Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Douglas Murray: Will Elon Musk Make America Great Again?" video.
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@alviverdeus "Private jet purchases are fully tax deductible, new car purchases are not."
This is a lie. Business expenses are deductible, so is personal itemizable transportation expense. People who don't itemize can't deduct the amortization as such, but in theory it's included in the standard deduction.
"Mortgage interest and property taxes from home ownership are tax deductible, rent payments are not. "
Same lie. If you itemize you can deduct housing expenses, including rent.
" earned income counts against your benefits, passive income from investments does not."
"Realized" income from capitol gains counts (beyond a certain point) against benefits and as income on taxes. You want a system where the appreciation on an assets gets taxed, but you don't get reimbursed if it loses value. Deducting for losses only helps if you get income from elsewhere in the same year, and in the current system only "realized" loss, that is, you must have sold the asset for less than you bought it for.
"The established mousetrap industry will either try to buy you, and if that fails, then ruin you."
So, you're AGAINST the attempts of established social media, aerospace companies, auto makers, in collusion with the bureaucracy to sink Elon Musk? The solution is to downsize government. The robber barons of yesteryear and today defend their monopolies by leveraging government against the competition. Disarm them.
There is a strong temptation to pretend that humans are naturally good, and that the problems of the human condition are the result of some social construct, because we don't want to face the truth about ourselves. To the communist free markets; to the anarchist government; to the New Atheists religion, to primitivists agriculture or technology, to racists whites or blacks or Jews or whoever; is the root of all evil. As the song says, "You can run from yourself, but you won't get far. 'Cause wherever you go --- There you are." This is the starting point of clarity in history, sociology, and psychiatry; every study which pertains to the nature of humanity. In fact, the same flawed, imperfect, selfish, stupid nature that infests the lord, or the "capitalist", infests the politician and bureaucrat. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The "capitalist" AS SUCH, can only hire or bribe. A government can do that (with other people's money), plus arrest and kill you or your family. It is incoherent to fear the former and not fear the latter. No "angel" is available to bear this power benignly. Government is "a dangerous servant and a fearful master".
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