Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "The Rational National"
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@silver plate And? The super rich, living off stocks and options, don't actually have incomes to tax, anyway, and the US capital gains laws can let them go their whole lives without paying capital gains taxes (which are much lower than Finland's, even when they do).
Finnish conservatives have been underfunding the healthcare system for almost a decade and pushing private healthcare, and changes in tax laws have created a group of super rich tax dodgers. You think it's a positive to aim for being more like the US?
Even still, Finland would be considered commieland, according to US right wingers (Is that who you think you are talking to? If so, wrong channel.). Most progressives (which this channel's audience mainly is) point out that someone like Bernie is actually a centrist, in the real world, so wouldn't consider Finland anything more than that.
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@IV_97 Right, so they care more about bullshit than they care about working people and their struggles. Are you just concerned the op said they don't care, at all?
And it is bullshit, because they aren't protesting IVF, which ends up not using a ton of fertilized eggs, on top of the many that don't take, killing them. Plus, studies now show that the majority of pregnancies end in spontaneous abortions (miscarriages), so they're actually worshipping a being that, if existed, aborts the majority of pregnancies. They don't actually believe embryos and newborns are samesies. They don't actually believe aborting embryos and fetuses is objectively wrong.
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Yang has always been on the side of corporations. He's bullshitting Americans, telling them a VAT will tax corporations like Amazon, when a VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax them. If you don't have Amazon pay into the UBI, since their share of US consumer spending is 2%, handing consumers $3t will only make Amazon an extra $60b a year. That'd make Bezos something like $6b extra a year, far more than he'd ever personally pay into a VAT. His "plan"would make giant corporations and the super rich even richer, and increase wealth inequality, while leaving some very poor people worse off. He's not a progressive. He's skipping the things other countries do to make corporations pay in, like the things Bernie is proposing.
"a consumption tax because it is borne ultimately by the final consumer. It is not a charge on businesses."
https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
"Final consumers are not entitled to such credits, which means that they pay all the GST on every item purchased. The GST is thus a multi-stage tax on final consumption."
http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt)
Even Amazon, who he falsely claims a VAT will tax, has their own tutorial page on "How VAT works in Europe" and "How to claim back VAT", proving him to be a liar.
https://services.amazon.co.uk/services/vat-resources.html
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