And Tucker is a multimillionaire who is fooling his viewers into thinking he speaks for them. Tucker is a benefactor to our gamed economic system.Peter Brown wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 4:21 pm
I don't watch nor listen to either. But I guess I was thinking more of Tucker Carlson, who has liberal guests on often.
And to the extent that the debate is about something serious, those debates are civil. The Rutger Bregman interview dissolved because (among other things) Rutger is in essence an adherent of hardcore communism:
All corporations are getting a deal. If you don't turn a "profit", you don't pay a tax. "Profit" being a wholly gamed concept.Peter Brown wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 4:21 pm Rutger wants listeners to conflate a Netflix, which didn't pay "income taxes" (but which did pay tens of millions in payroll and use taxes), with every business owner who does pay high income tax rates.
You think it makes sense for a corporation, whether profitable or not, to go untaxed? Meanwhile, my LLC pays full freight, plus excise taxes? Our economy is so skewed to the 1%, it's no wonder guys like Bregman is getting attention. It's laughable how unfair my business is treated when compared to my corporate competitors.
And both Dems and R's are facilitating the unfairness of the 1%ers. The libs are catching on, fake conservatives aren't. It's criminal, for instance, to give Amazon a free ride in Long Island City...while handing the tax tab for all the other businesses and citizens in the area. I'm overjoyed AOC killed that asinine "plan". In what free market world does it make sense to not tax a huge company, and stick that company's tax bills to smaller companies in the area?
How is that deceptive? He's right? You can look up the numbers from the IRS yourself...we're taxed at 1/2 the effective income tax rate we were under Clinton. We're grossly undertaxed. It's why our deficit is so high. That, coupled with the cost of Medicare/Aid because we have intentionally selected the most expensive possible way to "provide" health care to our poor and elderly.Peter Brown wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 4:21 pm Rutger is purposely deceptive, as most are, when calling for high taxes because since the 1950's, we have eliminated many tax deductions; raising taxes to pay for even more government, seems a good way to 'venezuelize' our economy and social fabric.