if you live in california you’re paying taxes on par with sweden. the problem isn’t our government has less money than the scandinavians. the problem is our government is incompetent.https://twitter.com/ejenk/status/1201340679407857667 …
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Amen brother
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I would assume malice, not incompetence in this case. The problem isn't 'the government', because our government has been capable of great things in the past. The problem is globalism. We don't value the idea of the nation-state because of multi-billionaire globalists' popaganda.
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When we see each other as global citizens instead of fellow countrymen we get weird ideas about mass immigration and securing of economic superiority being a moral prerogative and respect for each other as fellow countrymen as not being a moral prerogative.
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Our government isn't incompetent. It is controlled by wealthy interests who make sure tax money ends up in their pockets.
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By design. It wants to do this
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well sure but that’s the billionaires’ and PE’s fault!
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Undocumented immigrants pay a higher percentage of their earnings in taxes than most billionaires. Taxes paid by these people include property tax (included in their rent), sales tax (everything they buy in this country), and income taxes taken from their small paychecks.
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Genuinely curious: how do you fix that?
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it's partly a cultural thing, so it's really hard. within the anglosphere industry is more greatly prized than politics, so our smartest young people tend to enter the private sector. but one idea i had was:https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1162763405075181570?s=20 …
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