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Don't forget the war on drugs

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[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 23 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The homelessness crisis is not about mental health, it is about housing affordability. This also plays into societal biases against the mentally ill.

The current crisis is about affordability. That hasn't traditionally been true.

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

thank him for no-brakes neoliberalism. i wish this piece of shit had only ruined his own shitty country but instead we were forced into his insane bullshit too.

[–] Branch_Ranch@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Leeja Miller on Youtube has a great video about how shitty Reagan was. She also has REAGAN RUINED EVERYTHING t-shirts! https://youtu.be/l7dHvqA-WB4

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

To quote the poet Killer Mike: " I'm glad Reagans dead"

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 16 points 2 days ago

Let's not forget the treason of letting Oliver North! Besides everything else, North's Contras were drug smugglers who brought in so much cocaine that coke went from being a luxury to a street drug in just a few months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_epidemic_in_the_United_States

Youtube video https://youtu.be/Mb1GfP5Rwys

[–] Shamber@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

How dare you talk like this about the republicans Jesus? And they are still selling less taxes one the 1% cause they create jobs 😅

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

Reaganomics! SMH.

[–] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

and we love (/s) what he did to sunny CA slashing property taxes by slashing the public education budget helping lead to a continuing decline in our education system.

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

"Ronnie Raygun

Perhaps the most charismatic leader of recent times, Ronnie is completely out of touch with reality. He started his career as an organ grinder. Ronnie's partner was a super-intelligent chimpanzee, named Nancy, that he rescued from a genetic research lab. The chimp ran every aspect of Ronnie's life, the superior intellect clearly asserting itself. Nancy wanted revenge against genetic researchers and forced Ronnie to run for national office. Soon after Ronnie assumed power, Nancy died, leaving Ronnie without guidance. Under Ronnie's tenuous grasp, his country no longer heads anywhere."

"Warmonger

This is a straight-forward personality. Warmongers will be your friends so long as you help them nuke their enemies. Use wimpy propaganda or attack them or one of their friends, and they will happily nuke you until only swirling, radioactive dust clouds inhabit your cities.

The two Warmongers are Ronnie Raygun and Prime Minister Satcher, and they are both relatively easy to control."

(https://www.lemonamiga.com/games/docs.php?id=1157)

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This comic of Subnormality seems to fit this humor style.

https://www.viruscomix.com/page513.html

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

Indeed very fitting! Thank you

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 days ago

Republican ~~presidents~~ politicians are a pox on this country.

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

I'm willing to bet that trump beats those numbers

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

He was president of the Screen Actor's Guild; a solid union man. /s

The point is, functioning unions are necessary to keep the economy working in the public interest. But not all unions are interested in doing that.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Congress approved the budgets that created all of that debt. Congress was controlled by the democrats the entirety of his time in office. Congress approves of all tax legislation. It's almost as if the democrats aren't any less inclined to support the wealthy.

Congress dropped the top marginal tax rate from 70% to 28% and gained more tax revenue when it was set to 70%. This is because the brackets at that high of a level heavily incentivized rich people to engage in tax evasion or tax avoidance schemes. Removing this high tax rate made the government more money because fewer people cheated on their taxes. This has only worked once and there's no reason to believe further reductions to the top rate would create similar revenue increases.

The missiles sold to Iran were non-functional. The bigger problem was either using the profits from the sale to fund the Contras as we were destabilizing a foreign power for the crime of wanting less capitalism.

What Reagan's real crime was setting Americans against their own government. He was able to push through the destruction of a huge portion of the safety net we had for people under the guise of cleaning up corruption.

This macro is a mess.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

So the solution to people committing massive tax fraud is to lower taxes? Not to throw them in jail? 🙄

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[–] PeripheralGhost@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Reagan's policies expanded wealth inequality, exploded the deficit, and created a narrative that still fuels anti-government rhetoric today.

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[–] stopdropandprole@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Congress dropped the top marginal tax rate from 70% to 28% and gained more tax revenue when it was set to 70%.

anyone have a source for this claim of increased revenue? if so, was it just a temporary effect with longer term structural implications? besides, wouldn't the solution to evasion have been increased enforcement? taxes aren't just about revenue, they're a redistributive force in the economy and arguably their main purpose isn't to fund the government but to prevent the obscene accumulation of wealth and reduce inequality.

your argument falls flat upon historical analysis. if high tax rates were bad, and lowering them 'fixed it' then explain all the massive social benefits from 1940-1980:

Taxing the ultra rich is how America funded higher education, built the highway system, funded social welfare, uplifted 2 generations, built a global manufacturing and technology economy, and created a prosperous middle class. this all happened before Reagan and coincide with top marginal rates between 50-95 percent.

inequality has skyrocketed since Reagan and the policies which dismantled new dealism. I hate the Democrats who helped facilitate the rise in inequality and the gutting of social welfare programs (Clinton especially) but to claim that reducing the top marginal rates was an unequivocal good thing is a pretty extreme narrowly focused claim. those who say so based on a loosely held 'I've done the math' argument are merely using a rhetorical gotchya - it's not a sufficient socioeconomic historically supportable argument. if it was, show me all the benefits that increased tax revenue provided from 1990-present. I'll wait.

low tax rates are precisely how we got to people like Trump, Musk, Buffet, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Thiel and the incredible rise in number of hundred millionaires and billionaires who are now destroying our social safety nets even more so they can flatter their egos and act out middle aged divorced guy power fantasies.

inequality is why people can't afford things and is presently the single biggest problem of our society. taxes do make a difference in combatting that. Regean had a role in creating this system, whether you like it or not.

the power to tax is the power to destroy. we build prosperity by keeping oligarchs in check.

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