SnacknGold06

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Taxing people on their income or wealth is intrinsically immoral. It’s theft

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Perhaps, but getting immensely wealthy with government subsidies and contracts is sort of immoral as well. Must be a fair playing field.

Healthcare - getting rid of the pre-existing condition loophole was net positive, although single payer with higher cap gains on the billionaire class would be even better.

Foreign policy - against misadventures in the Middle East. Stronger western alliances.

Worker and consumer protections.

They frick up quite a bit, but the truth is we haven’t truly had a progressive federal government since the FDR years. Most have been corporate lite since then. Even the Biden years were handouts to corporations.

Why would you want to see an American city burn? Especially the most iconic metropolis in the country.

Partisanship is destroying our nation, and yes democrats play a role in this too.

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No. It means they are stealing it from us.

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Stealing LA? Cmon man. LA is about as blue as it gets. The cheating allegations for every election is getting old at this point.

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The US has the 6th to 9th highest capital gains and dividend tax rates in the industrialized world.

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All I’m advocating for is a progressive tax on realized capital gains at the federal level. Not talking about ratcheting taxes on grandmas dividends from the local IOU. Those dollars are practically a rounding error.

Do you think the growing chasm of wealth disparity is healthy long term? I think it will increase animosity and chaos if the majority of people feel left behind. We can reform government and curtail wealth disparity at the same time.

At least during the gilded age, the industrialists in our country gave back by building libraries, etc through philanthropy. Now the billionaires of our day have bought out the politicians and eschew even the performative investments that the Carnegies did. All while they’re actively promoting the benefits of AI, which at least in the short term threatens the employment of the upper middle and middle class workers.

I think our current trajectory will end in a bad place unless the average person thinks he or she can get ahead too. I would never advocate for the elimination of billionaires because like I mentioned, that would effectively crash the equity markets and raise the cost of capital. It’s stupid economics but to say we can’t form a better fiscal policy to address the elephant in the room is equally stupid.

Rename it CTE month in his honor

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but it is also difficult to believe given the success of the candidates

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Primaries just take the temperature of the party itself. It’s not surprising that GOP voters would support the president’s preferred candidate. You won’t be able to measure approval of dems and independents that way though. True test will be the midterms.

Would be economic suicide for the entire country right before the World Cup. No way the actual moneyed power would stand for this.

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6 genders? Really?

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I hate the gender bullshite from the left but it’s “cisgendered”, not 6 genders. Aka normal people.

Polymarket disagrees. Dems are favored in AK, NC, MI, GA, OH and ME. I’m skeptical about OH but the rest aren’t looking good.