Capitalism is NOT Democratic: Democracy is NOT Capitalist

Holy shit. You just disproved your own claim.
Unless you think all mortgages reset in the same month.

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Wrong.
Your graph shows the LIBOR spike as well, and once some rates increased unrealistically high, then the defaults cascaded, causing a recession that put the mortgages that were not being recalculated into default as well, because their jobs disappeared.
Eventually some home buyers defaulted on their mortgage simply because they could buy other properties that had already defaulted, for much less than they were paying.
 
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fil...-_is_capitalism_compatible_with_democracy.pdf

"Capitalism and democracy follow different logics: unequally distributed property rights on the one hand, equal civic and political rights on the other; profit oriented trade within capitalism in contrast to the search for the common good within democracy; debate, compromise and majority decision-making within democratic politics versus hierarchical decision-making by managers and capital owners.

"Capitalism is not democratic, democracy not capitalist.

"During the first postwar decades, tensions between the two were moderated through the socio-political embedding of capitalism by an interventionist tax and welfare state.

"Yet, the financialization of capitalism since the 1980s has broken the precarious capitalist-democratic compromise."
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Reagan's tax cuts facilitated low interest rates and financial bubbles to promote US financial expansion by making real estate speculation and junk-bond corporate takeovers effectively exempt from income taxation.

This set in motion a chain-reaction of asset price inflation that is still polarizing this economy today.

The primary mode of accumulation has become financial, enabling investment bankers to replace government planners.
As a form of government, democracy sucks.
 
Banks risk nothing because the fed will bail them out and insures their loans.
And when the fed does bail out the bank, it does not bail out the borrower.

Banks repaid all their loans from the Fed and the Treasury.
TARP spent tens of billions bailing out borrowers.
 
It illustrates that since the personal exemption is too low,

Cool claim.
You still haven't proven "that the poor are paying much higher rates".

that we are actually paying a much higher rate than we realize.


So, you won't be posting any proof? LOL!
 
Taxes are supposed to be the same rules for everyone, whether employer or employee.
If something is not taxable profit to one, it should not be taxable profit to the other.
would you please stop lying,,

how about you be specific about what tax is being paid??
 
Banks repaid all their loans from the Fed and the Treasury.
TARP spent tens of billions bailing out borrowers.

Wrong.
The banks sold all their subprime mortgages to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mae, and never paid those losses back.
TARP did bail out borrowers, but only the very wealthy ones.
The small ones, like individual home buyers, got nothing.
 
Cool claim.
You still haven't proven "that the poor are paying much higher rates".

that we are actually paying a much higher rate than we realize.


So, you won't be posting any proof? LOL!

I already did.
I pointed out that an individual who made no profit, (meaning their cost of doing business was greater than what they took in as salary ), is still forced to pay taxes.
 
Wrong.
Your graph shows the LIBOR spike as well, and once some rates increased unrealistically high, then the defaults cascaded, causing a recession that put the mortgages that were not being recalculated into default as well, because their jobs disappeared.
Eventually some home buyers defaulted on their mortgage simply because they could buy other properties that had already defaulted, for much less than they were paying.

Your graph shows the LIBOR spike as well

The RE bubble was bursting in 2007.....Bear Stearns had 2 funds go bust in July.

Now, about your claim that mortgages based on the Prime Rate would have gone down.....LOL!

and once some rates increased unrealistically high, then the defaults cascaded,

In September 2008? LOL!

Eventually some home buyers defaulted on their mortgage simply because they could buy other properties that had already defaulted, for much less than they were paying.

Lots of people defaulting on their old mortgages and then getting new ones immediately?
 
I already did.
I pointed out that an individual who made no profit, (meaning their cost of doing business was greater than what they took in as salary ), is still forced to pay taxes.
individuals dont make profits,, they make a paycheck,,
 
would you please stop lying,,

how about you be specific about what tax is being paid??

We have always been only talking about federal income tax regulations.
And it is supposed to be illegal for an employer to be able to claim rent, food, transportation, etc. , as a deductible expense, when individuals can not.
The rules are supposed to be imposed identically for everyone.
 
Wrong.
The banks sold all their subprime mortgages to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mae, and never paid those losses back.
TARP did bail out borrowers, but only the very wealthy ones.
The small ones, like individual home buyers, got nothing.

The banks sold all their subprime mortgages to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mae, and never paid those losses back.

All of them? When?

TARP did bail out borrowers, but only the very wealthy ones.

The Treasury spent $22 billion. How much was "only the very wealthy ones"?

 
We have always been only talking about federal income tax regulations.
And it is supposed to be illegal for an employer to be able to claim rent, food, transportation, etc. , as a deductible expense, when individuals can not.
The rules are supposed to be imposed identically for everyone.
employers have always been able to deduct costs of doing business that include rent transportation ect...
business and individuals have always had a different code and rules,,
why are you lying??
 

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