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Unapologetic radical for freedom & capitalism.
Canada
Joined November 2018
Socialist grifters survive on blurring definitions. They pretend capitalism is whatever a country with the label does, so they never have to define the system itself. That way, every betrayal of property rights caused by political power gets blamed on âcapitalism,â and every
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What youâre doing is starting with an emotionally-loaded conclusion and then reverse-engineering a justification for it. That isnât an investigation; itâs confirmation-hunting. The same method climate activists use when they start with âthe world is endingâ and selectively gather
The Quality Of Literally Everything Is Declining. Iâm Investigating To Find Out Why | Ep. 1702 https://t.co/1APEu53bYH
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If greedy CEOs really had all the leverage and could pay everyone minimum wage, then almost everyone would earn minimum wage. But fewer than 2% do. That one fact destroys the narrative. Why? Because wages arenât donations, theyâre exchanges. A business must pay less than or
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Stir up the group chat with a "letâs go to Florida this weekend đâ
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Unpopular opinion? You donât have to agree with the accuracy of their interpretation to notice this: many justify sacrificing the individual to the collective using religious morality. The language changed, âcommon good,â âpublic interestâ but the ethic remained: virtue means
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An overdraft fee isnât theft, itâs the cost of spending money you donât have. The bank is fronting funds that belong to someone else, and charging a fee for taking that risk. Youâre not being ârobbed.â Youâre being loaned money on demand, with instant access, and the price for
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Communists and socialists only ever fall into two categories: those who donât understand what their ideas produce, and those who do. The first group is ignorant, blind to history, blind to incentives, blind to the fact that every system built on coerced sacrifice ends in
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Almost exclusively the only thing the government should be doing is to undo what they've already done. Every new solution to the problems caused by central planning only ever make the problems worse and more costly. It's just doubling down on the stupid and expecting new results.
Should the federal government create a catastrophic insurance plan available to anyone not on Medicare or Medicaid (we will pick the threshold amount in the next post )
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Translation: No one should have to earn, except those who have to earn so someone else doesn't have to. đ€Ą
No one deserves to starve. No one deserves to starve. No one deserves to starve. Most SNAP recipients work. They need SNAP because corporations refuse to pay a living wage. The rest are disabled, elderly or unpaid caregivers. People should be fed. Period.
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There has not been much more un-American than taxing a person for taking out a loan, something that isnât income, isnât consumption, isnât gain, and must be repaid while simultaneously âcancelingâ loans for politically favored groups. It's state-sanctioned plunder dressed up as
Wealth inequality has exploded while billionaires borrow against their assets and pay almost nothing in taxes. That ends now. Itâs time for billionaires to pay their fair share. My ROBINHOOD Act taxes those loans to create revenue to pay for universal childcare, Pre-K and more.
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They cry that âthe 1% got it all,â while the 1% pay about half of all federal income taxes, and well over half of spending doesnât go to them. So when someone pays massively more than they receive, calling a tax cut a âhandoutâ only makes sense if you view that person as your
And the people got none of it. It all went to the 1% in the form of tax breaks, subsidies and corporate welfare payments
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Short-term greed raises prices because it assumes customers are stuck. Long-term greed lowers prices and increases value because it assumes customers are free. The irrational mindset asks, âHow much can I squeeze today?â The rational one asks, âHow much value can I deliver so
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They're calling it exploitation because they think every business is guaranteed âenormous profit,â when in reality most new businesses fail, and many established ones barely break even. Yet employees still get paid, on time, every time, whether the business succeeds or collapses.
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Why Does it Matter that Adam and Eve Actually Existed?
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They're whining that airlines paid âonlyâ 7.5 percent, ignoring that every dollar those companies make has already been taxed when employees, suppliers, airports, fuel, and tickets were taxed. Corporate taxes are double-dipping. And businesses donât absorb taxes, they pass them
The collective 7.5% tax rate paid over 7 years by American, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest and United is about half the 14.5% paid by the average U.S. household in 2022. Counting only Delta, Southwest and Unitedâthe collective tax rate declines to 4%. The tax code is rigged.
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Big corporations seeking a monopoly by crushing small businesses who can't compete would agree with you.
@RockChartrand If you can't pay your employees a living wage, you should not be in business.
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Communism is the political ideology built on forcing winners to subsidize losers. It punishes achievement by declaring that those who produce are morally obligated to carry those who refuse to. It calls failure a claim on someone elseâs effort and treats success as guilt that
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Socialists love to say âif wages kept up with inflation, minimum wage would be $25/hr today.â Great. So who caused the inflation? The same politicians they vote for. The same spending they demand. The same âfreeâ handouts they celebrate. The same regulations that suffocate
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The socialist definition of oppression is inverted from reality. To them, being required to earn is oppression, and forcing others to earn for them is âjustice.â Their solution to this imaginary oppression is legalized entitlement: your effort becomes their right, your
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So selling someone food, shelter, medicine, or other basics voluntarily is âtaking advantage of them.â But forcing third parties under threat of fines, confiscation, or imprisonment to subsidize those same needs isnât exploitation? Charging a price for something you produced is
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Unrealized gains arenât income. Theyâre imaginary values that exist only on paper, not in anyoneâs wallet. You canât tax something that doesnât exist yet, because no one has earned it, received it, or used it. Taxing unrealized gains means taxing people for wealth they might
I still can't believe we actually let rich people start racking up billions of dollars in unrealized capital gainsâthe one type of income that doesn't get regularly taxedâand act like we have no idea why our economy is so rigged against us.
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Nobody âlostâ $79 trillion. Reich just assumes workers were entitled to money they never earned. The top earners didnât get richer because the bottom lost anything. They got richer by building companies, taking risks, and creating value that didnât exist before. There isnât a
The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years. Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income â so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down
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Saying no job should pay less than $18/hr is like saying no house should cost less than $500k. It doesnât raise value, it bans anything below it. If someone produces $12/hr of value and the law forces $18/hr, that job isnât upgraded, itâs eliminated. Minimum wage advocates
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