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Southern Gentleman
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@CitizenAmedia Spoken by the party that's run up the most debt. Hilarious.
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Just for reference, Bernie's branch of government approved spending $1.8 trillion more last year than the government got in revenue.
Total spending for 2025 was $7.1 trillion dollars.
Total spending just 10 years prior, in 2015, was half that at $3.7 trillion. Adjusted for (historically massive) inflation to compare apples to apples in 2025, that would have been just over $5T.
And ya know what? If the government had "only" spent $5T in 2025, they'd have run a slight surplus instead of a $1.8T deficit.
If Bernie had his way, that deficit would have been orders of magnitude higher, as there is absolutely no limit or backstop on the amount of other people's money he believes he should be allowed to spend on whatever retarded policy his geriatric, economically-ignorant, and socialism-addled brain can come up with.
So... No.
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders
Ok, Jamie: Let me clear things up for you. If my 5% wealth tax on billionaires was enacted you’d owe $135 million more in taxes & a family of 4 making $150,000 or less would receive a $12,000 payment. Oh, and you’d still be worth more than $2.5 billion. Seems pretty fair to me.
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@LoneStarLegendX Spoken by the party that created most of the debt. Hilarious.
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@ForgiatoBlow47 And yet it does if they are on US soil. Good luck with your constitutional amendment campaign. I hope the right puts all their efforts into it. 😆😄
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@Oilfield_Rando Literally watching the right freak out about this while I scroll
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@Jim_Jordan I guess a 25% success rate is what you voted for.
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@ReformSouthern @shelbygrad Nope. Live in a red area with a Republican Congressman.
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People who leave California for other states improve their financial situation and are much more likely to buy a home, a landmark 10-year datat analysis shows. The results speak to affordability crisis so stark one expert says: It's just sad latimes.com/california/sto…

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@GuntherEagleman Ah, internet facts, the digital equivalent of crop dusting a stranger in the elevator.
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@theobjectivist Doubling down on a stupid argument with a stupid rebuttal doesn't make you intelligent.
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This perfectly captures the parasite's delusion: that wealth is static loot to be seized and redistributed.
Here's what actually happens when you "repossess all their stuff":
The producers will rebuild. They'll create new wealth because that's what they do. They identify opportunities, solve problems, innovate, build businesses, and generate value. Their wealth came from their minds, not magic.
The looters will consume what they stole at light speed and wind up with nothing. Because they never learned to produce. They only know how to take.
Look at every socialist revolution in history: seize the factories, the farms, the businesses. Within years, everything collapses. The factories stop producing. The farms stop yielding. The wealth evaporates. Venezuela. Cuba. Soviet Union. Zimbabwe. The pattern is identical.
Why? Because wealth isn't stuff sitting in a vault. Wealth is the ongoing process of human intelligence applied to production. Confiscate a factory and you get the building. You don't get the knowledge, vision, and competence that made it productive.
The "rich" you want to loot aren't dragons hoarding gold. They're producers creating value. Rob them and you rob everyone, including yourself.
You'll be left with ruins and still blame capitalism.
BladeoftheSun@BladeoftheS
"If you tax the rich they will leave." "Fine we will just repossess all their stuff when they do."
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@CountryFirstRep There was this man who walked into the halls of congress and started speaking to an empty room while being broadcast on @cspan.
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@ForgiatoBlow47 Never spoken. Excellent straw man attempt however. 👏
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@C_3C_3 Whenever the word facts end a post you can guarantee it's 🐎💩
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@briannalyman2 The number of people on this site who are demanding to be ruled is astounding.
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Congress voted to defund NPR and PBS.
This is judicial tyranny to the highest degree.
NPR and PBS have no right to taxpayer funds
The Associated Press@AP
BREAKING: A judge blocks a Trump administration order to end federal funding for NPR and PBS. apnews.com/article/trump-…
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@FarmGirlCarrie Nah. He’ll still be required to get permission from the landlord.
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@wholemars Tell me you don't understand taxes without telling me you don't understand taxes.
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The top 10 most wealthy people in the country have a combined net worth of about $2.4 trillion.
So if we confiscated 100% of their wealth and sold their holdings, assuming it didn’t affect the market price we could cover the deficit for one year. Year after that, we’re back to square one.
In reality forcing those people to sell off their stakes in their companies would tank the share price causing the proceeds to be considerably less than what it appears to be on paper.
Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷@farzyness
The US is running a $2 TRILLION deficit. Revenue IS NOT THE PROBLEM.
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