Or if we tax billionaires and corporations…
I hope Dr Oz is killed in front of his family
My favorite are the ones that complain about how nobody wants to work and everybody’s lazy. Yet, they themselves stopped working in their mid-50s after fighting for years to get on disability for their unhealthy lifestyles (obesity & cigarettes).
Two of the three points he made are total horseshit, but let’s not throw out that last one:
If we could get the average American to
start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later --not retire – orwork better during their lifetime because they’re healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy.Universal Health Care fucking now.
that math don’t add
Yeah I didn’t make that debt. You pay it.
Or we could make it illegal to be a billionaire.
Let’s see him do it first
Already trying to roll back child labor laws under trump’s previous administration. Why did they decide to pay attention now?
as an aside - Read somewhere that this argument that the government can’t afford all of these things like healthcare, infrastructure, etc. that would help most people is bullshit. Since the federal government prints it’s own money there is nothing that it can’t afford. We spent 3 - 8 trillion on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars alone. And when people argue that it will increase inflation - sure maybe, but if you tax wealthy people more it can cover part or all of the newly printed money.
Note: I’m a bit of an idiot about this stuff - so this article could be completely off base and I just wouldn’t know.
Printing money isn’t usually a good idea as it generally causes inflation/devaluation of the currency. So while the US could do it, the outcome would probably be devastating.
In basic terms, the more of something you have the less valuable it becomes. This works for things like trading cards/collectibles, but also applies to money.
A good real world example of this recently was the pandemic. Between reduced spending (due to be cooped up) and stimulus money (ppp loans, checks, etc.), a lot of Americans came out of the pandemic looking to spend. This huge surge in spending meant a lot of people fighting over a set amount of goods (since during the pandemic manufacturing took a hit). So high demand and low/constrained supply leads to rising prices. So while people have more money, that doesn’t necessarily mean they can buy more things.
Or we could stop lying about what the national debt is and tax the wealthy to destroy their absurd power.
https://mmt101.substack.com/p/mmt-basics-national-debt-defined
Fuck the debt, but since we’re living longer we should be contributing to society longer. Not amazon, but something like growing weed in your basement. Or crops in backyard for farmers market.
Sure. Once every billionaire has been taxed out of existence, and if we still don’t have enough money, we can start talking about increasing the retirement age.
If, on the other hand, taxing the billionaires out of existence is more than we need, we can lower the retirement age.
We could start collecting social security at 40 if we taxed the ultra-rich properly.
Fresh out of highschool? Wtf… Are kids really not getting jobs while still going to highschool anymore…
We were getting jobs as soon as law allowed us.
Am I out of touch or is this guy just an extreme privileged cunt?
Am I out of touch
No :)
is this guy just an extreme privileged cunt?
Totes!
Although, my experience definitely differed. I tried the “Get a job out of highschool” thing, but there were lines around the block consisting of former cubicle-dwellers with 3 kids applying to my local In-N-Out Burger, so stuff was bleak. I was fortunate I was able to wait a little while.
He’s super out of touch, I had a part time job when I was 15 at a Dairy Queen. And as far as I’m aware, that’s still pretty common.
Some people do, for sure, but lots of people don’t get a job until college age, or in some cases until after graduating.
not as much anymore. it’s hard enough for a grown adult to have a 20 year old car and an entry level service industry job, which I hear from boomers is what they could afford with a part time job in high school.
some teens still work but usually only if their families really need the money. middle class teens are told to laser focus on college resume padding, so grades and extracurricular are what they end up doing. parents worry that a job will distract from algebra homework, and football or marching band looks better to prestigious colleges than McDonalds (non adult directed activities aren’t counted at all)
I didn’t get my first job until after I dropped out of college
(non adult directed activities aren’t counted at all)
I guess this closes certain avenues of BSing the system but also, wow that feels crazy arbitrary and unfair. Damn, it makes a lot of sense that this would be some kinda unspoken rule of what counts.
Not to be too conspiracy-brain but it really fits that notion that modern schooling exists solely to subsidize corporate recruitment.
“We made our own film/robots/fundraiser/business!” 👎👎
“I did several months’ worth of free labor for a wealthy multinational conglomerate!” <br>😎<br> 👈👈
It’s wild to me that kids these days expect their parents to pay for their college. I worked for like 8 years saving money before I could go to school.
Now I’m not even using my degree and barely making enough money to exist.
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option B.
Instead of trying to extend the prole’s work life by a couple years, we COULD tax billion-dollar companies and their owners by 2% more and make three times as much money!
But we can’t! Sorry. Our hands are tied
Also, can’t afford minimum wage increase this year, the budget is tight
Oh! Almost forgot! We need a raise of 10% this year, and it’s time for our winter break! After winter break, it’s spring break. Then we will come back to “work” to pass more important legislation, right before our summer break.
You don’t get breaks every year? Damn. Well, life is not fair what can we do later gator
