Galt's Gulch
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Milton Friedman - The 4 ways to spend money - YouTube

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You spend your own money on yourself.
2. You spend your own money on somebody else.
3. You spend somebody else's money on yourself.
4. You spend somebody else's money on somebody else.

This is worth reviewing.

SOURCE URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6XMzjHMemY&ab_channel=TheWisdomWire

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  • Posted by $ pixelate 3 years ago
    Slightly related -- around 10 years ago, when I was still on FakeBook, I made a post, I bet we're all familiar with it:
    "When the people discover that they can vote themselves largess from the treasury, that will signal the end of the Republic."
    One of my "friends" -- a Progressive, replied "Who said that, Hitler?"
    No kidding. I replied "Well, any home-schooled 10-year-old could be credited with saying it since it is logically obvious."
    The conversation perty much ended there.
    The Progressive was a government school teacher.
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  • Posted by $ pixelate 3 years ago
    Yes -- and the concept is so blindingly simple. You have to be a progressive and go through a serious amount of mental gymnastics in order to avoid the obvious and endorse the legislatively dictated theft of income and property. Or, you have to be seriously dumb to insist that strangers are entitled to the income of those who earned it -- the level of thought is on par of an infant -- having exercised pursed lips in ready anticipation of a government breast. Conceited, disgusting and dangerous.
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    • Posted by Aeronca 3 years ago
      The infantilization of a society, sticking the gubbament boob in everyone's face, tempting the worst in people and the destruction of the people's sense of responsibility. The Milkocrats.
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    • Posted by CaptainKirk 3 years ago
      Imagine this. You make a lot of money.
      then you lose $600k in the stock market.

      Now, mind you, you make $200k/yr and pay $40k in taxes... you GET to take ONLY $3,000/yr of that loss EACH year.

      So, you get 200 years to write off that loss.

      Income that was already taxed, and with a ton of income taxes due. Because "That type of loss" cannot be written off against "normal income".

      Hmmm. I wonder who this benefits?
      I could see a scale. 200 years! Oh, and if you die, your heirs do NOT get to inherit this.

      They inherit TAX LIABILITIES. But not tax credits.
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