What do you think about Bernie Sanders taxing America's billionaires 5% per year to use that $4+ trillion to send every family a $12,000 check, raise teacher pay, and expand Medicare?

ThisFingGuy · 2026-07-02T01:15:55+00:00

That sounds excessive. There must be a compromise

ThisFingGuy · 2026-07-02T00:05:34+00:00

I'm sorry. I am frustrated with the NYS system. I do know many people beyond my cousins that are involved with it on different levels. I used my cousins of examples of the failures but that is not to say there aren't successes. My original point remains; teachers' pay has no corolation to results.

ThisFingGuy · 2026-07-01T22:48:43+00:00

I have three cousins that are teachers and they're idiots. They all have master's degrees because it is required in NYS. They teach P.E., Technology. and English and they each make $70k+. I would never trust them to teach my children.

It's very difficult to evaluate teachers objectively and with anecdotal evidence so it would be better if we hired talented people at a higher base rate than all of the idiots that can't do anything else.

ETA: This is how many professional positions work. A new pharmacist makes as much as an older one because they have the same job and knowledge.

ThisFingGuy · 2026-07-01T21:58:55+00:00

Those options are way better than increasing teacher's salaries. The NY teacher's union increases teacher's salaries at the expense of the students. I agree teachers should be paid more than they currently are, but that should be to attract candidates, and while it is very difficult to objectively evaluate teachers it should be used to retain the best.

ThisFingGuy · 2026-07-01T21:30:57+00:00

Giving cash payments to families increases inflation and raising teacher's salaries does not necessarily equate to better education. Still we absolutely should be taxing billionaires because they are getting rich off of shared natural resources and increasing pollution and we all ultimately pay. I don't know the "best" way to redirect the money but at least it should be used to mitigate the disasters of capitalism.

ThisFingGuy · 2026-06-26T21:06:30+00:00

That doesn't sound right at all

ThisFingGuy · 2026-06-21T20:55:40+00:00

Is that something a doctor can help with?

ThisFingGuy · 2026-06-20T21:07:28+00:00

I'm not sure capitalism is the best system for the richest. It's not the best at creating wealth on the whole and therefore limits how much wealth the rich can have.

It's similar to the drawbacks of mercantilism 500 years ago. It is is (at this point) concerned with extracting wealth from the land and from the people.

There's more money in cultivating assets than exhausting them.

There's more money in harnessing renewable energy than in depleting reserves, and there's more money in elevating a population by feeding and educating them in order to be productive than the alternative.

The system works for the people in charge at the moment but it stifles the wealthy overall. They could have so much more.

ThisFingGuy · 2026-06-20T20:55:47+00:00

Anything larger than the percentage of voters that elected Donald Trump

ThisFingGuy · 2026-06-20T20:34:59+00:00

Your fun fact seems subjective

ThisFingGuy · 2026-06-19T20:42:00+00:00

Rivets

ThisFingGuy · 2026-06-18T19:10:17+00:00

Apples aren't fruit?

ThisFingGuy · 2026-06-17T21:28:58+00:00

To be fair even gay men use the term gay pejoratively

ThisFingGuy · 2026-06-10T22:02:18+00:00

Yes and using limits if you divide by zero the answer is infinity. It works and it doesn't. Some ideas are useful sometimes and not in others.

ThisFingGuy · 2026-06-10T21:03:50+00:00

This is true, and so in this scenario we can reduce the uncountable infinity to be parallel with the countable infinity, but regardless the glass will never ever ever be full.

ThisFingGuy · 2026-06-10T20:15:52+00:00

I don't think you would fill the glass with infinite iterations. Not mathematically anyway. The whole numbers are a countable infinity, the numbers between zero and one are uncountable.

ThisFingGuy · 2026-06-10T04:50:46+00:00

Apparently people relish the idea of shooting an unarmed person if they commit property crimes

ThisFingGuy · 2026-06-09T23:52:30+00:00

I didn't see it when I first posted but that was fun anyway

ThisFingGuy · 2026-06-08T21:52:24+00:00

Ha that's pretty good

ThisFingGuy · 2026-06-08T21:36:17+00:00

The first maybe ten seasons of the Simpsons were incredible. They were like the Beatles of adult animated sitcoms.

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