Gotta say, as someone who identifies as a progressive, she’s really been beating my expectations compared to what she was saying and doing back in the 2020 primaries.
She needs to get tougher on Israel, otherwise everything I see is good.
Trump just called Netanyahu and told him to turn down the cease fire. All your complaints about Harris should be gone and Trump should be in prison for being a traitor promoting more death for political gain.
Ah, just casually violating the Logan Act. And nothing will happen.
Doesn’t really matter what Trump does if she still supports giving Israel weapons. Netanyahu doesn’t care about the ceasefire anyway. That’s been obvious for awhile now.
doesn’t really matter what Trump does
Trump said on day one he’d let Israel “finish the job”. What is wrong with you? Bizarro delusion to even consider democrats approach anything other than vastly superior to Republicans.
I’m going to critize anyone who is currently enabling a genocide. That shouldn’t be controversial, but then I guess there’s more Nazi sympathizers in the US than I thought.
You can’t expect me to clap and applaud for Democrats as they send over bombs and run interference for Israel, just because they act a little sad about it. My advice: ignore what people say, especially politicians, and see what they do.
Also, “if we don’t do a genocide, someone else will” is a terrible excuse to do a genocide. And take a house like the Israeli settlers do lol.
As VP, she is not enabling a genocide. She is not the president. She cannot set that policy.
As a presidential candidate, she’s been perfectly clear that she does not intend to change that policy if elected.
You’re an idealist that wants to see people held accountable, I can understand that… But right now we have a choice between someone who is opposing genocide without enough fervor, versus one that will actively support and contribute to it.
Then in that case I hope you enjoy the last few tastes of freedom before Gilead arises. No hard feelings when I’m given the order by Führer Trump to round you and your family into the camps? I’ll just be following orders, after all. Work will set you free eventually! Oh and don’t mind the ash, that’s just the Palestinians and Muslims.
Or she could just not arm the Israelis. I think Kamala has a better chance of doing that then Biden who was to the right of Reagan and Kissinger on Israel, and with a enough public support and pressure, I think she would, so I’m not going to stop and I don’t think the protestors should, either. She’s been unnervingly quiet on the issue except for saying “ceasefire” a lot, which unfortunately doesn’t mean much without actual leverage on the Israelis to make them accept one without constantly changing their terms. But as awareness spreads, they are being forced to acknowledge it more and more even though they don’t want to. Sure they barely mentioned the protestors at the DNC, but they did do it once or twice (way less than the problem of antisemitism but it’s something). It’s progress and people have to continue to fight, not lay down, cover their eyes and ears, and pretend a genocide isn’t happening from your hypocritical elected leaders, who are on the podium talking about freedom and peace and how good they are at standing up to bullies and doing the right thing, while thousands of innocent civilians are dying from bombs or starving to death at our hand. I can’t people even believe that is an option, it blows my mind.
If this country prefers fascism over avoiding a genocide, then it’s basically already fascist via its policies, or it’s not a democracy. If it’s the former, then you are the bad guys, I’m sorry, and you deserve to be as comfortable as a Nazi supporting Hitler. But the good thing is that genocide doesn’t have to be guaranteed just because both candidates support it. LGBTQ issues weren’t on the ballot until people caused a huge fuss about it, same with women’s suffrage, and slavery, etc. People were pressured into doing the right things on this even when they felt kind of uncomfortable about it. If we just accepted things the way they were because both Democrats and Republicans supported it, then we still wouldn’t have gay marriage. But it eventually became uncomfortable and embarrassing to be a Democrat who doesn’t support it which is why Hillary Clinton eventually switched on the issue even though her husband signed DOMA. So no, just because both parties support a thing doesn’t mean we have to accept it, and if it’s wrong, we shouldn’t. And I can’t think of a chiefer wrong than genocide (yes, I would rank it even worse than work camps).
In fact, Democrats are the correct people to pressure on this because they are the ones who historically adapt to these changing times faster than Republicans. Look, I like Kamala. A lot. I upvote all the articles about her like this one. I was really afraid her VP pick would be Shapiro, but luckily she picked a really good one. In fact, this is the only issue I see is a problem in her platform, her silence on this. I’m praying she’s quietly taking AIPAC money and then going to do a switcheroo in office and suddenly be harsher on Israel. But I’m not going to rely on that pipe dream, and tell people with a good point to shut up because she might do that instead of the more likely thing every President has done for the last 50 years. I’m going to encourage them to keep up the pressure so she feels safer in the public to do that. Because this is a big issue. There’s no bigger issue. If this isn’t your red line, then you don’t have one. Which I guess is fine for some people, but others do because they really believed “never again” meant “never again”.
At the very least, you’re the kind of people who would’ve said to people in the Civil Rights era to stop causing so much trouble or “you would get the Republicans elected and then life would be really bad for you blacks” , even while they were having issues voting, getting lynched, etc. How about instead of that selfishness where you tell an oppressed group and their allies to shut up about their suffering or more people will suffer, you have some solidarity and tell your elected officials to do the right thing. Telling black people to sit at the back of the bus so poor whites can have a better life, telling trans people to shut up so gays and lesbians can have a better life, telling poor people to shut up so middle-class people can have decency and a nice 401k, etc. It doesn’t work. People don’t shut up when they, their friends, or their family is dying, or even strangers if they have non-performative empathy.
How about instead you tell the pro-IDF supporters to shut up and suck it up and vote for the Democrats, or a literal antisemite will control the White House, and unfortunately that means they can’t have the genocide they want, but no candidate is perfect and at least they wouldn’t be voting for the pro-Nazi candidate. Use that energy to shout them down. Make it embarrassing to be a Zionist, make it as out-of-touch to support sending weapons to Israel as it would be to send weapons to Russia, or support abortion as a Democrat. If the UK, fucking terf island who had been voting for conservatives for like the last 20 years, can do it, then the US of A can with a supposedly progressive Presidential candidate.
And I hope if Trump is elected, you’ll shout against him, too. Don’t just follow orders, follow your conscience, that’s what I’ve been saying the whole time! On the other hand, maybe the people in camps with me will finally learn to empathize with the Palestinian armed resistance when they’re also in a concentration camp lol, so at least there’s that glower silver lining.
Anyway, sorry for the wall of text. I’m sure this will get lots of downvotes but whatever. Don’t be afraid to criticize your candidates. If you picked the right one (and hopefully Kamala is that), then they can and will improve to keep their job. Just because one is worse doesn’t mean you can’t criticize the other, or that they can’t do better in some aspects. They’re human, not idols to be worshipped.
Both things matter but I think Trump would be worse.
I’m hoping she’s mostly just playing soft on Israel for now is to avoid more criticism of being antisemitic. When Israel started their attempted genocide, most of the Biden administration was silent on it, and we didn’t hear or see anything from Harris, when she did eventually have a public appearance about a month later, she was pretty much the first person in the administration to say anything remotely pro-peace.
I’m probably just huffing copium but I hope she’s just taking AIPAC’s money (not sure if they are giving her any, but better in her hands than theirs) and getting through the election, and then going to go full prosecutor on Israel/Netanyahu.
The fact that she didn’t have to face a primary this year is a political gift. She didn’t have to go.on record while jockeying to differentiate herself and the instant unanimous support from the entire Democratic party means she can just be herself
In the 2020 primaries the race was between the moderates and Bernie, why wouldn’t she have felt comfortable being more progressive when Bernie was doing so well?
She started out the 2020 primaries pretty progressive, but would usually roll-back her positions a day later, presumably after some adviser told her it wouldn’t play in Peoria or would anger a megadonor. Maybe that’s where her heart actually lies and her trainwreck of a campaign made her realize those advisors were bad people to listen to.
Tax them out of existence.
Tax those mother fuckers.
If Zucman is a fan, this is great news indeed. A 25% minimum tax on billionaire wealth sounds great, and with broad support, as the article notes (even 51% of Republicans).
Much better news, too, for those of us who only saw this part reported on til now:
The campaign spokesperson called the move—which would still leave the corporate tax rate lower than it was when Trump first took office in 2017—a “fiscally responsible way to put money back in the pockets of working people and ensure billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share.” (emphasis mine)
IIRC, the corporate tax rate was slashed by Trump from 30-something percent, maybe 35%, to something like 18%, so to see that Harris was not interested in reversing this Trump tax cut fully (only to 25%) felt til now like yet another depressing instance of the ratchet effect, where the right does what they do, and neoliberals only undo part of it when they are in power.
I’m just a millionaire. I’m worth diddly squat “on paper” because I intend to stay a millionaire. This isn’t a difficult fiscal apparatus to create. Billionaires have much more effective methods at their disposal.
It doesn’t matter what the tax rates are so long as the loopholes remain wide open and there’s very little enforcement.
Loopholes are a consequence of tax law and enforcement. In theory, you can raise a lot of money for popular programs by aggressively pursuing tax cheats. In practice, we’ve built a society that hates the idea of taxation and yields social and financial rewards to people who open and defend new loopholes in the system.
At what point does the neighborhood PTA put two and two together, to conclude a big cut to property taxes must necessitate a big cut to school budgets? Idk. Seems like redder and poorer states have been forced to square up with this reality sooner. But these states also tend to be captured by the corporate interests that dominate their political systems.
But the real methods that the billionaire class have to stay free of taxation and regulation are in mass media and corporate lobbying. You can only do so much to hide your assets without rendering them valueless. Apple can bury its trillions in cash in a big hole in the ground, but then they can’t spend it on anything for the business. The real way to free up that cash is to convince voters that a big tax cut for repatriating all that money will benefit the country more than a higher tax rate on the Jobs Family Trust.
You can only do so much to hide your assets without rendering them valueless.
non sequitur. My assets and earnings are concurrently mine and not mine in accordance with state and federal law. Nothing is hidden or devalued.
The methods by which businesses evade taxation routinely place the assets out of reach for general spending and utilization. This reduces their value to the business, sometimes even beyond what they’d save if they simply ate the tax bill.
If you’re not doing that, I’m not surprised. Its very rarely a productive proposition unless your assets are worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
If all I ever did was tell people what I think I know then I’d never have became a millionaire, let alone protected my assets and earnings so well.
Ah, see, I just stuck all my money in the S&P and rode the historic overblown equities returns.
But I’m sure you’ve got a special mysterious secret that made your million a little more special.
I just stuck all my money in the S&P and rode the historic overblown equities returns.
Hard to beat.
I’m sure you’ve got a special mysterious secret that made your million(s)
Yes, in both the making and the protecting.
“Neolib” is Republicans. Democrats are just “libs”. Confusing, I know. But it’s like the difference between anarchists and anarcho-capitalists.
There is some debate about the current usage, but many, if not most, Democratic politicians are arguably neoliberals. The model was promoted in the US by Bill Clinton, who championed a centrist, Third Way approach for the party.
Should be over 50% to start. Simply to
alinealign with current tax brackets.fuck it. give them a certificate that says “you won capitalism” and tax everything over $1bn at 100%
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Aline is my ex. lolNot a common misspelling but the irony is pretty funny.
I mean…is she single?
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Tyty. Looked wrong but was too tired to tell why
Believe it or not, Taxation is a field of study on its own, with countless people spending their whole life studying it. I wonder how this is going to actually work out legally.
The supreme court will call it unlawful theft of profits and strike it down. What else could possibly happen in a federalist controlled legal system?
We really need to stop calling the republican party republican. It’s not at all what it once was. It’s the Federalist Society party.
Sounds like a solid plan! I would be surprised if the public opinion here would be any different. There are no billionaires on Lemmy.
Not now, no, but I need to make sure they have a favorable tax regime for when my scratch-offs inevitably raise me to my appropriate station.
Pro tip: Have other people do the scratching.
The only way to become a billionaire is to exploit the labor of others.
Futurama?
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Yep, Futurama.
No, but there are still plenty of billionaire meat-riders here.
In the 1950s the top marginal tax rate for couples filing jointly making over $400,000/year was 91%. Adjusting for inflation, that’s $5,200,000. Just to put our current tax structure in context.
All talk. I have yet to see a single politician actually give the people what they want. She had 4 years to do it, and crickets.
Idk what she’s done, or even can do as VP, but Joe’s helped get some good legislation passed, negotiated drug prices and I think he passed some gun control? Those seem like things some people want, although you might have a specific people in mind that I’m not aware of.
That’s just distraction legislation, not what people truly need. This has been happening since the early days of the election process, but none of these measures address the real needs of the public because it’s all political theater. The actual control lies elsewhere (i.e. global elite). I’ve been aware of this for decades, but only recently have others started to see it too.
“Top Economist” is a funny phrase. Kinda like saying “leading soothsayer”.
Don’t think I don’t have sympathy or respect for the economist. I just notice that it’s the only academic discipline that pledges and is expected to predict the future.
Just like experts in criminal trials, economists can be selected to prove what you already know. And just like horoscopes, it’s all very convincing until you measure the predictions against reality.
I have a PhD in economics. Saying that the field “pledges” to be able to predict the future is pretty disingenuous. You’d be hard pressed to find any serious researcher in the field with that level of delusion.
the only academic discipline that pledges and is expected to predict the future
Huh? Ever heard of climate science?
Or even just astronomy. They can predict a comet’s position long before it gets to where they predict it will be. And they will be right.
Its a field where the actions and the effects are so separated from each other that its easy to pick and choose what effected what. This was not due to this but due to an earlier decision or not if someone wants it the other way. Leads to folks making conclusions based on their own personal economics. The purists will at least be lead by core philosophies. My personal one is that money has no actual resting value (value is based on issuing entity based on debt and revenue [taxation] and not in the substance excepting its physical makeup if any) and only has value in a transaction (at which point it has value in relation to the transaction and its actualized). A bit like potential and kinetic energy.
Her word means nothing.
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