Turns out raising taxes on 99% of people doesn’t cover the costs of lowering taxes on 1% of people.
Yup. We need a revolution.
Turns out setting all the functional parts of the government on fire to try and save money actually costs money
Plus the cost of corruption, embezzlement, and gold-plated everything.
record tariff income
It went from “basically nothing” to “economy crippling tidal wave”. Yay…
This was the design.
I’ve never heard any politician brag about raising taxes before. I would say our kids and grandkids will be really confused when they study this in history class, but it’s hard to imagine there will still be history classes when climate change makes the earth largely uninhabitable.
I’ve never heard any politician brag about raising taxes before.
Not as uncommon as you’d think. Reagan bragged about raising taxes, which he claimed was going to save Social Security. Then Bush and Clinton both bragged their tax hicks would balance the budget.
it’s hard to imagine there will still be history classes when climate change makes the earth largely uninhabitable.
There’s a lot of horror in between “climate change isn’t happening” and “human extinction event”.
If the ecological crunch cuts out current population in half, we’re talking about 4B+ people - the Nazi Holocaust times 1000 - playing out on a global scale.
You’ll still have history class down in the climate bunkers and out in the receding reservations and preserves. But what they’ll be teaching? No idea. Maybe it’ll look like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Burns,_a_Post-Electric_Play
It’s almost like being unable to run a casino (or 5) is a good indicator of not being able run a country.
Of course, him and his friends are making (stealing your) money every time he talks about our changes tariffs.
