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    US Federal debt vs tax-cuts/bailouts/givouts over time [OC]
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    US Federal debt vs tax-cuts/bailouts/givouts over time [OC]

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    2. JohnathantheCat on

      Two different grids! Please give me some chops sticks so I may gouge my eyes from there sockets and pass me the lye to cotterize the bleeding holes.

      ChatGPT to source the data… maybe. The payouts and debt should probably just have one scale, the tax cuts and bailouts being the same scale will give good representation of the events.

      Whay are the debt values only every 10 years?

      Why are the bars 2? Years wide.

      Some effort would be nice next time.

    3. Mentalfloss1 on

      Yep … we privatize profit and socialize losses. When you elect billionaires to run the nation this is exactly what you get.

    6. irrelevantusername24 on

      Household and “non profit” wealth in the US is roughly equal to the entire global banking industry at about $160 trillion.

      Instead of taxing wealth, they borrow it. That is why the tax code explicitly facilitates tax fraud. In reality.

      Scale this down to a village sized organization. One family had a great crop and the rest of the town did not. That family now lives in luxury and orders the entire village around and feeds them scraps equivalent to what they give their pets. But it’s actually way worse because what we have can not be scaled down because the mechanisms don’t work on that scale. Because on that scale the time between action and reaction is much less as is the ability to direct blame. They were also less considerate with restraining themselves from a court of law or a letter to the paper and a bullet to the skull or a noose around a neck.

      Human decision making and society is as the word may clue you in to socially created. I’m a bit rambly at the moment but to get to the point the wealthy see nothing wrong with their criminal abusive waste – partially because they don’t see the poor at all, or think it is their fault when all of our circumstance is almost all luck – and the poor, also segregated, convince each other working 60 hours a week to barely get by while drinking your free time away is just how it is. And I have done more than my fair share of drinking and pot smoking and other things but I think I was mostly trying to figure out what other people were seeing that I can’t. But that’s backwards.