2024 ELECTION THREAD
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Man, true I live outside the U.S., but those story lies u tell it’s the first time I ever heard it .
Democrats aren’t bragging Cheney and Bush are great , just that they won’t vote for trump cause in actually trump is the rino ….
Deportation, like Israel , trump will do more but it’s ok to ignore it .
Coming from you it’s no surprise .
what legislation did Biden enact to protect immigrants?
Thx for the history flashback but didn’t u just make the point that billionaires wants has less as possible a true democracy for the people ?
And they always try to find the means to attain it ?
So I dont get the big fuss with freaky and you .
he said this
That's kind of the whole point of democracy, homie. To put a check on centralized wealth, which the wealthy have fought at every step of countries becoming democratized. The wealthy hate democracy.
none of that is remotely true, that's all i said, he then turned it into a series of insults, goal post moving, unhinged rants about the deep state (lol), etc
democracy is created by the wealthy specifically because if you're wealthy, then the best possible outcome that ensures your multi-generational longevity is a democracy as the biggest threat to your wealth is the state confiscating it which won't happen in a democracy
democracies also allow the wealthy the freedom to participate in politics and exert an insane amount of influence - only in a democracy can the billionaires cutting checks to the government ensure they get preferential tax codes - in non-democratic countries, the state will actually be incentivized to tax them heavily and even seize their wealth directly in order to prevent them from becoming potential rivals
as roc noted, things are good in saudi arabia if you are a member of the house of saud, otherwise it's not that great,
the new guy mbs, he was appointed the successor in 2017... what else happened in 2017? oh right a massive proscription where they rounded up 500 of the wealthiest people in the country and turned the ritz carlton into a prison for 2 years
what did they do? as a result of that?
As many as 500 people were rounded up in the sweep.[7] Saudi Arabian banks froze more than 2,000 domestic accounts as part of the crackdown.[8] According to The Wall Street Journal, the Saudi government targeted cash and assets worth up to $800 billion.[9] The Saudi authorities claimed that amount was composed of assets worth around $300 billion to $400 billion that they can prove was linked to corruption.[10][11]
The anti-corruption committee ended its mission on 30 January 2019, concluding that 381 individuals were apprehended, some of them were able to give their testimony, and $107 billion was recovered to the state treasury as a result.
but sure, the billionaires of america all want something like that where trump is our king and they can roll the dice each time a new head of state pops in and decides to enrich themselves and eliminate potential rivals in one fell swoop, that's exactly what want... jfc it's just insane to actually believe that the wealthy are anti-democracy, especially when the wealthy dominate our poltiics, could dismantle our government if they wanted but not only that, promote an idealistic foreign policy of "nation building" where we go around the world toppling dictatorships and replacing them with more democracies because they're apparently self hating or just hate running the sim for a world totalitarian state on easy mode idk it's your crazy fantasy so you decide their true motives you prefer to wholly invent
Courting? They are just laughing that such stalwart republicans (that Trump admires) recognize he is a POS.
What have they done to court them?
he said this
none of that is remotely true, that's all i said, he then turned it into a series of insults, goal post moving, unhinged rants about the deep state (lol), etc
democracy is created by the wealthy specifically because if you're wealthy, then the best possible outcome that ensures your multi-generational longevity is a democracy as the biggest threat to your wealth is the state confiscating it which won't happen in a democracy
democr
Well there is more democratic country then the U.S. .
The U.S. is more an oligarchy than a democracy imo .
There is obviously level of democracies but when I see how like 50% of the population is so miserable on many aspect in the U.S. , the U.S. is far from being the best model .
I think the U.S. got amazing things but awful stuff too on the Democratic stance compare to many other countries shrug .
I mean remember in 1933 when the government confiscate gold ?
The U.S. was a democracy back then and still didn’t prevent confiscating wealth either .
Freaky went probably a bit too far but he wasn’t like 100% wrong either .
Well there is more democratic country then the U.S. .
The U.S. is more an oligarchy than a democracy imo .
There is obviously level of democracies but when I see how like 50% of the population is so miserable on many aspect in the U.S. , the U.S. is far from being the best model .
I think the U.S. got amazing things but awful stuff too on the Democratic stance compare to many other countries shrug .
I mean remember in 1933 when the government
1933 was still Jim Crow
Well there is more democratic country then the U.S. .
The U.S. is more an oligarchy than a democracy imo .
There is obviously level of democracies but when I see how like 50% of the population is so miserable on many aspect in the U.S. , the U.S. is far from being the best model .
I think the U.S. got amazing things but awful stuff too on the Democratic stance compare to many other countries shrug .
I mean remember in 1933 when the government
which democratic countries persecute the wealthy and confiscate their wealth?
also want to add, the government paid people for the gold they confiscated in 1933 and it did not confiscate jewelry or coins, just bullion which was compensated for at market prices
i'm not saying it was right for them to do that - but you are either outright lying about what happened or deeply misunderstand that event (which i think is far more likely because it's a commonly referenced thing in the crypto world "gubmint seized all the gold in 1933' so i'm willing to give you the benefit of doubt
again, please find some examples of democracies which persecute the wealthy and arbitrarily seize their assets
I’m not saying they are normally but it can sometimes happens .
Nationalization is one way that can happens .
Gold was an other one .
democracies can radicalize themselves and aim at the wealthy .
Nothing preventing that and it’s fine if the wealth inequality becomes unsustainable to preserve social cohesion .
Has for 1933 , they confiscate ownership of gold till 1974 and when they did it in 1933 , after they almost double the price of it , to print more money u got paid by , which obviously made you poorer .
That aint great .
I’m just saying the rich loves democracies as long they can control it in a meaningful way to their advantage .
Once it goes away u will see them being more against it when it favours more the common man then them .
I’m not saying they are normally but it can sometimes happens .
Nationalization is one way that can happens .
Gold was an other one .
democracies can radicalize themselves and aim at the wealthy .
Nothing preventing that and it’s fine if the wealth inequality becomes unsustainable to preserve social cohesion .
Has for 1933 , they confiscate ownership of gold till 1974 and when they did it in 1933 , after they almost double the price
nobody lost anything when the gold was seized - yes the currency was later devalued when they realized even after the seizure they still didn't have enough gold to meet the required reserve without devaluing the currency, but the wealthy don't hold their assets in currency anyway so that hurt the poor and middle class who are going to have a disproportionate amount of their wealth as savings rather than investments
and democracies that radicalize and begin seizing assets cease to be democracies ducy?
let's say venezuela, which is ostensibly a democracy which began seizing assets and nationalizing stuff but in reality everyone knows it's an authoritarian regime
and yeah of course they love how they can control it and remain exempt from seizures and higher taxes - that's precisely why the wealthy love democracies
you agree with me without even realizing it
I’m not saying they are normally but it can sometimes happens .
Nationalization is one way that can happens .
Gold was an other one .
democracies can radicalize themselves and aim at the wealthy .
Nothing preventing that and it’s fine if the wealth inequality becomes unsustainable to preserve social cohesion .
Has for 1933 , they confiscate ownership of gold till 1974 and when they did it in 1933 , after they almost double the price of it , to
What do you mean oligarchy?
nobody lost anything when the gold was seized - yes the currency was later devalued when they realized even after the seizure they still didn't have enough gold to meet the required reserve without devaluing the currency, but the wealthy don't hold their assets in currency anyway so that hurt the poor and middle class who are going to have a disproportionate amount of their wealth as savings rather than investments
and democracies that radic
a democracy can be extremely authoritarian, it is absolutely compatible with democracy.
a liberal, constitutional democracy with strong checks and balances will tend to be less authoritarian but even in that case it's not obvious.
not sure why you think that democracy = rights, democracies can have slavery, arranged marriages, censorship, socialism and everything else. a democracy can even have theocratic elements. it's just about what the people want
Just posting this here to see what the resident Trump sympathizers say about this yap
BTW SALT income deductions aren't loopholes, it's about which comes first to steal your money, the state or the feds.
SALT property deductions are loopholes, let me explain.
SALT sale tax deduction are too complicated to address here.
you earn 1 million. you live in a society so you have to pay taxes. who comes first? constitution doesn't clarify if the feds or the states come first. what does "come first" mean? who taxes your one million first. if the state taxes it at 10%, you never actually earned one million, you actually income was 900k, the fed should tax the 900k. it isn't a deduction in any actual sense, it's that the 100k were never yours to begin with.
instead if you pay 100k in property taxes, that's a service tax, you get benefits from that (better school, better neighborhood, better policing, and so on), so you earnt that money and spent it on a service.
sales taxes are more complicated yet.
imo NY v Yellen (2021, 2nd circuit appeal decision on the SALT cap) was partially wrongly decided on 10a grounds, because imo the 10a does apply when the constitution is unclear, and so unless the constitution specifies the feds come first to tax, and it doesn't, states do.
we have such a broken system that when we put in a raging moron who's self serving and stupid and couldn't get anyone to work with him with unprecedented turnover
that the few areas where he deviated from status quo - areas which at the time got him absolutely flamed and ridiculed because it went against common sense
when trump announced the trade war i was pissed
when he talked about fixing the border - i was just dismissing that as a dog whi
There are obviously endless examples of this but as the son of a LAUSD teacher and a former sub, the one that sticks out to me is the school lunches you mentioned.
As a sub, they told us to try the food on our first day. I don't know if this is some kind of hazing thing, but I had a cheeseburger that was genuinely one of the most disgusting things I've ever tasted. The cheese was this yellow goo, a bit like you'd get if you were suicidal enough to order nachos at a movie theater in the 90s, but thicker and worse. No joke, there was a pretty big bone fragment in my burger and I almost chipped my tooth. I think if I had to eat that whole burger, I would vomit. I know it sounds like hyperbole but I cannot express how gross it really was. If you offered me $100 to eat one I'd laugh in your face.
There was one teacher at my mom's school who ate the school lunches--I think they got them for free. The other teachers thought this was insane. My mom and her friends talked about it several times, laughing and just being like "I can't believe anybody would do that!"
Many of my mom's 3rd graders got school breakfast which is primarily cake. The kids actually complained about it. The school was feeding 3rd graders so much cake--for breakfast--that children complained about too much cake.
LA is obviously controlled totally by Dems, as is CA.
I'm sure everyone knows that nutrition, especially in childhood, affects physical health, mental health and long term development and bad nutrition can contribute to poor academic performance, mental illness and ultimately poverty and crime. This is a very easy and cheap fix. Could probably SAVE money serving rice and beans, fresh fruit and veggies and good soups and stews. Not counting the long term costs of things like obesity.
That's why in, say, Japan, schools have full time nutritionists who oversee the preparation of healthy, tasty meals. Heck, I've watched a lot of videos about prisons, and in some countries, including places like Croatia, the prisoners eat much better than our students. (OC our prison/CJ system is also vastly worse than any developed country).
There's a blog where American students send in pictures of their lunches.
Chicago students posted some images of the disgusting slop they were served and pleaded for decent food.
[url]https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chicago-public-schools-a
ramark-lunch-boycott_n_56686953e4b0f290e5217c3c[/url]
This is how it is done in Japan. It's just common sense that this is how it should be, but it seems almost comically exotic as an American. Watching honest people do what is obviously right as an American feels as fantastical as someone in El Salvador must have felt watching 90210.
Jamie Oliver famously went on a big quest to address this and was told to eff off. This is basically an apolitical issue. You have to be some kind of lunatic to want students to be served disgusting, extremely unhealthy food. And the cost of upgrading the food would be trivial. I haven't done an exhaustive study, but it seems like every functional country gets this right, as it is so obvious and easy. That doesn't matter here. The system is almost totally impervious to democratic influence. Your kids will eat garbage, cuz whoever makes the garbage knew who to pay. Vote in new people and the same people will pay them off too.
That is just the tip of the iceberg on how badly the schools are run: often intentionally. There was a national story when this guy with ties to Apple went into LAUSD and basically stole $1.3 billion to buy ipads that never worked. It was investigated by the feds but these people have graft and corruption without breaking the law down to a science.
Surely, he is now retired in shame or working at a Long John Silvers. Of course not. We all know how the story ends. The man who stole, or at best, squandered $1.3 billion from a single school district and gave it to his friends in the tech industry is now the head of The Bezos Family Foundation. Again, the dude stole over a billion dollars from schools and instead of doing 20 years, he got a cushy job from the industry he was in cahoots with.
On a lower level, my mom's school, which was lacking in a number of basic resources replaced their perfectly fine gymnasium floor with a new one for $80k. This is an elementary school where no serious sports are played. This just goes on and on.
Who thinks it's a good idea for a billion dollars to be stolen from schools? Only the people stealing it. Who thinks kids should eat disgusting, unhealthy food? Only the people selling it.
This has nothing to do with political ideology. I think you and Freak kinda got offtrack going back and forth on that. If our system was full of people like Amash and Bernie they would hash stuff out and we'd be fine. It's full of actual and de facto psychopaths who would have your family killed in exchange for a nice dinner and are totally indifferent to the general state of the country.
this is so cringe
first of all, SALT or various iterations of it date back to Lincoln, it was already in existence, what he did was put a 10k cap on that deduction which which brought in 94 billion dollars of additional tax revenue
this is not a way to "punish the blue states" but rather deeply in line with democrat party values of having the wealthy pay their share instead of finding various loopholes such as SALT in order to avoid paying le
So your proof that a tax-cutting Republican like Trump didn't increase SALT taxes specifically to punish blue states...is that a tax-increasing Democrat like Sanders also supported imposing a SALT cap? Are you being serious?
So your proof that a tax-cutting Republican like Trump didn't increase SALT taxes specifically to punish blue states...is that a tax-increasing Democrat like Sanders also supported imposing a SALT cap? Are you being serious?
It wasn't an "increase in SALT taxes", it was a cap on how much you can discount what you already paid to state/council in taxes, when counting how much you have to pay for the federal income tax.
Sanders is in favor of not letting taxes paid at the local level be deducted because it increases the overall tax take which for Sanders is always good.
Republicans wanted to push blue states to pay for their extravagancies themselves, not letting them freeroll the feds on that in part. The hope was they would cut their expenses because increasing taxes is often politically toxic even in blue states.
It was a punish but because of a purported unjustified previous privilege. Btw courts agreed it was constitutional (even if i disagree but my opinion doesn't matter) because it wasn't a targeted punishment as the cap affects all states.
It wasn't an "increase in SALT taxes", it was a cap on how much you can discount what you already paid to state/council in taxes, when counting how much you have to pay for the federal income tax.
Sanders is in favor of not letting taxes paid at the local level be deducted because it increases the overall tax take which for Sanders is always good.
Republicans wanted to push blue states to pay for their extravagancies themselves, not letting t
Which is why I said "...also supported imposing a SALT cap". Reading is fundamental.
If you put a cap on the deduction you increase the net SALT taxes owed. It's not very complicated.
No, the SALT taxes are the same, and there is no net/gross SALT taxes; what you increase is the federal income tax take on those people. But in the same bill, the very wealthy also got tax income cuts.
So they weren't worse off, just, they gained less than equally rich people living in states with lower local taxes.
Which is why it wasn't taxpayers who sued. It was blue states. Because they claimed having their citizens taxed relatively more would have cost them long term from a fiscal basis point of view.
Btw the Biden admin defended the SALT deduction cap , which is why the case got called New York v Yellen, you know the democrat secretary of the treasure nominated by Biden? yes that Yellen.
So good luck claiming it was actions to punish blue states when a blue admin defends those actions in court
No, the SALT taxes are the same, and there is no net/gross SALT taxes; what you increase is the federal income tax take on those people. But in the same bill, the very wealthy also got tax income cuts.
So they weren't worse off, just, they gained less than equally rich people living in states with lower local taxes.
Which is why it wasn't taxpayers who sued. It was blue states. Because they claimed having their citizens taxed relatively more
I realize English may not be your first language but that's what "net SALT taxes owed" means, aka effective SALT taxes owed. You've now wasted three posts just repeating what I said regarding the SALT tax cap but insisting I didn't say it. Have you run out of other things to be wrong about?
I realize English may not be your first language but that's what "net SALT taxes owed" means, aka effective SALT taxes owed. You've now wasted three posts just repeating what I said regarding the SALT tax cap but insisting I didn't say it. Have you run out of other things to be wrong about?
There is NO NETTING ON SALT. You pay your SALT (which stands for state and local taxes) THEN you deduct from the FEDERAL INCOME TAX (you decreased your income by that amount for the purpose of accounting how much your federal income taxes should be). You paid 100k in SALT before and after the cap. There was no netting around SALT, there was a "discount" on FEDERAL TAXES because of paid SALT.
What happened was that you could deduct 100k from FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, ie paying less TO THE FEDS because you had paid a lot to state and local. State and local got the same amount. There is no "netting". Now you can only deduct 10k no matter if you paid 100k or whatever. So you end up paying more in FEDERAL INCOME TAXES than you would have otherwise without the cap.
You wrote "net SALT taxes owed" which is non sense, it is not what happened.
First you wrote Trump increased SALT taxes. Now you write that "net" SALT taxes are higher. THEY AREN'T in any sense. The *total amount of taxes paid by someone living in a state or locality with high local taxes is higher", but the way that happens, is by paying more than before on *federal income taxes* , not on SALT.
