Jon Munce

Start with the idea that every person you meet has struggled and been damaged in some way This damage causes them to not always be truthful, keep promises, or act as they know they should Love them anyway But don't let them or anyone rule over you

@DavidAstinWalsh @Sebastian_Hols This response - right here - with the subtle redirect Is the dead giveaway you are an academic

@Sebastian_Hols Wake me when there's a Marxist economist at the University of Chicago.

True. Economics has got to be the most politically repressive discipline on most campuses by a considerable degree.

@SenSanders You have the temerity to use the term 'moral obscenity' while you are literally advocating wealth confiscation You sir are a tyrant

Sergey Brin is worth $276 billion. He could save healthcare for 3 million people. Instead, he’s spending $82 million against California’s 5% billionaire wealth tax. He’d rather see low-income Americans die & suffer than pay his fair share of taxes. That is a moral obscenity.

@lizkimtweets This is so typical Make vague sweeping statements about society and your solutions Someone asks for clarification Moan about definitions

NYT asks Mayor Mamdani what he thinks constitutes working class. gothamist.com/news/a-doctor-…

"If your mom and pop shop can't compete with the wealthiest municipal government stealing 30% of your own revenue + tax $$ from 8.5 million people to undercut your prices, you shouldn't be in business" Socialists are truly the dumbest people on earth.

Counterpoint:

@HorrorGorl 'I had more free time when my parents supported me and I didn't have to work' 'Capitalism means I need to find a job and pay rent, this sucks'

Capitalism stole the time we’re supposed to spend with each other.

@HorrorGorl The belief that subsistence farmers worked less than people today he is one of the most SMH things I see on this platform

@BillKristol Hmm - how did 'defund the police' go?

Abolish ICE

Fact check: TRUE

A sign that the Democratic Socialists of America don’t actually want something like Scandinavian social democracy: their slogan is “tax billionaires,” not “tax the middle class.”

@SteveScalise Theater kids in power - posing, pretending they know what they're doing - will have very great consequences

“Maybe they shouldn’t have been in that business in the first place.” That’s how the co-chair of New York’s Socialist Party responded to concerns that a state-run grocery store could force a locally owned business to close. So much for the “warmth of collectivism.”

@MarcoFoster_ Is this a parody account?

Hunter Biden: “Did my dad ever ever ever ever profit off the presidency? Not a single legitimate credible human being in the world has ever found any evidence of that and they have searched high and low. My dad has never bought a stock or a bond”

@HistoryBoomer It's truly the largest group of organized people, ever That think they shouldn't have to have a job with a boss or pay rent, and for that the world is unjust

The new DSA platform is something. The government will take over food production and sales, ditto energy, medicine, airlines, and housing. Universal rent control, the end of capitalism, and a classless society (stated elsewhere in the platform). This doesn't sound like Sweden!

@ATLCWorker Every now and again, I think I find the most dishonest tweet I've ever seen on X Then, usually the very next day, I see one like this

@ScottCDunn @rbelcher3966 @ItsLulu_7 Or, as stated earlier A federal government with only the enumerated constitutional powers granted it has little power to meddle where it shouldn't, or play favorites Who typically serves your better? Your grocery store, or your elected representative?

@jonmunce @rbelcher3966 @ItsLulu_7 So to reduce the criminal activity of rent seeking, we tax it.

Capitalism works for the rich

@Roger758 I think I'm at the point where if I see a meme making a statement on this platform I automatically assume it's either completely false or out of context (Checks this one) Yup

@ScottCDunn @rbelcher3966 @ItsLulu_7 It's exactly the rationale behind it Smoking is way down since taxes on it increased Like I said...

@jonmunce @rbelcher3966 @ItsLulu_7 The power to tax is the power to destroy. So why do we tax cigarettes again?

@ScottCDunn @rbelcher3966 @ItsLulu_7 You're making my point - the power to tax is the power to destroy How is this not just wanting to be left alone? 'Don't tax me' isn't rent seeking, is it?

I was alive then. I missed much of the debate then. But if you're talking about the Internet Tax Freedom Act, I remember that one well, and that was a dead giveaway. Amazon capitalized on that. Maybe you're thinking of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 with section 230. That section protected millions of small businesses on the Internet from litigation that would have snuffed them out. That section still works today, and it is a gem. And it's not a giveaway.