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Some Schmo wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:03 am

. . .Democracy (like diversity) is favored for a reason beyond their ability to reason.

Yup!

I do think dems, if given a shot, would reform taxes to shift more of the burden to the top end of the income spectrum. I don't think a claw back of the middle class's lost ground through a wealth tax would pass, though.

It would pass but you'd never see more tax revenue from it. Big businesses aren't just going to stay and work harder, longer, and faster out of sense of patriotic duty for the communist ideal. Liberal Jeff Bezos is moving to Florida in spite of their deadly COVID policy, banning child pornography and homosexual indoctrination in public school libraries and internet, in spite of Ben Sasse cancelling DEI at UF in favor of merit based rather than race based selection for medical schools, law schools, etc. Successful big business liberals are not fools. In fact they're experts at telling the public what they want to hear while quietly doing another.

If it were just about taxes, why aren't American corporations flocking to Turkmenistan, and Bosnia?

It's almost as if there's something else about America. Like, maybe businesses like operating where there's stability, and infostructure. If only there were ways to provide further stabilization, both socially and economically... if only.

In unrelated news, there's a key ideology indicator on the failed state index (that happens to coincide with lower cognitive function), which is continually jockeying for power, and destabilizing American systems and institutions. So, we've got that going for us.