Comments by "Wei" (@wile123456) on "Hoog" channel.

Most European countries have tax brackets with income earned over a certain amount being higher taxed. This insures better equality and makes the rich pay more. The US is unique because you have so many filthy rich billionaire that cheat in taxes in other countries and exploit loopholes in the forms of stocks and assets in order to avoid tax even within the US. A country like Denmark could double its fiscal spending or more each year if it had just one of these billionaires (assuming they didn't cheat in taxes) If you actually taxed these billionaires who are also destroying the planet, and redistributed wealth, all of Europe's social programs and then some could be implemented. Instead you simp and defend the billionaires, while also GIVING them even more money. Elon musk companies are like 50% payed for by government grants and subsidies. It's disgusting and sick. You preach about private and free markets, yet it's simply a system of funneling money away from the poor and Middle class, into the top 1%
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@stephenjenkins7971 it isn't brain dead. 3 people shouldn't be having more money than 50% of the world population. It's morally unjustifiable. No one needs so much money. Also all you neo-liberal shills are always either poor yourself or at best own a tiny business yourself, dreaming of becoming a millionaire yourself. The common enemy is the ultra wealthy. They destroy small business and workers livelihood alike. And my tax policies are just a fraction of what I want to change. Companies shouldn't be allowed to grow as big and undemocratic as they are. They should be divided up and be controlled democratically by the people working there instead of being ruled by tyrant kings. This will immediately prevent anyone from becoming a billionaire in the first place because regulations and internal power balances will even it out. When you're beholden to the workers beneath you, you won't take 50% of the companies profit in a bonus to yourself while firing half your workforce like most American CEO's do. You'll increase wages for that year and invest it back in the company. Workers will vote on the financial plan. Citizens in countries are pro climate. Countries only destroy the planet because of corporations lobbying against the planet and stalling for time. We have known insce the 30's that climate change is real, and the 70's saw massive protests, but the morally evil oil and gas companies have ruined everyone's future just because they wanted an extra 40 years of profit. 40 years traded for 100's or years to Co. E
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@newtonia-uo4889 I mean go ask Elon musks, he brags about paying no taxes on Twitter because he keeps it all in stocks lol. You can't ax people when they buy and sell stocks. Very simple. You increase the tax the more they buy, so Elon here at some point reaches a hard cap
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America's insanely high military spending as well as crazy high subsidies to private companies that don't need the funding (like Elon musks fail projects) completely obliterates this tax argueemnt. The money is already there. USA has the highest GDP in the world. Many countries in Europe would be for thing at the mouth to have the amount of spending power the US has
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@newtonia-uo4889 housing and property tax works well in European countries because it's not just about raw money, capital and ownership is a form of wealth. And when you own people and companies below you, you are wealthy in more than just cash. I don't believe anyone should hold sole ownership over things such as corporations, as they are comprised of teams and individuals, not one 50 year old memer. Same with housing. You only need one home to live in, there is no reason to own more. Create communal companies that cover expenses of apartments and let's people renting them live there without added interests. We have models for thiseverywhere in the world. The extreme neoliberalism is reaching a critical extreme right now, where we are moving toward corporations being like small feudal stated with workers and citizens being in indebted servitude to them. Something has to change or things will only get worse for the common person.
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@newtonia-uo4889 you're nitpicking specifics I mention saying it's more complicated so I posture to show that I know that and more policy changes are needed. Founders of a company holds sway, but when we look at mega corps like Amazon or Microsoft, those founders and CEO's don't really make up the foundation of the company anymore. The workers and engineers and programmers do. And while there can still be a leader, they should be democratically elected like a president of a country. Stocks are not democratic nor are they for the common man. Most stocks bought and sold are by big hedge fund companies that don't give a shot about anything besides making money. And individuals investing might believe in a good cause of a company, ultimately large majority also only just want to turn a profit. This creates a toxic hype based culture where actual growth and value a company makes doesn't matter. Snap hat doesn't make a profit but it's stocks still skyrocket. Companies can destroy the planet, enslave populations and hire mercenaries to kill union leaders, and stocks are still bought because it's all about profit, not morals, values or bettering human society. Bitcoin and crypto currency is the logical extension of this. Entirely hype based. Kills the climate with wasted electricity and overproduction of gpus that get dumped into landfills when obsolete. All for greed and getting profit for investment. The entire capitalistic model is fundamentally broken at its core, and it's unsustainable in these large global markets. It's incapable of solving the crisis we currently face, and a change in systems is needed.
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@crimson1453 and all those tax haven countries deserve to be threatened enough to raise taxes and find some other industry to sustain themselves. Most of those countries are utterly pathetic with nothing to show for themselves other than leeching of a few a billionaires and helping destroy the planet and society, and they all deserve an utter kick in the butt for their immorality. Ireland and Luxembourg and Switzerland being the main villains in Europe
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What about making billionaires pay their taxes? They could fund msot if not all of these welfare programs.
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@stephenjenkins7971 if you don't care about that than you're morally reprehensible and don't deserve to have any opinion on politics lmao. You don't share basic axiums about human life and rights when you can make a statement like that. Please take a time machine and go back to feudalism so you can be a slave you dream of being.
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@andrasfogarasi5014 No market is fair or puts the best solution at the top. All of them would be bankrupt had the governmet not saved their asses or simped for them. The boring tunnels are an utter failure, the las vegas tunnel is an embarrasement, a metro that waste more energy, is slower, more expensive and cant transport many people. Spacex rockets are well designed, but the goal is to create slave colonies on mars with billionares going on vacation. His proposed idea of rocket travel between large cities is also a climate catastrophe and not much faster than a fast jet. Tesla is the only company with some merit. But the climate impact of electric cars ias bad as gasoline cars because of the lithium harvested. Teslas are also made with underpaid workers in the US and slave labor in foreign countries. The cars are also of poor build quality and they fail to meet basic deadlines. The cybertruck will never release, same with the EV big haul truck.
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@andrasfogarasi5014 Also, any company whose only metric is turning a profit as a sign of succes is by deafult a garbage and trash company. If you can't provide jobs, help society or invent solution to problems, then you don't deserve to exist. I hate capitalism to a large extent, but money being the only facotr in rapist billionaires mind is the biggest problem with the system. But the dictators on top are always the biggest villain, not voters who voted for the las vegas mayor, and while politicians are often villains too, the tyrant CEOs in charge are the ones who have the warmest spot in hell waiting for them.
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F1 and sports is overpriced always. Most people watch illegal streams because you have to be a huge sports fan for the high price to be worth it at all
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