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You know the difference between our debt and our deficit right? Our debt is $37 trillion. The deficit was $1.8 trillion in 2024. Eliminate the...
What makes you believe increasing taxes on the 1% can eliminate or substantially reduce the deficit? We had a $1.8 trillion dollar deficit last...
Your response is inadequate. Your response doesn't make the United States fiscal situation sustainable. Your response, given the best possible...
You never even got the deficit below $1 trillion dollars even if we indulged your wildest fantasies regarding increased taxation and spending cuts...
You don't have the math so you just go with ad hominems.
Even if my behavior was poor, that's an excuse for poor behavior on your part? Things that aren't in the short term aren't worth worrying about?...
No I am talking about you. You think it's appropriate to be snarky and condescending? Even if you perceive me to be, which I reject, that is an...
Enjoy the snark and condescension while you can. Like the fat, arrogant, self-important and pompous members of any society or system that...
The modern welfare state is not old. It doesn't have a long track record of sustainability. Things don't collapse until they do. I can cite a...
Things don't collapse until they do. Modern welfare states are not old. They have been propped up by debt and the idea that demographics will be...
I don't think any large developed countries welfare states are sustainable. The UK? France? Spain? Italy? Germany? Japan? They aren't doing well....
My position is that the welfare state is not sustainable. It's not incumbent upon me, like it is you, to drum up some fever dream fantasies about...
I'm not running from anything. You are. You're running from the fact your best case scenario math doesn't even get the deficit below $1...
The math doesn't work. You keep inflating even your own fantasy figures. First you would cut the deficit by $800 billion, now it's $1 trillion....
So even in your best case scenario we still have a $1 trillion dollar deficit and there is no progress on the $37 trillion debt. Hallelujah....
In 1990, twelve countries in Europe had a wealth tax. Today, there are only three: Norway, Spain, and Switzerland. According to reports by the...
You're not providing ANY numbers. How am I suppose to count them? You're proposing pie in the sky policies that have been tried and not worked in...
Not true at all. Cite 20 peer reviewed articles or you’re making it up.
You have google.
You want me to direct you to resources showing the historical ineffectiveness of wealth taxes in OECD countries? lol. Sure. Go ahead and argue...
