“Can we have a modest tax and transfer system?” “Sure” “Can we have a larger tax and transfer system?” “What do you take me for, some kind of communist?” “We already established you’re a communist, now we’re just negotiating to what degree”
“Can we have a modest tax and transfer system?” “Sure” “Can we have a larger tax and transfer system?” “What do you take me for, some kind of communist?” “We already established you’re a communist, now we’re just negotiating to what degree”
@jdcmedlock Look at my wonks bro, we ain’t ever getting broad based taxation and transfers 😫
@jdcmedlock “Taxation is theft” is the antithesis of "freedom is not free".
@jdcmedlock how did we get to a place where people didn't want to debate the degrees but instead started pretending like the principle was at stake and therefore absolutely nothing gets done, even when we obviously need to tweak them degrees a bit
@jdcmedlock I like it w/ the punchline of, "Now we're just haggling."
@jdcmedlock Taxes to stop foreign armies invading and killing Americans - no problem. Taxes to stop Americans dying of starvation - well I dunno, which Americans are you talking about there, this might well be communist-adjacent.
@jdcmedlock The political spectrum is just Libertarians and different kind of Communists