Comments by "DS_SD" (@simondahl5437) on "TED-Ed" channel.

  1. And you do realize that 1 percent of the population also holds more wealth than the other 99%. Yet they only pay 65% of federal taxes.
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  2. - Their stated goal was not to not educate women, but just to educate. Their reasoning for not educating women was essentially that they weren’t educating women. They were justifying not educating women as a goal, when it wasn’t.
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  3. That is called paranoia.
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  4. And that evidence is?
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  5. As the other comment says. If that money as you say is loaned out to business. That business pays interest. Then the only thing that has happened is that the loaner is richer, the borrower sits with their now expanded property (and has lost out on that interest money) and no one to sell to, except the rich. Only improving the life of the rich person.
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  6. He’s just the narrator, he reads a script compiled by experts to explain complex things in a simple way.
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  7. Where exactly do they sak that?
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  8. Arguably less wealthy people should have less of a % tax.
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  9. You do realize taxation is the function of society that provides police, Fire rescue, roads, schools. Not a person on earth would be as rich as they are today if they or their ancestors hadn’t used those services. And even if we got rid of those services today not a person on earth would be able to pay for the value of society. The thing you don’t get is that cooperation has a benefit.
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  10.  @lorenzombolis . Why comment if you don’t have any counter argument?
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  11.  @lorenzombolis . Then people are free to vote for that, or move to a territory or country who meets their beliefs. That’s how democracy works.
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  12. You do realize taxes are what payes for the infrastructure is made on. Amazon wouldn’t exist of Jeff Bezos couldn’t use publicly owned roads, hire people that went to public schools. No one would have any money if it wasn’t for society. And society is based on to one extent or another helping each other grow. Which is done by taxation. And a lot of people would disagree on what you think a governments job is. And I’d live for you to share where you got your definition from.
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  13.  @ruibernardocarvalhal5530 . That’s not much of an answer.
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  14. I’m not very educated on this, but I feel like the richest 1% have an exponentially growing bank balance, yet their spending is nowhere close to as exponential. Leading to that wealth not trickling down. And if you take Jeff Bezos, he started a gigantic company employing tens of thousands, yet he pays people very very little. That’s despite his wealth growing exponentially. How can we expect billionaires to just, actually reinvest their money? And not keep it for themselves and their offspring?
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  15. European homes are more efficient and generally smaller.
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  16. It's not even close to being enough, or to have an impact.
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  17. In a legit government it should. So no it is not biased.
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  18.  @xit1254 . Sure some businesses succeed. But not close to the majority. And it’s not like the money trickles down either. The loaner is still richer. Jobs gets rich. His relatively small amount of employees get a job. The consumer who pays for the overpriced phone gets less money. The only money that trickles down is the money the employees of the company makes, and that is taxed to cover the expense of cutting apples and Jobs’ corporate taxes.
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  19. Because you don't like it?
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  20. We have plenty more co2 since the industrial revolution than we need.
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  21. https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-provides-tax-inflation-adjustments-for-tax-year-2022
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