Pay employees more, get better ones - imagine that

lower taxes, maybe then companies will be able to pay more, especially looking at how many have net losses already

but what would I know, I'm just a guy who can do basic math

Yeah, lowering taxes has worked so well as proven by history.

That is how money works, what part don't you get? If the companies pay less taxes, they'll have more money to pay higher wages, and even if not all of them do, you can go work for a company that does.

But I suppose math isn't your strong suit

…yet the era of the greatest prosperity in the country’s history was post-WWII. All Reagan did was slash taxes for his golfing buddies and obliterate the budget which exploded the federal deficit, and that led to Bush I and “Read my lips, no new taxes…except these new taxes to pay for my predecessor’s drunken sailor spending” (I’m paraphrasing).

That, in turn, led to the greatest Republican presidency of the 20th Century with Bill Clinton.

Numbers in a vacuum are adorable and all but you don’t seem to comprehend on how to actually apply them practically. It’s a problem most conservatives seem to have these days since they’re constantly sucking off the 1% and begging for another like Chip Diller in the basement of Omega Theta Pi.

Yeah maybe the government should stop spending so much, just a thought.

Who? Bill Clinton isn't Republican

What's impractical about what I've suggested?

Here’s a quick economic lesson: less taxes mean less federal revenue to spend on things like social programs. When Reagan slashed his own method of income but spent ungodly amounts of money on the military…remember SDI?…he essentially created a problem for someone down the line to have to solve.

Enter Bill Clinton. Yes, I know he was a Democrat, silly, but he epitomized what actual Republican values were. He got more people off of welfare than pretty much any other President in history while creating an economic boom rivaled only by FDR and Truman.

All Democrats…hmmmmmmm…

As far as what you’ve suggested, history (and by history, I mean the last fifty-five years) has demonstrated that trickle-down or horse-and-sparrow or whatever bullshit economic model you’re steadfastly holding to simply does. not. work.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tax-cuts-rich-50-years-no-trickle-down/

…plus a link to the actual paper, which you’ll never read:

http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/107919/1/Hope_economic_consequences_of_major_tax_cuts_published.pdf

I am an active union member. I make a good living. even though every week, I get 42% scalped out of my paycheck in state and federal taxes. If the ultra-wealthy were actually made to pay their fair share, I shouldn’t have to lose half my paycheck…and those leeches would still be ultra-wealthy.

Win-win-win.

Classic thing conservatives *can* talk about here: Tax rates
Classic things y'all can't talk about: Being anti-vaxx
Classic borderline topic: Abortion

That's a rough guide, our stream rules contain more detail

W e l c o m e b a c k

might wanna get another jab, your first one's probably run out by now

That's what they're saying!

second* jab: I got the two-course Pfizer vaccine. No symptoms after the first shot, had mild flu-like symptoms for half a day after the second shot, which is quite typical. The whole point of a vaccine is to stimulate some sort of immune response, albeit a mild one.

(but for sarcasm purposes, my balls fell off)

dang I love this guy

didn't think you had any to fall off in the first place

thats socialism!