It serms incredible to me to give over a billion dollars to a random person.

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Handing money out to the “disenfranchised” solves nothing, thus it never ends. I am for real solutions, like education and a strong family unit. But, you know, having that opinion means I am racist/classist/whatever “ist”.

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This bullshit is so wrong on so many levels. It’s laughable. I’m beginning to think you don’t pay $40,000 in taxes, unless maybe it’s from an inheritance though. Out of a trust fund every month. Nobody with actual life experience believes any of this bullshit.

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You’re the type of people we’re talking about when we say “eat the rich”, “bring the guillotine” or “burn them alive”, it seems.

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12 points

You realize that most studies show that direct cash payments to people on welfare/needy return better results, right?

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20 points

Maybe you are racist and/or classist.

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-29 points

Maybe you are an idiot.

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Maybe people like you deserve a broken nose. Who knows?

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Your opinion on who’s an idiot has no credibility.

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8 points

Hey maybe.

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Love the quote marks around disenfranchised. Real classy.

Let’s see… cursory glance at post history indicates… Yep, right wing, anti union and against a living wage. That all tracks.

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Quote marks because “disenfranchised” is subjective. And wow, you have mad skills to look at someone’s post history. Aren’t you quite the haxxor?

I consider myself moderate. Lefty tools such as yourself label anyone that disagrees with them as right wing racist maga nazis. Fuck you.

I am anti union. Unions served a great purpose 100 years ago. Now they are corrupt shake down organizations that contribute to inflation and drive jobs out of the country. But if someone wants to join one, I don’t care, it’s none of my business. Just don’t use my tax dollars to fund any of it.

Living wage. There is this idiotic entitlement mentality that people somehow deserve a “living wage” simply for consuming oxygen. Here is the truth: people are paid what they are worth. If you are providing real value to an employer, they will pay you enough to retain you. If they don’t, find another employer. Rinse and repeat.

But nah, it’s easier to blame shortcomings on billionaires/Trump/“the man”/“disenfranchisement” and hope some politician will send you money for your vote.

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I’m detecting some guilt. Nobody here called you a Nazi, or anything other than right wing. Which you openly admit to. I mean, you claimed you were a moderate, but have taken up the right wing cause as your cross to bear. It’s funny how you accuse everyone else of calling you a thing. Nobody but yourself said.

You’re not the martyr you’re pretending to be. You’re just being an asshole to people with less power than you. Nobody’s impressed by your tax bill, least of all me. And the fact that you make so much that you have to pay 40k in tax. And yet you still pretend that money would make any difference in your life means you’re spending the money you have foolishly. Your petty greedy asshole. There, now somebody called you names.

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'murican with an IQ in the single digits doesn’t understand what being leftwing means. More non-news at 11.

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U mad?

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If only there were nearly 50 years of data proving your wage theory wrong. Productivity skyrocketed, and workers wages stagnated. Who got paid for all that value that was created? I guess all the people providing labor weren’t providing real-enough value?

Unions provide the same benefits today as they did 100 years ago. They attempt to level the imbalance between the employer and workers. If there’s a large imbalance then the workers don’t have the leverage to negotiate better wages.

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It seems to simply be a difference in values. I personally think a human being has value simply for existing, and many others would agree on this. Nothing idiotic about valuing different things.

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I think you are both arguing about an institution giving money to random people right? Just the amount of both money given and number of recipients are changing right?

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