Comments by "Daily Wire Third Stringer" (@DailyWireThirdStringer) on "Climate change and national security" video.

  1. Well, if you look at how the Scandinavian countries are doing, you'll see that government can improve living conditions for its citizens. They have free healthcare, we don't; they have free childcare, we don't; they have paid time off/family leave/maternity leave/sick leave by law, we don't; they have high wages and unionization rates, we don't; they have relatively low levels of wealth inequality, we don't; they have a stable, functioning democracy that is entirely secular and where corruption is illegal, we don't; they have low levels of gun violence and violent crime in general, we don't; they get most of their energy through renewables, we don't; AND they are some of the happiest societies on Earth, and we're near the bottom of the list of OECD countries. And you wonder why people like us are unhappy with the state of affairs in this country. We live in a system that's rigged for the billionaires and the corporations, because they have BOUGHT and OWNED our politicians at the expense of the people they were elected to represent. Regular working Americans are getting screwed while they are running out the back door with all the money. Don't believe me? Just look at the statistics: for the first time in U.S. history, the top 1% now owns more wealth than the ENTIRE MIDDLE CLASS COMBINED. One man has the funds to singlehandedly launch himself into space while up to 60,000 Americans DIE because of a lack of health insurance each year. This isn't a meritocracy; it's an oligarchy. More tax cuts for the rich while the working poor and middle class sees their taxes INCREASE. 83% of the benefits of the Trump tax cuts went to the top 1%. Elon Musk paid $0 in federal income taxes in 2018, and so did Bezos in 2007 (when he was a billionaire). The effective tax rate for billionaires and multi-millionaires is around 3%, while everyone else in the top income bracket pays an effective rate of about 37%. Is that enough reason to get you to believe that pure capitalism might not be distributing our resources fairly? P.S. If you really believed in "individual liberty," you would be in favor of ending the War on Drugs and legalizing prostitution nationwide. Oh, but many of you dogmatists believe that an ancient book forbids these things, so we must protect people "from themselves." In other words, you think the government should be actively involved in preventing people from having a good time. What hypocrisy. 🙄
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