Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Krystal Ball: Billionaire CRIES That Dems Aren't Corporate Enough" video.

Only the ones who still believe the Club of Rome and are actively trying to reduce the human population. Gates, I'm looking at you.
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Government should support the 40% of business that is small business, that is in danger of shuttering right now... ... by ENDING THE LOCKDOWN THAT IS DESTROYING THEM, along with the life's work of the millions of people who run them!
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"Taxpayer-funded research" = Defense spending. We're pulling our troops in from overseas, but we're hiking the Defense budget. Considering the fact that in 2003 we defunded high-tech defense projects to fund wars in the Middle East (and all the bullets, bombs, boots, and bandages that implies), where is that new Defense money going? Probably back to those high-tech defense projects that have been on hold for nearly 20 years. Not to mention other new projects that Venture Capitalists would never dream of funding because while those projects would have some tangible benefit in the near term, they won't be any more marketable to consumers than the Internet was in the age of Darpanet, or than the PC was when the only viable market for miniaturized electronics was missile guidance systems.
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The Democrats are the Left. The FAR left, the European metric-system Left, just doesn't have enough people in it to scrape a party together. Even the Libertarians have more popular support than the Left wing in this country.
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@myfavoriteplanet3247 They are all far to the Left of the American center. I think it's useful to realize that there's a significant bias (I'm using that as a technical term here) between the center of American ("standard") politics and the center of European ("metric") politics. Bernie Sanders is waaaaaaaaaay of on the left wing of American politics. That's why he always loses.
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@wildsmiley Once you include the Democrats, the Republicans, and the Independents (the bulk of whom typically fall between them), you've got about 95% of the country. Again, the confusion comes if you don't consider that American ("standard") politics have a different center than European ("metric") politics. Again, that's why Bernie always loses. His base of support is the less than 5% of the country that doesn't understand that American politics are not European politics.
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The thing is, the government has an existential interest in growing their tax base. An income tax (if deficit spending is not allowed) makes sure that the government's #1 priority is *making sure you have an income*. Look at the Opium Wars sometime. Those were literally caused by the English government's dependence on tea taxes. Governments love their revenue and will stop at nothing to keep it rolling in. So as much as an income tax may suck, it aligns the government's interests with your own.
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