(08-24-2024, 08:51 PM)EricC85 Wrote:

(08-24-2024, 07:27 PM)mikesez Wrote: The average American does not understand the American interest very well.  That's nothing against americans, the average person of any country does not understand their own national interest very well.  But you know who understands national interest really well? Intelligence agencies.  Our CIA understands the national interest of Russia better than the average Russian, and the KGB understands the American national interest better than the average American.  They work against it, of course, but they understand it.  

So, it's not Trump's fault that Russia likes him, but, it should definitely give us pause about supporting him.  

Also, Kamala is not a communist.  She's not a good choice, but she's also not a communist.

Kamala is pretty damn close man, unrecognized capital gain taxes that’s pretty damn Marxist. Californian her home state is a sneeze away from full blown Marxism. Her VP choice has massive ties to the CCP. Harris makes Obama look like a republican.

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(08-24-2024, 08:29 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: I meant what did he do that ticked off people this time?

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Oh, nm. He was the person who sent out that x. Americus was just having a visceral reaction to a name. I thought he must have said something bad again.

He really shows his color when he gets on the Putin isn’t the bad guy stump and it’s the nazi Ukrainians fighting for the NWO monologue.

Taxing unrealized capital gains is not an idea Marx talked about.  Marx was about confiscation.  He wanted the whole thing, now.  Not a little bite every year.
The idea of using tax policy to make society more equitable can be credited to a lot of people, for sure Henry George, not all of these people are socialists.
But even George and his school didn't advocate taxing intangible wealth.  That's a new one.  Guys like George and Marx might have thought of it, and dismissed it as pointless, unworkable, and stupid.  Which it is.
Harris is either playing dumb or dumb herself.  Her stuff is too dumb for the academics who study Marxism, Georgism, Keynesianism, Hayekism, etc.

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