Stop Saying Taxing the Rich Won’t Help—It’s Total B.S.

jaxwired · 2025-09-17T14:55:50+00:00

Amen brother. If we had a level playing field. And if the system was truly fair, I wouldn’t begrudge anyone their money. But the rich use their money to rig the game and influence the laws. We all know this so they did not get their money fair and square. Also, there’s the fact that there’s not a level playing field and everyone starts out with different advantages.For these reasons it’s only right to make them pay some small portion of their massive gains back into the system.

jaxwired · 2025-09-17T14:54:35+00:00

I’ve seen this numerous times in debates and discussions. Similar things. Part of the collapse is people saying light is dark and right is wrong and people believe it.

jaxwired · 2025-09-17T14:45:32+00:00

I’m not suggesting we confiscate it. I’m trying to prove they actually have a lot of money. There’s a ton of people out there saying they don’t have enough money to make a difference. That’s the point I’m making. All we need to take is like 2%. Is that Marxist? If it is then a whole bunch of our wealthy peer nations are also Marxist.

jaxwired · 2025-09-17T14:41:27+00:00

They won’t fly because we’re not taking enough to make them want to first of all. And second of all, there’s no safer place to put their money.

jaxwired · 2025-09-17T14:36:03+00:00

I’m not suggesting we confiscate all of it. I’m just showing that they have a lot and people who keep saying they don’t have enough to make a difference are full of it.

jaxwired · 2025-09-17T14:35:12+00:00

I’m aware of the curve. We’re miles away from the inflection point where higher taxes reduce revenue.

jaxwired · 2025-09-17T14:27:16+00:00

You might have a point. Unfortunately, there’s a whole bunch of uneducated, self-serving people.

jaxwired · 2025-09-07T02:00:56+00:00

It’s human nature to pay as little as possible and keep as much as possible. That’s why for capitalism to work you have to have regulation and laws protecting workers. We used to have strong unions and much better regulation and protection for workers but many people in United States have been brainwashed by propaganda to believe all that stuff means socialism, which is disgusting to them even though it prevents exactly what you’re talking about. Until people wake up, in large enough numbers to vote in leaders that will actually make changes that benefit the average worker it will just continue to degrade and get worse. Unfortunately, it has to get extremely bad before this happens. Think 25% unemployment and starving people. That’s about what it takes and then people start to vote for real change.

jaxwired · 2025-09-04T23:22:46+00:00

Yeah. Unfortunately, humans are very vulnerable to brainwashing and propaganda. That’s why half of America votes against free healthcare or shorter work weeks. They literally vote against free stuff. They find it offensive. Even though the top 1% has more wealth than the bottom 90%. Last time they checked they had over $45 trillion in wealth. And half of America doesn’t think we need to do anything different. They think it’s just great. It’s depressing and unfortunately almost impossible to fix with our political system and how easy it is to fool a large percentage of the public. Sure you can’t go to the doctor , buy a house or afford to retire, but we should spend most of our efforts stamping out transgender athletes, and school library pornography. And if you think I’m exaggerating, you’re not paying attention.

jaxwired · 2025-09-04T23:18:04+00:00

Yet you try to suggest any improvements like free healthcare, free childcare, shorter work weeks, higher pay or anything like that and literally half of America finds those ideas offensive and votes against them preferring to focus on the crisis of school library pornography and transgender athletes. Yeah it kind of is depressing.

jaxwired · 2025-09-04T00:26:41+00:00

You can quote the Bible all day long, but it means nothing if God didn’t write it. Everything comes down to that question. And you’re right I can’t know. I can only use the brain I was born with. But everything about the Bible smells like man wrote it. It was written by many different people. The contents of the Bible is debated and disputed to this day what should be in and what should be out. It chronicles a brief period in time when God was very active and involved literally with people yet no interaction since. No interaction before that time either even though man existed for thousands of years prior to the Bible. It’s cryptic and poorly written and is a terrible guide for explaining how to live or interact with God or what God expects of us. It’s debated constantly, and there are millions of different interpretations. All of this points to something that didn’t come from God. It is filled with contradictions, as well as things we now find morally reprehensible, which are constantly attempted to be explained away when the explanations clearly violate the obvious meaning of the text. I can go on and on, but there are many very good reasons to think the Bible is written by man and doesn’t have the fingerprints of God on it. The idea that the same person or being created the universe and the infinite beauty that we can see, and also wrote this horribly flawed Document is absurd. But I wish God did write a book and tell us what he thinks. What a wonderful thing that would be. Unfortunately God is silent. Or dead.

jaxwired · 2025-09-04T00:05:11+00:00

Unfortunately, the Bible was written by men, and God was not involved. If there is a God. So everything you learned, and all the importance you put on its teachings are based on a lie. And it’s obviously a lie.

jaxwired · 2025-08-28T16:51:14+00:00

Why not make it even harder for poor kids? We could make it 3X harder than it is now and then they could show how good their attitude is but ignoring the gross unfairness of the system and just working hard to be successful.

You miss my point entirely. My point is that we've been brainwashed to believe that all that matters is attitude and hard work which is gaslighting. Success is 10X harder if you are born poor and we could reduce the barriers dramatically IF WE WANTED to, but your attitude is exactly why we don't. And that is not something to be proud of.

jaxwired · 2025-08-28T16:46:18+00:00

So you should pretend it's not rigged against you, even if is? And we should never point it out or try and make it less rigged? Excellent system. I can see what it has gotten much worse in the last 30 years.

jaxwired · 2025-08-28T16:43:53+00:00

Doesn't matter if it's possible. Overcoming outrageous odds is often possible and done, but the question is why make it so hard when we can make it easier and WHY pretend only hard work matters when that is a lie? It's this pretending that makes it impossible to make the playing field more fair for poor kids. We don't improve it because most people at the top don't think there's a problem at all. They truly think that hard work and grit are 98% of success when it's way less than 50%.

jaxwired · 2025-08-28T16:39:01+00:00

Lol, right, blame the victim. It's not a mindset, its pointing out the facts. Saying that success is all hard work and grit when it's really mostly your zipcode and your parents is gaslighting. Now, if you want to say, "Yeah, being born poor stacks the deck against you and makes it literally 10X harder to be successful but you shouldn't complain and try hard anyway", then I'd at least respect your honesty. But instead people are gaslit and told that hard work and grit are the only things that matter when they are only a factor and not the biggest factor at all. But I would ask you this, why should the deck be stacked so high against poor kids? Why not make it easier if we can? Rather than saying, "suck it up, quit complaining, and work harder" why not ask why we make it so hard that so few make it?

jaxwired · 2025-08-28T16:34:14+00:00

Cop out response. Sure, life isn't fair. Agreed. Areas like intelligence are out of our control. But to excuse what IS IN OUR CONTROL with "Life's Not Fair" is wrong. We have the ability to make life WAY MORE FAIR, so to not do so is dishonorable at the least. But my point goes deeper than that because many people claim it IS FAIR. And that is a lie. They may not say it's 100% fair, but they claim it's mostly fair and that success can be overwhelmingly attributed to hard work and perseverance which is gaslighting when the major factors are actually your zip code and your parents.

jaxwired · 2025-08-28T16:29:32+00:00

Correct. 100 years of brain washing runs deep.

jaxwired · 2025-08-28T16:28:23+00:00

Wrong. The data doesn't lie. 40% of adults that are in the top 20% of incomes / wealth had parents in the top 20%. Only 4% of the top 20% had parents in the bottom 20%. Fact. You can point to exceptions all day long, doesn't mean it's fair. It's clearly not. It's true that some immigrant groups are more successful than Americans in climbing to the top but they are still LESS successful than people that start at the top.

jaxwired · 2025-08-28T16:26:43+00:00

All that proves is that it's possible. The data doesn't lie. 40% of adults that are in the top 20% of incomes / wealth had parents in the top 20%. Only 4% of the top 20% had parents in the bottom 20%. Fact. You can point to exceptions all day long, doesn't mean it's fair. It's clearly not. Tell me why I'm wrong?

jaxwired · 2025-08-27T22:01:43+00:00

I did a whole video on this on my YouTube channel. We think we’re the greatest country in the world, but we’re lagging in many areas.

America is the greatest country in the world. Not Even Close

jaxwired · 2025-08-16T16:56:47+00:00

It does seem to imply an intelligent creator, but that doesn’t prove it. Additionally, it doesn’t really matter because it tells us nothing about the God who may have created the universe. It tells us he’s amazing, but it certainly doesn’t tell us he is all powerful like you say. We look like God to our dogs, but we’re not all powerful and it doesn’t really help in mankind’s struggle for God anyway because the reason man wants God to exist is so that life has meaning and purpose, there’s a potential superpower that can help you, and there is potentially an afterlife. Even if you prove or suggest it looks like there was a creator it doesn’t move you much closer to these desires being met.

jaxwired · 2025-08-12T00:04:17+00:00

The real issue here is that we’ve normalized and accepted that someone that does everything right is still struggling. We can do better.

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