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RE: The Absurd GOP
May 25, 2023 at 12:29 pm
(May 25, 2023 at 12:17 pm)Dmitry1983 Wrote: (May 25, 2023 at 12:10 pm)Angrboda Wrote: If you look at the OECD data that is based on, Chile spends about half of its tax revenue on public spending. The percentage of GDP is low because tax revenue is low. Exactly
You realize that doesn't help your argument, right?
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RE: The Absurd GOP
May 25, 2023 at 12:38 pm
(May 25, 2023 at 12:29 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (May 25, 2023 at 12:17 pm)Dmitry1983 Wrote: Exactly
You realize that doesn't help your argument, right?
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Why? Cutting taxes will decrease tax revenue so government would have to cut welfare spending.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
May 25, 2023 at 12:39 pm
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Mixed signals. Are we supposed to be more like China or more like Chile. More like a country that plans to increase percentages in welfare, or one that already out invests us?
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RE: The Absurd GOP
May 25, 2023 at 12:48 pm
(May 25, 2023 at 12:39 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Mixed signals. Are we supposed to be more like China or more like Chile.
Both of these countries spend less on welfare than the US.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
May 25, 2023 at 1:13 pm
We don’t allocate half our revenue to public spending. If you want to discuss alternative policy that’s fine. If you’re wedded to alternative facts I can’t help you.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
May 25, 2023 at 2:30 pm
Quote:Both of these countries spend less on welfare than the US.
Yup which is why they suck and the US doesn't because as bad as the US can be sometimes it at least values its people and US is still the greatest economy on earth.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
May 25, 2023 at 2:32 pm
Quote:Why? Cutting taxes will decrease tax revenue so government would have to cut welfare spending.
Tax the rich and close their loopholes and tax havens. Keep the welfare programs.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
May 27, 2023 at 3:09 am
(May 25, 2023 at 12:48 pm)Dmitry1983 Wrote: (May 25, 2023 at 12:39 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Mixed signals. Are we supposed to be more like China or more like Chile.
Both of these countries spend less on welfare than the US.
You are aware that it's easier to spend less when you have less to spend, right? China's GDP is 76% that of the US, and Chile's is 1.35%. Hell, Chile's GDP is so small that the two richest people on the planet have more than the GDP of Chile.
And Chile, the nation you said several pages ago was the most advanced economy in Latin America, still manages to spend half of its meager tax revenues on welfare.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
May 27, 2023 at 9:21 am
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Ron DeSantis has promised to ban pronouns from the military on DAY ONE as POTUS.
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Quote:Ron DeSantis makes ‘Day One’ pledge to remove DEI, preferred pronouns from military
“I think it’s been politicized. I think you have a focus on things like DEI. A focus on things like gender pronouns. And that’s diverting from the core mission, and the core mission is really what attracts people to the military. So recruiting is suffering, people are leaving the service,” DeSantis said.
“You see them recruiting with, like, using drag queens and doing stuff with the pronouns and all this other stuff. That’s part of the main reason recruiting is so low,” DeSantis told podcaster Dinesh D’Souza this week.
The U.S. Navy, where DeSantis served, used a drag queen as a “digital ambassador.” The service member, named Joshua Kelley, performs as “Harpy Daniels.”
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RE: The Absurd GOP
May 27, 2023 at 10:51 am
(May 25, 2023 at 8:18 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Maybe they’re growing faster than we are because the Chinese handle arsonists who want to burn down the state differently than we do?
We elect them here, what’s the sop in china on that?
They select them over there, Xi is a fanatical Maoist.
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