Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "Steve Lehto" channel.

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  98.  @sundoga4961  " It's the duty and responsibility of the citizenry to support the government and help pay for the services provided by it, just as it's the duty and responsibility of the citizenry to vote in a democracy. " yes, but most taxes are not necessary, overbearing, and weaponized against he public. There is a pint at which too much taxation actually shrinks teh economy and you start bringing in LESS tax revenue than if you taxed people LESS. this is a well understood, well proven, well studied fact. Taxes should be simple and stay below that line at which taxes hurt the economy. There is no need for income tax for example. we have sales tax, every penny will be taxed when it gets spent. Property taxes should never be so overbearing as to force people who are debt free into being forced to sell their home. Taxation on sales of used items makes no sense. Raising taxes on commercial property when a business person is extorting for high sales/rent prices would be a good thing. I propose doubling the property tax every month a commercial property is not being used for commercial purposes. Eventually the owner will have to rent or sell it out as they will end up paying more in taxes than the property is worth. this ensures people are able to get affordable opportunities to develop businesses in places like NYC. There is a county in my state where such extortion pricing is going on and it is killing business in teh entire county, and as a result that county is the most underdeveloped and poorest counties, because all the commercial properties are owned and they are asking something like 3x more than they are worth. But go ahead, sling insults and behave like a child and over simplify reality and beg the gov to be your daddy and take care of you like a child.
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  173.  @sundoga4961  sure, kick, scream, and sling insults. That works very time. "The entire purpose of government is to provide services for the populace" 100% wrong. the gov exists to secure the borders of the nation first and foremost. then to conduct trade and alliances with foreign nations. Then to enforce the rule of law and settle disputes. Beyond that there is little gov should be doing. And in the US the federal go is supposed to leave pretty much the rest up to the states to handle. It is Not the role of gov to provide healthcare, insurance, free shit (welfare for lazy people), nor to restrict what toxins individuals freely choose to ingest, nor to tell people what cars, stoves or otherwise they should buy. that is left to the free market, and it worked really well until the gov intervened. OSHA has not increased workplace safety more than was already happening. Welfare has done worse than charity to reduce poverty. Gov interference in healthcare is why it can be so expensive in the US. "But to me, the solution would be a properly regulated and stepped income tax, starting at zero tax for the first bracket and rising to somewhere around 75% at the highest bracket." we already have a stepped bracket. The last time they had taxes that high it stopped investments, and resulted in more tax dodging, and the gov brought in LESS taxes than it did with Lower tax rates. " Second, it shifts the greatest burden of paying taxes to those who are both the most able to pay without suffering injury, and who benefit the most from the very system they are responsible for supporting" that is already the case. the top 50% of US earners pay pretty much All the taxes. And the top 10% or less pay something like 50% of all the taxes. and that's with a top tax of something like 39%. But myself and others run small businesses, and when they lowered taxes a few years ago, the economy took off like a drag car and prices dropped, States were having surplus. then they came back and removed all the tax breaks and things slowed back to a crawl and prices went up again. "Third, a high level of taxation on corporate profits encourages companies to reinvest profits back into the company", but that's not what happens, a lot is sent offshore to hide in tax havens. "I do like the idea for commercial property. If we included rental residential property in that, it would act as a downward stressor for rent levels, too." you're insane, it drive rent prices sky high. It's very obvious you have no understanding of how taxes work. Price fixing is a disaster too, especially for housing. those who fail to learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them. open a damned economics and history book.
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  174.  @sundoga4961  you're a pretty awful historian then. Being a historian doesn't make you an expert in economics and business though. "Plus, you would prevent such things as government being involved in roads, zoning and other city planning, provision of necessary resources such as water, electricity and gas, and whole hosts of services they either provide or pay others to provide. " wrong, that is for the states. it would still happen. " Well, no, actually. Before such things as standards and practices, consumer law and employment law, the American consumer was getting comprehensively screwed. Besides the most egregious examples - Company Scrip and Stores, cross-market Trusts and area-control agreements come to mind - there was no guarantees of quality of goods, lifespan, or safety of foodstuffs. A perfect example occurs during the US Civil War, to the Federal Government, as it happens. Soldiers in the field were opening cans of meat and finding the contents to be rotten. That can't happen to properly canned meat...unless it was rotten when it was canned." Yes, there will always be examples to cherry pick from, but they were not the norm. but back then, most people grew their own food, so not an issue. Also, when the gov is purchasing things in a war, they have a right to impose standards, as a customer. But they don't have the right to restrict private sales between private individuals. "They also continue to function in situations where charities are overwhelmed - in both Great Depressions, hundreds of thousands of people died needlessly from starvation because they couldn't find work, couldn't earn a living and the charities had nothing for them." not the role of gov to provide jobs or welfare. The people combined bad business practices with bad farming practices in a time of extreme warming and drought. Banking regulations help, and people learning to farm better (by suffering the consequences of bad practices and learning not to do it again) fix that. No jobs programs or welfare needed. "Bullshit. OSHA was enacted because nothing much WAS happening." that's a lie. Workplace safety was trending up, workplace deaths and accidents trending down. The trend did not accelerate after OSHA came along, and now OSHA has become far too overbearing that it actually prevents businesses from existing at all. "Charity has never done any good at all in reducing poverty, " that is a lie. While charity was going on (and it still is), poverty was trending down, but after welfare came about, the rate at which poverty was declining slowed down, and even started reversing and going up since COVID and Biden's inflation magnification policies. Charity also does more to deal with natural disaster relief than gov does, and that is a proven fact. "in both Great Depressions, hundreds of thousands of people died needlessly from starvation because they couldn't find work, couldn't earn a living and the charities had nothing for them." nobody owed them anything. survival is YOUR personal responsibility. To force others to provide for you against their will is Slavery. You advocate for slavery. They failed to act in a smart manner to safeguard their survival, and they died as a result. Actions have consequences. "dropping taxes does stimulate the economy...in the short term. In some cases, it's very much the right thing to do. But long-term it causes problems." Wrong, the tax breaks always end before long term data can be collected. But having no taxes at all doesn't hurt an economy one bit, it only hurts gov spending. Having taxes hurts an economy, no matter how little, as it takes money from people who would have spent or invested it back into the economy. You're arguing the wrong things, from teh wrong perspective. " again, not true. Investment was just fine in the 1950s and 1960s with significantly higher tax levels. In the 1970s...we had the oil crisis and the economic disruption of losing the Vietnam War, " you claim it was good to have high taxes in the 50s and 60s, but then acknowledge it was actually bad instead, but use events from later to explain why it was bad. you can't cite the future as a reason for what happened in the past. And data of tax rates and gov revenues is very clear, the US brought in less taxes at high tax rates, and there was more tax dodging as a result. The gov brings in more taxes overall, in lower tax environments by virtue of volume of economic activity and people worrying less about low taxes. "Tax haven systems only work when the government permits them to. Witness the tightening of foreign investment laws in the US in the 1920s, which simply closed the gate - it defined monies sent overseas as profits and required immediate payment of tax owing. A brute force solution, we could do better now, but it worked. And again, the 1950s and 1960s disagree with you - much more money was being reinvested and much less going as dividends to shareholders." shows how little you know. there is always a way to cheat the system, and every law you pass to close one loophole creates two more new loopholes. It's a result of complexity. "Your argument (for want of a better word) makes no sense. If a rental agency or private owner must either get a tenant or pay higher levels of tax, they will be incentivized to do what they can to get a tenant - such as dropping rents. Increasing rent would only make it LESS likely to find a tenant!" wow you're dumb. The problem with rent is that people can't simply wait it out and go homeless waiting for the owner to lower their rates, whereas the owner can wait months to years. So people pay the rate that is available or they don't. The higher taxes will simply be passed along to the tenant, or the owner will simply stop renting out their private property altogether. you are a terrible historian, if you are even a historian at all.
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  224.  @catreecemacleod7556  "Like 1/2 the people you interact with won't be stupider than you are probably just because you don't really get to run into the people who are really, really dumb that often. They can't function in basic society for the most part, so you're probably not going to encounter them. " not true, they are out there every day. If you understand statistics you'll know that the majority of people are distributed about the mean, meaning most people I meet each day are very near average. "Also, the more complicated a task you're doing, the less likely you are to encounter them" you have a point there. "so something like just reading the youtube comments is a pretty big buffer because they need to be literate and know how to use a computer at a basic level for you to really encounter someone on here for instance." most people can read and write, you're more likely to meet relatively dumb people on the internet than anywhere else. "So the chances are that it's less than half the people you'll interact with will be stupider than you are. In fact, given the people you interact with will often be people like your family doctor, your pharmacist, teachers and other professionals, you'll find a lot of them will be above average, so this makes it again even more unlikely. " I don't have a doctor or pharmacist. I'm actually so healthy I self diagnose myself even while in teh doctor's office, and they agree with me. I'm smart enough to not need a doctor and only go as required for periodic physicals required for the work I do. I almost never see the same doctor twice. While in college I taught the classes better than the professors did, so much so the professors thought I was one of their coworkers. I have been offered a job as a college professor multiple times, I did teach at a college for a time, I mentor people all teh time though on teh side, in math, history, engineering, physics, etc. I'm one of the top in my profession where I work, and it's a very small field and highly competitive. But I know where I stand on the distribution, I have proven it so many times over now in more than one way too. I score in the top 1% not just intellectually, but performance-wise too, and have scored there since grade school. I guarantee you 99% of the people I meet each day are, relatively speaking, "dumber" than me. I take no pride in that, I think the average person is nearly as capable as me. There is nothing I know or can do I can't teach to someone else. But I beat people by besting them in every category overall, not just any one. I am not the best in the world at any one thing I can do either (I easily could, if I focused all my energy on just that thing for enough years), again my advantage lies in the overall abilities. But it gives me a strange perspective knowing this. Call it arrogance, but it's not arrogance when you can and have backed it up time and again. I know my limits, but also what I'm capable of. "The question becomes more about how often do you go to McDonald's or Walmart, for your chances for that 1 out of 2 people statistic to come true." people watching can be fun, and annoying too. " it means you will probably never encounter the dumbest people.", oh but I have, and do. It's not that hard, unless you're a shut-in.
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  372.  @neoqwerty  I get your idealism. I too used to feel the same way. But I have come to accept the reality that is human psychology, and it actually has Nothing to do with people wanting to speed, nor with people being jerks. It's about managing basic human perceptions. it goes deeper than you claim, just oversimplifying things and blaming "speeders" doesn't solve anything. Accepting reality and working around reality solves the problem and results in fewer issues, fewer car accidents, more polite driving overall, etc. Often times, the issue doesn't even involve a single person who is speeding at all. Most traffic jams for example, are caused by people doing the "slinky", and nothing else. when you have 10 cars in a line, the car at the front might be going 57mph, and the car at the rear is only going 51mph and is getting annoyed because the speed limit is 55pmh.and if the person in front instead went 55mph, the guy in back is doing more like 50mph or less. and now he's really pissed people aren't keeping their speed up, not knowing why people are really going slow. Also, you lose FAR more time going slow, than you can make up by speeding. If the speed limit is 55mph and you're stuck doing 50mph for 10miles, you'd have to go something like 85mph over the next 10miles to make up for lost time. People don't typically do that, but it should highlight that getting stuck in slow traffic is far more detrimental to a person keeping a schedule than speeding can reasonably make up for. Slow drivers have a far more detrimental impact on safety and lost time than speeders do. I don't mind speeders, so long as they respect people doing the speed limit. they are free to risk a ticket all they like, but they have no right to get mad at me for doing the speed limit. but I fully understand if they get mad at me for going 5-10mph under the speed limit and holding them up needlessly. if you or anyone else can't handle driving the speed limit, then you shouldn't have a drivers license. If you just want to drive slow, then pull over periodically and let the rest of us pass you and stop impeding everyone else.
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  544.  @OnkyoGrady  "However, you can't say what the role of gov is, and i can't either. " I can say what the role of gov is, as I understand why gov exists at all. And you could too if you read up on it more. There are set primary roles of gov, regardless of public opinion, and then their are roles gov can take on that are debatable whether they should or not. "I think an incredible case can be made for our model, buy others can do likewise. We can point to material and economic excellence, and they can point to their own metrics wins to justify their own methods (happiness, infant mortality, education etc)." Of course. I think the underlying ideas the US Founding Fathers built upon are superior to anything else ever devised (and that is based upon facts and evidence, not just blind bias), but the modern US has strayed from this vision. Some things weren't provisioned for and so needed changing, other things are blatant power grabs of corporations and politicians, and other things are idealistic notions of lazy people that don't actually work as advertised. I actually have a document I'm working on creating for a revised US gov that builds upon the ideas of the Founding Fathers, US Constitution, and more, but accounts for modern issues, while devising ways to limit corruption and such better. It solves healthcare, education, and more. The hope is that if I can lay out a complete idea (keeping in mind no idea is, or ever will be, perfect) people will better understand what I mean and how it works in totality, and can be modelled in simulations or games to show that it does in fact work as advertised (and if not, make changes until it does).
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