Mrkim Report This Comment
Date: August 17, 2024 05:50AM

One candidate is continuously fawned over, every excuse created for any possible foible or miss step, data/polling/rally attendance figures constantly manipulated and all manner of other realities created to move an agenda forward by any and every facet of the media.

For the other candidate, none of the above applies, so here's the simple question: do you really trust the one who's being thrust forward upon you by a media apparatus we all know is so full of it that brown 25 is literally oozing from every pore and orifice, and just buy into their BS and call it a day, OR ... not?

Peter Puller Report This Comment
Date: August 18, 2024 04:00PM

(raising hand) Properly taxing the mega-rich would add a billion dollars to the economy over ten years. The guy on the right has been lowering them.

Mrkim Report This Comment
Date: August 18, 2024 06:31PM

Hmm, I see you suffer from the same deluded ideas most on the left all cling to regarding taxation and how that really works.

Taxing the piss outta the rich just decreases their ability to invest in the very same companies that make the things we buy and provide us jobs. This in turn winds up increasing costs of good and services we all consume yet somehow you thinks that's a good thing.

In reality however, those billionaires you so vehemently want tax will just use the tax laws available to them to circumvent any such taxation by moving funds around so the new taxes don't land on them anyway.

This leads to the end result that such claims by politicians to "Make the rich pay their FAIR SHARE!" is essentially just verbose nonsense made to appeal to a base who've been trained like seal pups to hate the people that actually employ them