I have personally witnessed the MAGA turn to progressive of a marine friend of mine after school loan forgiveness. The issue personally touches so many conservatives that it will actually change voting behavior.
Conservatives only care when the issue affects them personally and suddenly losing money to garnished wages will rupture the right wing loan saddled voting base.
Because income tax disproportionately effects the people paid less. At the extreme levels of wealth your income can be a few thousand a year - the real money is the massive assets that are leveraged to get loans that are paid back with the investment dividends/interest or business income that pays the loan on behalf of the owner.
Famously Warren Buffet gets paid less than his secretary so she pays more of her available money in tax than he does if they had the same level of wealth. But he has billions and she has thousands. She pays more in income tax than he does - there should be no income tax.
How does layers of crushing celebrate anything except the pressure?
I’m going to skip blaming any younger generations for the world they are given. Gen X and millennials have shown that without wealth the people have no ability to change the world around them. And all the wealth is being held by about 100 people who don’t seem to care about anyone but themselves. A couple classrooms of people are all that are keeping the rest of the world from peace of mind.
Institutional greed and built-in uneven playing fields are how we got here. Getting rid of wealth over $100M is how equity is brought back. Confiscate all the wealth from these billionaires, cash out their stocks and assets. Give them $100M cash and no way to ever get more. The rest of us now get to spend the billions reclaimed on things for all of us like healthcare and schools.
The worst lesson life has taught me is that if you are valuable enough you transcend morality. The people who decide that value do not follow any rules of conduct they create. The amoral, uncaring world only wants success defined by greedy people.
Timing. Saying common sense stuff before others gives you an edge and being the first to say it with any eloquence, in a way people want to listen and are accepting of what’s being said. A lot of what Cory Doctorow says can be hard to hear or hard to deliver without sounding condescending like NDT. His talent is in the delivery.
Love the rocket exhausts point backwards and not down. Makes it feel like a kid is imagining and not an artist pretending to be a kid.
Many see things and ask “why?” Some dream of things that never were and ask “why not?” - George Bernard Shaw or RFK Sr.
Fuck income. Wealth gains tax.
How fucking poignant would it be for the school shootings to be at all the white only schools by white students? Certainly would be reflective of the last decade of this shit.
You’re about the journey and not the destination. Ditto.
Overturn Citizens United and watch the Democrats become a true People’s party again
Midterms are coming up and if he bankrupts all the voters they will spite vote against everything MAGA and undo the changes.
I would actually begin to support ICE if Nick Fuentes and a bunch of the ethnic named racists were arrested and deported. Show them and their followers that they aren’t white.
You’re fighting 2 generations of built in propaganda and warped history taught in schools. When I was in school I was taught Hitler came to power because he was a great speaker. Not that he championed a police state that maximized corporate success at the expense of the people. A terrible expense.
If people learned capitalism leads to fascism they would stop teaching capitalism. The world is unjust and will continue to be.
Years of slave wages have already refunded antifa. That’s why antifa is upset. The fa have taken all the funding.
She had to endure 2 years of him and him telling her how she can use her mouth. She’s underpaid.