Burn it all down

We all know what the South is really like.

That's why we don't live there...

Personally I don't see the resemblance between me & young burt Reynolds.... But if that's how you picture me I'm your mind, while flicking your bean..... I'm ok with it..

Just put yourselves on a billboard at the state line. It’s like an ad for the movie Deliverance.

Exactly...

I'm glad nutjobs like Window have no idea what the south is really like....

...when the policies you vote for make life unbearable, suck it up and stay there.

Stop moving to the south and bringing your insane politics with you.

Whatever you say.... But please don't move here.... We already have one of you here & that's enough...

If I sell my place, i could buy 5 places in your shithole state. I’m doing better than you ever will.

You had the same opportunities as at least half the millionaires in America, what's your excuse?

The wealthy made that wealth using our infrastructure. They continue to use it and do not pay.

Mismangement of tax funds, fraud, and entitlement bloat are why there's not more taxpayer funds available.

Also "I don't have more money and Irefuse(d) to make the sacrifices and investments in my self necessary to make more money, so other who did should have to sacrifice more" isn't the winning statement you think it is.

Odd how in the more quasi-socialist and "liberal" a country is, the HIGHER the percentage of the rich inherited their money versus were self-made.

Data does not support your arguments, my dude.

73% of billionaires in the US are self made whereas 75% of Germany's inherited.

ht tps://ww w.datapulse.d e/en/billionaire-self-made/

Your focus would be better served focusing on "making things cheaper" versus "how can we take more money from those who earned it."

You say punishment, but I think that retaining $900M vs retaining $1B is not much of a punishment... And think about how they made that money? It wasn't through their hard work. It was their exploitation of the system, either by exploiting the poor with excess costs or paying non-living wages for their labor, having control of lawyers that exploit tax loopholes, or by controlling the government directly as is done now so that they can take advantage of taxpayer dollars to direct money towards themselves. The whole swamp is rigged against us!

Anyway, I'm just a guy that wants the system to be fair to the middle class folks, small business owners, the folks on main street. That's all.

You MAGA can go ahead and defend this system that works great for billionaires, but screws the poor and middle class, but I really don't think that's what the people of America want, and it certainly won't make america great.

Well, we can't have facts get in the way of a good narrative or "it's all Trumps fault" bitchfest, now can we?

Thing going insolvent before Trump was in office without tax hikes is still going to go insolvent without tax hikes...."BUT TRUMP....!!!"

Even though it's been proven that the top 10% of earners are already paying roughly half the income tax money paid each year? The top 1% pay roughly 10% of total income taxes paid...

So yeah, let's punish people for being successful.... Good plan..

If you don't want medicare, then just opt out of it. The rest of us want our healthcare when we're retired after a long life of working.

BTW, the RICH have been getting tax cuts right and left, in the first Trump admin and then now with the OBBB last year. I sort of recall the best economic period for the middle class that we had recently was during the 1990s, when Clinton was in office, when taxes were much more progressive. If you made more, you paid more on that extra amount you made at the higher tax brackets (on the lower brackets everyone paid the same rate).

So you say that we couldn't afford medicare. Biden says we can, without too much effort. The wealthy are sucking up all the money in this country, because the system is rigged in their favor. I don't see a problem with making things fairer by increasing the rate on the higher tax brackets. If you make money in those brackets, then it's not a burden for you to pay a higher rate. And those are the same rules for everyone. The poor and the rich pay the same rate on the lower brackets.

Anyhow, just pointing out that the MAGA loves to screw the poor, all to benefit the rich. That's just not something that I can support.

Soooooo....Trump will make the thing that was going to be insolvent without tax hikes before his administration.....still insolvent without tax hikes a decade after his administration without tax hikes.

....got it.

https://democrats-budget house gov/resources/fact-sheet/president-bidens-2025-budget-protects-medicare-and-lowers-health-care-costs

Umm, hello, here was the last proposal from the Biden administration, back in March 2024. TLDR - it proposes raising taxes on removing tax loopholes and increasing taxes on those making >$400K to ensure Medicare is solvent forever:

"Protecting and Strengthening Medicare

The budget extends the solvency of the Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund indefinitely by making sure high-income individuals pay their fair share.

Modestly increases the Net Investment Income Tax (NIIT) rate on incomes above $400,000 ($404 billion savings) — The budget increases the NIIT rate on earned and unearned income above $400,000 from 3.8 percent to 5 percent. The budget honors President Biden’s commitment to not raise taxes on anyone earning less than $400,000 a year and strengthens Medicare by extending its solvency indefinitely.

Closes tax loopholes for pass-through business income ($393 billion savings) — The budget requires all pass-through business income of high-income households to be subject to either the 3.8 percent NIIT or the equivalent Self-Employment Contributions Act (SECA) tax. This ensures this income is subject to the same rules as other types of income. The budget also dedicates all NIIT revenues to the HI Trust Fund as originally intended."

So your complaint isn't that that the last several administrations have done jack shit to address the fact that it IS going to be insolvent no matter if Trump had done nothing, but that if literally nothing ELSE changes from the Trump Admin, the system that was going to be insolvent would still be insolvent in 2040 instead of 2052?

Because THE DOW IS UNDER 50,000!

Don't worry, the Somali refugees are here to pick fruit and fund medicare for decades...

https://fortune dot com/2026/02/23/how-trump-wiped-out-12-years-of-medicare-funding-cbo-one-big-beautiful-bill/

"In less than a year, Trump erased 12 years of solvency for the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A"

Not too surprising that Republicans and their billionaire overlords want to wipe out our retirement health care. Without it, they can force us to keep working just to survive until we drop dead, all the better to wring out any profits from us for themselves.

For those who don't know, Medicare Part A covers "covers essential services including inpatient hospital care, stays in skilled nursing facilities, home health care, and hospice care."

It was depleted due to "the 2025 reconciliation act (Public Law 119-21, more commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act) significantly reduced the revenues the trust fund normally receives from taxing Social Security benefits. This legislation lowered tax rates and established a temporary deduction for taxpayers age 65 or older. Consequently, this major policy shift enacted during the Trump administration has directly contributed to starving the Medicare safety net of critical future funding."

The Lauder Billionaire suggested Greenland to Donald.
He has some sort of mining interests but it would require a huge infusion of tax payer money.

I’m sure maga doesn’t mind. They seem fine with no ROI on anything they pay out.

“Any arguments people make about why we need Greenland are irrelevant. It's not ours to take.”

It is not ours to take. But, the idea that was proposed is not irrelevant. It shows the mind set of a narcissist leader who thinks just because he wants something he should get it.

Trump received the cold shoulder in Switzerland from European leaders. His ego wants him to be seen as an equal to these people and to be accepted. He is not.

He had to do something quickly to gain back a bit of popularity. So he totally changed his mind and made a deal that has been in place for 74 years.

“funfor2houston - What is it that you think we can do in Greenland as owners that we can't do as allies?”

Trump wanted it for his buddy. Ron Lauder. The makeup billionaire. The guy has invested heavily in Greenland. He’s the one who put it into Trumps noggin. Trump can deregulate businesses and he and his cronies can make billions.

Everything Trump does is transactional. He has a friend who could make big bucks I’m sure cutting Trump I’m on any deals.

Trump isn’t even putting g out his own cash anymore. He’s just getting kickbacks.

Things panned out well in the end