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In reply to the discussion: The overwhelming National debt is on purpose. [View all]BlueTsunami2018
(5,117 posts)13. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, this is what capitalism does.
Extracting every last bit of wealth from the working class as possible and stealing all the tax money so no services can be provided. All the money goes to the same place, into the pockets of the owners.
Except for a short lull in the late 30s, the 40s and the 50s when the white working class was given little bit of power in exchange for not having a full on proletarian revolution, this is the way its always been.
Its never going to get any better until we force it to get better. And I just dont know if the American People have it in them anymore.
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Yes, it is overwhelming but these billionaires need productivity of others to feed their greed and that is why their
in2herbs
Tuesday
#1
they are counting on a bubble and the inevitable privatize profits and socialize losses
JT45242
10 hrs ago
#52
They've been doing this for 50 years. Ramped it up hard after 9/11 when nobody was looking n/t
Cheezoholic
Tuesday
#4
That's the Bain Capital / Blackrock / vulture capitalist model. Bleed them till they're dry
erronis
Tuesday
#5
I'd be in favor of MUCH more than just that...but its a mandatory first step.
Moostache
11 hrs ago
#47
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, this is what capitalism does.
BlueTsunami2018
Tuesday
#13
Most of the MAGAs don't even understand how they're being used by Chump and the other billionaires
FakeNoose
Tuesday
#15
Yep, perfect storm fot these rapists traitors to destroy everything American.
bluestarone
8 hrs ago
#60
YUP, ABSOLUTELY "RIGHT"! It's their secret long-term plan to wreck "socialist" safety net programs,
Jack Valentino
Tuesday
#20
There will be no other choice than to enact extreme taxation policies on the billionaires and if they try to leave the
ChicagoTeamster
Tuesday
#26
In 2010 the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 set up a trigger mechanism for automatic mandatory
summer_in_TX
23 hrs ago
#32
So just spend 80 billion more taxpayer dollars on ice. We're at what 250 billion?
Akakoji
12 hrs ago
#42
Yep and they have done this for decades and decades. Break it & say "gov't doesn't work"
themaguffin
11 hrs ago
#46