r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 8h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/thesanguineocelot 7h ago

Damn, that's wild. Better give the billionaires another tax break and fuck the working class harder, that'll definitely fix everything.

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u/Pixez1082 7h ago

True that. We're behind on our "killing the poor" quota.

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u/Nyctfall 3h ago

The early US's Articles of Confederation constitution made it illegal for poor people to travel interstate.

It appears they've always had a quota...

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u/RogerDogerBoop 7h ago

This is the way things are going, unfortunately.

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u/Few_Cicada2699 6h ago

Ah, so you understand the point of the comment. More correctly, this is the way things have been for 40+ years.

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u/RogerDogerBoop 6h ago

All I'm saying is, if the rich don't want to contribute to the society they profit off of, there's a very efficient way the French handled anti-social parasites not long ago which may need review.

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u/Few_Cicada2699 6h ago

Whoa, that kind of speech can be considered anti capitalist, which makes you a domestic terrorist. 

Trump's memorandum

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u/procommando124 5h ago

You probably don’t wanna hear it but it’s not just the wealthy that need to be taxed more. Everyone needs to be taxed more.

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u/thesanguineocelot 4h ago

I mean, sure, but it's not that the wealthy need to be taxed MORE, they need to be taxed SIGNIFICANTLY MORE. They need to be taxed a shitload more. They steal such a massive portion of the wealth that their current taxes aren't even a drop in the bucket, they're a rounding error at most.

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u/notaredditer13 3h ago

You're not going to like this but the wealthy already pay most of the taxes and the poor and middle pay almost nothing.

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u/thesanguineocelot 1h ago

Relative to their stolen wealth, they don't pay jack shit and you know it.

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u/MySafeWordIsDone 7h ago

Everyone making decisions was too privileged and/or coked up during the Reagan era to know it doesn't work.

We're fucked.

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u/thesanguineocelot 6h ago

The only thing trickling down is billionaire piss, but the dumbest, poorest people in the country demand that the billionaires be allowed to keep doing it.

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u/ImaJimmy 1h ago

This is kind of an overreaction. It is true that if we end up with deflation or stagflation, it's things will get REALLY bad (we have less tools to combat them. In fact you pretty much have to resort to extreme measures such as going to war to take resources), but having lower inflation doesn't necessarily mean it'll immediately change course.