Comments by "Kristopher Driver" (@paxdriver) on "Hillsdale College" channel.

  1. I get the sense he'd have reconsidered the pace of the opening statements if he'd have thought it through a little more lol
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  2. Why don't people realize how much of their taxes are going towards organizing policing consulting and filing taxes? People want a certain quality of life from their earned untaxed income, they're not going to just horde money and live off eggs milk bread and rice. People with modest lives can live comfortably more easily, people can save for a better life more readily, and wealthy people can carry on with their same standard of living just as easily because their earning power is unchanged/more
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  3. Wow, the appeals for boos are sooooo cheesy!
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  4. It speaks volumes of his depth of thought that he can't fill a 30-minute time slot with educational resources, thought experiments or sound data. Being right that the world is round only merits so much credit if the basis for that assumption isn't math or satellites but rather by correlating the earth with the shapes of seeds. Drawing irrelevent evidence to form a true conclusion does not mean the evidence led to truth, it means that truth is indifferent to our ignorance. He should have more to say about a revolution in taxation if he felt he was competent enough to write a book on it and represent the idea as a congressman repeatedly year after year. John Linder is a very good example of awful leadership. Linder - "...you can't just tax the wealthy to fund the country because all the wealth is held by the middle class..." lol That's fabricated. We have data, does he think we're stupid or something? How can a man proposing tax reform be ignorant of the assets and liabilities of the average citizen? Brookings Institute (brookings.edu): "In 2018, U.S. households held over $113 trillion in assets. For context, that is over five times as much as all the goods and services produced in the U.S. economy in a single year. If that amount were divided evenly across the U.S. population of 329 million, it would result in over $343,000 for each person. For a family of three, that’s over a million dollars in assets... The share of wealth in the economy is increasingly owned by families in the top of the income distribution. The top 20 percent held 77 percent of total household wealth in 2016, more than triple what the middle class held, defined as the middle 60 percent of the usual income distribution.[ii]. In fact, the top one percent alone holds more wealth than the middle class. They owned 29 percent—or over $25 trillion—of household wealth in 2016, while the middle class owned just $18 trillion.[iii]"
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