The art of government oppression and control through taxation and inflation

[Votto]

Make no mistake about it, both inflation and taxation are 100% the result of government policy. Today, America is experiencing both at rates not really experienced before. At no other time in history have the American people felt so strapped by both, with wages not coming close to keeping up. But is it by design? Is it just another way to disempower the populace so that the Epstein class can rule over the roost with increasing ease? If so, how does one fight it? In America, you have a two party system that have contributed equally to these problems, yet all they do is blame the other party with voters eager to point fingers at the other party they don't like. It is a recipe for what the US has today, which is over a $40 trillion dollar deficit, adding exponentially to inflation, which is the cruelest of taxes, as it effects everyone except perhaps the Epstein class. Government policies around the world to close down the world economy contributed significantly to the inflation we are experiencing today, yet no government around the world wants to be held accountable for it. And in the US, inflation spiked under Biden, so people turned to Trump for answers, only to find out that although inflation was not climbing like it was under Biden, the inflation was here to stay. And then the war with Iran has sent many over the edge as it caused oil to jump higher, creating even more inflation around the world. Now Americans seem eager to go back to the inflation party of Biden for answers, which will probably only be met with more spending and in addition higher taxation as they always do.

Are people truly helpless in this horrific cycle of despair?

 

[1srelluc]

Paragraphs are your friend.

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[Votto]

Paragraphs are your friend.

Got a link for that?

Are you worse off financially today? More Americans say yes. Here’s why

As the Iran war spills over into everyday life, Americans say they are worse off than at most any point in the last 25 years. Here are 4 reasons why.

www.usatoday.com

As the Iran war spills over into everyday life, more Americans say they are worse off today than at most any point in the past 25 years.

More than half – 55% – say their financial situation is deteriorating, according to a new Gallup poll.

While that figure is similar to the slumping sentiment Gallup registered last year, the ranks of the disaffected have grown. Only 47% of Americans were bummed about the economy in 2024.

This poll also marks the fifth straight year Americans complained things are getting worse, not better. The only time the national mood plunged this low was during the Great Recession.

 

[gipper]

It should be obvious to all Americans that neither of the two crime families will solve inflation or the debt.

A revolution is necessary and the Epstein Class knows it. That’s why they are rapidly building AI centers to surveil all Americans and prisons to put us in.

If the people would unite instead of fighting between themselves over meaningless things, maybe something good can happen.

 

[Votto]

It should be obvious to all Americans that neither of the two crime families will solve inflation or the debt.

A revolution is necessary and the Epstein Class knows it. That’s why they are rapidly building AI centers to surveil all Americans and prisons to put us in.

If the people would unite instead of fighting between themselves over meaningless things, maybe something good can happen.

Revolutions usually only leads to more despotism, like the French Revolution where they rounded up the rich, took their money, and chopped off their heads, only to have Napoleon take over the reigns. This is the Marxist type of revolution that Marxists want again in the US.

The American revolution in the 1700's being the exception.

Try again.

There is no way to replicate the revolution in the US during the 1700's as it was led by the wealthy and well educated who only wanted more freedom for their country, risking their wealth and their very lives to do it, and all based in a society of people who came to America for religious freedom. It was a petrie dish of people seeking freedom that had some moral fiber that cannot be duplicated.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Goverment wants HUGE GOVERNMENT WITH LOTS OF DEPENDENTS.

Stay home, get high and drunk and vote for us.

The massive fraud via Medicare is just the tip of the Icebeg.

BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER MONEY IS BEING STOLEN.

Childcare fraud in California has been reported to cost taxpayers as much as $1.5 billion a year, with significant losses attributed to fraudulent claims in childcare subsidy programs.

 

[ColonelAngus]

The sudden spike in beef is weird.

It seems we are importing South American cattle, and they are infecting US cattle.

SCREW WORMS?

YIKES!

New World screwworm: Abbott expands Texas disaster declaration against parasite

The USDA late Friday confirmed a second detection of the New World screwworm, found in a 1-month-old calf in Zavala County about 5.6 miles from the first detection on Wednesday.

wacotrib.com

 

[gipper]

Revolutions usually only leads to more despotism, like the French Revolution where they rounded up the rich, took their money, and chopped off their heads, only to have Napoleon take over the reigns. This is the Marxist type of revolution that Marxists want again in the US.

The American revolution in the 1700's being the exception.

Try again.

Thinking the system can be reformed is naive. The Epstein Class you are aware of has no intention of being reformed.

Revolution is necessary. It doesn’t have to be bloody.

 

[Votto]

Thinking the system can be reformed is naive. The Epstein Class you are aware of has no intention of being reformed.

Revolution is necessary. It doesn’t have to be bloody.

For a revolution to succeed, like it did in the 1700's, you need a group of wealthy powerful people like the Founders who have some moral fiber.

Without it, you devolve into mob madness like we saw in the French Revolution and subsequent tyranny.

There is no leadership in the US to direct such a revolution. In addition, the moral fiber of America is significantly different as they have migrated towards secularism, like those in the French Revolution who were only concerned about a revolution for power and wealth verses personal freedoms. And yes, the Left is desperate to have another French Revolution in the US as they chop off the head of Trump and run around like a bunch of wild hyenas thinking their freedom is at hand as all their problems have been solved. Idiots.

I think the key is the moral fiber of society rather than a particular system. Take a horrible system and put moral people in charge, and they will fix it. Put a great system in a society of amoral people and they will destroy it.

I like what Ben Franklin said about the Constitution. The key to freedom is the moral fiber of a given society, as our leaders will come from such a society.

I confess that I do not entirely approve of this Constitution at present, but Sir, I am not sure Ishall never approve it: For having lived long, I have experienced many Instances of being oblig’d,by better Information or fuller Consideration, to change Opinions even on important Subjects,which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow themore apt I am to doubt my own Judgment and to pay more Respect to the Judgment of others.Most Men indeed as well as most Sects in Religion, think themselves in Possession of all Truth,and that wherever others differ from them it is so far Error. [Sir Richard] Steele, a Protestant, ina Dedication tells the Pope, that the only Difference between our two Churches in their Opinionsof the Certainty of their Doctrine, is, the Romish Church is infallible, and the Church of Englandis never in the Wrong. But tho’ many private Persons think almost as highly of their own Infallibility, as that of their Sect, few express it so naturally as a certain French lady, who in a littleDispute with her Sister, said, I don’t know how it happens, Sister, but I meet with no body butmyself that’s always in the right. ⟨Il n’y a que moi qui a toujours raison.⟩In these Sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its Faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government butwhat may be a Blessing to the People if well administred; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administred for a Course of Years, and can only end in Despotism as other Forms havedone before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government,being incapable of any other. I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain, may beable to make a better Constitution: For when you assemble a Number of Men to have the Advantage of their joint Wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those Men all their Prejudices, theirPassions, their Errors of Opinion, their local Interests, and their selfish Views. From such anAssembly can a perfect Production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this Systemapproaching so near to Perfection as it does;

 

[gipper]

For a revolution to succeed, like it did in the 1700's, you need a group of wealthy powerful people like the Founders who have some moral fiber.

Without it, you devolve into mob madness like we saw in the French Revolution and subsequent tyranny.

There is no leadership in the US to direct such a revolution. In addition, the moral fiber of America is significantly different as they have migrated towards secularism, like those in the French Revolution who were only concerned about a revolution for power and wealth verses personal freedoms. And yes, the Left is desperate to have another French Revolution in the US as they chop off the head of Trump and run around like a bunch of wild hyenas thinking their freedom is at hand as all their problems have been solved. Idiots.

I think the key is the moral fiber of society rather than a particular system. Take a horrible system and put moral people in charge, and they will fix it. Put a great system in a society of amoral people and they will destroy it.

I like what Ben Franklin said about the Constitution. The key to freedom is the moral fiber of a given society, as our leaders will come from such a society.

I confess that I do not entirely approve of this Constitution at present, but Sir, I am not sure Ishall never approve it: For having lived long, I have experienced many Instances of being oblig’d,by better Information or fuller Consideration, to change Opinions even on important Subjects,which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow themore apt I am to doubt my own Judgment and to pay more Respect to the Judgment of others.Most Men indeed as well as most Sects in Religion, think themselves in Possession of all Truth,and that wherever others differ from them it is so far Error. [Sir Richard] Steele, a Protestant, ina Dedication tells the Pope, that the only Difference between our two Churches in their Opinionsof the Certainty of their Doctrine, is, the Romish Church is infallible, and the Church of Englandis never in the Wrong. But tho’ many private Persons think almost as highly of their own Infallibility, as that of their Sect, few express it so naturally as a certain French lady, who in a littleDispute with her Sister, said, I don’t know how it happens, Sister, but I meet with no body butmyself that’s always in the right. ⟨Il n’y a que moi qui a toujours raison.⟩In these Sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its Faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government butwhat may be a Blessing to the People if well administred; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administred for a Course of Years, and can only end in Despotism as other Forms havedone before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government,being incapable of any other. I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain, may beable to make a better Constitution: For when you assemble a Number of Men to have the Advantage of their joint Wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those Men all their Prejudices, theirPassions, their Errors of Opinion, their local Interests, and their selfish Views. From such anAssembly can a perfect Production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this Systemapproaching so near to Perfection as it does;

No. American workers need to walk off the job in unison. Shut down the economy. Demand change immediately. The Epstein Class billionaires will fold like a cheap suit.

 

[22lcidw]

No. American workers need to walk off the job in unison. Shut down the economy. Demand change immediately. The Epstein Class billionaires will fold like a cheap suit.

Changing to Communism is not an option. Your promises are not realities of the past.

 

[berg80]

Today, America is experiencing both at rates not really experienced before.

Let me get this straight. You're saying the marginal tax rate in the US has never been higher than it is right now?

 

[Votto]

Let me get this straight. You're saying the marginal tax rate in the US has never been higher than it is right now?

In terms of both taxation and inflation, Americans are feeling like they can't afford to live is what I said.