Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

spat · Feb 18, 2025

dean3690 said:
Education should be paid for through grants to the states from the Fed Govt based upon population and to a degree location (it costs more to heat schools in Alaska for instance). It could also be paid for in whole or in part by state sales taxes which all pay into. It used to be, before property taxes, that you could subsistence live on property you owned, but that is now impossible with property taxes. Miss a rent tax payment to the state and they confiscate your land. In the UK, the Crown owns all the land and you just rent it, like a trailer park. Property taxes make you into a renter and not an owner of your property. You don't pay a tax on unrealized stock market gains and should not on property through assessments and property taxes. Don't get me wrong, the money has to come from somewhere, but as is more obvious everyday, we already have sufficient tax money in our country to pay for everything we need to fund and could do so if it was not given away to bribery, fraud, theft and money laundering.

Or, and I'm just spitballing here, maybe the federal government shouldn't be taxing residents of states just to take a cut, add some strings, and then give it back to the states ?

Government shouldn't be in the business of wealth redistribution at all.

tirwin1 · Feb 18, 2025

Question: Do you think the democrats learned anything from their election loss last November?

Answer: NEW: Black queer woman to play Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar musical at Hollywood Bowl

Rocpo · Feb 18, 2025

tirwin1 said:
Question: Do you think the democrats learned anything from their election loss last November?

Answer: NEW: Black queer woman to play Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar musical at Hollywood Bowl

Her next role should be as muhammad

dwa12479 · Feb 18, 2025

2WheelGnnr said:
maybe auditing this not good. Once people realize its NOT There.....there will be no confidence in the dollar and our "economy" goes DARK!!!! no faith any more in Dollar....Value plummets to zero....only OTHERS gold is in there?! Gold we are holding for other countries!!!!

We've been off the gold standard for years. The only thing backing our currency today is unicorn farts.

livingston · Feb 18, 2025

livingston · Feb 18, 2025

spat · Feb 18, 2025

dwa12479 said:
We've been off the gold standard for years. The only thing backing our currency today is unicorn farts.

The difference between bitcoin and the US dollar is that Bitcoin isn't $37T in debt, and doesn't have crooks printing more every day to service that debt.

OfC, Bitcoin doesn't have the largest military the world has ever seen backing it either, but without the debt, it doesn't need it.