There is no use getting leftists to put on the glasses. They like both Mamdani and Bin Laden.

Why are we comparing random Muslim men to Osama?

Because islamophobia

Damn, someones religion or political vieuws can really change their vieuws on a random minority, hell, belonging, stereotyping & the fear of unknown are causing this shit 🤷🏽‍♀️

Also the random Muslim guy is zohran mamdani, the mayor for nyc who's making buses free and other nice shit that people hate him for

Nothing is free. If the government is giving you a "free" service then you pay for that service in taxes. So that means people in NYC who never take the bus are forced to pay for a service they will never use.

There is just so much you do not understand about economics.

Just wait a few more minutes before NYC collapse under its own weight. Mamdani is a socialist and socialism has never at any time or any place ever worked. What is frustrating is when NYC goes bankrupt they will hit up the state. The governor is just as economically illiterate as Mamdani and she will hit up the Federal government. If we get a Democrat majority in congress and the next president is a Democrat then that mean I will have to pay for Mamdani's disaster. I didn't ask for that. I get nothing out of that. It does not matter to me if NYC goes bankrupt or not. That is their problem, not mine.

He's raising corporate taxes to 11%, the same as new jersey's
He's taxing the rich.
He's not taking money from some homeless guy on the path

So he's a thief.

Who pays corporate taxes? All overhead or operation expenses that a business incurs is added to the price of their products. That means the cost of everything produced in New York is going to go up. Yeah. Now your getting ripped off just like New Jersey.

How do you get it across to people that taxation is theft. The government did nothing to earn that money. They just steal it from people.

Who takes money from homeless people? Homeless people are like the government. They ask for money and given nothing in return. The only difference is the government takes money by force and homeless just ask.

The government steals from everyone who buys something with sales taxes and the business taxes that are pass on through the price of their products.

There are some services that actually give back to the tax payer. Police, Fire, road maintenance and construction. That is about it and big government authoritarian leftists spends more money on useless stuff than those services.

If there is any taxation at all then it MUST have a return to the taxpayer. Funding services like police gives a return in that they keep you safer. In some places fire departments are not funded by the government. They charge a monthly fee for their services. If you do not pay for their service they will still come and put out your fire but they will charge you for it. If you pay the fee then they don't charge for their service. However, most fire departments are funded by tax dollars. But if you live all your life without ever having a fire in your house or threatening your house then those tax dollars were wasted.

Raising taxes is taxation theft?

The left is all about stealing money from the rich. The leftists take pride is stealing the rich people's money because then it doesn't affect them. What they just don't seem to get is that rich people are the business owners. The less money a business or business owner is allowed to keep the fewer businesses. The few businesses the fewer jobs.

If you think stealing from the rich is a virtue then good luck finding a job after the rich are all taxed out. Government jobs are not productive jobs. They do not produce wealth they destroy it. And that is why socialism, communism, fascism and Nazism will never ever work.

The only reason why China is afloat is because they are using capitalism to fund the government. They make their citizens into slaves just to make and sell products all over the world, especially the United States. They get a ton of money flowing into China. As long as China can undercut the rest of the world in the price of their products they will have a positive cash flow. China helps North Korea stay afloat otherwise North Korea would have collapsed decades ago.

Capitalism produces wealth for everyone, not just the rich. The more wealth the more prosperity. The more prosperity the better everyone's lives are.

Naziism isn't leftist.
It's values are inherently far right and the nazis persecuted actual leftists the second hitler got into power.
You only claim its leftist because hitler larped as socialist to steak votes from the actual socialist party.

This guy likes to pretend every ideology he doesn't like is on the left, even when it's clearly on the far right, like Nazism and fascism

YES!!! When you work you earn that money. The government does not do much of anything for you and they just take that money.

It is not a matter of just raising taxes, it is the matter of the government taking from you with out any compensation.

It is not just the income tax it is how the tax you on money that has already been taxed multiple times. You have to pay income tax, property tax, sales tax, gasoline tax, and tons more taxes. If you do not own a home, then you are paying the apartment owner's property taxes in you rent.

Every product that you buy you are paying their corporate taxes. In addition you are paying the corporate taxes of every business that the supplies the materials to make the product.

The bigger the left (and some Republicans) grows the government the more taxes you are forced to pay. The bigger the government grows the less freedom we have.

The left is all about authoritariansim.

Also I'm not talking about the morality.
I'm just saying that china sells it cheaper, which is why a lot of countries prefer China.

And I am saying that China sells cheaper because they use slave labor. Do you support slave labor? We pretty much have no choice because if what is sold in America isn't made in China it is made from Chinese parts.

I hate that we are the ones who have to pay the tariffs but if they can get us off of the addiction to slave labor then I am for it. I want America to make those products because we do not enslave anyone. If given the option I would much rather buy something made anywhere else in the world other than China. I do not hate Chinese people, I hate the Chinese government. I hate socialism, communism, fascism, nazism and any other kind of authoritarianism.

Tariffs are taxes, which he raised, and I only mentioned tariffs with trump.

Yes and no. They are taxes but they are pass on to us just like business taxes, in the price of imported (and only imported) goods. Trumps been having a lot or problems getting his tariffs implemented. So far he only has broad tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada. He has 8 tariffs on specific products He had numerous tariffs on products that only lasted 150 days.

Keep in mind that everyone he has imposed tariffs on they have had exorbitant tariffs on all of our exports for much longer than Trump's been president. They're own people have to pay those tariffs but it does raise the price on the goods we export so that we cannot compete easily with their domestic goods or their imported goods from other countries.

Imposing tariffs on them has caused China to renegotiate their tariffs on our exports to them. Most goods we impose on Canada are at 0% but some specific goods are up to 50%. Trump did that because Canada has imposed tariffs on us that go as high as 50% and their tariffs are from years ago. Trump just evened the playing field and Canada curled up and cried like little babies over it.

BTW, I got this information from ChatGPT, not a right wing news website.

Just because I think it is funny, if you pronounce the letters G, P and T in French it sounds like the French words "j’ai pété". Chat is French for cat. Therefore, "ChatGPT" or rather "Chat j’ai pété" means Cat, I've farted.

'Homelessness is a mental illness'
So you're telling me that someone who is forced to become homeless due to the fact that america has a shitty minimum wage is mentally ill?

No. You didn't read everything I said. Some homeless people do want a job but a lot of them do not.

I even think that some homeless, depending on where they are, make more money from panhandling then they did when they were working.

At some point people in this country got the idea that minimum wage was supposed to be a living wage. That's a load a crap. It was intended for high school and college students who were on their way to a real career. But something changed and people thought that was supposed to be a living wage.

Maybe it was because those of us in an older generation were smart enough to figure out that $2.30 per hour (the minimum wage when I graduated high school) was not enough to live on so we just assumed it was for teenagers and young adults. No one seriously thought was a career.

With this insane push to increase minimum wage to a living wage many jobs are being replaced by machines. That is why McDonalds, especially blue states, like California, all have kiosks. McDonalds is now working on fully automated order processing machines that will cook and assemble your hamburgers with no human interaction at all. This all happened because the left wants to make the minimum wage a living wage.

And yet china is doing cheaper than America, which is why a lot of countries are now trading with China.

China enslaves their people. That is why everyone is trading with China. Slaves are much less expensive. Trump is trying to break that with tariffs. China does not deserve our money. If it wasn't for the fact that China operates with slave labor so they can sell their products for less than everyone else is a disgrace. If China didn't have slaves their economy would have collapsed years ago.

I guess some Democrats still believe in slavery, don't they?

The f**k is panhandling

You've never heard that term before? Get a dictionary and look it up.

When the f​∪ck did I say that trump invented taxation

When you said, "trump committing 'taxation theft'." How is he doing this? He must have invented new taxes if he is committing tax theft because all of the existing taxes stayed the same, except for income tax which he lowered.

Wait, you think lowering income tax is "taxation theft"? When did the government earn the money that you worked for?

'It will pass on to us'

And that is a problem???? I don't care if Trump's net worth was $4.5 decillion or 45.cents It does not affect my life or your life.

The wealth gap concept is a fraud. It uses envy (which is a form of greed) to make you feel you are oppressed because someone has a penny more than you.

It is based on the Marxists oppressed/oppressor division that is used to tear a country apart to implement Marxism.

It assumes that you think that wealth is a finite amount and if someone is rich they are keeping it from everyone else. Which is also a big huge pile of steaming dog crap. Wealth is infinite. Under Marxism wealth decline but in a free country with a free market wealth is created for both the buyer and seller in a free exchange of goods and/or services.

The United States because of capitalism (aka the free market) has invented and developed more new technologies to save lives and enhance life than any other nation in the world. The very reason why the rest of the world has the technology that they do is because of us. The very reason why Japan and China is passing us in electronic, computers and robotics is because they are working on the foundations that we developed.

I am not saying that this happened just because the United States is just better, I am saying that this happened because of freedom and morality, the two things necessary for prosperity. No other nation has been able to duplicate the level of freedom and morality. Unfortunately, freedom and morality is declining rapidly in the US. because of the left and their nonsensical hatred of the free market.

Even so the numbers just came out and the child poverty rate in the US is the lowest level it has ever been. The new job creation numbers for last month exceeded projections by more than double. Real wages are also up across all income levels.

I'm not talking about the morality (or lack thereof) of china
I'm just saying that that is what is happening and neither of us can do shit about it

That is why Trump is imposing tariffs on China. He cannot change their policies but at least he can try to build back our manufacturing base so that we no longer need China.

The usa doesn't have 1.4 billion people to make more things but ok

We don't need 1.4 billion people to make everything we need and want.

You support slavery.

Now j read what I read and it said 'it will not affect my life'
Also elon has a trillion dollars and yet there's 700,000+ homeless people.
How come his wealth hasn't trickled down to the poor?

Are the homeless people Musk's responsibility? There is no cure for homeless but the free market reduces it better than anything else.

His wealth is constantly trickling down. Do you not understand how investment or even bank accounts work? Musk doesn't have his money just sitting in a vault in his house, most of his money is tied up in investments or his businesses.

His business create jobs. His investments are used to lend to other people or businesses. If it goes to businesses then it will creates jobs. If it goes to a person, then that person spends it on whatever he took the load out for. Everyone involved in the creation of that product will now have more security in their job to create more of what ever that person took the loan for. The same thing applies to bank accounts.

In the end Musk with all his money has created more jobs directly or indirectly than anyone else because of his wealth.

Homelessness is mostly a mental disorder. Salt Lake City, Utah several years ago built apartments specifically for the homeless. They could never fill those apartments because homeless people preferred living on the streets.

We used to put them in asylums but that was ruled unconstitutional because they were essentially being jailed without committing any crime. So then they were just put out on the streets and left there.

Several years ago I saw a video of a man who was talking to a homeless man who had an amazing sounding voice. The homeless man used to work in radio. The man who interviewed him got him a job in radio once again. That lasted for a while and then the man left and moved back out on the streets.

There are some homeless people who would actually welcome going to work. If they were qualified or a position that was created directly or indirectly by Musk then he is in fact helping the homeless.

The leftist solution is to constantly throw money at the problem. Money they steal from taxpayers, some of whom can no longer afford rent and food because of heavy taxation and they end up homeless. Money will not solve homelessness. If it did then there would not be any homeless. It just makes leftists feel good because they forced everyone to give money to the homeless.

Studies show people on the left are the least generous with the money they earn. People on the right donate to more charitable organizations than the left. This is because the left thinks that social programs are charity. They are not. Charity cannot be forced.

'It will not affect my life'
Literally admitting to trickle down economics not working
Also apparently because people don't want to be in financial struggle, they're envious?
Also people hate rich people because a lot of them affiliate with jeffrey epstein (such as trump, elon, etc.) And / or are nazis

"Literally admitting to trickle down economics not working"

Every Democrat from Reagan until now claims trickle down never worked. The serious problem is that no one on the left every explained why it didn't work. They came up with bogus reasons and false information but they never explained why it didn't work.

And the crazy thing is while they were trying to tell you it won't work, it was working right in front of their faces.

What I was talking about wasn't even trickle down. I was saying that someone as wealthy as Elon Musk does not harm you in anyway. He's not preventing you from getting rich, even richer than him. This has nothing to do with trickle down. Trickle down is just another name for free market economics. It is not that wealth trickles down. It doesn't trickle anywhere.

It is not like the rich are slowly giving their money to you, trickle down. It was just a buzz word that was probably an attempt to appease the left. That was when conservatives were still under the impression that leftist could be reasoned with. Those days are long gone and the left has only gotten more and more insane.

Here is the plain fact that no one on the left will ever admit because it stands in the way of their authoritarian dogma. When I buy something from you I value what I am giving you less than what I want to buy from you. In order for you to sell me something then you value what I am giving you more than what you are selling me. The exchange ends up with both of us having more wealth than before the transaction. Wealth is an abstract concept that equate to actual value.

For example if what I am buying from you is a hammer and what you are willing to accept in exchange is either money or another item such as a shovel, then for me I can use that hammer to build with which in turn I can sell a house or furniture or whatever I bought the hammer for. So the intrinsic wealth of that hammer far outweighed the money or shovel that I exchanged for it. And on your end the money could be used to buy something else you needed or the shovel could also have it's own intrinsic value.

This is how wealth is built and it can ONLY be built in a free market. The freer the more wealth it creates. It is why the US is the wealthiest nation in the world. The less free we are the more wealth is destroyed.

Everything the left has implemented or tried to implement has only put restrictions on wealth creation. Taxes, regulations and tariffs destroy wealth.

You could argue that trump is also committing taxation theft by imposing tariffs on a lot of countries

Not intrinsic. That was the wrong word. Utilitarian is the word I meant when I said intrinsic. Intrinsic wealth is items like gold, diamonds, silver, etc. I haven't read this anywhere but my theory is intrinsic wealth is the kind of wealth that men try to impress women with. If they give them something shiny and pretty women will like the man. But I could be wrong.

However, we have discovered later that gold is an excellent conductor of electricity and diamonds can cut through some of the hardest substances on earth. So those two shiny pretty things also have utilitarian value.

Yes. What I find amazing is that as soon as Trump started talking about tariffs the left overnight became experts on what tariffs do to the economy. At the same time they are still clueless on what taxes do to the economy.

The answer is both do the exact same thing. Increase taxes take more money away from people and they have to cut back on their spending which has a ripple effect on the economy and times get rougher. The only one who benefits is the government. Tariffs do exactly the same thing. The only difference is the tax is contained in the price of all imported goods.

I understand what Trump is trying to do with tariffs but in the mean time it makes the cost of imported good to increase. Even if something is made in the US it is typically made of imported parts, mostly from China.

Trump's plan is a long term plan. The idea is to equalize the cost of imported goods with American manufacturing. If American manufacturing can complete with China then it will build American manufacturing back up which will create more jobs, higher paying jobs.

What really sucks is he had to do this after Biden so horribly devalued our dollar. Biden left us with horrible inflation. Tariffs just makes it harder to put food on the table after Biden's nightmare. In the long term, if Trump can ever get any of his tariffs passed, then America will be stronger.

Why it hurts so much is 99% of everything sold in America, except for food, comes from China. That is not an exact percentage but it is in the ball park.

Going back into the history of this nation, prior to 1913 there was no permanent income tax in America. The government financed itself from tariffs. We did have an income tax for a short period of time right after the civil war.

The difference between America prior to 1913 and now is that we had a very strong manufacturing base. We made everything. The only things that were imported was stuff like French wine and cheeses and it was only the rich who could afford to import those goods.

Unfortunately since Nixon, China has increasing taken nearly all manufacturing that the US once did. We simply just cannot compete with China.

This isn't about china, this is about trump committing 'taxation theft'.

Trump did not invent taxation. The only thing he did related to taxes was lower your income tax and eliminate a lot of government waste.

Well, our taxes fund ICE goons...😜

They are goons? I don't know any personally but I would think that many of them are nice people. They're just doing a job that you don't like because you think that the entire world should overrun our nation and sign up for welfare.

Yes, I have zero problem with my taxes going to the salary of ICE agents and border patrol because they provide a service that all citizens benefit from. I wish we didn't need them, but the fact of the matter is people have been encouraged by the left to come to this country to help influence the vote. Biden was the absolute worst at opening that border wide open and as an incentive he gave welfare, Medicare and all sorts of other things THAT THE TAXPAYERS WERE FORCED TO PAY, all they while Biden devalued the dollar causing massive inflation. And because of all of these illegal immigrants who flooded the country many of them took jobs away from Americans, not to mention the strain on the economy just naturally causes jobs loses.

In addition to illegal flooding over our border, the drug and human trafficking trade boomed. Kidnappings of American girls and boys for sex slavery skyrocketed. Fentanyl OD's skyrocketed. Around 100,000 (THAT WE KNOW OF) Islamic terrorists just waltzed across our wide open border.

But it is so much more important that Democrats win elections.

And you guys for absolutely no valid reason are pissed because ICE is trying to send illegal back home.

If it wasn't for Democrats we would not need ICE.

Stereotyping??? I guess you just think Islam is just like every other religion.

Every religion is ass.

Everything that made America good and free comes directly from Christianity and Judaism. The very freedom that you are enjoying comes directly from the teachings of the Bible.

So you're welcome. You should be grateful that you live in a country that allows you to insult religion.

Not a whole lot of difference between Islam and Xtianity.

You have absolutely no idea what you talking about and I do not mean that as an insult. I mean that as a fact. You have never studied either Islam or Christianity. You just sit outside of both and listen to what other uninformed people say.

Here is a very simple clue for you. Islam teaches Muslims to murder unbelievers if they do not convert. Christianity teaches Christians to love their neighbor and in addition to thou shalt not kill, even if you have murder in your heart you are guilty of the sin of murder. But in your brain Islam and Christianity are identical.

I never said they were identical. Their histories have a lot in common. It wasn't so long ago Protestants and Catholics were killing each other in Northern Ireland.

I never said you said they were identical. I said you don't know what you are talking about. If you were talking about religion from a 30,000 feet view then I suppose you have a point. Both Islam and Christianity believe in a supreme being and they are monotheistic. But that is where similarity ends.

Was that Irish war over religion or land? Everybody makes it about religion but clearly a land component to the war. The religion part is more coincidental than anything. It just happened that Catholics were on the side of Ireland and Protestants were on the side of England. In England and even in the American colonies, Protestants hated Catholics and basically Jim Crowed the Catholics. That ended when the Revolutionary War started because you had Catholics and Protestants fighting side by side against England.

The question is would they still have fought the war if both sides were the same religion or no religion at all. YES. The difference in religion was just the icing on the cake, the real war was over the entire island remaining Ireland or dividing the island with a small part going to England.

When it comes to Christianity you could probably find the underlying cause of war was over land. The one exception was the Crusades and that was to stop Islam from killing Europeans. Islam has been trying in small ways to conquer Europe from day one. There were thousands of skirmishes or battles all over Europe whenever enough Muslims showed up. Muslims took over Spain for 800 years.

Catholicism, in medieval times was the only Christian religion so the Knights Templar was formed of volunteer soldiers from all European nations under the banner of the Catholic Church. The goal was to put an end once and for all to all of the killing that Islam was inflicting on the Europeans and to open a safe route to Israel where Europeans would not be killed who were trying to visit the Holy Land.

Unfortunately, the Knights Templar were never successful in eliminate the Islamic death cult and they lost every war they fought against them.

Yes, there were two religions involved in those wars but one side wanted to conquer and kill anyone who would not convert. The other side just wanted to live. Religion drove the Muslims to war. The desire to not push up daisies drove the Christians to war.

You should be able to figure that out on your own.

Spell it out for us. What's the actual connection between the two?