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  They were blaming Biden for the runaway debt before he even took the oath.
context: Dude I can scream this shit till my face is blue and they deny it. Donnie literally used this as a re-election talking point and said he’s make em permanent as a way to buy votes but well hurr hurr Biden pelosi hurr hurr >
  
  
  Dude I can scream this shit till my face is blue and they deny it.
  
  I mean I still can't get the republicans in my life to understand progressive taxation. They are still convinced that they can make less money if they barely cross over the threshold of a new tax bracket... For a group of people who like to waste so much air moralizing about fiscal responsibility and chiding other for how they spend their money, they don't know shit about any of it. >
  
  
  They are still convinced that they can make less money if they barely cross over the threshold of a new tax bracket..
  
  My god yes, this is infuriating to me. >
  
  Never get angry because people were never taught something.
  Be angry it isn't taught. >
  
  Thanks, I agree. These are good words to live by. 
  I do get frustrated though when I have to teach them about progressive taxation every time they bring it up yet forget by their next paycheck. >
  
  Of course, to borrow from you, it's infuriating. You are forced "to drag" along "the confused" every day like Sisyphus. Similar to the "No Child Left Behind"?
  The poorly educated are easy to control, to manipulate, to swindle.
  How do we handle the better educated? How do we keep them under control?
  One way is by making them responsible for the poorly educated. They are then too busy to see how they too are getting swindled, just differently. Wearing multiple hats at a job? Another way of getting the work of many but only paying for one.
  I like paying my taxes, because I hate living with uneducated people.
  Harrison Bergeron - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  
  And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.
  
  You don't need high intelligence, or way above normal intelligence. The screaming radios are in all our ears via controlled media, social media, our leaders, and our work places. We will not make progress forward until a solution is put in place. >
  
  I'm all for universal Healthcare, universal education, universal child care, and universal basic income... Because it will mean I need to interact with fewer shit people. >
  
  The real crime here, which nobody talks about, is that the trump tax cuts were deficit spending, meaning the US borrowed the money and added to the deficit. That means the rich got the tax breaks and now the tax payers have to pay off the loan. It's the largest transfer of wealth in history and no one seems to realize they've just been robed. >
  
  Almost all of our fiscal policy since the 70’s has been a wealth transfer. Today, I think the largest robbery is happening on Wall-Street, who are fueling their “infinite-growth” with workers wages, and by destroying companies for short term-profit, which is likely who bought the tax cuts from Trump…I mean “lobbied” for them. >
  
  Look, man. No one said the trickle down was gonna me immediate. Give it another couple generations, and we will all be swimming in the flood…they promise. >
  
  In the late 1800's, the supply-side model was called "Horse and Sparrow" economics, on the theory that if one feeds the horses enough oats, eventually there will be something left behind for the sparrows.  The 1896 panic is the result of this model. 
  Hoover's belief in the strengthening of businesses such as banks and railroads to fight the Great Depression lead to Will Rogers to be the first to use "trickle down".
  
  They didn't start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started out on the election tour. The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickled down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot. But he didn't know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands. They saved the big banks but the little ones went up the flue.
  
  
  Nationally syndicated column number 518, And Here’s How It All Happened (1932)
  
  Then came Reaganomics, a model based on the principles of supply-side economics and the trickle-down theory.  George H. W. Bush coined the term "voodoo economics" as a proposed synonym for Reaganomics before he became Reagan's VP.
  The GOP keeps parading this old pig out each time they can with just a different color of lipstick in the hope that the US citizens will think it is great new economic policy.  Unfortunately, do believe it to be so. >
  
  The problem is that the rich build dams to build their wealth and the trickle down river runs low. Now that river is almost dry and the dam is overflowing, so they just build another dam. >
  
  While having taxpayers pay for the dam. >
  
  While having everyone pay through inflation which barely affects the wealthy. >
  
  The Republican playbook is to run up the bill as much as possible when in power and then complain that the Democrats don’t do enough to reduce it.
  Edit: everyone trying to , “both sides,” this ate paste in school.