I never understood how so much of Americans could have been brain trained so efficiently to hate the notion of socialism more than any other -ism. You could engage near anybody on fascism, sadism, oligarchism (give me a break) for a thought experiment, but the moment you utter ‘socialism’ you’re some kind of spy for an outer dimensional race of fiend that tries to undermine all that’s nice about human civilization. That’s mind boggling.
>we’re going bankrupt because of all the things we’re paying for out of pocket that other countries pay for with taxes
I respect Jon, and I know that he’s intelligent, but this is just such a dumb statement.
*”We’re going bankrupt because of all the things we’re paying for out of pocket that other countries pay for with money that their governments took from their pockets.”*
Doesn’t sound quite as nice when you remove the semantic facade.
>The basic tax proposition is simple – you pay taxes to the government in the form of the money, the government pools that money and uses it to provide the people with essential goods and services that they need
… after deducting a significant percentage for administrative costs, waste, fraud, abuse, mismanagement, and war. You see, drone strikes on tribal villages halfway across the world is an essential service that we need!
Jon is a bleeding-heart idealist who believes that a system characterized by highly centralized political and economic power supported by coercion will somehow be beneficial for the working class. This is pure fantasy. It sounds great, and he presents the ideas rather charismatically, but it’s ultimately nonsense.
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I never understood how so much of Americans could have been brain trained so efficiently to hate the notion of socialism more than any other -ism. You could engage near anybody on fascism, sadism, oligarchism (give me a break) for a thought experiment, but the moment you utter ‘socialism’ you’re some kind of spy for an outer dimensional race of fiend that tries to undermine all that’s nice about human civilization. That’s mind boggling.
>we’re going bankrupt because of all the things we’re paying for out of pocket that other countries pay for with taxes
I respect Jon, and I know that he’s intelligent, but this is just such a dumb statement.
*”We’re going bankrupt because of all the things we’re paying for out of pocket that other countries pay for with money that their governments took from their pockets.”*
Doesn’t sound quite as nice when you remove the semantic facade.
>The basic tax proposition is simple – you pay taxes to the government in the form of the money, the government pools that money and uses it to provide the people with essential goods and services that they need
… after deducting a significant percentage for administrative costs, waste, fraud, abuse, mismanagement, and war. You see, drone strikes on tribal villages halfway across the world is an essential service that we need!
Jon is a bleeding-heart idealist who believes that a system characterized by highly centralized political and economic power supported by coercion will somehow be beneficial for the working class. This is pure fantasy. It sounds great, and he presents the ideas rather charismatically, but it’s ultimately nonsense.