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I agree, but I must clarify your statement that it's not society, but a specific part of society that pushes for SM to be judge and jury of not acceptable content.

You are forgetting that governments have money printers and debt, so not all the money they give are actually what they can gather in taxes.

Then what is the reason for the increase? There has to be one.

So what would happen in your mind if there is a set maximum price on any product and the costs to provide this product increase? You think providers will just roll with it? There are two outcomes: either the costs have to be cut or if further costs cuts are not possible there will be no providers for such a product.

Depends on what the definition of it working would be. If the goal would be to provide an amount that allows people to pay their rent and food then you will end up with a constant chasing of increasing prices. Because in order to get the amount needed to give everybody that amount you will need to raise taxes, which will increase prices, which will make the amount not sufficient so you raise taxes and so on. Not to mention the population of people is increasing without any significant increase in tax income since the age of entering the workforce is also increasing. It's a Chernobyl level of vicious cycle that will eventually lead to explosion. I will give you an example from Poland. The ruling party introduced the 500+ program. 500 PLN for every child. This program had two goals: decreasing the poverty level and increase the number of kids born. And it failed on both accounts. The poverty level increased because people taking the money are making sure they don't cross the income threshold to get this payment and the fertility level decreased because people with no kids pay more due to increased prices and taxes and decide they cannot afford kids in this circumstances. Handing free money is never a good idea and it will backfire in the long run.

But the same will apply to other commodities. Food, medicine etc. So you will want that prices controlled to. And all of a sudden you wake up with a central planned economy. Also price control also doesn't work, because what will providers do when they cannot increase the price? They are cutting costs. So you will get lower and lower standards of goods provided.

Facebook doesn't believe in freedom of speech. Reason? As always vague not following "community guidlines". I'm sure they will unblock and claim "mistake" when sufficient pressure will be applied.

Facebook blocked Institute of National Remembrance page after it posted information about the Germanisation of Polish children during WWII. Facebook still on the course of fighting history, facts and opinions that they dont like. https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/facebook-blocking-ipn-over-wwii-content-demands-strong-reaction-warns-culture-ministry-19713

If Venezuela didn't have money they should just print more money...oh wait.

Resident Evil Village. How could you missed that?

Collective organization is all fine and dandy, but those pesky corpses keep piling up. But don't get discouraged Boxer, remember you just need to work harder.

I don't know what drugs they take at WaPo but they shoul cut it by half

And if anyone have any question she will circle back Unless you give her questions in advance, but for Dems I guess "This is the way". https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9215479/amp/WH-press-asking-reporters-questions-Jen-Psakis-briefing-despite-promising-transparency.html

I am reluctant to believe that the Biden presidency will be more worse than good....but the focus must be on the pandemic because I am unclear on the Democrat policies after that .... What would your concerns be for that type of outcome, I am happy with unlikely outcomes ? Well Biden already annouced that there will be nothing new added or changed to coronavirus policies tossing out of the window the whole "Trump botched" the pandemic response narrative. Because if nothing will change or nothing needs to be added then either Trump administration did everything right or Democrats have nothing better in stock. The only new thing is double/tripple masking that Fauci came up with. Which is weak sauce.

Well of course I did not mean the people who voted for Trump. How would that even work? Regretting not voting for Trump when you did vote for him? And I'm pretty sure there would be people saying "I would take Trump tweets over this ****".

I'm betting that at the end of 2022 tops people will be saying that voting Trump out of his second term was a mistake.

He betrayed his government and it's an important distinction. Government isn't the same thing as a country.

It's funny how there are more Russia supporters the further people are from Russian border.

Quick question, where is Bill Gates and Microsoft taxes residency? I'm pretty sure it's not in US.

Inheritance tax is just plain evil. Basically people in favor of this are advocating for the government to prey on the people who just lost somebody close to them (parents, grandparents etc.). Also the money, property, wealth a person gathered before death was taxed, bought and paid for. I know some people are jealous that someone else parents got their **** together and actually accomplished something to leave to their children, but we cannot create laws based in jealousy. Well after you pass a certain threshold of income you naturally start to make some investments and diversify your income with it. So yeah virtually no one make the big bucks on wage alone, but people can be started on the path by the big paychecks.

This will do very little as not that many rich people actually earn their wealth through wage.