Comments by "Newbie Prepper" (@newbieprepper8451) on "The Rational National"
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@AlanDantes76 yea, he got it from his friend who lives in WI and bought it in WI, so anyone doing any news coverage should be doing due diligence and researching it. i heard people say that he did transport it across state lines and i heard people that said he did not transport it across state lines, so with 2 differing viewpoints and an absence of any charges to the transporting of firearms across state lines i decided to do my own research, and google came up with a link to an NPR article within 0.016 seconds, top of the search list. so i read the NPR article, which literally said that the IL state police declined to file any charges because in the course of their investigation they concluded that the weapon was bought, stored, and used exclusively in WI and has never been brought to IL, according to the IL state police statement. so at that point i figured ok, NPR quoted an actual police department that did an actual criminal investigation. another funny thing that made me question the whole transporting weapons across state lines was, why was Rittenhous's friend who lives in WI charged with gun charges related to this case.
people dont do enough research, they listen to pundits who have an agenda, and they are twisted into wanting revenge and thinking it is justice. the same people who will claim that Zimmerman was wrong for stalking and attacking Trevon even though he perceived him as a threat are the same people that think it was perfectly OK for Rosenbaum to stalk and attack Rittenhouse because he viewed him as a threat. i believe that NO ONE is allowed to stalk and attack anyone else, stalking is a crime, at least here in Chicago, so is physically attacking someone, so is threatening to kill someone.
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@Dark_Jaguar the rich are already getting taxed, thats not the problem, the problem is that they are using loopholes in the tax code to drop their tax rate to nearly $0. those loopholes were put in place by repubs and dems together. they put those loopholes in to protect themselves because they are rich themselves. an unforseen consequence is that rich people can use those same loopholes. during the 2020 campaign, Warren was pushing the idea of raising taxes higher on people worth over $50 mil, do you know why that exact number? because she is worth just a little under $50 mil, so she has to protect herself. Sanders always ran around complaining about the millionaires and billionaires, right up until he became a millionaire, now he just cries about the billionaires and stays silent about the millionaires.
its not about taxing the rich, its about removing the loopholes, and you aint going to remove the loopholes when you have rich politicians that makes the laws that use those loopholes themselves, get rid of those politicians first, then you can get rid of the loopholes.
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@cliffgaither if a company unionizes, then that union will be asking for higher wages and more benefits, which will raise costs. im not saying they dont deserve it or they dont need it, of course they should get it and of course they deserve it and of course they need it.but dont tell me that it wont affect prices because the owners can do this or they can do that, what the owners can do and what owners have historically done are two different things. secondlu, we are not talking about what Bezos has access to, we are talking about his salary, which is not much. the rest of his fortune is tied in stocks, and while yes, certainly he has access to a vast fortune, that would entail him selling those stocks, and too much sales of stocks can have drastic effects on the company as a whole in various complicated ways. as an example, a too dramatic dip in share price of a company could jeapordize their ability to get standard operational loans, called a credit freeze. a large part of the 08-09 crisis was caused by a credit freeze from banks to most companies because most companies opperate on daily or weekly short term operational loans. thats just an example. thirdly yes, if workers are treated well, then there is no need for a strike, but there are instances of where workers are treated well and the union still goes on strike because they want concessions that are either unreasonable or unatainable. i have seen it happen before, i was in the teamsters union. what happens if a union decides they are worth $30 or $50 an hour, and the company simply can not afford it and the union goes on strike because they want it. does that mean the workers were treated bad or does it mean that they wanted unrealistic items that were unnatainable? give the workers everything they want and it wont matter how much the owners give up, it wont be enough to cover what the workers get and eventually prices will have to rise.
im not against unionizing, but i also lok at all the aspects from every side.
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@cliffgaither i agree, but you have to be able to look at both sides of a problem to find the solution.
if a pipe breaks in your house, to dont replace all the pipes because the pipe is evil, you figure out why that particular pipe broke and fix it and examine all the other pipes.
if a plane crashes, you dont throw out all other planes, you examine why it crashed, and should you fix other planes, do they even share a common failing part.
this problem is more complex than a simple broken pipe or a crashed plane, and it requires a more complex examination across all businesses and complex solutions tailored to various industries as they are not all the same.
Andrew yang had a wonderful idea during his campaign, taxing companies for robot workers in large amounts to offset the human workers that would lose their jobs to the robots and automation, and use that money to subsidize or give a universal income to those people affected by automation. i say its a wonderful idea because it identified a problem and tailored a solution that fit that exact problem without affecting other industries that didnt have that problem.
for example. i have always worked my entire life, ive worked regular blue collar jobs such as warehousing or factory or regular office jobs, i was never a CEO or even management, i simply didnt want that responsibility. and i did own my own company for a short time with no employees. the thing is, i have amassed a decent fortune by simply investing the little scraps of money i had left over. most of my money was made in a very early investment in bitcoin, although i sold it all a while ago, im not a filthy rich multimillionaire. would you praise me that i was able to rise up and better my life? or would you just simply look at me and relegate yourself to the belief that i am evil because i have tons of wealth and it must have been gained through nefarious deeds while standing on the backs of impoverished workers? i was one of those impoverished workers, and i rose above my station by taking risks, ha, if you can call them risks, $10 bucks once in a while is laughable as a risk. but still, i took some risks simply because i paid attention to fringe news. CHIA NETWORK, thats your free tip, check it out.
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@cliffgaither i understand, i used the restaurant example and the Coke example becaue i am more familiar with the numbers behind them a good restaurant will make up to 10% profit, but those are more of the large international chains like Mcdonalds or Burger King. the reason why they make so much is because of volume, Mcdonalds hasnt put up numbers on their signs in a decade or two with how many billions and billions served.
another industry i am familiar with is trucking, i currently work in the logistics industry so i know about trucking. UPS and FedEx are major truckign companies, what they specialize in is small parcel shipping, along with various other companies that are called LTL carriers, LTL = Less Than Truckload. most of these LTL carriers operate at -2 to +4 cents per mile profit margin, meaning there are some packages that they can potentially lose up to 2 cents per mile it travels from origin to destination. but truck drivers and those warehouse workers tend to make a decent living, but the company as a whole is barely profitable. funny how a small 5 pound package can travel very fast over 2000 miles and cost around the same as treating a family of 4 to a night at the movies. speaking of movies, theaters make absolutely nothing on the ticket sales themselves, movie theaters make all their money on the popcorn and pop and stuff they sell.
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