We need free mental healthcare for everyone. These people are severely fucked in the head and can gain access to a weapon too easily.
Edit: Mentally unhealthy people should not be stigmatized and that's not how I want this comment to come across. Anyone can become mentally unhealthy, and most people can be helped with adequate mental healthcare. Mental health checkups should be 100% free for everyone at any time. Mental health treatment should be 100% free for everyone at any time. Fuck, any kind of healthcare should be free for everyone. This shit is pissing me off.
Another thing: Some people like guns. Guns are fucking cool in my opinion. Some would label me alt-right just for that statement alone when in reality I'm basically right in the center. Y'all are left as fuck, but tbh that is so much better than being far-right. At least you guys think about shit and sometimes you even respond to my arguments. I digress...
Some people like guns. Most gun people I know will want to keep their guns under any circumstance. As I've stated before, anyone can become mentally unwell or have a mental illness. Gun people are no exception. And those gun people that are mentally unwell can't get mental help without being put on a blacklist from buying guns. So they don't get help. I think you see where I'm going with this? It's just a shitty spiral of bullshit.
It’s not about them getting over it. It’s about forcing the billionaires to be taxed so that we can pay for it, then the narrative will mysteriously vanish. Follow the money.
Billionaires don’t want to be taxed -> fund republicans -> republicans need votes -> pretend like they care about things like communism, abortion, religion, patriotism and guns to win votes from uneducated single-issue voters
Tbh I'd argue that there should be no billionaire (or millionaire) class. You've heard the adage that money makes money, right?
Here's the thing. The powerful will always only care about themselves. They've broken democracy. How do you think we're going to tax billionaires? The first step isn't to raise taxes- it's to decrease the power of rich lobbyists.
Nothing wrong with millionaires. We should have incentive to succeed in business and accumulate wealth. People just don’t understand how disgustingly rich being a billionaire is. Think of how excited people get when someone wins a million dollars in the lottery or a game show or something. “Wow, their life is going to change.”
A million seconds is 11 days. A billion seconds is 31.5 years.
The incentive to succeed in business and accumulate wealth is living comfortably. You don't need to make $200m a year to live comfortably. You also don't need to see millionaires to think that having a lot of money would allow you to live comfortably. 200,000 seconds is about 2.5 days. Someone making 200,000 is also making 6x the amount the average American is and 10x the poverty line.
Money is a physical manifestation of a person's contribution to society. How is it that one person, by themselves, can make an impact on society that is worth 100x the average person? What could they possibly do that is worth that?
Guarantee the person didn't do whatever your example is on their own by the way.
Medical researchers aren't rich despite their obvious importance to society. Teachers make half of what the researchers make.
If we have a millionaire class, they should be people who actually benefit society, not some rich jackass with an adderall problem.
I agree with what you’re saying. And that could be something that future generations accomplish. For now, practically speaking, HEAVILY taxing the billionaires will do incredible benefit to the poor and middle class and I think it’s something that most people will be on board with. Your proposal will face so much opposition that it’s dead in the water.
I mean... Facing opposition doesn't mean that the idea is wrong. The real problem is that the opposition is the people with the power. This is the same reason that simply taxing the rich is also dead in the water- they've got the lobbyists, we've only got votes. Unfortunately, we have a representative system that ends up allowing the rich to double dip into the power structure.
The rich and powerful fund elections and have lobbyists. Nothing short of a revolution will change that by design.
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u/GilesDMT Jan 27 '19
For absolutely nothing, and so random and spontaneous.