[ExI] Piker

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 



> That isn’t what I said.  Read again please.

 

>…I did, and I see no need to modify what I said…

 

Nor do I see the need for you to modify what I said.  If you wish to quote me, then do so.

 

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>…As I said before, Hasan Piker has never been part of a Democratic administration and he is NOT even a Democrat….

 

Ja we know, Democrat Socialist.  However:

 

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> Every Democrat candidate will be asked if they will offer an unambiguous full-throated condemnation, a complete repudiation of Hasan Piker. Some will offer that.  John will you?

 

>…An unambiguous full-throated condemnation, yes….

 

OK good.  Several of the candidates refuse to go there.

 

>…If what you say is true then just as I suspected, the Libertarian Party is doomed to eternal irrelevance…

 

The democrat candidate last time thought so too.

 

 

>…Why is it that the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway as well as nearly every other nation in Europe….

 

Those countries are socialist.  The USA is not.  Our socialists hate us.  They hate our country.

 

>…CAN afford to pay for something very much like Medicare for all even though they are not as rich as the US?

 

The people of the USA are richer than the people of Europe in general.  But the governments of Europe are far richer than the government of the USA.  The American government is the poorest government in world history, having the largest debt ever accumulated.

 

>…And why can I say the same thing about Japan, Taiwan and South Korea? They all have something like Medicare for all. AND THEY ALL LIVE LONGER THAN AMERICANS!

 

It isn’t about their medical systems.  Americans are rich enough to afford bad health habits.

 

 

> John this is your chance to make money, bigtime. If you believe the billionaire tax will pass at the national level in less than three years,

 

>…I didn't predict that the billionaire tax will "pass" at the national level, I made no prediction about how it would come about, I just predicted that one way or another in three years or less we would have a stiff billionaire tax and an even stiffer trillionaire tax, or we would be dead….

 

OK so you didn’t predict such a tax would pass at the national level, which I interpret as billionaire taxes at the state level.  Are you suggesting all fifty states would pass those?  If not all fifty, would not the billionaires flee to those states which would rather have the actual billionaires generating jobs than tax their wealth?  Do clarify please.

 

 

 

> you might reasonably believe the notion will sell in the far left state of California, where the voters embrace every proposed tax.

 

>…If I lived in California I'd vote against it because at the state level a billionaire tax is ridiculous, it can only work at the national level…

 

 

Do explain how that doesn’t contradict your previous comment “I didn't predict that the billionaire tax will "pass" at the national level…”  Are you suggesting an alternative means of passing a billionaire tax other than passing a billionaire tax?  Do explain please.

 

 

>… I wonder how many trillionaires would go to such an extreme just to avoid paying a tax.  

 

 



 

John K Clark

 

 

They don’t build a huge safe, they take their money and move to a place which doesn’t tax their wealth.  Sam Bankman Fried set up shop in the Bahamas, where they most cheerfully welcomed him and his digital money.  If Sam had kept his BitCoins there and not gotten tangled up with Caroline Ellison, he would probably still be in business.

 

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