Comments by "pplr1" (@pplr1) on "What Do You Know About Money? | 5 Minute Video" video.

This message would be fine until he gets to the politics towards the end. He is also wrong about who is obsessed with money and why. Once people have enough money to get by comfortably it isn't a constant worry. I'm sure there are exceptions to each but arguably those "obsessed" are the poor and rich. The former don't have enough to live securely while the latter don't care about if they live securely or not and simply want more money regardless. He is also wrong about taxes. In modern history the Federal government has done multiple tax cuts and they usually make the national debt worse. So to deal with debt-something people who are financially literate should care about-these tax cuts should go away. But he didn't mention that.. I'm for being financially aware. But I saw just a bit of the opposite being pushed partway through this video because it served a certain political agenda. FYI Haven't rich people repeatedly gotten a major part of the benefit from tax cuts over the last several decades? Hasn't the debt been growing for most parts of the last several decades? So the problem of taxes being too low is not a new problem. And if you live in a state that has a "flat tax" that means your state government may have increased taxes on most people-including poor people-in order to give rich people in the same state a tax cut.
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@kokucat Maybe a library at some point. At this point I have no intention of spending money on his book or him. If and when I do I'll see how reasonable (or not) his arguments are to the points I raised. From what I saw partway through the video I don't have the highest expectations on the specific points I raised..
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