• WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    At the expense of giving 100,000 people a $1000,000 raise, which would massively stimulate the economy.

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      And those 100,000 people being the country’s industrial elite, the raise being tax breaks for those people, and the country being USA.

      You could run on a over the counter GOP ticket.

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        I always think that there should be a spoiler candidate who espouses the most egregiously horrible GOP positions in no uncertain terms or mitigated language.

        Unlike the Democrats, I firmly believe that children should be removed from school and put to work in coal mines at nine years old!!

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            Yeah the conservative fine print is really becoming their front page material fast.

            It’s like, they don’t have to cover it up anymore, decades of political brainwashing has gotten enough people on board with the original psychosis for them to just flaunt it.

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              Abortion access is really hurting them on that front.

              It’s all well and good to obsess over and villanise minorities like trans people that have no meaningful effect on conservative lives, but you start attaching a life-long responsibility to another human for an accident, and people aren’t going to like it.

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        If you give a billionaire money, they basically throw it on the pile.

        If you give the average American money - particularly the 57% that can’t afford a $1k emergency, they’ll spend it. That spending funds jobs, profits, and is re-spent again and again until it winds up siphoned off as shareholder profits and eventually added to the pile.

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          Yeah but if you flood the economy with money by giving everyone a million dollars then you’ll have hyper inflation and the money will become effectively worthless and nobody will be better off.

          This is one of the ways billionaires can control countries. They have so much money they can literally affect the value of those countries currency by buying and selling vast quantities of it.

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            Except we’re not talking about the printing money - we’re talking about the wealthy leeching off the labour of others while pulling money out of circulation, acting as a predatory handbrake on the economy to the tune of a billion dollars vs putting that money in the hands of the workers that created the value, who will also spend it in a more economically stimulative manner.

            Everyone would be better off other than a very small few, who are functionally disconnected from the society they leech off in any case.