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dickthegrouch

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1. So quit creating the conditions which make emigration from those countries less horrifying, than staying!
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 03:20 PM
Nov 14

Distrubute some of those trillions wasting away in stocks that will plunge sooner or later, and lift the poverty-stricken masses who believe the propaganda that west is actually rich.

And the rest of the world should quit stealing the resources of the third-world nations and pay for them at OUR market prices. Which IMHO is a big source of the poverty in those nations.

My solution (very liberal, I'll admit) is to give everyone on the planet, who has an average of less than $5000 to their name, $5000 or its equivalent in local currency, to be raised by wealth taxes on anyone who has more than $2,000,000 to their name. Wealth to include all property and stock holdings, etc etc. The rate of taxation would have to be determined by each jurisdiction.

This would so profoundly add to the cash in circulation, that it would lift the economy of the entire planet at the same time, IMHO.

Biden demonstrated that it can work like this, in the middle of the pandemic. Trump and his satanic cronies, broke the system by further reducing the taxes on the wealthy before the full benefits to all could be realized.

Where's my Nobel in economics?

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