Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "Steve Grumbine GOES NUCLEAR on Shark Tank Scum" video.
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The fact that an organized stable government does not consider itself morally obligated to provide basic guarantees to its citizens (who pay taxes but as we all know taxes aren't absolutely necessary to pay for public services, govt can print what it wants if it so chooses) included but not limited to: food, shelter, clean water, medical care and substance treatment, higher education or training, transportation assistance, child care support, eldercare and mental health support, a basic living stipend, or any other quality of life issue that any reasonable person would agree is valuable; has always blown my mind.
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@z1az285 that's what it is exactly! They want to use as much force as they can to brutalize and destroy any possible competition. So much for the free market huh???? The hypocrisy is at brain-melting levels.
These people who are part of the government or who use government animals to do their dirty work for them are lying, amoral, organized criminal savages to rival the most violent so-called organized crime syndicates out there. Watch a couple of documentaries, one called KIM DOTCOM and another called FARMAGEDDON. It shows you how ordinary people were targeted for massive assaults and destruction of their livelihoods and property by US federal agents and why do you ask? Well you'll see. It'll leave you pretty enraged and disgusted.
The US federal govt, with possibly a few exceptions, is THE most vicious, amoral, evil gang of destroyers that I think I've ever witnessed or analyzed in my adult life and I say this is someone who lives here.
There are countless examples of this, these two documentaries just point to a few. If you have the time you may be interested in seeing how ordinary citizens who aren't giant corporations fare under the criminality, gleeful savagery, and oppression of US-employed thugs and feds.
I think what sickens me the most is how much these psychopaths will constantly pay a fountain of lip service to the so-called free market when meanwhile they are going around using force to brutalize and destroy anyone who their owners in big business and Private Industry tell them to. The collective market in the US is ANYTHING but free and fair, thanks to ANIMALS like these, who are conveniently free of all provincial senses of right and wrong or senses of fair play and basic things like ethics or basic regard for their fellow man. You'll see what I mean if you watch the docs. The fed gov, and it's agents and State Pigs (like many local ones), are nothing but shameless gangsters for their own gain, and that of the already absurdly and outrageously rich mega-corps whom they serve.
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@dannywindham3295 I hear you. Are you sure spending causes inflation- again maybe I'm missing something quite simple but that alone I don't see how. Maybe you're right or are we just assuming those two things are connected? I'm not seeing a direct throughline from spending either from one person or a million people to any level of inflation on consumer costs, and over what span of time are were talking about- 6 months, 2 years, 5 years? Because clearly if I go buy something today I expect it to cost the same price tomorrow, if I go back to the same store. But if I go back 5 years from now I won't be surprised if it's price has gone up slightly, but I will be surprised if it has gone up by a lot and I'll wonder why does this particular store think that they can charge so much more for this XYZ product then before, or what other thing could be causing such an unexpected jump in its price?
Also, is it actually necessary to remove demand, as you call it, from the economy? I'm not necessarily pro or against taxes per se, as an academic concept obviously if we are going to have taxes I want a fair tax system, but what if we simply never taxed anyone??? Would everything suddenly just stop??
I guess I'm still just not seeing the need for taxes, when the govt can simply choose to print what it claims it needs and however much it wants to circulate amongst the general population.
Am I missing anything explanatory? Maybe I'm making this more complicated than it has to be. 🤔
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@dannywindham3295 well what do I know??? It's just a thought experiment as nothing to that level would ever happen, but my gut feeling is it wouldn't be a major problem. Of course my gut feeling may be all wrong, but for now that's where I sit on it. Also while I can't provide specific stats, the raw amount of food and goods at the retail level that appear to go to waste every week, month or quarter makes my brain hurt. This is both terrible for the environment and it offends me on a psychological level, since as a Leftist I am fundamentally driven to seek to eliminate all material needs amongst a given population and to provide greater opportunity and quality of life.
The concept of significant waste is incredible toxic to me. I HATE it, and I'm driven to want to eliminate it by any means necessary. Either we scale back production across all manufacturing and agriculture sectors, we distribute all the excess for free (my preferred option), or if everybody hypothetically got a $10,000 or a million dollar check they could buy all these excess goods at the local rate.
I think we produce too much. I think the excess should be either given away or is just ready and waiting for people to have greater spending power in order to purchase it.
As for services, these being non-tangible things, they can expand or contract based on demand as necessary. This is especially fantastic for small businesses. A great increase in demand would only benefit them.
We have up to 40% poverty in this country and a shocking amount of waste both in the early supply chain stages but also at the retail/consumer level. I don't want to wait for a million-dollar check, I want to redistribute the excess food and goods that is desperately needed for the majority of households that lives under the median income level and under the poverty line right now, but I cannot exactly put this plan into practice as I hold no public office. So that's too bad.
If my gut feeling is correct and if it's true that we have a vast overproduction of food and goods right now in all 50 states then getting extra money into most people's hands could only be a good thing. Plus as I stated before, some will choose to save the majority of it, so even if there is a somewhat risk of overspending I think you always have a certain percentage of people that are going to be cautious and just deposit it into their bank, so we wouldn't have to be worried about everybody going hog wild and spending everything at once even IF we accept the assumption that that would be an objectively bad thing, which at this point I don't think it would be.
But does all of this answer my original question of "do we need to tax the general population?" Ummm, well for now, no I don't think we do. Who makes the decision as to what the magic amount of total legal tender there is within the US's borders? When do we go into the "red zone" from whence we must release the excess through taxation? Is it fitting and accurate to view the economy as a potentially over-inflated tire? I don't think so personally, but I guess we would only know for sure by actually trying it out. Maybe that's what we should do. That would be interesting to see what the end result would be. Local and state governments would probably need to continue taxing unless they were simply distributed money directly from DC. In which case, why would they need to tax if they were getting the funding straight from the central government? Seems to me either way works, either way gets the job done more or less sufficiently. I'm not saying what you're just so switch over to doing it that way, but it seems like it would certainly work. you have DC as essential origin point simply distributing a certain amount of federal funds to the states and the states can just distribute them as necessary amongst all of its counties and municipalities. seems like a usable alternative to the taxation model.
As far as spending, I could be wrong, but it seems to me what the majority of households in the US need is much more spending power right now, not less, and perhaps that should continue for some time, maybe for the long-term. I mean we're producing out the yin-yang, and then 50% of it goes into the landfill which environmentally very bad instead of helping needy families and persons and ending poverty and killing two birds with one stone? That's just crazy to me. Man I'd really like to change that. I mean I /reeeaally/ want to change that. I mean it's common sense. ANY excess in domestic supply of any useful item or foodstuff should be automatically redistributed to where it's needed most OR at a minimum sold at a price people can afford. Or both!*
*I know we recently had a baby formula shortage but that is very very rare and that was because they had a problem in one of the plants which I just heard came back online and shouldn't be a problem for the foreseeable future. This is the only time in my adult life I've heard of an actual shortage of any necessary good that couldn't be resolved via domestic supply from another location. I mean there were temporary shortages in the early stages of those pandemic but those were pretty rapidly resolved.
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@Account Number do you remember the letter on White House letterhead that came with the bullshit $1400 check? Actually I had my direct deposited but I did get a notification letter in the mail. I don't know who was responsible for this, I'm sure not Biden he's making no decisions I guarantee that, It was somebody around him whoever was managing the pandemic assistance- but they had the gall to say right on there that this $1,400 amount coupled with the $600 from December brings the amount up to $2,000 "as promised". You know I didn't even know what to say to that when I first read it. I mean somebody literally just tried to gaslight me to my face as well as millions upon millions of American citizens. As promised???? As "promised"??? Biden and his people sure use a curious definition of the word "promised".
I don't know if this is more sad, tragic or funny in a gross sort of way. Like like us mere mortals out here don't know when the motherforking president was elected? That's $600 was passed under TRUMP. That was the TRUMP admin's pandemic assistance! Biden didn't even take office until February. FEBRUARY.
You know, I may not be a genius but I do know how to use a calendar.
I think I still have that document somewhere in my files. I kept it around because once in a while I just look at it and shake my head. For people who are really on the rocks or who had a low or modest income to start with, that extra $600 would have made a real difference. What a sorry bunch of good-for-nothings that claim to be in charge here I mean it's a real brain melt isn't it?
Perhaps the federal government just shouldn't exist, perhaps by its nature it's a corrupted entity only destined to cause harm to the average person and to be a purveyor of lies. I don't know. But I tell you, there was something really disgusting about that note. They KNEW that note was going out to people of all education levels and people who were NOT morons- who have a memory that goes back farther than 5 minutes ago and who know how to count and who goddamn well know when they're having their face rubbed in bullshit. And yet they had no compunction trying anyway. The arrogance of these people and the nerve is really what gets me. I know that we cannot touch them and many of them are unelected, but whoever that was who made the decision to literally put those words down on paper literally attempting to lie TO OUR FACES (a lie multiplied 50 million times if not more!), I hope that person experiences extreme karma in their lifetime. I don't know exactly how. I'm not saying I wish them death but I do wish them to experience a significant setback in their life due to the shameless duplicity or dishonesty of others, considering they enjoyed treating us like drooling negative-IQ idiots and flat out lying to our face.
I remember when I first read it I'm looking at like this can't be for real can it? Somebody on Joe Biden's staff is actually trying to claim December's $600 payment as his own, and THAT'S why he's already cutting our throats and cutting us out of the minimum pathetic BS that he promised? I said this piece of shit has barely been in office 2 months and he's already doing this? They just can't help themselves can they?. They literally just can't help themselves from going OUT of their way to cut the throats of anybody who's NOT a donor (meaning briber), or the MIC or Wall Street.
Pretty sad.
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