Well, worked everytime someone did this in the past ... not!
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The US tax rate is very similar to other nations, the only difference is what we spend our tax money on. Most rational nations spend their tax money on their citizens. The US spends it on other poor countries citizens, but not in the way you are thinking. We spend hundreds of billions of dollars to bury Palestinians under rubble. Hundreds of billions to cover Yemen people alive while they sleep. Meanwhile, school teachers in America have classes over 30 students and have to buy their own school supplies.
This is such a gloriously uninformed opinion. The benefits to the US from being a global superpower are staggering, investing a million dollars in shutting down the Houthi attacks on merchant ships or whatever returns hundreds of millions of investment back to the US by way of trade (also, they are "spending" that money on the wages of nationals, it's not leaving the country). The Israeli Hamas is a proxy war with Iran, it's unethical and utterly immoral, but to argue that it's costing the US money is flawed.
There are real areas us spending is bad, the fact that the US spends over 17% of gdp on healthcare when other countries like Australia spend less than 11% does mean that Americans are spending too much money on healthcare (and literally getting shit for it), but it still doesn't mean that they are destroying 6% of GDP.
We spend more on the military than the next ten countries combined. TWO of which are actively engaged in open conflict with each other.
I'm not sure that you understand my point. Spending money on military is an economic gain for the USA, for every cent spent they gain dollars in returns. It's a "good" investment (from an amoral financial perspective, as said above, the ethics are appalling). Another country who spends less but also has a return to their economy less than they spend (like North Korea) is a bad use of taxpayer money. The amount of spend/return isn't relevant, the ratio is what matters.
Jesus Christ. Why is it that republicans think destroying the country will be better than what we currently have? It's so fucking insane.
Because it will be better FOR THEM only
Is there an infographic about this I can give to my maga relatives when they inevitably bring this up, so I don't actually have to talk about it with them?
See this is the kind of thing that makes zero actual sense but his supporters pretend to believe he can accomplish it or worse they actually believe him.
Take a look at the JOLTS data
516k job openings in April, 385k separations and 382k hires. That's a deficit of about 100k jobs that aren't being filled in manufacturing alone. The problem isn't a lack of manufacturing jobs, in fact it's the opposite. We have over a hundred thousand manufacturing jobs we can't fill, and this matches what I hear through the grapevine at my work which does contract industrial cleaning. People don't want those jobs, and people take advantage of the opportunities available to them to get out of those jobs. Trump would destroy the countries economy if he actually managed to implement this plan
There's a quote from Arthur Harris that I think shows a pretty fundamental insight into the mind of a fascist.
"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else and no one was going to bomb them."
Someone like Trump just does not think, "And then what will they do when we triple our tariffs on their goods." It's an innate narcissism, the belief that everyone else exists to do things to and not to have agency of their own.
This isn't even getting into the reality that this is just another regressive tax scheme designed to shift even more of the tax burden onto the working class.
How much can a banana cost Michael, $1000?
Great idea but it's bullshit that this could ever be implemented.
It's not a great idea. It would make the US a walled garden as all our exports become harshly taxed by the rest of the world. The country wouldn't collapse but our standard of living, education, and healthcare would drop precipitously.
How about we eliminate income taxes and replace it with corporate carbon emissions tax, AND cut fuel subsidies.
I am sick of free trade being stifled.. Whoever makes the best product should get the money having the products I buy dictated to me is unamerican
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