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Eyeglasses and Hearing Aids?!??

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AverageJoe1
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Will you libs ever stop it with the free stuff? I hate calling you out on this, but note that over our eons of posts, when i have pointed out your Dependency on govt, that you have never denied it.
Of course, it would follow that you are teaching your children to be on government as well. You cannot feel good about this.
And the feds are taking over state authority with water etc. etc. Do I have to tell you what all this leads to, although this may be what you want it to lead to.
Free eyeglasses. Jesus.

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@averagejoe1 said
Will you libs ever stop it with the free stuff? I hate calling you out on this, but note that over our eons of posts, when i have pointed out your Dependency on govt, that you have never denied it.
Of course, it would follow that you are teaching your children to be on government as well. You cannot feel good about this.
And the feds are taking over state author ...[text shortened]... hat all this leads to, although this may be what you want it to lead to.
Free eyeglasses. Jesus.
What the fck are you blithering on about now?

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@shavixmir said
What the fck are you blithering on about now?
He resents the wealthy being taxed to provide glasses and hearing aids for the poor.

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@athousandyoung said
He resents the wealthy being taxed to provide glasses and hearing aids for the poor.
Yet he’s fine using tax payers dollars to fund the weapon industrial complex.

Mad as a hatter. Mad as a bloody hatter.

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@shavixmir said
Yet he’s fine using tax payers dollars to fund the weapon industrial complex.

Mad as a hatter. Mad as a bloody hatter.
The MIC is useful to the wealthy because it provides a "stick" for the "carrot and stick" negotiating strategy - it allows these Anglo American upper class people to make "offers they can't refuse" in the shape of massive artillery platforms sitting off the coast of the other guy. However they will do their best to shift this tax burden to the middle class if they can.

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@athousandyoung said
He resents the wealthy being taxed to provide glasses and hearing aids for the poor.
That is correct. Could y’all possibly suggest that we get them IPhones as well? And If they have more children than they can afford, I will so happy to dig into my retirement savings and use my money to help raise the kids. The Common Good, dont you know.
Common, indeed.

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@shavixmir said
Yet he’s fine using tax payers dollars to fund the weapon industrial complex.

Mad as a hatter. Mad as a bloody hatter.
That would be one argument.
The military is a social program.
It protects everyone equally.
It even protects illegal immigrants.

On the other hand, the military is a big stick used to protect American interests abroad.
After all, according to studies, the USA is a country with 5% of the world's population consuming 25% of the world's natural resources.
That has gotta drive up the resentment against America around the world.
Which in turn drives up America's military costs.

Of course, I am waiting for responses justifying the disproportionate consumption of natural resources by one country.
And I am sure there will be some good arguments.
Waiting........... 🕒

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@averagejoe1 said
Will you libs ever stop it with the free stuff? I hate calling you out on this, but note that over our eons of posts, when i have pointed out your Dependency on govt, that you have never denied it.
Of course, it would follow that you are teaching your children to be on government as well. You cannot feel good about this.
And the feds are taking over state author ...[text shortened]... hat all this leads to, although this may be what you want it to lead to.
Free eyeglasses. Jesus.
But you are fine with bailouts and handouts for rich corporations.

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@averagejoe1 said
Will you libs ever stop it with the free stuff? I hate calling you out on this, but note that over our eons of posts, when i have pointed out your Dependency on govt, that you have never denied it.
Of course, it would follow that you are teaching your children to be on government as well. You cannot feel good about this.
And the feds are taking over state author ...[text shortened]... hat all this leads to, although this may be what you want it to lead to.
Free eyeglasses. Jesus.
Will you libs ever stop it with the free stuff?

Oh - You mean the hundreds of billions of our tax $$ given away to the Fortune 500 as subsidies, grants and other corporate welfare goodies, most of which goes to stock buy backs, lavish corporate retreats, over bloated exec. salaries, and bonus's??

Lord forbid the working class should collect a few crumbs - right?? 🙄

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@Phranny
Been working for a long long time. How do you think UBi income will fit in with that.?

Would there be a difference if we all were taxed 100%, verses paying no income tax at all?
I dont think there would be any difference.

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@mchill said
Will you libs ever stop it with the free stuff?

Oh - You mean the hundreds of billions of our tax $$ given away to the Fortune 500 as subsidies, grants and other corporate welfare goodies, most of which goes to stock buy backs, lavish corporate retreats, over bloated exec. salaries, and bonus's??

Lord forbid the working class should collect a few crumbs - right?? 🙄
Then, to make it sqare up, about the feds tax them, and send the revenues to all citizens (and to all of the illegal people who should not be here, to satisfy the liberals amongst us).? Would that , theoretically, make sense? Skip all the bureaucratic nonsense?

To answer your question, everything has been tremendous for the last 200 years to create this country. It is not perfect. Presently the economy is doing fantastic, fantastic. And isn’t it funny that the economy is doing fantastic with the present tax structure? I am as befuddled as you are, but why fix something that’s not broke?

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So, say a lot of people want to pool resources and spend it when needed… you know… taxation… what’s the problem?

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@averagejoe1 said
Then, to make it sqare up, about the feds tax them, and send the revenues to all citizens (and to all of the illegal people who should not be here, to satisfy the liberals amongst us).? Would that , theoretically, make sense? Skip all the bureaucratic nonsense?

To answer your question, everything has been tremendous for the last 200 years to create this country. It ...[text shortened]... ith the present tax structure? I am as befuddled as you are, but why fix something that’s not broke?
Then, to make it sqare up, about the feds tax them, and send the revenues to all citizens


Read what you just wrote Joe. What does this even mean?? 6 year old's write better than this!

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@mchill said
Then, to make it sqare up, about the feds tax them, and send the revenues to all citizens


Read what you just wrote Joe. What does this even mean?? 6 year old's write better than this!
I am writing to liberals. In 3 words, yall “want the money”. You cannot deny it. You, but not I , would gladly have your hands out for UBI, for instance. You cannot deny it.
So, in plain 5th grade grammar for simplicity, I am simply feeding into lib philosophy that you demand to get money from rich people. Isnt this how you would do it.?
(Are you boys aware that if you tax the hell out of the refrigerator company, that they will simply raise the price of the refrigerators, the corporate heads will still take home the same income that they always have, and you will pay more for the refrigerator. Why do you not acknowledge such simple economics? But, that is for another thread)

So, if you balk at my post , tell us what else you would do with the revenues from corps? Realistically,...... not silly stuff like have Biden give millions to the arts, or hearing aids, such as that.

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@shavixmir said
So, say a lot of people want to pool resources and spend it when needed… you know… taxation… what’s the problem?
Too general. If i make $70K a year, and you make $500K, tell us the formula that you would come up with for the fabulous pool. You know, the Marx line...” from each according to his ability....”.
And here is the clincher. How and to whom would you dole it out?
Remember, I have often said let us clothe and feed the 40 million destitute in the USA. So the question to you is, do you give some of this money to the other people who can certainly take care of themselves, with 9 million jobs available out there?

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