My new view on how economy in USA should be run

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I believe in 3 policies:

1. Free market

2. Military to protect the free market

3. Some support to the poorest

So in my view, USA should have the following budget:

1. Current military spending is good enough at about 900 billion dollars.

2. Healthcare budget should be abolished completely.

3. All schools should be private, not payed by government

4. Poor people should get income of 500$ a month, which is about 6000$ a year, and with 40 million poor people, thats 240 billions.

So with abolishing healthcare budget and public schools, US budget would save over 2 trillion dollars.

Basically, the only increase in spending in this new budget would be 240 billions to the poor.

240 billion is insignificant to 2 trillions being saved.

Taxes should be reduced slightly.

Some money should also be printed, it shouldnt all come from taxes.
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According to


Budget deficit is 1.8 trillion.

Abolishing healthcare from budget would eliminate deficit, and abolishing public schools would put budget in surplus.
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@Best.Korea
on this site, you've gone from a cookie cutter conservative, to a cookie cutter liberal, and now your positions are more like radical conservatism. 
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He began as a pedo North Korea supporter, that isn't cookie cutter anything.
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@RationalMadman
I still think good of North Korea, even with the new free market views, its still one of the best countries to live in.

Before, I was always on the side of Communism and against capitalism, so its fun playing on the other side of the field, the capitalist side.

I started studying Ayn Rand.

I think her ideas are good.
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He actually debated the pedo stuff. This apparent waffling is just assertions of belief with very thin excuses "gays spread disease".

In one thread he's bragging about offering his sins to Loki, in another he says he cares what God (of Israel I assume?) thinks. Starting off with the obvious trolling of blind loyalty to a reviled communist dictatorship was already beyond reasonable belief because he has not confessed to the rare and specific belief system required to have that make any sense.

This is not tribalism or worldview evolution.

Perhaps he's a very stable genius studying us by seeing whose going to jump on the offered bandwagon / throw a temper tantrum.

Perhaps he's just nuts.
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Perhaps he's a very stable genius studying us by seeing whose going to jump on the offered bandwagon / throw a temper tantrum.

Perhaps he's just nuts.
I am definitely not a genius.

My IQ is like 100.

I think you need somewhere around 140 or more to be a genius.

100 is barely average.

Although maybe my autism makes me look that way because I talk in strange way, but thats just autism talking. 

There is no need to study me or consider me as some threat, but people with autism are often understood as a threat because we act in ways other people cant understand.
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If he was a stable genius, he would throw bitcoin somewhere in there.

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@Best.Korea
North Korea is far left on paper and far right in practice.

The difference between the left and the right is equality (left) versus hierarchy (right)

Communist countries are usually Fascism pretending to be Socialism.
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@FishChaser
Communist countries are usually Fascism pretending to be Socialism.
The fascists and the nazis said they were socialists too.

They all agree they're socialists. It's people like you who won't let them have the label.


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@ADreamOfLiberty
The word "Socialist" means something different from what they are. Denying it just means you're only willing to study politics and history from a right wing perspective which ironically makes you closer to a fascist than any real Socialist is. Socialism is about applying democratic processes to the means of production and reducing the gap between socioeconomic classes. The most Fascist possible system is one where everyone is split into classes where the top class has absolute power and the bottom class has no rights, the most Socialist possible system is where class doesn't exist and everything is run through democracy i.e communism i.e the direct opposite of fascism.
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i.e the direct opposite of fascism.
Myth, very convenient conceptual trap for socialists to manipulate you though.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
It's the Fascists who are trying to manipulate you into thinking they're Socialists. It's a brilliant way to win over the working class. 
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Fascists don't have to hide it. It's literally in the Acronym "Nazi"
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 the most Socialist possible system is where class doesn't exist and everything is run through democracy i.e communism 
1) Communism has nothing to do with Democracy. One is a system of authority and control and the other is a system used to suppress civil unrest.
2) Class distinctions are inevitable under Communism as those with the power and control to seize and redistribute wealth will also inherit the class status that goes with that power.
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So when Hitler says he's a socialist you just believe him? Do you also believe him when he says he's a nice guy who loves people and wants to do good?

You don't know anything about socialist thinking. Communism is the purest form of democracy where there isn't even a government and all the means of production are owned and run collectively. The problem is that in order to get there, you must go through various stages of socialism where there actually is a government and this government either becomes corrupted and holds on to power or it was a trojan horse from the beginning pretending to be socialist when it is really fascist.

"Communist party" isn't the same thing as "Communist country". There has never been communism on earth, not ever.
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So when Hitler says he's a socialist you just believe him? 
What I believe is irrelevant. What is relevant is the historical record of the German economy improving in the short term as Hitler redistributed the wealth and used the power of the state to subsidize and control industries, much like FDR did as well with his New Deal policies.

  1. Public works projects: The German government invested heavily in infrastructure projects such as roads, bridges, and public buildings to stimulate economic activity and create jobs.
  2. Autarky and rearmament: Hitler pursued a policy of economic self-sufficiency (autarky) and invested heavily in military rearmament. This led to increased demand for goods and services, boosting industrial production and creating employment opportunities.
  3. Labor policies: The Nazi regime implemented labor policies aimed at reducing unemployment, including public works programs, labor service policies, and the forced resolutions between labor unions and industry under state control.
  4. Subsidies and incentives: The government provided subsidies and incentives to industries deemed vital to national interests, such as agriculture, manufacturing, and armaments production.
Stop me if this all sounds similar to American socialist policies both in the past and the present. 

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There has never been communism on earth, not ever.
Mercifully so, as the prototypes of that system of control historically killed far more people than Hitler could have possibly dreamed of doing.
20 Million from Stalin.
80 Million from Mao.
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"Socialism is when the government does stuff and the more stuff the government does the more socialister it is"

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In his lifetime, Mao Zedong was hugely respected for the way that his socialist policies improved the welfare of the Chinese people.
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I hope when China buys the USA after Trump bankrupts it, they will make me an Area Manager.
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after Trump bankrupts it...
In order for Trump to do that, he would have to seize control of all property in the USA...or as you would say...Communism.

I didn't know you worshiped Trump as a communist, but there it is... 

Your savior has arrived. Bow in awe.
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@Greyparrot

No, Trump will just get the World to dump the Dollar as the World Currency.
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That would only Bankrupt the government, not the country. Since the government doesn't care about the country, this is desirable.
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@Greyparrot
 So let’s take a quick look at the current federal debt, plus the government’s “unfunded liabilities,” to see how much each of us owes to cover Washington’s debt and long-term obligations. 
The short answer is $572,000. That’s not how much each household or adult taxpayer owes, but each man, woman and child in America — so nearly $2.28 million for a family of four. 
You can make your check payable to the U.S. Treasury.
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We don't have to owe anything if the current corrupt government declares bankruptcy and we can make our own stable currency and a new government that actually cares.

With the advent of AI and crypto, this is inevitable.
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Do you really want your next President to be  the dumbest student a professor ever had?
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Sure, if it means we get to the end of the current system faster.

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@Best.Korea

C'mon Man, your IQ is closer to 150 in my opinion. Remember that I have a Harvard COOP card.
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So, a debt based economy and fractional reserve banking?