We’re constantly more productive and never see a reduction in work hours, only more work. You bring this up to one of these fucks or their simps and they say “sure, but when will the work get done?” as if that comment makes even the slightest amount of sense.
The very first thing we all need to do is stop working so hard. The rich don’t have any real skills and they have no power without the people they exploit.
Adding $3 trillion in GDP would not remove the debt anyway. Assholes like this one don’t even understand how GDP is calculated nor what it means.
Mfs legit think GDP stands for Gross Domestic Profit.
It’s beautifully wrong on so many levels.
- Increasing GDP doesn’t address the debt crisis.
- The debt is WAY bigger than 3 trillion
- As long as Trump is in office, the debt will grow, and nothing can be done to change that.
You’re not a team player, are you? Work more and work harder. For the team. /s
“We’re all in this together.”
“You’re an essential worker.”
“We’re a family.”
Telltale signs of a malignant sociopath.
Or we could stop lying about what the national debt is and tax the wealthy to destroy their absurd power.
https://mmt101.substack.com/p/mmt-basics-national-debt-defined
Or we could make it illegal to be a billionaire.
Alternatively, actually tax the top 10% at the 37% tax rate for everything earned above $600k, and let the working class try to enjoy a little life, with healthcare coverage.
Just 37%?
Why not tax wealth+income above $2 million USD with a 99% tax? Someone having 1 billion then still will have 10 million.
Bonuses paid in stock should be taxed by the cash value of the stock at time of the bonus of shares gained or 37% of the shares gained go to the government to be sold 1/12 at a time over the next year.
Why 37%?
It’s the top tax rate. It could be 90% and if be fine with that
Holy fuckballs. We really gotta get this solution implemented somehow that’s fascinatingly brilliant
Keep thinking and posting the thoughts. Its doing you, and us all, some good 👍
“Please stay in the corporate meat grinder so we can have enough money to fuck kids then bomb them”
Garbage people produce garbage ideas.
Why not pay off the debt by reducing military spending by 90% for the next thirty years. We would still be in the top three countries for military spending.
This shitty idea is a thousand times better than anything Oz could come up with.
Also, you know, making the rich people pay even the same taxes WE pay, let alone the 50-90% marginal rates from decades ago, when the country was strong.
Fucking ghoul. Thanks Oprah for making him famous.
Name one person uplifted by Oprah that’s not a fucking ghoul.
Dr Oz, “Dr” Phil, John of God, each more evil than the last.
At least Dr Oz is legitimately a good heart surgeon. If that’s all he ever did he’d have been a net positive on the world. As it is, he’s caused far more harm to more people than he ever helped.
There is a Behind the Bastards on this very topic.
Oprah is part of the club that you are not in.
The thing is that he’s right, but will these sleazy fucks do anything to actually make it happen? Well let’s see what they’re to implement…
- A universal healthcare system so Americans are healthier and less stressed? Nope
- Free college so Americans can start their careers as efficiently as possible? Nope
- Free universal daycare for all American parents so they could focus on their careers without being to stressed about where to take their kids? Nope
- Raising the minimum wage to something livable so people don’t depend on government programs? Nope
- Investing in public transport so people can more reliably commute to work and find new jobs? Nope
- Strengthening worker rights to ensure that workers are taken care of, thus ensuring their longevity and productivity? Nope
- Passing union friendly policies while prosecuting union busting businesses to make sure American workers feel their hard work isn’t being taken advantage of? Nope
- Regulating hazardous workplace conditions to ensure the safety of workers? Nope
So what they fuck do they mean by this? They clearly don’t care about the debt or the well being of Americans since they’re not willing to do anything about either. No, what they want are results without any of the work needed to achieve it. They’re not looking for a more productive economy, they’re looking for slaves.
The thing is that he’s right
He’s not right. The national debt is way fuckin bigger than 3 trillion. He’s also wrong in presuming that an infusion of productivity (tax revenue) can “solve” intentional over-spending. He’s just a serial scammer spouting uninformed nonsense to stay relevant.
While we do overspend the bigger problem is we under tax, specifically the rich. Our debt payments are also getting out hand which is going to be a big problem.
You mean a simple solution won’t work for an exceptionally complex problem? 😱
You’re completely right. It won’t solve the debt problem, that can only be solved with a redone trade policy. I’m just saying that in the abstract, its a good direction to go in IF we implement the stuff that I listed in my comment. People will work better if the system works for them. It currently doesn’t, and people are just trying to survive.
last time i bothered doing the napkin math, it really wouldn’t take much to reduce the national debt to more sustainable pre-9/11 levels. just tax rich cunts (anyone who is a milllionaire) at 60-70’s level of taxation for 4 years and it would be paid down to that level within 1 election cycle
I’m not suggesting it would take much, I’m merely suggesting that the dipshit isn’t serious and shouldn’t be taken seriously in this context. He’s not even trying to make a logical, reasoned point (as evidenced by the fact that he’s an order of magnitude off on what they national debt is). Here is merely a cog in the maga machine, tasked with saying dumb shit any time a microphone is in front of him.
Sell yourself to indentured servitude at 18 and work until you’re found dead by the janitor. Your corporate masters need a new Ferrari!
Or if we tax billionaires and corporations…
Don’t forget those pesky religious tax exemptions too, while you’re at it.
Like they’d use the money to pay back the debt lol.
Fuckin funniest part of the whole thing.
So when do you start doing actual work, Oz?
This is going to be so great for the Rich People’s Pedo Island Money.
Space X/X AI/Twitter (soon to include Tesla in a giant Xterfuck) will soar to all new market caps.
Or just allow more immigrants into the economy. Then our GDP would grow.
And tax the billionnaires properly - and if they don’t want that, make them unable to flee their capital from being taxed.
