#tax and spend

[jccheapalier]

Kamala Harris’s Track Record: Big Spending, Wokeness, Equity and Flip Flops

[commonsensecommentary]

“The fantastic—and profoundly damaging—Faustian bargain of total security in exchange for total control that has been the premise for the incredible growth of government and government oversight over the past century is coming to a close both because we cannot afford it and its false promise has been exposed.” (From my blog archive)

[nando161mando]

Why “tax and spend” is a big lie

Comment, Jun 19th

Politicians assure us that their plans are “fully funded” not because of economic constraints, but to satisfy the rich, writes Matthew Hoare

[nosferdoc]

Biden’s New Ideas: More Taxes, More Spending

DAN MCLAUGHLIN | MAR 8 2024

Meet the new Bidenomics, same as the old Bidenomics.

Joe Biden is trailing in the polls. Voters overwhelmingly believe he’s too old for the job. Soaring inflation is crippling ordinary families. The border is wide open. Public safety is at an all-time low. So, what was this administration’s big, shiny idea for Thursday’s State of the Union address?

Tax hikes and yet more government handouts! Our 81-year-old President couldn’t be less original if he was stumbling up Air Force One.

[thenewdemocratus]

The Globalist: Bill Hunphrey: The Problem With Billionaires

The Globalist: Opinion: Bill Humphrey: The Problem With Billionaires The New Democrat This idea that what America needs to do is just tax the hell out of millionaires and billionaires and use that money to spend more on War on Poverty programs to help the poor, as if fifty-years later that has worked very well, because the ultra-right as Bill Humphrey likes to say, has so much money that they…

[imkeepinit]

[sforzesco]

hey! hi! the cartoonist cooperative has an e-sim drive for gaza, offering art for e-sim donations (instructions etc in the link)

[rockyp77mk3]

Good question.

[tiefling-queer]

i find it hard to get jazzed about harris' proposal to tax the rich if said tax dollars are going to fund more cops and bomb more Palestinians. i don't think it actually helps the working class if the rich are taxed and that money doesn't go towards making our lives better.

[thegreatyin]

scoundrel?? what scoundrel???? the magnificent mr cards (who ironically has more of a flower aesthetic going on) is completely unrelated to any "bandaged scoundrels" running around the neath. in fact it's never heard of the word scoundrel ever in its entire definitely long definitely ancient life. but yknow, hypothetically, if it did know the scoundrel, it's confident that they're really really really handsome and cool and epic and they're almost just as amazing as it is and you should totally donate all your valuables to them and stuff

aaand because i like them too much, have a transparent version. the Creachure. the Thing, even.

[hppjmxrgosg]

the other day my friend asked me "would you rather live a long and boring life or a short and exciting one?" and my answer, that left my mouth before i even thought of it, was "i guess it depends on who i was living it with."

ive never considered myself much of a romantic but i think that needs to change.

[fatedroses]

Adventurer Zenos and G'raha cause I had to draw my silly guys. I just enjoy the idea of Zenos hanging out with fellow bookworms and being begrudgingly (though occasionally willingly) helpful.

[the-mouthwash-drinker]

Likeee, five notes on this sht and i show u guys my whole lps collection

[loving-n0t-heyting]

surely an even more efficient measure in addressing the organ waiting list crisis than a 50k$ tax credit for single-kidney donors would be to offer 100k$ for (the estates of) healthy potential donors on the condition they get shot point-blank in the forehead in a hospital to have both kidneys (and other assorted organs!) harvested for donation. as this generous offer is not restricting anyones bodily autonomy but simply expanding these donors freedom of contract, the world in which its on the table is transparently pareto superior to our current arrangement, and could only be opposed by overemotional woolly-headed mathematical illiterates who hate freedom and love death

[inchidentally]

Oscar posted from the Cote de Azur yesterday and Lando posted today!! Tell me it isn’t so. Subtlety isn’t so subtle 🤣

omg anon we're doomed to hear well after the fact and totally at random whenever they hang out now Oscar's moved to Monaco as well bc they just don't do the thing of posting it online ;__; the flights they've taken together, the evenings after races, the downtime spent with their own little debriefs, the fact that they got McLaren to give them a privacy door so that only they have access to their driver rooms, literally Oscar being at the filming for Lando's recent Hilton ad and us only gd seeing bc of the background and Lando's shirt !!!

I was telling Lola how it's genuinely sweet that they class each other in with the friend groups they don't post about publicly but for selfish fandom content it's agony </3 but then Lando literally spends more time with Max V than any other driver and is genuinely part of the family yet the norstappen tag only gets a tiny amount of photos and videos of it so we can't rly complain.