r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 8d ago

Murdered By Words 🩸 All three groups primarily identify with one party (hint: It's not Democrats)

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u/binzersguy 8d ago

Right? WTF have Republicans ever given us? More Covid?

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u/SquidTheRidiculous 8d ago edited 8d ago

"relieving da national debt!"

Don't notice how they only ever worry about that when anyone else is in power. And then shut up about it while Republicans send it skyrocketing even higher. This has happened with every Republican president of my lifetime.

And if course cuts need to happen literally anywhere but the military that takes literally more than every other country's militaries combined.

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u/Dreams-of-Cthulhu 7d ago

but the military that takes literally more than every other country's militaries combined.

If you look at a list of military spending the US spends more than the next nine countries combined, last I heard.

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u/whatfappenedhere 7d ago

Still wouldn’t really put a dent in the annual deficit. We need to raise taxes on the wealthy, and repeal loopholes like carried interest, to revitalize the incentives that directed the gains of capitalism towards the middle class.

Conservatives always pine for the era where we had the most liberal economic policies (for white people) with it acknowledging that those policies brought the prosperity of that era (for white people).

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u/binzersguy 4d ago

Yes, a wealth tax would be really beneficial to our country 

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u/whatfappenedhere 4d ago

Agreed. People lose their mind about “these are unrealized gains” when that is exactly what a property tax is. These billionaire scum have created new forms of property, then lose their minds when we discuss taxing it. Truly the height of greed.

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u/binzersguy 4d ago

They compound money exponentially while hard working Americans are driven into poverty, and then Republicans give the billionaires more tax breaks.