Locke Wiggin BS,MS,PhD,ScD

When a Democrat or a socialist or a progressive tells you that something should be "free", what they really mean is that it should be paid for by your neighbor. When they say, "we live in a society", they mean, "you are that neighbor."

@OrevaZSN Translation: "You reduce crime by making the theft universal and legal."

You reduce crime by eliminating poverty. You reduce crime with universal healthcare, public housing, livable wages, and free college. You reduce violence by creating happy, healthy communities that aren’t constantly fighting over basic needs and material resources.

Capitalism is better than socialism because one man gets to be a trillionaire instead of everyone having healthcare

@PramilaJayapal Healthcare is not, in fact, a human right.

Health care is a human right. Not a privilege. Not a benefit you earn at a job that could disappear tomorrow. Not something you ration because you're afraid of the bill. A right. I've been fighting for Medicare for All because I've seen what happens when people can't afford to see a doctor. They wait. They get sicker. Some of them don't make it. We are the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We can do this. We just need the political will to fight for it. That's what we're building. Together. 💜

@AOC You can't advocate for welfare programs and then complain about having to pay welfare programs, ,you fucking retard.

The single largest form of theft in America is wage theft. $50 billion a year are stolen from American workers. If a billionaire amasses their wealth by underpaying their full-time workers so severely that they must rely on food assistance and government programs to survive, then no, that wealth was not earned by one individual - it was a wealth transfer subsidized by underpaid American workers and the public who get stuck with the bill for large corporations free-riding off our systems. The point is less about individual morality. It’s more about how our current economic reality of shattering inequality rewards screwing over workers and exploiting essential systems at scale. We’re talking monopoly power. Rent-seeking. Wage theft. Profiteering. Stock buybacks. Destabilizing housing markets. Companies using SNAP/EBT to underwrite their wages. Massive government subsidies or contracts to corporations following lobbying and dark money in politics with little to no oversight or accountability. Some people get enraged that I draw attention to this. That’s on them. Let them call me shrill, dumb, inexperienced, girly, uneducated - these folks will say anything to distract from or undercut the truth that working people are getting screwed, and giving people a fair shake means we must have a grown conversation about reigning in abuse of power.

The difference is that capitalism allows you the greatest freedom to change jobs, negotiate, start businesses, accumulate wealth, and improve your position without asking permission from the state. In centrally planned systems, quitting the wrong job could mean losing not just income, but housing, food access, internal travel permissions, or political standing because the state controlled the economy itself. What many people are really demanding isn’t freedom from “predation.” They’re demanding freedom from consequences while still expecting access to the products of everyone else’s labor. And notice the contradiction: They call it coercive when reality requires them to work to sustain themselves, but not coercive when the state forces others to fund them through taxation.

@1ssve The elements that make it seem like this (insurance tied to job, monetary inflation, etc) are not capitalism, they are government attempts to centrally plan the economy.

Capitalism makes quitting your job feel like risking your life, because it ties your basic survival needs to staying employed. This system is predatory.

@RepThomasMassie @bendur6 Haul him before Congress again. Ask him the same questions. He will either expose the fraud, or he will lie to Congress, a new offense for which he can be prosecuted.

He downplayed early treatments and promoted late stage expensive pharmaceuticals while ignoring their side effects. Fauci isn’t science, he’s a snake oil salesman trying to quietly ride his wagon out of town before the people hold him accountable for his fraud. (4/4)

Science didn’t evolve, Fauci ignored science. He denied the existence of natural immunity. He spoke of droplets to avoid acknowledging the size of the virus was too small to be stopped by the filters of loose fitting cloth masks. (Thread, 1/4)

@chenfordlivia This is the best endorsement of reform ive seen.

reason why NOT to vote reform OR restore 1- restore what’s to get rid of the equality act of 2010 This means that women rights, lgbt rights, people with disabilities rights, religious beliefs, and people of a different race and ethnicity will be scrap, your rights will be taken away from you, you won’t have rights anymore. 2- reform what’s to get rid the NHS this means that you WILL have to start paying for your check ups, to give birth, to get a ambulances, to get your broken bone fixed, to go to the dentist. 3- reform wants to bring ICE to the uk. This means that if you was not born here you will be deported, and it WILL be horrible and violence Just like you seen in America 4- reform wants to stop benefits. This means that if you are on benefits because you need them YOU will NOT get them anymore. 5- reform wants to banned queer marriage. This means that if you are marrying the same gender or a non binary person you will NOT be allowed to get married legally. If there anything I missed, please let me know!

Capitalism is morally superior to every other economic system. And it isn't even close.

@BeingJWood You guys have been promising ‘free’ things for my entire life, yet none of it ever materializes. The affordable education argument is possibly the worst I’ve ever seen. The federal government’s takeover of student loans in 2010 is the primary driver of skyrocketing college costs.

@luvblessingz That is doing nothing with generational wealth beyond raising an entitled child with no understanding of reality. It's just slandering the hard work of previous generations for the current generation to do nothing and complain about how bad things are.

@haugejostein Society has no priorities. Individuals have priorities. Trying to centrally control the "priorities" of individuals is why hospital visits cost $15,000, cars cost $40,000 and degrees cost $120,000. Get government out of the economy and things cost less.

High consumption is not a good indicator of a thriving economy. If a society forces its citizens into positions of having to spend $15,000 on a hospital visit, $40,000 on a car, or $120,000 for a college degree, it is a society with deeply misaligned priorities.

Yes.

@mcsquared34 so... a technician for x-ray machines?

@OrevaZSN BASED IN: AFRICA

Giving poor people money to buy groceries: bad for the economy, causes inflation. Bailing out rich people after bad investments in industries they specifically lobbied to deregulate: saves the economy, no inflation.

@BlomquistForMI You want to bribe voters with free* stuff, We get it. (*paid for by someone else)

I hate my health insurance. I don't want more people to have it. I want it replaced. I want guaranteed healthcare free at the point of service. I want to put patients over profit. I want Medicare for All.

@PramilaJayapal US federal fraud is $233–521 billion per year, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). You don't steward that tax money well. Excluding unrealized gains, actual realized/liquid wealth growth for billionaires is likely only in the low hundreds of billions.

Billionaire wealth has grown $5 trillion since 2020. In that same period, rent has spiked, child care has become unaffordable, and 185 Americans are dying every day from lack of insurance. The system is not broken. It is working exactly as designed — for the billionaires. Tax the rich.

@PramilaJayapal How about taxing no one and starving the political class?

@BeingJWood Why is it relevant?

Why does somebody with a billion dollars need another billion dollars?