America is Fucked
America is Fucked
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- PhanLo6
- ...for about 40% taxesgrafician
- Imagine 40% taxes on Bezos lolgrafician
- Hehe, yep, Bezos is a ledge.PhanLo
- Other countries guarantee meals, clothing and a place to live?Gnash
- ^no country did that in the history of countries lolgrafician
- Woah... so I get a free car... free travel in general (planes, trains and green ebikes?). Now... let's talk 'rent'! ...or do I get a free plot of land?PonyBoy
- people missing the point entirely.utopian
- At least the US has a standard for air conditioning and giving ice and water at restaurants, that's what all the tax is really for ;)whatthefunk
- What point, 'topes? What 'other' countries are capable of 'guaranteeing' a thing to ALL 'their people'? To give this tweet any credence is ridiculous.PonyBoy
- using the words 'guarantee' and 'all' in reference to anything the Gov provides doesn't seem overconfident at allPonyBoy
- Imagine corporations paying their fair share of taxes, funding schools and giving teachers a decent income... but that makes too much sense, what do i knowdorf
- PonyBoy: he also says basic necessities, like healthcare for example. Not a car or a plane ride...zarkonite
- Don't worry about Pony, he lives in his own basketcase world. Full of smooth brain trees and kneejerk irony fairies.face_melter
- but SOCIALIZM programz bad! so lets defund them all, like police, firefighters & social security checksmoldero
- at this point I think Americans are just institutionalized and used to living like shit.moldero
- tbh unless you own a house/ have a good accountant in the US you pay similar tax as most countries with free healthcare/ state pensions.kingsteven
- lived in NYC for a couple years and paid more tax there than i would have in the UK (at the time). i think americans just don't understand tax bracketskingsteven
- Who wants to live in theredeathboy
- zark, a car is a basic necessity in the US, unless you live ina city in which it's still usually a necessity. Nothing knee jerk about living in reality, face.PonyBoy
- Not sure want you mean by 'irony fairies' although you are living in a fairytale if you think the US Gov can provide the 'basic necessities' for 320+ Mill...PonyBoy
- ...folks from all walks of life and culture.
Just get the fucking prices down(& of course get the zero-paying corpos on the paying side of the dole already).PonyBoy - A car is not a necessity, it's a very convenient thing but it's not necessary.zarkonite
- A home is. Do I get a home? :P I'm fine w/a nice Chicago 3 story brownstone. All our own. Who determines who gets what btw? Who gets the 'good' 'necessities'?PonyBoy
- It's called public housing, and research shows it helps the economy. You'll have to work for your brownstone, cuz that's not a necessity.zarkonite
- It's a shame we don't push that idea more—or really even talk about it much. But I'm grateful you at least mentioned the idea of having to 'work' for something.PonyBoy
- like how things 'work' in most developed countries :)kingsteven
- In rich and successful Singapore, 80% of the people live in subsidized dwellings: https://www.economis…zarkonite
- When you take care of people's basic needs they are free to pursue higher callings like starting a business, etc. It increases freedom, it's a good thing.zarkonite