Jeff Capellini

I disagree. They should be angry. "Eat the Rich" "Pay Their Fair Share" is a slogan that buys votes from well-meaning suckers on the left who have no idea what this country is founded on or what it's supposed to look like. We are not built on the nonsensical idea that everyone is entitled to certain things and that those things have to be provided by those that have accomplished them. Anytime our government attempts to (if you even really believe it's actually trying to do this) give to someone in need they aren't producing anything to do so. They're forcefully taking it from people who have. Yes, there is a tiny amount of people in our country who inherit wealth in a substantial amount. Yes, those people start with an unfair advantage over most (bought and paid for by the effort of people who wanted to set their family up). But those aren't up to the task almost certainly lose a large portion of it. Wealth in the US is incredibly transient. But there's this huge, awful, ugly component of this kind of thing that people do not acknowledge. Stealing from people that have earned to give to people who have not is fundamentally wrong. And more importantly. It discourages the people who have/can earn from doing so to their utmost ability. It enecourages them to rat their money into foreign interests, or political campaigns, or unethical practices like false-front holdings to try and keep it. Because nobody likes having shit taken away from them by force. And all this exists even if our government acts as an ethical, efficient, well-intentioned entity in the entire exchange. This is even if we're assuming (for no reason provided at any point in time) our government is the RIGHT ORGANISM to distribute money in a meaningful way. We are MANY TRILLIONS of dollars in debt as a nation. We have a giant INFLATION problem. Our government is voting to pour billions of dollars into overseas aid with most of it unregulated or without conditions. Our government lost billions of dollars (literally lost, as in, cannot account for it at all) just last year. This announcement is a bullshit, low-brow attempt to buy votes from an American public that is hurting badly right now because of the effects policies like this have had on our economy. Biden's literally shooting us in the foot here and then handing us the gun so we can do it ourselves a second time. He's counting on voters to be in too much pain, and too uneducated about these things, and so brainwashed away from American values (if those even exist at all in any form anymore) to realize this for what it is. I rarely get political. I certainly haven long-ranted in a political way. But this shit infuriates me and it should infuriate you. Red. Blue. I don't really care about party because I think they're all crooks to some extent. But the very last thing we should all do is hand these fucking miserable geriatric conmen more of our money with a smile on our faces. Fuck them. Fuck this.