As we tend to say in Europe, the US is a third-world country wearing a Gucci belt
A Gucci belt made in china
A Gocci belt made in China.
just fyi - the US national debt is $36 trillion. That’s about $110 million per American. So hey folks, what say we all chip in and get that thing paid off!
But wait, we could just make the billionaires pay it! Sorry no, the combined net worth of all 900-ish billionaires in America is less than $7 trillion. That’s how deep in debt this country is.
My math came out a little different: $36,000,000,000,000 ÷ 340,000,000 = $105,882 per person.
Still agree with you, though. This is above the median household income, and the people who extract more wealth from this country should also share a greater burden of its debt.
If we taxed the wealthy at 1950s rates we’d get it paid off quickly
Might be 70 years too late, the us’s debt is now like $35 trillion or some madness.
How about give me all the fucking social security I paid over the course of my career first, instead of handing it to like 12 billionaires who definitely don’t need it?
Tip your landlord
So, pay the government more money (socializing the losses) while the government funnels that same money in to executive pockets (privatizing the gains)??
Don’t we already do this with taxes? Why would anyone do this?
They all ready get my taxes
The bottom half of US wage-earners pay net zero in federal income taxes. The top 10% pay the obscene majority of it.
What I mean is it’s a safe bet that any random person whining about their federal tax dollars doesn’t actually pay much in, if any.
