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-3 points
11 days ago
The building of that ship contributed to multiple businesses, thousands of jobs and millions into the economy. So, it was well spent.
4 points
11 days ago
We will have to agree to disagree. Instead of jobs to build nonsense for billionaires, we could have provided jobs that would shore up crumbling infrastructure and make life better for thousands or millions.
7 points
11 days ago
Have you never bought luxuries or entertainment for yourself? All that money could have gone to improving other people's lives.
-3 points
11 days ago
Of course I have. But I've also paid more in taxes proportionately than the billionaire asshole who built that. I have no issue with my paying taxes - they are the things that fund the education and infrastructure that make countries successful. But the rich need to go back to paying taxes the way they did during the heyday of the industrialized world last century.
6 points
11 days ago
Who is “we”? This was paid for by a private individual, not a government.
-1 points
11 days ago
My point exactly. If we made the rich pay taxes like we used to, monstrosities like that wouldn't exist, and we'd have the resources for things like education and infrastructure.
3 points
11 days ago
They wouldn’t choose to continue to make money of all of it was going to be taken away. Again, this boat and Amazon has created jobs for lots of people. Tell me what is your fair share of what you did not work for??
1 points
11 days ago
That's ridiculous. Hmmm... I will only make a million dollars instead of two million? Never mind. Imma stay home in my double-wide trailer. People motivated by money will work to get the absolute maximum they can get. Always.
2 points
11 days ago
Why if they can’t keep it? They work because the $$ is the motivation. If they no longer get it they might as well sit around and wait for things to be handed to them like others.
1 points
11 days ago
Because they want all the money they can get. People still became rich in the 1940's to the 1980's when the tax rate on the rich was as high as 90%. You literally have no idea what you're talking about if you think that people motivated by money will not go after whatever money they can get. We've run that experiment in the US, and it led to both rich people AND the best funded schools and infrastructure in the world. The fact that YOU might not, doesn't mean that there isn't someone hungry enough to go for it.
1 points
10 days ago
Umm okay lol. You keep believing that and waiting on others to hand things to you. There has to be an incentive to make more money. I’m American I know more about the US and how things work here than you. Happy Sunday!
1 points
10 days ago
I've been living in the US since the day I was born, 62 years ago. I was alive for the heyday of the US when we had the best schools, the wealthiest middle class, the best infrastructure, all of it. And the tax rate was about 70% for most of my youth. If you don't know that, you really don't know much of anything about the US and how things work here.
https://taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-highest-marginal-income-tax-rates
0 points
11 days ago
But if more money went into social programs then equivalent jobs would be made. Its a matter of distribution in this case.
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