“If you’re sick of padding a CEO’s fat salary with your healthcare dollars, there’s only one way out of it.”

Go read an article here about the recent tax cuts in the US and count how many times the author and commenters refer to it as “giving rich people money”

“Keep in mind that not spending money is not the same as having the government give you money, as in your previous claim.”

Let’s say Joe spends 20k/year on family healthcare. Bernie Claus slides down his chimney and says “Ho ho ho, free healthcare for everyone and Jeff Bezos and the corporations are buying!” Now Joe gets a 20k/year boost in disposable income. MfA has made Joe wealthier because it has allowed him to keep money he would…

Middle class? California? Huh?

“We spend about $1.1 billion in interest annually that goes to Wall Street banks. That accounts for about half of our infrastructure costs, so if we were to create a public bank, we’d save billions of dollars, we would double our investment power through the money that we save, and we’d have the ability to finance…

Someone is going to have to remind me why I should want these people to have healthcare... or anything for that matter.

The justification is ensuring that a program ostensibly intended to help the poor actually ends up sending its benefits to the poor rather than ending up just one more way that the middle and upper middle class use the government to funnel money to themselves.

Do you think the American financial system would loan money to poor people even if FICO scores didn’t exist?

Are you even aware of the existence of fucking Medicaid? You know, the program that provides free (or relatively low cost) healthcare for low income, pregnant women, disabled people, parents of Medicaid eligible children, and some elderly?

Did you not read any of the articles complaining about TCJA that characterized the changes to the standard deduction, the limit to SALT, and the cap on the mortgage interest deduction as attacks on blue states? (They probably were, but they were also blows to policies that have been long documented to be massively…

You’re lecturing an American that is reasonably familiar with the state of at least one poor minority community in the US based on your extensive experience with being a maybe poor person somewhere else in the world and that makes sense to you?

“Poor people are threatened by the prospect of continuing to have nothing. That is my point.”

That relative crap is precisely how Splinter commenters making well beyond the median income for an individual will claim to be poor because they have chosen to live in LA, SF, NYC, Boston, etc.

I have no idea how you read “People with nothing aren’t threatened by the prospect of continuing to have nothing” to mean “People with nothing enjoy having nothing”.

I absolutely have and I’d wager that for every ninety nine middle/upper middle class white yuppies there are around here there’s probably one genuinely poor person.

Poor people don’t have money. Poor people don’t have assets. That’s kinda the definition of being poor. Genuinely poor mind you, not Splinter bullshit I make 54k/year but my “crippling” student debt and rent (because I live in NYC) means I can’t afford the lifestyle I want “poor”.

Oh no you’ve got it wrong. There’s gonna be a wealth tax, there’s gonna be a tax hike, and “the rich” are going to pay for it. I heard Jeff Bezos is going to be responsible for 60% of the cost because Amazon has a trillion dollars. There won’t be consequences for any of this either!

I’d say the worst kind of scumbag is the type that pretends to have the interest of the general public, or more specifically poor people, in mind when in reality they’re just trying to make their own lives better.

Last time I checked I’m not the one that trotted his name out as if that’s supposed to be some indicator of something.