Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Amazon Cancels HQ2 Deal With NYC" video.

One of the biggest problem for Soviet defectors and exiles was "decision paralysis" in grocery stores. Not only was there always peanut butter, but there were 6 different brands fighting for their attention. They'd freeze up. Lock up. Feel helpless. Stand there not knowing what to do. In the Soviet Union, the bread aisle was all just one kind. And for a good part of Soviet rule, you stood in line to get any. In a capitalist system, there are 10 brands fighting for your attention, all trying to out-do the others, and bread is plentiful. I've always found this ironic, because I'm partial to those coarse Russian black breads. Lithuanian rye is the best. Tear off hunks and slather on some butter. Never seen American bakeries (except where Lithuanian immigrants lived) that could match it. Don't know if it's the flour, how they grind it, or what. Just a perfect balance of weight, leavening and flavor. American bakeries trying to go old-school make it a little too dense.
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@Forthepeoplepodcast305 : LOL! Sweden is more capitalist than the USA! Look at their corporate and capital gains taxes! Lower than USA (last I checked). Your thinking is 40 years out of date. At the peak of their "socialist utopia" they were going broke, and they basically ran their own Reagan Revolution and haven't really deviated from that, very much. Very generous welfare benefits, which worked for them, because there's so much social pressure to contribute (bred into them from generations of living in harsh conditions). Recent influxes of refugees have stretched their social services, and the culture of the refugees hasn't been tempered by millennia of long, cold winters. So it's stretching them to the limit, and they're either going to acculturate the newbies to existing social norms, or they're going to have to re-think how they're going to run their welfare state. But when it comes to business, Sweden is arguably more laissez-faire than the USA. Has been for a long time. Well-kept secret.
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@polara01 : If it's government, it will inevitably fall into corruption. It's its nature. Like a scorpion. Or a leopard. The first thing you do is steal from the younger people. That's how FDR did it. But to sustain that model, you need new young people coming up all the time, and it's in that system's interest to always GROW the population. That's bad. Then there's the matter of the banks, and ESPECIALLY the Federal Reserve, which can take everything you put IN to your retirement worthless, just by inflating the currency. With the government spending endless amounts of money on EVERYthing (Progressives on domestic side and madmen on the military side), and financing it through the Federal Reserve, regular folks never get a fair shake.
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@Forthepeoplepodcast305 : Socialism is ownership of the means of production by the state. Fascism is more what you're talking about, where the state basically sticks its nose in wherever it sees fit. Redistribution of wealth by force (Government has the monopoly on force and taxation) is a common feature to both fascism and socialism. But when liberals extoll the virtues of government programs for this and that, they're always arguing that the greater good supersedes the non-force principle that otherwise applies in all spheres of human interaction. The one rule should be that none may compel any against their will. Every time you use force in a good cause, you create unintended consequences. Force should be reserved for self-preservation, only, and only against those who have violated the principle of non-force. Fraud fits under that umbrella nicely.
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My idea of a good bank is Jimmy Stewart's Savings and Loan in "It's a Wonderful Life." That's what a bank is all about. Folks save there and borrow there. Everyone voluntarily saves there, the banker is prudent and compassionate. Doesn't endanger the people's savings and doesn't put Old Widow Larkin out of her house.
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'Til Trump's tax reform, states like New York and California got government subsidies in the form of federal deductions for state and local taxes, basically getting the feds to pay state and local taxes for them. Set the cap at $10,000, which isn't enough of a deduction for the fat cats. So New York and California are seeing their rich flee.
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I think cities should just create a fair setup, with low taxes. For EVERYone. To cut any one company special breaks is crony capitalism. Hate that shit. I'm a HUGE NFL fan, but I despise the way they basically go full-on fascist, looking for taxpayer subsidies for their facilities. Let all the voters who love football kick in. Everybody else? Why? Just wrong. Basically fascism. Local politicians picking winners and losers is toxic for the average person.
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