So the basic proposal, if I’m following correctly, is to wrench the whole American consumer economy back to Gilded Age protectionism by means of Executive fiat, right now, tonight, while Congress tries to relieve the tax burden on some rich people but everyone else goes on paying income taxes too.
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Everyone seems to forget that.
That seems to be the strategy.
"You'll see. YOU'LL ALL SEE".
At least not for us.
Guess who could change this.
The idiotic Putin a$$ kissing crypto loving regime thinks they can do away with income taxes and we’ll have a tariff tax system.
Slushfund will collect less taxes than expected, will see corruption on a level never heard of and be empty before the next budget. So no tax breaks for anyone below $1mln.
They know climate change is here. They know how much it would cost them to fix or even abate it. They're afraid of us. So they're going to murder as many of us as they can and steal as much from us as they can before they retreat to their bunkers.
This is a world wide attack, by aligned forces that sure seem prepared to coordinate in their efforts to attack for various self-interest-purposes.
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
-H.L. Menken, 1916
Might want to reconsider where those taxes are going - clearly not to things that benefit the public.
Clearly to people like Musk in multi billion dollar government contracts. It’s basically stealing the peoples’ money to give to Elon Musk.
All we have left is the military and the people in office! Skeleton Crews everywhere else!
#ThisIsNotNormal
Then violence when we march peacefully in opposition.
It’s like Trump Republicans tells you exactly what they’re going to do and nobody ever questions it.
obeying his master
Back to that time when the bottom 40% of consumers were simply subjugated and owned absolutely nothing.
https://bsky.app/profile/nycsouthpaw.bsky.social/post/3llucei3hh22s
Both cannot be true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1893
who's with me?
I tried having this discussion with people, and somehow I can't get to the core. I know innately that tariffs are not a tax.
But, help?
https://bsky.app/profile/rhcmuts.bsky.social/post/3lluox7b74s2o
Huge story if true!!!
Stinky's™ not wrong, you know.
1) bring jobs back so Americans don't need to buy imports.
2) Make tons of money tariffing the stuff that Americans supposedly will no longer need because they make it themselves now.
Oh, and Elon is going to open up IVF grants to eligible recipients (attractive white girls) with his 'seed' funding
They're engineering the masses to perceive the idea of being educated as a weakness, and have been attacking the institutions that educate. And they're firing the educated.
Can't have an educated population... carries too much risk for those in power.
Sigh.
The stupidity is staggering.
The ones that did attend were recruited before finishing their programs because there weren't enough workers already.
it's certainly a... bold... plan
If they pass that safe act, married women get taxation without representation since they can no longer vote. Pitchfork times
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/08/arkansas-bill-child-labor-protections
It’s what Trump wants.
just f'ng great
“The biggest tax rise in global history”,
His tariff war will cause much misery.
It’s so extreme you have to question,
Is Trump trying to cause a recession?
Going to buy some yeast. Time to start making homemade bread. Also, going to check out Mark Twain's Gilded Age at the Library. Feeling wrenched.
Then -wait for it- state taxes increase to provide the services Elmo cut
If anyone wants to help me get a head start on buying some necessities before they go tits up that'd be swell
This is what Americans voted for. This is what the people wanted.
"Subtotal:
Sales Tax:
Trump Tax:
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It will be lost on customers who only see the higher price. They'll say shit like "inflation was high under Biden too!"
He seems to think he can just wave his magic MAGA wand and suddenly the USA can produce everything it needs.
You can't just uproot a factory in Beijing and relocate it in Ohio overnight. It can take years.
Making US a golden age industrial time as prosper as the history tells us happened.
Someone with wisdom sees that will take time to reach on flourishing and be wealthy.
⏲️ Will tell to US.
“Elon Musk has mentioned the concept of ‘American Bankruptcy’ no fewer than 25 times since March 2024 — and eight times in November alone.”
https://washingtonspectator.org/project-russia-reveals-putins-playbook/
I told you he's trying to kill us all!
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoShitSherlock/
It's also about helping Putin by dismantling the engines of American wealth, power, and influence since 1890.
And it's also about the end-times cult powering MAGA and Project 2025.
Christian Nationalism, a 🧵
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