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Imagine you go to buy a new car. You pick a model that sells for $40,000. The dealer says, fine, and there will be a $30,000 surcharge for the luxury car subsidy, so you will pay $70,000.
They explain the $30,000 subsidy is used to help reduce the cost of a $20,000,000 super car to $10,000,000 for the benefit of the very rich buyer of that car, Mr. Jeff Bezos. Because, you understand, Mr. Bezos is an especially important customer, and you all need to do your part for him.
Imagine the outrage you'd feel - and if you find every dealer has that surcharge. That if you want to buy a new car, you have to overpay that much to help Bezos get a cheaper supercar.
Think about how you'd feel; and then realize that what's actually happening is worse than that, but people don't get upset. It's estimated the average salary in the US might be double if we hadn't lowered taxes on the rich and shifted that money to our national debt, now $30,000,000,000. So that instead of a one-time $30,000 surcharge to give the rich more, it's an average $50,000 per year sacrifice to give the rich more.
Think about why it is people Just Don't Care, and say to ask about the issue is 'jealous'? If you had to pay that $30,000 surcharge for a new car, and you questioned it, would you be 'jealous'?
It's something to think about how the country cares to little about this, and doesn't appreciate the harm it does beyond the direct financial harm, such as taking over our government, paying for huge manipulation of voters to get people elected who will serve the big donors. All the policies corrupted by that to the point people don't trust democracy and will support a lying clown who promises to 'drain the swamp'.
They explain the $30,000 subsidy is used to help reduce the cost of a $20,000,000 super car to $10,000,000 for the benefit of the very rich buyer of that car, Mr. Jeff Bezos. Because, you understand, Mr. Bezos is an especially important customer, and you all need to do your part for him.
Imagine the outrage you'd feel - and if you find every dealer has that surcharge. That if you want to buy a new car, you have to overpay that much to help Bezos get a cheaper supercar.
Think about how you'd feel; and then realize that what's actually happening is worse than that, but people don't get upset. It's estimated the average salary in the US might be double if we hadn't lowered taxes on the rich and shifted that money to our national debt, now $30,000,000,000. So that instead of a one-time $30,000 surcharge to give the rich more, it's an average $50,000 per year sacrifice to give the rich more.
Think about why it is people Just Don't Care, and say to ask about the issue is 'jealous'? If you had to pay that $30,000 surcharge for a new car, and you questioned it, would you be 'jealous'?
It's something to think about how the country cares to little about this, and doesn't appreciate the harm it does beyond the direct financial harm, such as taking over our government, paying for huge manipulation of voters to get people elected who will serve the big donors. All the policies corrupted by that to the point people don't trust democracy and will support a lying clown who promises to 'drain the swamp'.