republicans pine for. Marginal tax rate of 90%. "Oh!" you whine, "Nobody paid that!" Yes, but they paid more than they do now and that's the point. Raise taxes on capital gains, raise corporate taxes, lower taxes for the middle class and boom! Deficit fixed.
Normal people are not lazy, they just don't want to be taken advantage of. The real drag on our economy is billionaires and other tax cheats.