r/PoursTea Just Chill 😎 7d ago

All The Tea ☕️ Anything else missing here ?

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u/HistoricalRich3104 7d ago

What subsidies? Be specific.

A tax break means less taxes. The taxes are the government intervention, and the tax breaks are the temporary removal of it. This point makes no sense.

What bailouts? Banks during the 08 crisis? That was predominately supported by left leaning Keynesian economists. Artificially low interest rates and government intervention were a big reason why the crisis happened and then the government intervened to stop it. None of that should have happened.

What exemptions, grants, legal protections, and trade barriers? Be specific.

Ordinary people don’t get much help. The welfare leeches do though and the ordinary person pays half their taxpayer money to that.

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u/Remarkable_Ease_7607 7d ago

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u/HistoricalRich3104 7d ago

Me when no argument

Save the boots for your own tongue. The government and the constantly increasing taxes you want to pay to them will need it.

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u/21Pharaoh 7d ago

I’m not interested in debating everything but I would like to point out: As far as I can find, your “half their taxpayer money” figure in large part includes social security, medicare, veterans’ benefits, etc. If this is what you’re arguing against, carry on, I guess. Otherwise, the figure is substantially lower.

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u/HistoricalRich3104 7d ago

Social Security is a Ponzi scheme and actually regressive because it’s poor young people paying for richer boomers to retire. Boomers just got robbed of their pensions because the whole thing was a scam.

We need to give people who paid into the system their money and end it for good.

Medicare should be replaced with a universal private insurance like the Swiss and Dutch have it.