If we emptied the account of every rich asshole like this we would achieve the same thing AND lose a whole class of dickbags that think they should be in charge.
The top 25 US billionaires could pay off US debt. Not even every billionaire. They total about 3 trillion net worth.
That’s ignoring say the $60 billion or so Apple has in cash and who knows what other companies have
It’s not even “the debt”
It’s their fucking debt. It’s the literal bill they keep skipping out on.
Nitpick- that is the deficit, not the debt. Like elsewhere said, debt is near 40 trillion.
Otherwise I still agree with the suggestion.
$3 trillion is only enough to cover the annual deficit (that’s how much the debt grows by each year). Oz doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Sovereign wealth fund, universal healthcare, and free education!
Adding $3 trillion in GDP would not remove the debt anyway. Assholes like this one don’t even understand how GDP is calculated nor what it means.
Mfs legit think GDP stands for Gross Domestic Profit.
You’re not a team player, are you? Work more and work harder. For the team. /s
“We’re all in this together.”
“You’re an essential worker.”
“We’re a family.”
Telltale signs of a malignant sociopath.
It’s beautifully wrong on so many levels.
- Increasing GDP doesn’t address the debt crisis.
- The debt is WAY bigger than 3 trillion
- As long as Trump is in office, the debt will grow, and nothing can be done to change that.
Doctors I trust more than Doctor Oz, Doctor Phil, or RFK Jr.
Doc Brown
Doc Hollywood
Doctor Bombay
Doctor Claw
Doctor Demento
Doctor Detroit
Doctor Dirty
Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Doofenshmirtz aka Dr. D or just “Doof”
Doctor Doom
Doctor Evil
Doctor Feelgood
Doctor Frankenstein
Doctor Hannibal Lecter
Doctor Horrible
Doctor Jekyll
Doctor Leonard H. “Bones” McCoy
Doctor Martens
Doctor Moreau
Doctor Nick
Doctor Otto Octavius
Doctor Pepper
Doctor Scholl’s
Doctor Orin Scrivello
Doctor Seuss
Doctor Spaceman
Doctor Spock
Doctor Strange
Doctor Strangelove
Doctor Who
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zoidberg
Dr. Dre
Dr. Enuf
Dr. Tran
Rug Doctor
Even Nurse Ratchet
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Dr. Mrs. The Monarch.
You left out Doctor Kevorkian
Every time I post this list I get a few more suggestions. I can’t believe it took this long for Kevorkian to show up.
He is a good doctor. He did EXACTLY what his patience wanted. Some people can’t see past that.
THANKS!
Even Nurse Ratchet
I’m convinced she’s a Deputy Secretary at HHS somewhere in the Trump org chart.
Dr. Tran
Certified hood classic lmao.
“He’s a REAL DOCTOR.”
“Oh shit, it’s Dr. Tran!”
You forgot:
Doc Johnson
Doc Gooden
Dr J, Julius Irving
The Doctor, ST:Voyager
Doc Johnson
LOL How did I miss that one.
THANKS for playing!
And don’t forget the Spin Doctors!
Doctor Princess?
Doctor Kelso?
Doctor No?
Doctor Nick?
Doctor Cat M.D!
This is a real doctor. Too confusing or not funny. https://beautybydrcat.com/
Ha! What an odd coincidence, and yet I’m not surprised!
Well, for the record, the webcomic cat would do things like get distracted and lose mousey toys during surgery, and I’d still trust him over Oprah’s favorite daytime human scat commentator. Lol
Best of luck on your journey engineering the perfect diss joke. XD
Dr. Simi
you have to mess up a lot to be less trustworthy than someone called Doctor Evil
Dr. Oz will kill you.
Dr. Phil will take all your money.
RFK Jr. LOOKS sick. Don’t take health advice from sick people.
Yes, somebody is really messed up. How many guesses do I get?
Dr. Tran
Or we could stop lying about what the national debt is and tax the wealthy to destroy their absurd power.
https://mmt101.substack.com/p/mmt-basics-national-debt-defined
Or we could make it illegal to be a billionaire.
“Please stay in the corporate meat grinder so we can have enough money to fuck kids then bomb them”
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Just as a heads up, you dont need to carry a balance and be charged interest - you can pay off your cards each month, and thus never accumulating interest, and still have an improved score; simply pay the statement balance before the due date
I’ve seen people have their cards cancelled for doing this. Rare, but not unheard of.
If you’re doing that you have zero need to bow to any single credit card company.
I don’t even read 90% of the credit card offers I get, I have plenty of cards, and they are all at zero. Go ahead, cancel me. I’ll have a new one in 15 minutes.
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Yes, i was talking about revolving credit
Well, actually yes, countries paying down their debt is not a good thing.
But they can switch the debt into a form that doesn’t pay any interest.
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That’s not how national debt works you absolute ladle.
Americans are trained to believe that our National Debt is some kind of foreign imposed obligation that comes with the threat of sanctions and military intervention if we fail to pay it. Because that’s how we handle debts international, it must be how we handle debts internally.
If the government has more income, that just means they have more money to give to corporations and wealthy people.
Because you give them the money, then they use it to generate even more money for the country?
It does come back through taxes? right?
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But this doesn’t give much more income to the government. Even if $3 Trillion more dollar circulated, disregarding job market dillution and lack of skilled labor, then the GOP defficit adds about a trillion per year and this would only generate about 15% taxes on those wages and other wealth transfers or only 450 billion.
Also, that 3Tn number makes no sense because each of 4.5M 18 year olds would have to generate $666,666 revenue.
We’re constantly more productive and never see a reduction in work hours, only more work. You bring this up to one of these fucks or their simps and they say “sure, but when will the work get done?” as if that comment makes even the slightest amount of sense.
The very first thing we all need to do is stop working so hard. The rich don’t have any real skills and they have no power without the people they exploit.
Garbage people produce garbage ideas.
Why not pay off the debt by reducing military spending by 90% for the next thirty years. We would still be in the top three countries for military spending.
This shitty idea is a thousand times better than anything Oz could come up with.
Also, you know, making the rich people pay even the same taxes WE pay, let alone the 50-90% marginal rates from decades ago, when the country was strong.
The thing is that he’s right, but will these sleazy fucks do anything to actually make it happen? Well let’s see what they’re to implement…
- A universal healthcare system so Americans are healthier and less stressed? Nope
- Free college so Americans can start their careers as efficiently as possible? Nope
- Free universal daycare for all American parents so they could focus on their careers without being to stressed about where to take their kids? Nope
- Raising the minimum wage to something livable so people don’t depend on government programs? Nope
- Investing in public transport so people can more reliably commute to work and find new jobs? Nope
- Strengthening worker rights to ensure that workers are taken care of, thus ensuring their longevity and productivity? Nope
- Passing union friendly policies while prosecuting union busting businesses to make sure American workers feel their hard work isn’t being taken advantage of? Nope
- Regulating hazardous workplace conditions to ensure the safety of workers? Nope
So what they fuck do they mean by this? They clearly don’t care about the debt or the well being of Americans since they’re not willing to do anything about either. No, what they want are results without any of the work needed to achieve it. They’re not looking for a more productive economy, they’re looking for slaves.
The thing is that he’s right
He’s not right. The national debt is way fuckin bigger than 3 trillion. He’s also wrong in presuming that an infusion of productivity (tax revenue) can “solve” intentional over-spending. He’s just a serial scammer spouting uninformed nonsense to stay relevant.
You mean a simple solution won’t work for an exceptionally complex problem? 😱
While we do overspend the bigger problem is we under tax, specifically the rich. Our debt payments are also getting out hand which is going to be a big problem.
You’re completely right. It won’t solve the debt problem, that can only be solved with a redone trade policy. I’m just saying that in the abstract, its a good direction to go in IF we implement the stuff that I listed in my comment. People will work better if the system works for them. It currently doesn’t, and people are just trying to survive.
Or if we tax billionaires and corporations…
Don’t forget those pesky religious tax exemptions too, while you’re at it.
universal health care would accomplish the same thing
more worker more healthy better economy
You found the only liberal argument for healthcare.
Honestly, those are important arguments and people would be wise to make them.
Outside this bubble that kind of talk is very accepted and desired. Convincing people it’s better for the economy, starting a business doesn’t risk losing healthcare, businesses now don’t need to waste time and money picking health insurance plans, etc. Are all valid arguments and would only help achieve the end goal of universal healthcare.
Well, the same applies to social services (welfare) and education, and the rich and powerful already know all this. So why do you think they don’t want us comfortable, educated, healthy, and secure?
Did I fuckin miss something? We are 30 trillion in debt.
That’s what happens when you give the richest people tax breaks and subsidise all your rich buddies endevours without uplifting the lowest socio-economic portions if society.
The best way to fix the economy is always to give the poorest more money (or less financial burden) because they spend a much higher percentage (usually all) of their excess income to keep afloat or improve their way of life.
The worst way is to give rich people more money. Because they horde it, gamble on non tangible goods (stocks, crypto, “ai” etc), send it off shore, keep it in the family and share it with other rich people etc.
It’s ironic that the party that always does the worse thing for the economy and demonises doing the best is seen by the masses as the “good for the economy” party.
‘simple, if one extra year is 3T, instead of hiring kids at 16, we hire them at 6’ --dr dumbass
Fresh out of highschool? Wtf… Are kids really not getting jobs while still going to highschool anymore…
We were getting jobs as soon as law allowed us.
Am I out of touch or is this guy just an extreme privileged cunt?
He’s super out of touch, I had a part time job when I was 15 at a Dairy Queen. And as far as I’m aware, that’s still pretty common.
Some people do, for sure, but lots of people don’t get a job until college age, or in some cases until after graduating.
Am I out of touch
No :)
is this guy just an extreme privileged cunt?
Totes!
Although, my experience definitely differed. I tried the “Get a job out of highschool” thing, but there were lines around the block consisting of former cubicle-dwellers with 3 kids applying to my local In-N-Out Burger, so stuff was bleak. I was fortunate I was able to wait a little while.
not as much anymore. it’s hard enough for a grown adult to have a 20 year old car and an entry level service industry job, which I hear from boomers is what they could afford with a part time job in high school.
some teens still work but usually only if their families really need the money. middle class teens are told to laser focus on college resume padding, so grades and extracurricular are what they end up doing. parents worry that a job will distract from algebra homework, and football or marching band looks better to prestigious colleges than McDonalds (non adult directed activities aren’t counted at all)
I didn’t get my first job until after I dropped out of college
(non adult directed activities aren’t counted at all)
I guess this closes certain avenues of BSing the system but also, wow that feels crazy arbitrary and unfair. Damn, it makes a lot of sense that this would be some kinda unspoken rule of what counts.
Not to be too conspiracy-brain but it really fits that notion that modern schooling exists solely to subsidize corporate recruitment.
“We made our own film/robots/fundraiser/business!” 👎👎
“I did several months’ worth of free labor for a wealthy multinational conglomerate!” <br>😎<br> 👈👈
It’s not a conspiracy that’s openly what it’s for
Cool. I agree. Was just covering my butt online, I suppose.
Especially because I don’t want to come off as anti-education or anti-intellectual, but the gatekeepers to that education are so beyond corrupt at this point.
It’s wild to me that kids these days expect their parents to pay for their college. I worked for like 8 years saving money before I could go to school.
Now I’m not even using my degree and barely making enough money to exist.
College is way too expensive to pay for yourself
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