Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "How Do Politicians Keep Getting So Rich?" video.

@undeadblizzard Sure, tax money goes to schools, infrastructure and emergency services, all kinds of things that people either need or will eventually, but it also goes to all kinds of things that it should not go to. Things like studies on animal poop and mating habits of whatever tiny creature undeservedly gets the funding. Way more money is wasted than spent where it belongs. Further, the Federal Reserve should not print as much money as it wants, as each time they do so without destroying an equal amount of pre-existing money it increases inflation. It's not the only means of causing inflation, but it is one that is very direct and shouldn't be allowed to happen. Most government that exists is a waste and shouldn't exist. And if you think that it's someone else's job to protect you at all times then you're either rich like Pelosi or you're ignorant to the real world. A cop will take 5 minutes to reach you while the person attacking you will take less than 1. Police realistically are only here to investigate after the fact and punish those responsible. Given what schools push these days, you'd be better off home schooling your children, unless you don't know what makes a woman a woman. Clearly tax money isn't going towards all roads as we have so many toll roads these days. Emergency services in general, but specifically fire and medical, are the only thing you brought up that genuinely makes any sense in your argument, and that shouldn't cost as much as it does.
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@chickensandwich8808 I'd actually prefer if the rich didn't pay their fair share, because then they'd be paying less. We have a graduated tax system precisely because people don't believe in a fair share for the rich. Sure, there are a lot of rich who start businesses and pay a lot of sales tax by buying a lot of products which helps fund the government, and sure they even will employ a lot of employees which gives people income so they can live, and sure those people will then buy things and the sales tax from that will help fund the government more, but those that just sit on it and invest it, umm, well, okay, so banks will then loan people who need it money at some point, and if there's more invested the banks will have more to loan. Wait, why should I hate rich people again? There are a fair few like Pelosi who are super corrupt and use insider trading to earn their money and then contribute nothing back, but most of them are politicians or ex-politicians or the family of politicians and/or ex-politicians. You also have the children of businessmen, who I suppose we should hate for not earning the money that they've been handed. Yeah, because jealousy is a great motivation in life. Or maybe we'll just point out the corrupt business practices of Apple and Amazon and Google, because those are the only businesses that exist, right!? It's not like the statistics show that small businesses employ the most people and pay the most in taxes, or is it?! Nah, let's just keep hating the few rich people that screw us all because we don't understand the economy or how anything works. Got it.
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@undeadblizzard Given how many non-white and non-male billionaires and millionaires there are, I call BS on the system being setup against such. The system in general is one of produce or die, but that's just the way real life is. If you were an animal living in the jungle and you sat on your rump whining about another cat having a meal while you don't, you would starve. If you were born with an inability to chew your food, let's say having no teeth, then you'd starve death and there's be no one to mash your food up and feed it to you. Humans don't like real life, and thus they've tried to come up with a system that isn't like real life, and for the most part they've succeeded. There are so many programs to give things to people who can't do for themselves and can't be producers that there are literally millions of humans who don't produce. The system keeps them alive because of compassion. So to suggest that such a system which aims to give compassion to disabled people somehow still takes a dump on non-white non-male humans is completely ridiculous as it attempts to help anyone who can't help themselves and therefore if you can see such humans not being helped, it's because they're able bodied. In such cases, tell them to get off their rump and hunt for themself.
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@undeadblizzard Ah okay, so you don't really understand how the world works and when someone points it out you accuse them of being racist. Got it. You must feel pretty smug all the time to think that your world view is somehow superior to everyone else's, reality be damned. And if everyone else doesn't get in line, well they're racist.
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