You don't think buying TVs nor taking vacations creates jobs? Why do you hate capitalism?
Jussie Smollet
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You don't think buying TVs nor taking vacations creates jobs? Why do you hate capitalism?
Hotdog
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Im saying you dont have over the goods and services from the people people who created it and earned it to people who didnt create it and didnt earn it. You don't bankrupt the smart to successful prop up the bad decision makers.
I know this is foreign logic to you, but there is such thing as making a bad investment. You can actually waste money.
Democrat logic - pay the car payment before you pay the house payment.
Except, that's not what you said.
If you want to stimulate an economy, you give money to people who will spend it, not save it.
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More like the ratio of "seriousness of crime" : "difficulty of getting a fair trial" was not high enough.
Archie Moses
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One thing that boggles my mind is our judicial system and the amount of time people serve due to their crimes/charges and how many people support that ****. "Throw the book at them!"
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for justice, but putting people behind bars for years and years doesn't benefit society. I should say, I'm talking about non-violent, and victimless crimes (for the most part.)
Smollett being charged with in the teens amount of felonies was a bit too much for me.
I also felt that the 16 count indictment was a bit much.
Kind of funny (in a sad way) - the very conservative friend I walked with this morning, when I commented that I understood (to a point) the prosecutor's comment that JS was a first time offender and this was not a violent crime - replied "It sure was a violent crime, by his claiming the MAGA connection, it was a violent crime against anyone who voted for Trump."
She also blamed much of "it" on the fact that we've taken God out of public education. I really lit into her for that statement.
Hotdog
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No you dont.
Spending money isnt the answer. Investing money is.
Do you know how much it takes to start a business, develop an idea, etc..?
Somebody has to make the product. Its doesnt appear out of thin air because you have paper.
As much as you lefties hate rich people the truth is we wouldnt be nearly as developed as a society and world, if someone wasnt amassing large amounts of wealth to apply to a big idea.
Im sorry, a whole bunch of lazy people with equal amounts of paper arent going to magically start and run successfully, a TV making plant. Not without some hierarchy.
Me and you cant even agree on simple things. How in the world are you going to get 1000's of people just to magically work together and get things done. Its a fantasy bro.
All you do when you give money away to the poor is cause inflation. You dont necessarily increase the amount of goods and services in the system at a positive value to the people creating things. People need to create something, then trade it for something else created.
Hotdog
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The leftist idea to just have government tax is no different than the idea of a company taxing your contributions and labor.
Except the difference is the government doesn't provide a variety of ideas and are most likely to screw it up because of the lack of different ideas.
The incentive to win is important in the development of great ideas.
idestroyedthetoilet
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??? I gave an example of something I hear ad nauseum that isn't true. Odd to consider that cherrypicking somehow. If you feel there is more to it than what I hear being reported then feel free to ad something substantive. I thought about the difference between the Fed and state prosecutions before you brought it up but dont know how I'd go about looking into it. You can point me in the right direction since you are insinuating large discrepencies exist in state prosecutions?
idestroyedthetoilet
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I think people would be surprised at how lenient our system is on non-violent, non-drug offenses. This whole thing got started in 1995 or 1996 when somebody clever coined the term prison industrial complex to sell his books. Now we live under this untrue myth that we are packing prisons full to fill private pockets. It's simply not true, but repeat a lie enough and...