Active Now

Slartibartfast
Discussion » Questions » Politics » Who is going to pay for all of the Dems' "FREE EVERYTHING" policy?

Who is going to pay for all of the Dems' "FREE EVERYTHING" policy?

Posted - February 26, 2020

Responses


  • 2836
    Hah! Such is the state of the US educational system...
    The reason for the original "Tea Party" was not to protest Tax hikes, but to protest corporate tax breaks. 

    Protestors who caffeinated Boston Harbor were railing against the Tea Act, which the British government enacted in the spring of 1773. Rather than inflicting new levies, however, the legislation actually reduced the total tax on tea sold in America by the East India Company and would have allowed colonists to purchase tea at half the price paid by British consumers. The Tea Act, though, did leave in place the hated three-pence-per-pound duty enacted by the Townshend Acts in 1767, and it irked colonists as another instance of taxation legislation being passed by Parliament without their input and consent. The principle of self-governance, not the burden of higher taxes, motivated political opposition to the Tea Act.

    Copypasta has its place. No need to re-invent the wheel. LOL
      February 26, 2020 6:27 PM MST
    0

  • My point was taxes in general were mentioned.  I don't care if they tried to drink the harbor after steeping.
      February 26, 2020 6:30 PM MST
    0

  • 2836
    And so we are clear, the Tea Act was a government bailout for a company on the brink of financial collapse, the flailing East India Company, which was deemed to be, in modern terms, “too big to fail.”

    It gave the East India Company a  monopoly on the American tea trade, allowing it to bypass colonial merchants as middlemen and to even undercut the price of smuggled Dutch tea.

    Sound familiar? Here's a hint...It wasn't "Democratic in nature"
      February 26, 2020 6:35 PM MST
    0

  • "government bailout"

    Sure sounds democratic.  Obama was the bailout king.
      February 26, 2020 6:36 PM MST
    0

  • 2836

    George W. Bush and Barack Obama pumped spent billions to rescue the auto industry. That bailout ultimately cost the public about $12 billion. 

    Trump's direct payments to farmers hurt by his trade dispute with China have totaled some $28 billion.

    It's clear who the bailout king is. Where in the hell do you get your news from? M2C?  LMMFAO

      February 26, 2020 10:11 PM MST
    0

  • 32529
    There was nearly $80B in bailouts given to the big 3 auto makers.... And that does not even get into the bank bailouts.   No Trump is not bailout king..... 
      February 27, 2020 5:05 AM MST
    1

  • 46117
    bloomberg, who else? 

      February 26, 2020 7:54 PM MST
    1

  • 32529
    Bernie is increasing taxes on a family of 4 making $29,000....I wonder what that means for a single person? 
      February 27, 2020 4:39 AM MST
    1

  • Leonardo DiCaprio

      February 27, 2020 6:03 AM MST
    1

  • 19942
    The same people who will be making up for the debt created by the new tax laws giving corporations and the elite a bigger slice of the pie (as if they needed it).
      February 27, 2020 10:15 AM MST
    0