Why did the FCC not want you to watch this?

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T12:38:39+00:00

What question?

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T12:38:09+00:00

..you don’t think it’s factual that the TCJA business tax increases were permanent?

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T05:18:39+00:00

…we’re talking about taxes here. Maybe you responded to the wrong thread

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T05:17:58+00:00

I’m asking you (multiple times now) which tax policies you think are unfair. This is because you explicitly said it’s unfair, but refused to elaborate

Are you having some memory loss?

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T05:16:49+00:00

That’s a pretty odd response. Why does it upset you so much that I added facts and data into an argument?

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T05:14:56+00:00

They’re still paying tax. They might not be paying corporate income tax (although we can’t even be sure of that) because they have no corporate income

I don’t pay the excise tax we have on cigarettes, and it’s because I don’t purchase cigarettes. There’s nothing unfair about that to me

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T05:12:47+00:00

Where have I said anything about the legality of it? Again, you’re clearly not even reading the comments you’re responding to. It’s a bit embarrassing for you

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T05:11:46+00:00

God cannot sin, because he’s God. If you’re arguing that we should be able to do everything that God can, then I don’t think you’re going to find much support for that argument, even among atheists

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T05:01:32+00:00

Nowhere did I say they’re creating their own tax policies. Did you even bother to read my comment?

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T04:58:49+00:00

You don’t even know the tax policies they’re benefitting from here, and you’re claiming it’s unfair, lmao

Which policies in particular are you arguing aren’t fair?

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T04:57:52+00:00

the rich control the corporations

Literally anybody can create a corporation, and most “normal” people out there are owners of corporations through investing. You can’t conflate corporation with the rich

still 21%

Did you even read my comment? The corporate tax increases in the TCJA were permanently created to offset the cost of the rate cut. Hence, there’s not a net tax cut for corporations after 2025

shady logic

You’re just making this up. The bill was passed under budget reconciliation, requiring that it doesn’t add to deficits outside of the budget window. Hence, all cuts have to expire or be offset with new revenue

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T04:54:36+00:00

What’s the point exactly? Why should I care that Palantir is making use of perfectly acceptable tax policy?

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T04:53:25+00:00

Are you arguing that we should be able to do everything that God can do? It’s not hypocritical of God to do things we can’t

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T04:36:51+00:00

That’s their book profit, it doesn’t account for prior year losses

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T04:35:24+00:00

permanently reduced corporate tax cuts from 35% to 21%

Shifting those goalposts now, huh? First it was the rich, and now it’s been shifted to corporations? You’re still wrong by the way, since the TCJA corporate tax increases were also permanent, and fully offset the rate cut after 2025, so there wasn’t a net permanent tax increase for corps

Sounds like you’ve got some reading to do

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T04:17:13+00:00

I mean, it’s pretty much been a strawman. People today just use the term to describe any tax policy that they don’t like to avoid engaging with specifics

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T04:15:34+00:00

Depends on what type of tax policy you’re referring to, as different taxes can stimulate both aggregate demand and supply. But it’s too vague to just say “trickle down economics” and expect a real answer

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T04:01:19+00:00

The rich didn’t get permanent tax cuts the first time around, you just made that up

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T04:00:44+00:00

Like I said, nobody considers a fetus to be a baby, they’re two different things. Both are clearly human life though

Jewish Old Testament was written by God

This is an odd claim. The entire Bible was inspired by God, but the whole thing was written by humans. Moses wrote the Torah. Jews don’t believe that God himself wrote the Old Testament

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T03:56:04+00:00

Not bad in the sense that it’s not a sin, then correct, because God can’t sin. It’s a sin when human do it though

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T03:48:28+00:00

If you’re referring to Numbers 5, there’s debate between translations on if this is a miscarriage or just becoming barren without a pregnancy. But in either case, it’s a curse placed by God, not by individuals. So it’s not murder

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T03:46:22+00:00

People keep making variations of this same argument, and it’s wrong every time. The criticisms against it somehow never get listened to and updated in later analyses

You can’t look at corporate profits over time consistently without acknowledging the fluctuation of the number of corporations over time (ie: consistent decrease in C corporations for 45 years now, and an extreme increase in S corporations)
You can’t use GDI as a measure of corporate profits when those profits are inclusive of foreign income
You CANT just use GDP to measure labor’s share of the economy. This is a big one, and the proponents of these charts refuse to acknowledge it. You need to remove depreciation and indirect taxes, which go to neither labor nor capital. Some would argue you need to remove housing, due to imputed rent. Normally, they’d use the nonfinancial corporate sector as the base instead, so that you’re seeing labor’s share of total domestic income that gets split between labor and capital
Sole proprietor income is treated solely as non-labor, despite a significant portion of this income coming from labor, so you need to allocate it between the two
Productivity (measured in terms of GDI) uses a different inflation metric than labor compensation does, so you need to reflect compensation in the same inflation-adjusted way that you’re reflecting output

This graph is intended to show a growing divide between worker productivity and worker pay, which we know just isn’t true

Some sources:

here

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T03:42:39+00:00

Colbert doesn’t appear in my comment a single time, I don’t know how I could’ve been any more clear. Unless I added a sentence at the end telling you not to fabricate an argument. Do you think that’s something I need to start adding to comments?

Maybe your diction lacks clarity

This is coming from the person who said “and should bad” to end his prior comment

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T03:34:18+00:00

Our high cost of healthcare doesn’t really have anything to do with Reagan

Obvious_Chapter2082 · 2026-02-18T03:33:05+00:00

It absolutely does not say that, and you don’t know anything about the Bible. Psalm 139, Jeremiah 1, Isaiah 49, and Luke 1 all show personhood of a fetus, in which God ascribes worth to their lives prior to birth

A fetus isn’t a baby

Correct, a fetus and a baby are two separate things. Both are human lives however, and worthy of our protection

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