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@Castin
Now you're just asking to get fact-checked.
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@ILikePie5
Check your visigoth privilege, sir.
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@ILikePie5
When a meritocracy is deemed racist, you are left with systemic mediocrity.
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@fauxlaw
Yes, a person is indeed very fragile when one chooses to ingest a lethal amount of recreational drugs and then provoke a police encounter by violating innocent people.
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@HistoryBuff
people are fragile things.
Yes, you are indeed very fragile when you choose to ingest a lethal amount of recreational drugs and then provoke a police encounter.
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@HistoryBuff
relatively likely possibility during their career.
Ninety-five percent of officers go through their entire careers without discharging their weapons.
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@Intelligence_06
r there banned books in China?
How could you know?
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@ILikePie5
Stuttering doesn’t lead to misspeaking. My brother has a stutter and he’s never said anything remotely close to what Joe has said. My childhood friend also has a stutter and he hasn’t done that either.
If you are properly woke, you can pass any indiscretion off as being oppressed by something.
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@ebuc
Every biological chemical reaction has been developed over millions of years regardless of how you feel about gender.
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@ebuc
So systemically matriarchal?
Whatever gender Darwin deems as contributing to a fit species.
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@n8nrgmi
Let's see if the Democrat establishment is still around in 4 years.
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@ethang5
That's not really my point though. My point is that if you want to live with a monopoly provider of COMPETENT services, then you are going to have to have the people that use those services (namely the poor) to pay enough in taxes to actually give a fuck about who they elect to manage the services instead of the status quo government union lobbyists.
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@Death23
It's all subjective. If you enjoy living under the monopoly of government services, there are plenty of high priced options.
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@Death23
All you have to do is compare the percent of GDP taxation.
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@HistoryBuff
By the way...this is the ideal Model Nation for Mediocrity. I strongly urge you to read this article.
"Mediocrity works great when you can fool society into accepting it and have the oil wealth to finance it. But the true path to prosperity is, and always will be, a system based on economic freedom that rewards hard work, creativity, and achievement."
You’re not to think you are anything special.
You’re not to think you are as good as we are.
You’re not to think you are smarter than we are.
You’re not to convince yourself that you are better than we are.
You’re not to think you know more than we do.
You’re not to think you are more important than we are.
You’re not to think you are good at anything.
You’re not to laugh at us.
You’re not to think anyone cares about you.
You’re not to think you can teach us anything.
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@HistoryBuff
The only chance for a flat tax policy as the Nordic model where the poor is taxed at 40% can only occur when there are no alternatives to shitty government services. That also will never happen in America.
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@Danielle
I have no idea what you're talking about. I didn't mention the word "normal."
Maybe you should read the HB quote I highlighted then instead of running the red herring Mrs. Whataboutism.
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@Danielle
One day GP will respond to someone without a red herring. Today is not that day.
Thank you for your insightful definition of what is "normal"
If normal is living with these shitty government services and actually expanding them and making them mandatory, then why do you give a fuck about incompetent police?
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@HistoryBuff
higher than normal? The US has fairly low effective tax rates for a 1st world country.
In 1913, the marginal tax rate was 1% on income of $0 to $20,000, 2% on income of $20,000 to $50,000, 3% on income of $50,000 to $75,000, 4% on income of $75,000 to $100,000, 5% on income of $100,000 to $250,000, 6% on income of $250,000 to $500,000, and 7% on income of $500,000 and up. Tax rates were the same for everyone and there was no filing status. This meant everyone paid the same rate whether they were single, married, or heads of households.
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@Death23
You earned that investment income. Think of all the crap you had to give up by not buying scratch off tickets and alcohol and choosing to not live a paycheck to paycheck lifestyle.
Of course I personally have the best of both worlds by pretending to the government that I live paycheck to paycheck when I actually choose to work less while the government then funnels my welfare money into my IRA.
I make the government work for me, not the other way around.
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@Death23
The ONLY reason why most of the rich work harder than the poor, invest more in themselves than the poor, and save more than the poor is so that they do NOT have to rely on the same crappy government services the poor keep insisting they must pay for. Especially in the areas of private security, private education, and private healthcare.
Democracy is about mob rule, and the majority of Americans would rather work less and rely on those crappy government services. The Government has an incentive to continue to push policies to have many of the people that actually use the services pay almost nothing for them in order to maintain the status quo authoritative power. Since most people using the services are actually paying next to nothing for the services, then they don't care as much about the level of incompetency of the services as they would as services they were working harder for.
This is exactly why the progressive sin tax on people that work harder to avoid using shitty government services is not going anywhere, and also the reason why there never will be a flat tax policy in America. The only chance for a flat tax policy as the Nordic model where the poor is taxed at 40% can only occur when there are no alternatives to shitty government services. That also will never happen in America.
Want better government services? Tax the poor.
It's a cultural war for the future of America today.
A Meritocracy vs a Mediocracy.
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@HistoryBuff
The regressive tax system punishes people who do well so that they can buy votes from the people who are in the lower half of the income strata. Politicians know that they can always buy votes by pushing for “taxing the rich”. They target the upper 5% and middle 30% so that they can brag on not charging the lower 49% anything. So the lower 49% get the most services from the government and they pay almost nothing or exactly nothing. But they vote for the people that who tell them that is what they are doing.
Taxes are a politician’s tool for buying votes. When the democrats are out of power they scream about the rich not paying taxes but then again they are the very ones who put in all the tax advantages for things like real estate. However if there were no tax advantages for investing in lots of real estate projects then the poor would not have a place to live at a low cost. Many wealthy business owners take advantage of employee tax credits for hiring disadvantaged workers - people that would not be able to get a job are hired because of these credits. The media and other politicians like to flat out lie to the people and act like these tax breaks are hurting other people instead of helping them.
Politicians like to power grab - it would probably only take 10–15% of the current tax revenue to completely balance the budget and do EVERYTHING that the government SHOULD be doing for the American citizens. However, politicians have created many times as many services as the government should be doing all in the interest of buying votes. They create a new service - hire 10,000 people at astronomical salaries and eternal benefits to provide some kind of service at the lowest possible level of efficiency. Then these people get in these jobs and 2 or 3 years later someone else wants to stop that service but now these people rally together to vote against that person. Some other idiot gets elected and grows that department even more and then they need more buildings which they give those contracts to their buddies who overcharge by 200–300% for the job. Then those contractors create a “Political Action Committee” that donates a few million of the overcharges back to those candidates campaigns so that the “gravy train” keeps going their way.
This is how it has been going for the last 40+ years. This is exactly why we pay drastically higher taxes than normal and why we have little to show for our taxes.
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@HistoryBuff
Because it's your way of justifying a sin tax on a person that produces too much and doesn't spend enough.
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@HistoryBuff
Couldn't agree more. taxes on corporations and the wealthy need to be significantly higher
Degentrification is a regressive policy.
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@sadolite
There ya go, that will fix it.
Worked for Greece.
Oh And Venezuela of course. Endless money trees.
Obviously Greece and Venezuela need some lessons from the young posters on this site on how to properly "tax the rich."
Normally progressives like to point to Europe for policy success. Not this time. The experiment with the wealth tax in Europe was a failure in many countries. France's wealth tax contributed to the exodus of an estimated 42,000 millionaires between 2000 and 2012, among other problems. Only last year, French president Emmanuel Macron killed it.
In 1990, twelve countries in Europe had a wealth tax. Today, there are only three: Norway, Spain, and Switzerland. According to reports by the OECD and others, there were some clear themes with the policy: it was expensive to administer, it was hard on people with lots of assets but little cash, it distorted saving and investment decisions, it pushed the rich and their money out of the taxing countries—and, perhaps worst of all, it didn't raise much revenue.
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@Vader
It's fine. He is enjoying his gated community life like most virtue signaling neophytes.
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@ethang5
GP, anything on this from your vast plethora of knowledge?
HB has it right this time. SCOTUS has no constitutional jurisdiction over this.
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@skittlez09
That's why democrats created gated communities. Out of sight, out of mind.
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@Conway
Probably the world's leader in fatherlessness as well.
Apparently, welfare checks and child support are poor substitutes for an actual Dad in the home.
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@Danielle
Can we go back to discussing Trump's failed lawsuits? <3
Noob sniper!
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@drafterman
I'm sure I can find some FBI statistics, but it is far more accurate to claim black culture is responsible for the violence, not the skin.
Unless you are one of those "all cultures are equal" retards, in which case I concede to your mighty wisdom.
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@thett3
This is a stupid OP lol, please stop spamming up this forum with boomer posts copy pasted from Facebook
Boomers need love too.
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@Danielle
then yeah that would be an example of systemic racism in criminal justice.
So you agree that the fact that they commit more crimes is not systemic racism. And America isn't a fundamentally racist country for acknowledging this fact.
My point is both sides eagerly clutch unfounded conspiracies if it can lead to more power.
Whataboutism only condones the tradition. And it's a VERY long tradition, from the Lusitania to WMD to Obama's Libya lies, to Putingate.
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@Death23
And then someone says..oh illegals aren't calling the cops? That must obviously mean that illegal invaders are naturally less criminally violent!
Obviously.
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@Death23
Also, many illegals will just quietly become a victim of crime off the books and rarely call the police for domestic violence or other violent crimes for obvious reasons.
70% according to this.
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@n8nrgmi
Do you support Biden declaring martial law to make sure everyone wears a mask and is distant?
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@n8nrgmi
some trump supporters,
Which ones dont?
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@n8nrgmi
Of the 20,360 deaths among children and teens that year, motor vehicle crashes accounted for 4,074 lives lost and one-fifth of all deaths.
As the United States’ covid-19 death toll moves relentlessly beyond 200,000, data shows that only about 100 children and teenagers have died of the disease, a fatality rate that is drawing wonder from clinicians and increasing interest among researchers hoping to understand why.
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@HistoryBuff
How many kids out of 47 million died from Covid?
How many kids died this year on wheels?
Accidents (unintentional injuries) are, by far, the leading cause of death among children and teens.
The automobile accounts for the largest number of accidental deaths. All infants and children should use the proper child car seats, booster seats, and seat belts.
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@n8nrgmi
A really big problem with your stat is that there are high-risk people that you can quarantine for covid whereas almost everyone including kids (who have near no risk of covid) are at risk of dying on wheels when they get inside 2 tons of high-speed steel.
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@Danielle
The average student can only focus and retain for 25 minutes at a time on any topic.
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@HistoryBuff
if voter fraud is widespread, ie. it happens every day, then it becomes systemic. The two are intertwined.
Well said.
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@HistoryBuff
there are blatant cases of racism
you misspelled systemic.
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@Death23
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@HistoryBuff
i keep seeing right wing people saying that, but literally no one is able to offer any proof of it
You can say the same thing about "systemic racism."
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@drafterman
That's literally what a conspiracy is.
Ok, reign in the hyperbole Juuuust a tad at the expense of like to dislike ratios.
First off..it's not unlawful to take a case to court. Secondly, everyone can publicly see this case after the judges see it.
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@HistoryBuff
Guess you just can't trust authority these days.
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@drafterman
Oh I fully agree that the Trumpers are laying the framework for delegitimizing elections from here on out.
Absolutely.
This is objectively where the Overton window is for the near future.
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