Comments by "dangerouslytalented" (@dangerouslytalented) on "Tea Partiers Still Screaming and Crying Over IRS Non-Scandal" video.

Except the sales tax would have to be MASSIVELY increased to compensate for the lack of income tax. And since the poor spend all of their money on the essentials, and the rich spend a very small amount of their income on essentials, the poorest will be spending a HUGE proportion of their income on this new tax. This is not a "fair" tax, it burdens, as a proportion of income, overwhelmingly poor people.
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99% of the 501 C 4s are there to dodge the regulations that apply to the PACs and Super PACs. They are pretending to be social welfare organisations, but they are doing NO social welfare, they are simply using that status to hide their donors, because if they were super PACs, they would have to show who ALL the donors are. The real scandal is not that they were delayed in their approval, the real scandal is that they were approved AT ALL.
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... such a tax puts a MASSIVE burden on those who can't afford it, the poorest, the people who don't HAVE any disposable income at all, and also puts a huge burden on consumers, which stifles demand.
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... And Belgium became incredibly rich off Congolese resources. Unfortunately the economic exploitation by the Belgians proved disasterous to the Congolese, because they were not interested in building a middle class or even manufacturing in Congo, and simply built enough infrastructure to loot the place with no reinvestment. The result is the richest are able to loot Congo with nothing trickling down to the rest of the nation.
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... masking the real scandal, that is these organisations are simply political action groups disguised as social welfare organisations in order to get around the disclosure laws that apply to PACs and SuperPACs.
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It is far easier to become rich when there is massive amounts of land to expand into, with virtually untapped resources, gold, silver, iron, oil, coal, tin, bison, agricultural land, so much raw material to extract and ship back east. When there is so much land to expand into, then it is EASY for an economy to expand.
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no, actually, it will in certain areas. For example, Michele Bachmann is retiring at the end of her current term, because she knows she can't win reelection. Sure, people like Gohmert will probably stay, but they will go further and further into the minority.
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They can get MASSIVE amounts of money from the poor without the IRS in the way. All they have to do is get together, form cartels, and squeeeeze the economy dry.
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