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Economy

Passages

(1,058 posts) Tue Oct 29, 2024, 02:59 PM Oct 29

The "dark MAGA" economic pitch to voters:

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Yes, they're that dumb.

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The "dark MAGA" economic pitch to voters: (Original Post) Passages Oct 29 OP

The rubes will eat it up Redleg Oct 29 #1

Thanos said if we accept the death of one out of every two living beings, the rest of us would be better off. Midnight Writer Oct 29 #2

Yeah, should the Musks and Thiels of the world zorbasd Oct 29 #3

Redleg

(6,142 posts)

1. The rubes will eat it up

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Tue Oct 29, 2024, 03:01 PM

Oct 29

I am convinced that many of them are like anarchists- burn the whole place down and see what happens.

Midnight Writer

(22,973 posts)

2. Thanos said if we accept the death of one out of every two living beings, the rest of us would be better off.

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Tue Oct 29, 2024, 03:09 PM

Oct 29

How about this? We adopt a tax system that taxes the rich and the corporations at a higher level than the middle class and throw out all the exemptions and loopholes that allow a billionaire to pay less in taxes than a working-class citizen.

That way no one suffers. A hypothetical 1 percenter making, say, 10 million a year and has to pay 40% in income tax on it still gets 6 million. Hardly the income level that one suffers under.

zorbasd

(205 posts)

3. Yeah, should the Musks and Thiels of the world

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Tue Oct 29, 2024, 03:11 PM

Oct 29

succed in their fascist quest to bring on a depression. They better run for their lives because the hungry masses will arise and tear them asunder. They just want to destroy the US dollar and replace it with their dream of crypto.

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