Lenin said the way to crush the middle class is via inflation and taxes - and the Dems are following his advice

[westwall]

Good. Maybe tax problems can be addressed sooner and resolved more quickly.

By attacking the middle class instead of the billionaires.

Riiiiiiiight.

 

[surada]

By attacking the middle class instead of the billionaires.

Riiiiiiiight.

You're assuming billionaires don't make mistakes on their taxes?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Just started this book and it is fascinating as it deals with the rise of authoritarianism in the world. While a bit off topic, readers will understand what are the real threats to America today.

"Twilight of Democracy tries to deconstruct the psychology and motivation of such people. For some it is the chance to be noticed; for others, it is revenge for slights. Applebaum moves on to Laura Ingraham, another former acquaintance, who has become host of a certain type of US political chat show. "She has, like so many others in the Fox universe, depicted illegal immigrants as thieves and murderers, despite overwhelming evidence that immigrants commit fewer crimes overall than native-born Americans."

'Twilight of Democracy' by Anne Applebaum

Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum review â when politics ends friendships

Shaming Boris Johnson and other friends who shifted further right ... a personal survey of nationalisms, discussed alongside The Light That Failed by Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes

www.theguardian.com

People who favor individual Liberty, Religious Freedom and limited government are Fascists....riiiiiiiiiiight

 

[Care4all]

Good. Maybe tax problems can be addressed sooner and resolved more quickly.

In 2021 for 2020 return, it took 5 months, and a gazillion phone calls, to get our sizable IRS refund, and we really needed it, at the time! hubby was with a rotator cuff injury awaiting surgery and we had zero income, coming in....!!!

 

[Smokin' OP]

Then show me in the legislation where they DON'T exempt the billionaires.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) late on July 27 announced their agreement on a budget reconciliation bill (the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022). According to fact sheets distributed by Senate Democrats.

The tax increase provisions include a proposed 15% book minimum tax on corporations with profits over $1 billion (effective for tax years beginning after December 31, 2022), and a proposed change in the tax treatment of "carried interest" (effective for tax years beginning after December 31, 2022). The agreement also would provide for an $80 billion increase in IRS tax enforcement funding.

Majority Leader Schumer announced in a July 27 statement that the text of the proposed legislation would be submitted to the Senate parliamentarian for a review to ensure that bill text complies with Senate budget reconciliation rules.


Post the one that does.

And point to where they don't want 86,000 new IRS agents.

"To go after little people"?

Sure.

C'mon bigmouth.

Put up, or shut up.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

There's all kinds of Republics.. the US is a democratic Republic.

Constitutional REPUBLIC

 

[Red Front]

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Yes. The Dems have declared war in the middle class. A powerful middle class that can support itself - and votes - is the Dems’ enemy. What they are gunning for is to crush the middle class until they become dependent on government crumbs.

It was the Republicans who declared war on the working class in the 1980s, with supply-side, trickle-down economics, i.e. "Reaganomics". Between the late 1940s and early 1980s, the working class could afford to have only one breadwinner in the family, supporting everyone with one full-time job. Workers had more rights and benefits. Supply-side economics destroyed that:

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[Red Front]

Constitutional REPUBLIC

The Constitution was written in the 18th century by wealthy land and slave owners, who separated people as much as possible from the reins of government power. The electoral college and other mechanisms were put in place to stop the people from determining how the nation is run. The founding fathers created an oligarchal plutocracy, where the rich rule over the working class. The US Constitution for many conservatives is just as sacred as the Holy Bible, if not more so. It's the inerrant word of the founding fathers (i.e. gods) of America. It doesn't occur to them that perhaps we need a new, more relevant national constitution for the 21st century.

 

[westwall]

The Constitution was written in the 18th century by wealthy land and slave owners, who separated people as much as possible from the reins of government power. The electoral college and other mechanisms were put in place to stop the people from determining how the nation is run. The founding fathers created an oligarchal plutocracy, where the rich rule over the working class. The US Constitution for many conservatives is just as sacred as the Holy Bible, if not more so. It's the inerrant word of the founding fathers (i.e. gods) of America. It doesn't occur to them that perhaps we need a new, more relevant national constitution for the 21st century.

Just one more dead body to reach perfection. Eh.....

 

[Red Front]

Capitalism is not perfect. But all of the other "isms" were not great either. Al ost all of us live off of the fruits of capitalism and do not like any flaws in anything we purchase.

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Without the state, there would've been no industrial revolution or markets. The government builds the infrastructure that the private sector heavily relies on to conduct business.

 

[westwall]

Without the state, there would've been no industrial revolution or markets. The government builds the infrastructure that the private sector heavily relies on to conduct business.​

The State creates nothing. The State is a necessary evil that MUST be kept small, and as powerless as possible.

Mass murder is the result of failure to keep the State under control.

 

[surada]

People who favor individual Liberty, Religious Freedom and limited government are Fascists....riiiiiiiiiiight

Hitler, Mussolini and Spain's Franco????

 

[westwall]

Hitler, Mussolini and Spain's Franco????

All were dictators. How is that "limited government"?

 

[surada]

All were dictators. How is that "limited government"?

They were also fascists, authoritarian nationalists.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Hitler, Mussolini and Spain's Franco????

Progressives one and all

All thought government knows best

 

[Red Front]

 

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[Red Front]

Multiple posts have claimed that the Nazi party were socialists, due to their full name—the National Socialist German Workers' Party. This argument has been used to attack socialism through association with Nazi policies. It has also led to confusion, as Nazism is normally associated with fascism and far-right-wing views. Historians have regularly disavowed claims that Hitler adhered to socialist ideology. Historian Richard Evans wrote of the Nazis’ incorporation of socialist into their name in 1920, “Despite the change of name, however, it would be wrong to see Nazism as a form of, or an outgrowth from, socialism….Nazism was in some ways an extreme counter-ideology to socialism”. Or as simply put by historian and Hitler expert Ian Kershaw, “Hitler was never a socialist.”

Socialism, for supporters of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, appeared to substitute Marx’s idea of class war with a race one. The Nazis didn’t create the term “National socialism” themselves; both the left-leaning Czech National Socialist Party and right-leaning Austrian National socialism movement predated the Nazi party in Germany. The term was added to the party’s title in 1920—turning the German Worker’s Party into the National Socialist German Worker’s Party. This, along with their manifesto, was done to appeal to the working classes.

This can lead to confusion as to what national socialism meant. Though they sometimes described themselves as socialist, their general ideology and treatment of left-wing figures reflected their true views. In Hitler’s speeches, he established his idea of socialism as something only for select Germans the Nazi party deemed worthy. In his 1920 speech “Why We Are Anti-Semites” he claimed Judaism was the opposite of socialism by aligning it with capitalism at a time when Germany’s workers were suffering.

In the same year, the party outlined their party programme, which included a number of points which could be seen to align with socialist and anti-capitalist ideals. However, historian of the period Karl Dietrich Bracher has referred to the programme as “propaganda” through which Hitler gained support and then discarded once he achieved power.

Hitler worked closely with industrialists—in 1933 he held a meeting with a number of German industrial figures and gained their trust by speaking of the communist threat. In return, they gave millions of Reichmarks to fund the Nazi party in the upcoming elections. Many developed close relationships with the Nazi regime and flourished under the ideology—the Krupp family supplied Germany with arms during World War Two, readily dismissed Jewish employees, and it's then head Alfried Krupp joined the Nazi party in 1938.

Hitler also suppressed trade unions and refused to give the homes of German princes to the people, as he felt this would move the party towards communism.

Socialists, along with other left-wing political activists opposed the Nazi regime and were persecuted under it. The Communist Party and Social Democratic Party (SPD) of Germany were banned in 1933, along with the limitation of the power of all those who opposed Nazi rule. Many SPD members were arrested, sent to concentration camps, or exiled to Prague, Paris and London. The first concentration camp in Dachau, built-in 1933, was intended to inter the Nazi’s left-wing opponents. Hitler was also vocally critical of the “November criminals”—those who led Germany after the First World War and signed the Armistice and the Treaty of Versailles. These leaders were social democrats.

More left-leaning members of the Nazi party were also targeted; Otto Strasser and his brother Gregor followed a strand of Nazism that wanted to remove the elites Hitler courted from power. Gregor was killed along with other pro-worker members during the Night Of the Long Knives.

Those who claim Hitler was a Marxist or a Socialist/Communist, are ignoring reality to advance their anti-Marxist agenda. Hitler was a right-wing fascist in bed with German industrialists and was receiving plenty of assistance from capitalists around the world. It was the capitalists who started two world wars and it will be the capitalists who start WW3 as well, due to their insatiable lust for profits.

 

[justaschmuck9]

It’s not bad enough that Biden and the Dems are intentionally increasing inflation by pumping more money into the economy via this last spending bill, but they have also weaponized the IRS to go after the middle class by increasing the IRS budget six-fold, and hiring 80,000 more agents.

This is straight out of the mouth of Lenin, who said the way to crush the bourgeoise was to grind them between the millstones of inflation and taxation. Biden has waged war on the middle class, and he and the Dems will not be satisfied until the New America is comprised of a 1% ruling class and 99% dependent on government support.

The IRS about to go 'beast mode'?

Just how bad is the Biden administration's and Democrat Congress's grossly misnamed

www.americanthinker.com

I totally agree. We need to inform the poster called Gipper here of this bc he doesn't see any marxist movement in the US

Does he or anyone think these monsters are doing this "accidentally"?

no, it is all on purpose

they are arrogant pigs

 

[justaschmuck9]

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you are deceived. It is the Dimrats who seek to destroy us

things always go berserk when they are in power. why anyone votes for them is beyond me. Ignorance is the only thing that explains it..

or delusion