Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Here’s why kids these days love socialism" video.

@Eric Pham This is what Congress is doing for airline and hotel bosses right now. Airports empty as are planes flying empty. Hotels bosses getting essential industry pay for being empty.
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@Eric Pham I don't think closing down small business and passing bailouts will solve anything. No one earns their money in a capitalist economy it's a matter decided in the class struggle. They capitalist want to invest 1.2 Trillion in a rehabbing nuclear weapons. 22 Billion in Virginia class submarine. If we get elected into power before they decide to cancel elections will put an end to that shit quick. Same with that Space X trip to mars crap.
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@YouYou-sm8tf Lower the debt by taxing those who have the money to buy bonds in the first place. Problem Solved!!! Amnesty for all immigrant workers will help with reorganizing new unions. Universal healthcare for all. It's becoming too expensive to keep Bill Gates and other Billionaires on life support. Education for a lifetime. Raise the educational level of the working people and you will lift the rest of the world's people out of poverty. No taxes on the working people, small farmers and producers. 100% tax on corporate profits. A fictitious person doesn't need an incentive. Cut CEO pay to that of a skilled union worker that's all the incentive needed.
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@Meng776 For every $3 in social security tax taken in $2 are paid out as benefits and the 3rd goes into the general fund with a trust fund bond being issued.
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@Eric Pham You think they can just flip a switch and put everyone back to work? They're already preparing you for the misery they are going to inflict upon the workers because of their coronavirus crisis. Bosses don't restart production without contracts in hand. They're talking about a failure in the food supply chain. Food prices are going to go through the roof.
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@Eric Pham I became a Communist over the Vietnam war. The economic part was more theoretical because of the post war prosperity if you can call it that was just ending. No one i know thinks of those countries as anything but capitalist countries with reforms. For that whole period the biggest struggles broke out in the third world, among minority workers in the US and the continual breaking up of the stalinist monolith. Everything changed with the 2008 crisis. For the first time since the late 1940's the working class as a whole not just those in the big plants, railroads and minority neighborhoods are interested in what we have to say. TheMilitant.com
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kyle grant The motor fuel taxes pay for roads. So the trucking bosses pay the most except when they push it onto the backs of the independents. They like to talk about how they pay taxes as if there is some other way to pay for building roads.
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@maximilianomadrigal6661 I prefer the Cuban System with the highest doctor to patient system in the world.
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@yourboysgottem202 As long as we have capitalism healthcare will be just another commodity that is bought and sold in a market place. Maybe its paid for with taxes. Maybe it's paid for by the individual or some combination their of. If insurance companies are in charge of healthcare they will always seek to maximize the profit like any other business. To prevent excessive fraud the government steps in for greed control. However because the government itself consists in politicians who need campaign funds the insurance companies are only to happy to make a donation. Few are willing to bite the hand that feeds them. The drug and medical apparatus business is quite profitable. However for business as a whole medical costs come out of profits. Like when the Coal Miner asked the Coal Boss which costs the company more a dead man or a dead mule. The Coal Boss replied a dead mule of course. We can always hire another man. We have to buy mules. As for taxes not all are equal here either. The wealth like to portray themselves as taxpayers because the like they sympathy that gets them. They of course can afford to pay those taxes without having to take on debt or make choices between seeing the doctor or going without some other basic need. They also think of tax money as their money to spend for what they want like the US Military's 800 foriegn bases protecting their foreign investments. The US government either taxes or goes into debt. If taxes don't provide enough revenue than they print up bonds. These bonds are seldom talked about because mostly those with money who should have been paying taxes don't pay taxes but buy bonds for a guaranteed profit when the 30 year bond matures. Another buyer of bonds is the Federal Reserve bank. At the beginning of the week the bureau of printing and engraving prints the bonds that will go to the US Treasury at the end of the week they will print Federal Reserve Bank notes (US Money) for the Federal Reserve Bank. So the Federal Reserve Banks now can now buy 30 year US Treasury Bonds in a paper swap with the US Treasury getting those Federal Reserve notes. Since the development of the computer a lot of money never actually appears as paper but as a record in a US national bank or Federal Reserve computer.
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@yourboysgottem202 https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=f09 Like most in the business class they are also steeped in the idealogy that free market capitalism is the best way of doing things when they attened their univeristy.
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@macioluko9484 Bernie Sanders is a Democratic Socialist because he's afraid of being called a commie. You don't lead a socialist revolution by joining the Democratic "capitalist" Party.
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@XamuraiCoboy If Trump is the best how could we do worse? Forrest Gump may not be the sharpest tool in the shed but at least he's honest and loyal.
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@Joseph-ub5wh Find a nice, cool, large and big lake and make a personal choice to jump in!!! Why should I pay taxes so you can go on foreign military adventures? Shut down all 800 foreign military bases.
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@TheCannable1 I'm sorry that your buddy lost his life. We have democratic rights based upon an anti monarchical constitution which was the result of a revolutionary war of independence and a civil war that ended slavery. With the end of reconstruction in 1877 the military has been used almost exclusively to intervene in the affairs of foreign countries or in the two world wars to extend the power and influence of US big business. You can't secure or win rights by taking away the rights of others. The source of "Anti American hatred' comes from the actions taken by the US government to defend a neocolonial capitalist empire. The Chinese and Russian governments also play a negative role. They tell their people we are keeping you safe from an American invasion by pointing to the actions of the US in the middle east and elsewhere.
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@TheCannable1 "100% taxes on corp!? Who the hell would keep a business going after that!?!" A CEO who represents the real interests of the workers. Almost all of the original founders of US big business are dead. So those who inherited their wealth control most business. Anderson Cooper is one of the Vanderbilt heirs. Tucker Carlson a self admitted one of the 99 percenters. All the original big tech CEO's are reaching retirement age. The idea that these guys made great inventions is arguable since big companies hire engineers who sign patent agreements. The constitution says limited time protection for patents and copyrights. Do you think a 95 to 120 year copyright on Windows 95 is a limited time that is justified or twenty years on a retail priced 50 cent integrated circuit?
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@TheCannable1 You don't really think anyone can launch a halfway successful invasion of either Canada or the US? Canada has one land border. Most Canadians live within a hundred miles of the US anyway. Sure Russian's can cross the arctic circle, capture some Native American villages and destroy isolated hydroelectric plants in the middle of nowhere. Taiwan businessmen have investments in mainland China today. Marshall law under KMT rule was established in 1949 Taiwan. It was ended by street protests in 1987 not by US Marines or the US Navy.
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@TheCannable1 Profits defined as what remains after all expenses are paid including a reasonable salary for the administration if your actually good at administration. Why do you need to start a business to begin with? Do we need more gas station price wars or more home improvement contractors trying to undercut each other with immigrant labor?
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@TheCannable1 To protect Canada from who? The only country to ever invade Canada was the United States.
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@TheCannable1 Okay so your going into the fix phones business. Don't you want to pay yourself for the time you spend fixing the phones and performing all the tasks involved like ordering parts, paying your taxes, and keeping records of customers payments? Doing repairs is not a very good business to be in. First people will only pay for a repair that costs no more than about half the value of the item being repaired. Manufacturers who want warranty repair work done set the price with a take it or leave it attitude. As technologies advance products become more reliable and prices drop after taking inflation into account as the time needed to manufacture goes down. I remember putting water in the battery, changing spark plugs, the points, burned out headlights, the voltage regulator, setting the valve gap, a manual transmission and no power steering.
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@TheCannable1 The US invaded Canada in the war of 1812 and Irish America soldiers invaded Canada again after the American civil war. If China or Russia were to invade either Canada or the US they'd have to come by air or water. You'd need a giant armada with a logistics distance of thousands of miles. If you coming by sea you can't easily hide large troop transport ships. If you come by air you'd need to have lots of fighters on aircraft carriers to prevent your air troop transports form being shot down by fighter jets. Much easier for any combination of invaders to use ICBM's first and possible follow that up with an invasion. Except why invade if the war was over trade and if you were to totally destroy the enemy. An ICBM war is considered unwinnable because no one can guarantee that their ICBM's can hit the other side before they can launch a retaliatory strike with the othersiders missiles still in mid air.
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@TheCannable1 Invasions happen for a reason. Canada and the US are first world capitalist countries both tied together with trade, a common historical origin with British North America and the English language. Only recently were Canadian border services issued firearms. The US has decided to build a mostly new Interstate highway 69 the NAFTA Super highway from the South Texas border with Mexico to Port Huron, MI and Point Edward, ON Canada.
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@TheCannable1 Assuming you only employee yourself and your own your own tools your just a worker who owns his own tools like an independent trucker. You don't make a profit because you would have to own private property which is property used to exploit others since your not hiring anyone and can't exploit yourself than you can't make a profit. Nevertheless under current law you would be required to pay both parts of the Social Security and Medicare tax. Workmans comp insurance would be a required purchase but you would not be able to collect the insurance should you hurt yourself while working. Plus your income would be subject to federal income and possibly state income tax.
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@TheCannable1 Now let's try and put you in a socialist economy with cell phones. Do we need three (Sprint and T mobile have merged) different carriers and subcarriers? One carrier is all that's needed. You can buy phones that work on multiple carriers now. The cost of operating a phone or internet network is based on using the full capacity. It costs about the same to have the network carrying a full data load or no data at all. You can add towers or small 5G service in areas that are currently dead because you don't have to justify building out the network to make a required profit rate. Now when we build things we keep track of the labor time needed to make things. Should we charge you for the phone at more than the full cost of production or less than the full price? How about the cost of the data transferred? See the idea with socialism is taking things out of the market and making them available to everyone. Maybe we organize repair shops or maybe your phone goes into a machine that auto fixes it or maybe the phone is recycled somehow and you get another phone. What if the phone electronics and screen are all built in one process with non scratch and no break glass? Right now people drop phones and the glass in the screen breaks or the screen gets scratched and the battery eventually won't hold a charge. You can't fix micro electronic chips but only replace them. Good luck changing chips which are soldered to multi layer boards and getting everything to fit back inside.
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@TheCannable1 "Why cant i starts "any" busineind out down the line that ss with making money for me, and products for others, as the main goal?" I don't know? Have you tried doing that? Coming up with an idea is the easy part. Then you need to build a prototype for a proof of concept. Once you got that far you have to figure out the best way to manufacture it, determine the cost and finally sell and put it on the market. Your probable need access to machine tools at the very least. Than you might find down the line that your infringing on someone else's patient. You can easily spend thousands of dollars and then find out your idea is a dud.
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@TheCannable1 Depends on if the soldiers want to fight the war with Canadian's. No one ever holds all the cards in any war.
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If the capitalist wanted people inventing things they'd lower the cost of an engineers education and build common tool clubs like libraries where you could spend your free time learning how to use different tools and making things. That's not what they want though. They'd see that as just an added social cost that didn't directly create more profits for them.
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@TheCannable1 If a, would a, could a, what a, NO.
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@epic gangster Communism is a movement not a doctrine with its holy priests like Christianity. It starts with facts drawn form the class struggle and moves the struggle forward from there. We don't win every strike or revolution. We however hold the past battle records for the future leaders who will be the next leaders of the world socialist revolution.
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@TheCannable1 The first try at a Democratic Republic in England (1649 to 1660) also failed. King Charles I had his head cut off on the order of Parliament and the counterrevolution brought the restoration of King Charles II and the execution to those who signed King Charles I death warrant for high treason. Should Congress in 1789 have made someone King of the US because Democracy didn't work?
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We seeing how capitalist healthcare works with the Coronavirus pandemic. According to capitalist market theories Trump should be sitting on his ass allowing price signals and the invisible hand of capitalism do its job.
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@Alexander03312 Right we had a 1946 to 1991 Cold war waged by the US Government that had nothing to do with capitalism?
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@Alexander03312 "Democratic Socialist" are just capitalist liberals who see the advantage of calling themselves Socialists but include the name Democrat for fear of a ruling class calling them commies.
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@InspectorSplatter Like the rest of Latin America Venezuela had its corrupt governments and US backed Military dictatorships. Like many other countries dominated by US Big Business Venezuela was and still is a one commodity country. In the case of Venezuela it is oil. Oil prices tanked and so did the Venezuelan economy. When your talking richest country BS your talking about the national oligarchies. Chavez's 21st century socialism was based in the retribution of oil wealth not a socialist revolution like that in Cuba. Chavez's biggest sin as far as US Imperialism is concerned is the sale of Venezuelan oil on favorable terms to Cuba. The US Backed military coup to overthrow Chavez failed along with the latest coup attempt against the Maduro government. The rate of gun ownership in Venezuela is to high for US capitalist liberals where there is the highest percentage of the population having gun ownership in the world.
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