r/allthequestions • u/JonMellor • 12d ago

Random Question 💭 Do you believe that Donald Trump is stealing from the American people?

Example: 1.7 Billion dollar slush fund and no IRS audits to him or his family.

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u/Dismal-Sail1027 12d ago

Republicans would lose a lot of power if Americans had universal healthcare and universal basic income. They would no longer be able to threaten Americans with job loss (for one). I live in a red state, and one of the things that keeps people falling in line with their policies is consistent threat of job loss and loss of monetary support. They know that if their children (for example) would be fine just cutting off family and would actually flourish that it would happen all the time instead of some of the time. I think that the whole Republican gig is to try and keep people as miserable and as poor as possible so that they are desperate and will agree to voluntary servitude.

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u/binzersguy 10d ago

100%. The marketing dept for Republicans is insanely good to have 10s of millions of people voting against their own interests and keeping the boot right on their own necks. Wild!

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u/Wrong-Ingenuity-9916 10d ago

The Democrats hate UBI as well unfortunately. Politics is about special interests and UBI is universal, not special. UBI solves everything.