Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "VisualPolitik EN"
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@cashewnuttel9054 - humanity is a mixed bag. Some would, some would not, usually a minority stands up and fights.
For 600 years, Arabs & Jews lived in the Middle East around Jerusalem… under the rule of a non-Arab and non-Jewish ethnicity. They were effectively ruled by Aliens 👽
Palestine 🇵🇸 just needed to stand up a government, the same way Jordan 🇯🇴, Syria 🇸🇾, Lebanon 🇱🇧, Iraq 🇮🇶, Turkey 🇹🇷, and Israel 🇮🇱, and as many others also did… they were all part of the same occupation.
Had it not been for the US 🇺🇸 entering the world wars, Palestine 🇵🇸 would never have had the opportunity to stand up their own nation, even though they refuse to for 75 years.
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@Noxcho-li8pn - “the Kurds don’t know what they want”
In Kurds have been historically known for a few thousand years, partnering with the Assyrians to rule an empire, partnering with Babylon to rule an empire, partnering with the Persians to rule an empire. They were historically seen as the spoiler, required for any ethnic minority to rule. It is all in “The Book” [as Mohammed (PBUH) called it.]
The Kurds negotiated with the Turks during the fall of the Ottoman Empire for their own state, but they did not get it. Kurds stretch from Turkey 🇹🇷 in the North to Syria 🇸🇾 & Iraq 🇮🇶 & Iran 🇮🇷 going West to East.
The Kurds would be needed to hold modern day Iraq together, with the Arabs to form a majority, but Saddam Hussein screwed up and tried to rule it all with his own religio-ethnic Sunni-Arab group… and today’s Iraq 🇮🇶 effectively has Kurdistan partitioned, on their way to becoming a state, some day.
“Fight amongst themselves”
Like the Arabs don’t? ROTFL! 😂
Civil wars in Syria 🇸🇾, Lebanon 🇱🇧, Iraq 🇮🇶, Yemen 🇾🇪, Libya 🇱🇾
Wars between nations: Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦& Yemen 🇾🇪, Palestine 🇵🇸 & Israel 🇮🇱
The reason for it… the Arabs are not a homogeneous group.
- Arabs came from the Arabian Peninsula, invaded Mesopotamia
- Arabs slaved people who were not part of their own religion, and now Muslims only slave the remaining (ie Yazidi)
- When no one is left to slave, they fight against themselves in their own historical ethnic groups.
The Kurds want their own nation, and they don’t fight themselves to get it… unlike the Arabs who annexed pieces of Palestine 🇵🇸
“besides Sunnis nobody should rule the Middle East”
In Iraq 🇮🇶, the Shiite are the majority, so Majority should not rule? 😂
In Lebanon 🇱🇧, the Shiites hold the majority of illegal military power, so they should not rule?
This type of thinking 💭 that only Sunnis or only a single religion should rule a nation is what got people killed, over and over again, for thousands of years in the Middle East.
Ruling by one’s religion, because one thinks their religion ruling by the power of the gun/sword over all others is superior, will only perpetuate the wars there.
It is a shame. It really is.
The only reason the Middle East has any modern things is because The West has figured out that Religion should not rule, but all citizens, regardless of their religion, should be treated equally under the law.
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Cuz the Jones Act really does not matter.
Any country can ship directly to Puerto Rico, but their ports are not big enough to receive massive container ships from around the world. The Jones Act does not change that.
Only high cost from the US to PR or High sale value cargo to the US from PR cargo is covered by Jones Act.
Whenever there is a natural disaster, the US President waves the act during that emergency, anyway.
If China wanted, they could easily acquire a whole port in PR, by offering them construction & dredging, with a payback at 8%, which PR may fail to pay, and it would become Chinese territory for 100 years. The Jones Act limits colonization from other players like China, by limiting foreign options to exploit PR ports from shipping to the mainland U.S.
In essence, the Jones Act offers PR to build their own maritime fleet for transportation, which would be cheaper than US mainland shipping because of their cheap taxes… if only Puerto Rico would decide to execute on it & start undercutting mainland US shipping.
If PR is ever to become an independent nation, they need their own maritime fleet, which the Jones Act protects them to build, before independence.
If PR ever wants to become independent, they will need a Coast Guard / Navy, and the Jones Act is helping to facilitate building a merchant marine which could be conscripted after their independence.
I am not sure why PR does not use the Jones Act to their fiscal benefit… to eventually become independent.
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@bloodwargaming3662 - “why no industries like Mexico?”
An aggregate of factors.
[BLOOD] - “not about taxes”
Incorrect. Taxes are an important factor.
Taxes buy some things:
- security for industry
- security for workers
- security for customers
- infrastructure for industry (power, heat, water, transportation)
- infrastructure to educate workers
- infrastructure to allow worker movement
When taxes are not successfully buying those things, the business must spend a portion of it’s profit providing those things, which is in effect an indirect tax on their existence in that nation or location .
Mexico has locality advantages to Columbia: close to the US market, where goods can quickly & easily move to market via road, rail, plane, and water.
A country needs a people who willingly pay taxes, to support infrastructure for their children & their own jobs (businesses.)
A people who desire others to pay taxes & provide them services is an immoral people.
Ethical businesses can not survive with immoral workforce or surrounded by immoral community or government.
Ethical governments can not survive with immoral citizenry, surrounded by immoral businesses.
Government is not someone else, it is us.
Business is not someone else, it is us.
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Hi @fransmith3255 - “children are expensive to raise everywhere, probably even more in the US where there is no free healthcare”
In the US, they have federal tax credits per child, health care is free for children in many states, and college is free in states like Georgia for high performing students… so children don’t need to be a significant burden beyond the first boy & first girl (from a 1 bedroom home to a 3 bedroom home.)
“Are you going to arbitrarily tax or reduce tax on family attitudes?”
If people do not marry, their senior care taxes should be the highest. A discount should be given, for marriage.
If a family does not have children, raise their taxes necessary to care for elderly (because they have no one to care for them in the future), reduce elderly care tax for those who have children (because they have children to care for them to some degree, in the future)
Tax differences should be escrowed, it becomes a “use” tax, because they did not contribute to the community & must pay for the use of others to care for them.
These higher tax rates will encourage people to make more realistic social contract arrangements, by ensuring people understand there is a cost to their decision.
Having just spent months driving 12 hours each direction, to spend 1-2 weeks at a clip to care for my mother, children do what they must for their parents. I know many people who traveled long distances to care for aging parents. The alternative of The State caring for our parents is more expensive & less humane… the same way it is more expensive & less humane when the state must care for children.
“Money certainly is important to people here, but it isn’t the main issue”
It will become an increasingly important issue, as there are fewer younger people to care for the elderly. This is the time to deal with it, by taxing & escrowing the money for the future... a similar way children are an investment for the future for society.
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Hi @shelbysycamore637 -
“being single and not having children doesn’t put a burden on the tax base”
When you are elderly; fall down, and break an ankle — you will be stuck in a nursing home at $600/day… that is absorbed by the tax payer.
Children collect their parents from the nursing home to take them back to their own homes, to care & feed them, the same way parents cared & feed their children.
“having children takes more resources”
Children are an investment, money is a representation of human work, those children will get jobs, work, and create wealth.
“worker shortage… immigrants”
Those immigrants will have children, because they are likely not infected with the mental disease of socialism that many western people are infected with [self hatred mixed with fear of children & wealth]
In the end, the savings of short-cutting children [who eat relatively little food, require relatively little living space, whose language & culture learning is fast] with immigrants [who require greater living space, language & culture learning is slower, and must also learn & gain credentials in the destination nation] is really bogus.
I know several excellent dentists, who are immigrants, who can not get their credentials moved, and they are sidelined. This is a huge shame for learned immigrants in our community.
The amount of public services for immigrants, regarding health care, housing, food, education… is not well counted, as it is hidden in many other social programs, both public & private.
I help mainstream immigrants, so I have a clue… amazing people, disadvantaged in so many ways, by various legal barriers, set up to make them slaves to those who want to import them.
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