i sent this text to my family group chat (which includes my father). my dad is a poverty MAGA with a wild fantasy about how to better enjoy his retirement.

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    7 months ago

    Almost everyone who isn’t a violent fascist who actually want to exterminate all the others, is actually a progressive who have been convinced through propaganda that progressivism is cringe

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    7 months ago

    If they gave everybody in the US in poverty 100k, it would cost $4,189,000,000,000.

    The US GDP is $27,360,000,000,000.

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      7 months ago

      How much tax revenue would we gain if we reinstated the corporate tax to the levels it used to be in the 40’s and 50’s? You know, when America was great? That tax rate was 52%>. Care to take a gander at what today’s rate is?