Message from @Andrew_Hunter

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2019-04-21 01:08:52 UTC  

Don't know how trickle-down economics even staretd

2019-04-21 01:08:56 UTC  

It's not a real term

2019-04-21 01:09:40 UTC  

Well the concept of cutting taxes while simultaneously massively raising government spending is blowing up the deficit

2019-04-21 01:09:41 UTC  

GG @Andrew_Hunter, you just advanced to level 1!

2019-04-21 01:10:03 UTC  

think of it like this

2019-04-21 01:10:08 UTC  

let's tax this guy to space

2019-04-21 01:10:10 UTC  

at 100%

2019-04-21 01:10:14 UTC  

is he going to pay taxes?

2019-04-21 01:10:29 UTC  

but at the same time

2019-04-21 01:10:32 UTC  

let's not tax this guy at 0%

2019-04-21 01:10:36 UTC  

will he pay taxes?

2019-04-21 01:11:00 UTC  

Think about this, when the top marginal tax rate was 70-90% in the 40s through the 70s how was the economy?

2019-04-21 01:11:11 UTC  

pretty shit

2019-04-21 01:11:14 UTC  

how do you think stagflation started

2019-04-21 01:11:20 UTC  

turns out government spending can't stop it

2019-04-21 01:11:40 UTC  

especially when ww2 made the economy great

2019-04-21 01:11:41 UTC  

so did korea war

2019-04-21 01:11:45 UTC  

so did vietnam war

2019-04-21 01:11:48 UTC  

oh wait america is nolonger in any war now

2019-04-21 01:11:52 UTC  

fucking stagflation

2019-04-21 01:11:59 UTC  

If government spending is a bad thing then why do republicans advocate for massive military spending that is blowing up the deficit?

2019-04-21 01:12:12 UTC  

How do you define military spending

2019-04-21 01:12:22 UTC  

You do realize Trump increased spending for veterans

2019-04-21 01:12:26 UTC  

which is classified as military spending

2019-04-21 01:12:43 UTC  

Trump did increase spending for cybersecurity so we won't get computer attacks

2019-04-21 01:12:46 UTC  

Trump has also increased spending on the military as a whole

2019-04-21 01:12:46 UTC  

which is classified as military spending

2019-04-21 01:12:52 UTC  

Trump did increase spending on technology

2019-04-21 01:12:54 UTC  

which is whoa

2019-04-21 01:12:59 UTC  

i thought not a bad thing

2019-04-21 01:13:34 UTC  

If we actually cut military spending, the EU would be butthurt as fuck

2019-04-21 01:13:35 UTC  

We need to spend money on our people, not spend it on invading other countries that didn’t attack us

2019-04-21 01:13:43 UTC  

"waah what if russia invades me"

2019-04-21 01:13:45 UTC  

"plz america"

2019-04-21 01:13:51 UTC  

"i dont want to spend more on military"

2019-04-21 01:14:07 UTC  

"i want to use the excess surplus to spend on my people, please protect us"

2019-04-21 01:14:31 UTC  

We could cut military spending by 100 billion and we’d still be spending more than double what China is spending

2019-04-21 01:14:44 UTC  

Or Russia

2019-04-21 01:14:50 UTC  

how is that relevant again

2019-04-21 01:15:15 UTC  

You could cut 100 million spending and foreign countries would be butthurt that america might not protect them because "they're withdrawing troops away"

2019-04-21 01:15:23 UTC  

Because the massive military spending and the unnecessary wars in the Middle East are costing the US big time