Comments by "Zach B" (@zachb1706) on "John Stossel" channel.

  1. "Democrats largely get a pass, even if you can't tell what they say" 😂
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  2. If you didn’t add asians, people probably would have been fine with it
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  3. “Balancing climate truth and first amendment” It’s 100% first amendment and 0% truth. Because without free speech - truth doesn’t exist
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  4. The postal service is there because it’s not profitable. Many rural towns may be completely cut off from the mail as it would be too costly
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  5. To be fair, it’s probably one reason why the “wage gap” is wide. Woman take paid leave more than men - they are a obstacle
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  6. I think it’s called “The Biden Plan” I can’t wait for Bidencare, Biden Affairs
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  7. I don’t understand why it’s illegal. People say it objectifies woman... like the millions of porn videos and pictures. It’s not like prostitution is something your forced to do
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  8. Drawing is a girls thing? Someone tell the thousands of male artists.
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  9. No
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  10. I love people who say tromp dors it for money... like he hasn’t lost millions campaigning
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  11. The issue is that we are fighting wars that we don’t support. The president is a single person, he doesn’t represent 330 million people.
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  12. Who is voting for these fuckwits?
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  13. Sone countries like norway get a year and a half of parental leave Once that oil money runs out the nordic countries will be done for
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  14. I think there's some space for rental protection. You know, preventing the leasor from initially posting a low price, and then raising the price drastically down the line because the tenants are essentially stuck.
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  15. I don’t get the idea of pensions at all. You pay into the system, hoping that later on some poor sucker will pay for you. This endless cycle continues... it’s a stupid system
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  16. It’s had some socialist policies, just look at the Nazi 25-Point Plan
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  17. edward dix and theres thorium, that is being used around the world. It produces much less waste, is cheaper to run and it isn’t fissile meaning there’s no chance of a meltdown.
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  18. It’s kind of his job, to set the line
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  19. By putting everyone in poverty?
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  20. Stossel points out another stupid government regulation that ends up doing more harm than good.
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  21. $770 an hour?
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  22. Misleading?
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  23. And Venezuela, and Cuba, and the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany, and Italy... how ignorant some people’s are to the looming danger of government power
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  24. That’s great! A bad student should be expelled!
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  25. They earn less, pass college less, ect.
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  26. You can’t force ejected officials to do what they promise, must if the tune it’s congress that prevents them. And even them, new information may come on later that shows that it’s not a great idea.
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  27. Depends on the reactor. And that waste can be reused, or stored in one of our many radioactive dumps around America.
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  28. Drakesy Hitler was elected. Being voted in isn’t a free pass.
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  29. Drakesy it’s not insecurity, it’s called caution.
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  30. He had to get off those drugs, he would have died or had serious mental issues otherwise. He is still recovering
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  31. Apparently Venezuela does.
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  32. Carbon is emitted by the planet, we are just accelerating the rate of the emission
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  33.  Ken MacDonald  what is false?
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  34. Anyone on the streets is most likely covered by Medicare or Medicaid
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  35. Rodfather Fishing you don’t have to afford a $100000 medical bill because you have insurance. And if you can’t afford insurance, you are probably covered under Medicaid.
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  36. Rodfather Fishing they wouldn’t be in debt in the first place if they brought insurance
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  37. Rodfather Fishing insurance pays for medical bills.
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  38. Rodfather Fishing depends on the plan, some don’t have co pay at all.
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  39. Well you’d have to go around to each country to determine why they pay the price they do. For example in Australia we pay huge prices for our fuel due to massive taxes, difficulty in transporting fuel to our country, and simply our country being huge. I’d say a big reason why a lot of European country’s pay a lot is pretty similar, they don’t produce oil in their country so they need to buy it and transport it from countries thousands of kilometres away.
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  40. Food can be “bred” as well. You take the seeds from the better crops and burn the worse ones. It’s just now we have better tools to select the specific genomes that result in a better crop.
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  41. If you are paying $1600 a month for a single bedroom, you need to move. It's as simple as that
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  42. Australia rent laws have contributed to there being no rental properties.
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  43. Yeah they do.
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  44. Rent control will just restrict supply, leaving more families homeless. Recent rent control has lead to people closing shop, they'd rather leave their property vacant than going through the hassle of getting a tenant.
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  45.  @matthewjswider  so the government restricts renting, to then force owners to rent - and you seriously don't see any way this could negatively impact the economy. I can't be bothered talking with someone so financially illiterate
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  46.  @matthewjswider  through rent controls.
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  47. Gold just goes up in price. I agree, it’s stupid to go back to gold
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  48. Mainly because they have heavy public support. People hear solar subsidies and think “that’s great for the environment” without thinking that the only ones that can take advantage of that are rich people who can afford solar panels
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  49. Come to Australia, where the minimum wage is $20 - food prices are through the roof and unemployment has been a solid 5-6% (prior to covid). Taxes are higher, things are more expensive, you get paid less...
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  50. That’s nuts, 11 months pay for doing nothing? That’s fucking over the business, who have to pay your stupid ass. Nothing would get done in the world if everyone had 90% of their year in paid leave. Europe as a whole has had economic stagnation taken to another level. The UK’s GDP has been declining for decades.
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  51.  @courgette3401  the UK’s healthcare system is notoriously bad. Is the US better? NO! But the solution isn’t socialism. I agree, a lot of money is wafted on paperwork, insurance, ect. Do you know why? Because of regulation on top of regulation, full of lawyers, bureaucrats, and corporations. It’s NOT a free market system. What needs to happen is for the government to cull a lot of the red tape. Let hospitals compete, let small insurers thrive. Abolish the ACA and bring in a new system that doesn’t make corporate giants.
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  52.  @courgette3401  and that’s forgetting the price. Medicare for All would cost 40 trillion in the next decade, we’re essentially doubling out budget. It’s not feasible
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  53. It’s only cheaper if you cut costs. Doctors in the US are better trained, better equipped and paid more. Drugs in the us cost more. Ect. That’s why the us is so expensive.
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  54. Gabriel Eriksson where in America does someone choose to die? That’s bullshit and you know it. If your that bad financially, you will be covered by Medicare or if you’re smart you will have insurance. And yes, the us is much better medically. US doctors are payed more than anywhere else in the world, and the quality of care is the highest. Yes it’s expensive- but you’re in good hands. Plus in the us drugs are much more expensive, a lot of that money going to R&D. Pretty much the US pays more, and others benefit. All these figures are easily accessible, QoC, salary, drug prices.
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  55. Debates are a great idea that’s been ruined by bias.
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  56. The most American thing I’ve ever heard
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  57. This isn’t sensible, it doesn’t stop criminals from carrying guns. If I wanted to go shoot someone in New York I could steal or buy a gun illegally and do it. The only people this is hurting us the law abiding American
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  58. Yeah, that’s how it works
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  59. Our spending is the only reason we’re not under your dictatorship rule.
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  60. Stefan Baunack perhaps the dictatorship that the nazi party turned Germany into? If the us didn’t take Japan out of the war, it’s very possible that Germany - and the world - would be under a dictator rule. At least, nowhere near as democratic as we have now.
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  61. Stefan Baunack China’s military is cheaper to maintain, due to many reason: - Wages are lower in China, so the military can pay lower - China does a lot less research, which saves them money that would otherwise go to R&D - China doesn’t have 50+ allies and multiple military treaties. Plus it isn’t a part of NATO (which protects Europe’s ass) - China doesn’t need to keep its personal well equipped as they are much more expendable. Overall there’s little budging in the us military budget if the us wants to remain powerful. Which it does, as a lot of the world relies on the us military.
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  62. Stefan Baunack nuclear bombs will never be used in war. They are a deterrent not a weapon. But that still doesn’t mean that the us doesn’t need a powerful military.
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  63. Stefan Baunack anyway, the majority of the us budget already goes to healthcare. The us government spends more on healthcare per capita than Germany, and that’s without a full Medicare plan. It’s not that the us doesn’t spend money on healthcare, it’s that it’s just too expensive. That is something you can’t fix by throwing money at it.
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  64. Stefan Baunack the us needs a powerful military because not everyone holds the same commitments to freedom. Look at China, it’s a authoritarian communist regime with little in the way of human rights, private ownership and freedoms.
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  65. Tax credits are good when they are used well.
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  66. The medical industry works get hard to keep prices high.
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  67. It’s 7-9% because people don’t pay them off. 1% doesn’t even cover inflation, let alone pay off the debt others never pay. Its also 7-9% because they are risky. It’s not like a mortgage where the bank can liquidate the house. It’s a college degree... you can’t take away college degrees
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  68. It’s not taking, it’s just forcing him to not develop it and instead build a pond
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  69. I’m dubs with tax exemptions (I don’t understand the point of taxing something you already subsidise), I just want to see federal loans be abolished
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  70. Because that’s trump
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  71. There’s nothing to give any currency value
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  72. Australia is expensive
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  73. $61k average salary for what is 9 months work. They get enough... much more than enough.
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  74. jrjohnryanjr $61 000 is over the median income in the us. It also comes with other benefits, paid leave, school holidays, insurance.
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  75. jrjohnryanjr who has the more important job? Both are essential. Which is harder? Both are pretty easy jobs for their pay.
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  76. jrjohnryanjr I think the free market should decide, that’s how we don’t get a shortage of either.
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  77. jrjohnryanjr well they are, they’re getting over the national median. Are you saying that a teacher, who only gies to college for 4 years, should be paid the same as an engineer? What about a doctor? Teachers are important... they aren’t that important - and with our failing education system I feel reluctant to give a raise. US teachers are the best paid in the world, with more befits, lower taxes, ect. However it’s obvious that it’s not working.
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  78. If a vaccine doesn’t come out in the next few months that is
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  79. I don’t see how that’s the companies fault. A gun manufacturer isn’t taken to court if their gun is used in a shooting, and the sane should be said for scooters
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  80.  @perniciouskitten  I think it’s just politicians stopping innovation. Each person on this small scooter is one less in a 2 tonne car.
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  81. 100-200k max
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  82. And the $9 trillion US government is what?
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  83. Obama did that and it let Isis rise again. Then we defeated isis
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  84. Wait... you have to work hard to live a good life of you make terrible financial decisions? What happened to personal accountability? If your willing to work hard, and be smart with your money you can do better in the US than anywhere else in the world
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  85. Yeah, with the government being scale to use taxes to supplement losses - he’s lucky he’s not just taxed out of business or worse.
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  86. The fact is that it would use enormous amounts of carbon to turn out grid into one of the most expensive and unreliable systems in the world.
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  87. kiley then you look at reliability and cost. There’s no energy source more reliable or cost effective as coal or gas.
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  88. kiley the US and EU have made huge strides in reducing carbon output. However chinas carbon footprint is growing exponentially, with no sign of slowing down. If the us continues on its track, it will reach its carbon goals by around 2050. That’s how it should work, we let the market transition naturally
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  89. kiley look at us and eu carbon emissions. Even with our growing populations we’re both going down. At the same time, China’s is growing exponentially.
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  90. kiley because government interference would bankrupt the economy and put us in debt like we’ve never seen. The only real proposed deal is the radical green new deal that would cost America over 60 trillion
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  91. kiley the green new deal would kill more jobs than it creates. The green new deal would cost over $63 trillion - $93 trillion to implement. The green new deal would make our energy system much less reliable, and much more expensive. A better option is to cut taxes in green energy (solar, wind, nuclear, hydro) and increase carbon taxes on energy companies.
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  92. Ken MacDonald then don’t get a masters in puppetry. The thing about education is it’s on you. No one else should pay for your idiotic gender studies degree.
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  93. Yeah, but in the process that hurts your social credit score making your job prospects very low
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  94. Then what about the 5 post offices on a mile of eachother?
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  95. How?
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  96. Selling data is how all websites make money, of you don’t like that - don’t use the internet
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  97. This is nonpartisan journalism. What a treat
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  98. It’s an excuse that the government uses to make it cost $1.7 billion for a hospital. Everyone has to run by the same rules, the government write them itself. The problem is the government has so much money it can afford to waste money... just raise taxes
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  99. The states did
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  100. You wouldn’t know, shooting an endangered species is illegal. And a businessman wants to make money on the land he owns? How fixing terrible! He’s going to provide housing to people, but according to you it’s just “profiteering”.
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  101. Humans can probably survive without a frog that hasn’t touched his land dimes 1965.
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  102. She seems more anarchist than libertarian
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  103. You would rather they drive, which costs even more in taxes
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  104. Tipping is fine, it makes people work better. The problem with our current economy is that workers don’t really get rewarded for hard work. With unions everywhere, bring everyone onto the sane level, and fucking over businesses at the same time - you don’t get any incentive to put more effort into your work.
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  105. As opposed to the government doing the same thing?
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  106. Cut corners? You put ta getter a frame, some wall. Do the plumbing, instal all your toilets urinals and sinus and it’s dine. 6 months- a year, $200k a public toilet to the save quality
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  107. 000 001 if everyone worked in the public sector, or socialism, then our economy would slow to a halt. Capitalism drives innovation and productivity. “Things would definitely be slower. But everyone would get a fair wage.” Money is only worth what you can buy, what you are actually saying is there would be extreme inflation that would kill our economy. And what is a fair wage? According to the government it’s everyone getting paid extraordinarily high to do nothing. There’s a reason private companies are faster, because they have deadlines and profit margins.
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  108. 000 001 capitalism is the best economic system. It promotes human nature - competing - and gives people freedom of choice. You can choose your house, your car. You can work your own job.
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  109. 000 001 yes, there will always be more poor people. But as long as both the rich and poor get richer (inflation corrected), then it’s a sign the system is working. 20 years ago we didn’t have smart phones. Our innovation and improvement has only skyrocketed with capitalism. When China opened itself up to private investment, and let private businesses take over some industries their economy boomed. People who were better, more efficient, and more experienced could take over, and China is now the second biggest economy in the world. In a public only system, people don’t have any incentive to succeed. That’s why governments are almost always more expensive, slower and lower quality than private companies.
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  110. Universal education exists, it’s called free k-12. What schooling exist is free higher education. As Pete Buttigieg puts it: Americans who have a college degree earn more than Americans who don’t. As a progressive, I have a hard time getting my head around the idea of a majority who earn less because they didn’t go to college subsidizing a minority who earn more because they did.” College isn’t a right, it’s a privilege. You pay money as an investment in future job opportunities. We see this oversees, with many people getting degrees abroad, just to move to another country for work. All of that taxpayer money wasted. If you want to talk about student loan debt, then let’s talk about that. It’s the biggest debt in America, and it cannot be dissolved like other types can. The real issue is that the government gives these loans out like flies, and colleges take advantage of them. Ever since the government started giving out loans in 1965, college prices have almost tripled. What was once easily affordable with a college side job is now something that takes 2-10 years to pay off.
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  111. With a 37% income tax rate it’s not even close.
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  112. You also gloss over the fact that nuclear works 24/7.
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  113. Witch Sorrowful um yes it’s important power worked 24/7, and when it dies it should work consistently. Unlike wind and solar, that only work at certain times of the day, only on certain days.
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  114. And countries didn’t have a plan before they went to Paris and wrote a shuttle agreement, bullshit
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  115. How do you get put of focus on a 2D screen?
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  116. Well if it doesn’t exist here then it shouldn’t be his problem. It has been missing from this land since 1965! It’s a frog, I’m sure you would object to your house being seized if the government found out 50 years ago a endanger frog species lived in that land.
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  117.  @zhanucong4614  that as well. In fact when you compare job for job the 17% gap that leftists claim falls to 5%.
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  118. A ICE check should be quickly running ID through a system, and sending them on their way.
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  119. They shouldn’t check your car unless at a border, or they have a flag when they run id
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  120. That’s why you give to charities not to random beggars.
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  121. I disagree that a country should “let them leave”, unless it’s in both of their interests to do so. But making states let independent isn’t a bad thing
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  122. I saw a recent study from the University of Melbourne that “organic” farms need up to 2x more land to grow the same amount of crop. Forgetting that “organic” food is no different to normal food - it’s just outright unsustainable.
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  123. Gamer From Space being financially dependant doesn’t mean she can control your life. It’s obviously an abusive relationship in the way she treats you as a child.
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  124. Haha what? Bit xenophobic are we
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  125. New York
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  126. What would you rather be hit by, a 2 tonne car travelling at 80km/h - or a small scooter travelling at 16km/h
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  127. You don’t say that you’re not hiring because of maternity leave, you make up another excuse. It’s not rocket science.
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  128. That’s not the, Uber drives make more than that.
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  129. “How could we afford it”, by cutting tax spending where it isn’t needed.
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  130. So people outside of the us can get, but not on the inside?
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  131. Armoured vehicles and “military weapons” are disused assets that are sold to police departments from the military extremely cheaply. It’s reusing goods that the army has no use for. It’s been very helpful, things like 40mm grenades launchers can shoot beanbag rounds or tear gas to prevent deadly encounters.
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  132. Drug companies do much more research than the government. 75% of all drug research in the us is done in the private sector. For profit medical care has lead to huge advancements in care, and the us has some of the best care in the world. It’s too expensive though, we bugged agree on that.
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  133. Stop training cops to shoot to kill? How else do you shoot? Cops are trained to shoot until the threat is gone, it’s a last resort. We have seen bad shootings, but 99% are completely justified and the only choice a cop had. A recent event was a guy in Chicago. He was wielding a knife and stabbed a female officer in the chest. He was shot multiple times, but still wouldn’t go down - it ended up taking 21 shots to stop him.
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  134. Can someone explain to me how the SAT system works?
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  135. Um... how? Your not legalising child sex trafficking, just prostitution
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  136. Cut spending, cut taxes, get the economy growing. Stop running around asking for social services when the wealth just isn’t there
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  137. GMOs have been a life saver for a lot of poorer countries who are reliant on a good harvest to survive.
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  138. What?
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  139.  @notnothaze  not according to his website
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  140. Explain how those 4 people have made their money because of government
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  141.  @Holt817  musk gets subsidies, but they are no where near the amount that other car manufacturers have received. It’s not even close. Gates gets money from government contracts because his windows OS is used by millions of government computers. To tax him because of that would be stealing Amazon wouldn’t be as big today if what? Amazon is 100% his idea, he innovated himself and beat his competition without bureaucracy. The same with Facebook.
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  142. I do y like when the government over regulates and kills competition, but these companies are fair. Being better isn’t the fault of the government
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  143.  @Holt817  I’m with you, ICE’s shouldn’t be banned. But that hasn’t happened yet, and doesn’t look like it will happen for any least another decade. Just look at Obama’s plan to keep car manufacturers in the US, it essentially gave away money
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  144.  @Holt817  Microsoft had a anti trust lawsuit against them because they bundled IE for free with windows. Free browsers is something we take for granted nowadays, but back then it was so “unreal” that the us government thought it should intervene.
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  145.  @Holt817  amazon does kill small business, it turns out that a online delivery service makes brick and mortar stores obsolete- who would have known?! Taxes are a different story. Amazon - after facing significant losses - had outstanding rebates. That means that one year amazon paid 0 corporate tax. Funnily enough, small businesses also pay 0 corporate tax. But amazon pays other taxes, payroll taxes, income taxes, capital gains taxes, state taxes. Where amazon may be helped by bureaucracy us minimum wage increases. Amazon ire’s significantly less staff, so higher wages isn’t an issue for them. The sane cannot be said for their competitors
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  146.  @Holt817  I agree with your last statement, I just don’t think that these companies are big beneficiaries. Better examples are out there
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  147. Most people drive
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  148. Lost me at immigration, terrible idea. The us should choose immigrants based on if they are a improvement or detriment to our culture and society.
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  149. And the democrats have now passed their bill in the house. It: Increases unemployment benefits ($600/week) until the end of the year Forgives off $10k from everyone’s student loans It would pay everyone another $1200 Pretty much, if you’ve got a student loan - you could have your entire loan payed off by the governor for you.
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  150.  @thecommonsenseconservative5576  look up the “HEROES Act”, essentially another $3 trillion to add to the growing national debt.
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  151. I’m fine with science grants, but free bike helmets? If you can’t afford a $50 bike helmet then you shouldn’t bike
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  152. China’s firewall isn’t perfect. It’s extremely open and can easily be overcome with a VPN. The thing that is perfect is how they have engineered their credit system to hurt those that try to bypass these restrictions, those who speak against the government, those who associate with those who speak against the government
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  153. They have so many sports that just aren’t popular.
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  154. Because you can’t just go down to your local shipping mall and purchase a large knife... Australia’s gun deaths were dropping at a identical rate before and after the gun buyback. In fact more citizens own guns now than they did before that ban. The only effect that gun ban had on Australia - which had a homicides rate much lower than the US, was take away the citizens only way of stopping a tyrannical government.
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  155. The government is inefficient and doesn’t care about its people?
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  156. That’s a shock!
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  157. Socialism is on the path to communism. A true socialist society is inevitably going to become communist, it’s just human nature
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  158. Montreal was still in debt 30 years after the olympics finished. Definitely not a success.
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  159. Can’t you get good money from that?
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