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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I think my reaction is much like GGG's, but let me try to put it differently. You have identified some fairly profound and systemic problems. I asked you for possible solutions, and you listed things that, generally, the Democratic Party might do and the GOP will not. If you really believe in your diagnosis of the problems and solutions, it's a little weird to say "but Hillary" or "fuck it, give me a tax break."
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The analysis is simple.
I don’t wish to get the worst of both worlds: No significant change and higher taxes.
If I’m going to pay more, I want to know I’m getting something in return. With someone like Warren, I suspect we’d get bankruptcy reform and millennial loan relief (both probably) which I see creating a nice multiplier for the Main St economy. With Hillary, and perhaps Biden, it’s just increased taxes and no real attempt at significant change, because that change would harm their institutional and corporate benefactors.
I want a return on my investment. If I must pay more, I want policies that allow the little guy to climb the ladder. Subsistence safety nets provided to him via programs are just a way of placating him. No multiplier is created and he remains another of the hundred or so million debt serfs propping up the rentier economy.
I see no cash or societal value in an investment in a corporate Democrat.
Correction: The market does tend to do better under corporate Ds. But this a bit selfish, no? Because people who are floundering right now in the Main St economy aren’t invested.
