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  • Опубликовано: 25 авг 2023
  • Who is John Galt? Usually, a phrase that throws off liberals and progressives. The author of this phrase is Ayn Rand, who authored Atlas Shrugged.
    In 1959, she sat down for an interview with Mike Wallace. This is a clip from the interview that perfectly illustrates why liberals don’t like her. But, I’m sure you agree with her!
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Комментарии • 20 тыс.

  • @Davidkhait
    @Davidkhait  5 месяцев назад +2134

    Who is John Galt? :P

    • @Epicurwat
      @Epicurwat 5 месяцев назад +145

      John Galt is an infant's idea of what a Businessman looks like.

    • @shonparker9363
      @shonparker9363 5 месяцев назад +3

      A rapist

    • @mariobergnini8897
      @mariobergnini8897 5 месяцев назад +123

      most important book to freedom ever written

    • @mariobergnini8897
      @mariobergnini8897 5 месяцев назад +42

      i think its Elon possibly trump or vivek

    • @mariobergnini8897
      @mariobergnini8897 5 месяцев назад +18

      @@Epicurwat how do you figure?

  • @mydogssmarter3887
    @mydogssmarter3887 5 месяцев назад +9719

    The same government that can't explain where a trillion dollars went at the Pentagon wants you to explain a 200$ Goodwill donation.

    • @GN-dp7ej
      @GN-dp7ej 5 месяцев назад +439

      That’s the most egregious part of this. God forbid your tax returns are off by a slight margin the IRS comes after you. But trillions of our money is unaccounted for with no explanation.

    • @backagain5216
      @backagain5216 5 месяцев назад +200

      Unbelievable. You are so correct. Work hard to pay off your house and have some very bad circumstances beyond your control happen and you can’t pay your taxes, guess who now owns your house? I would never let that happen however. By the time I was finished, my land would be uninhabitable. Stay well everyone!

    • @luvjesuslee2033
      @luvjesuslee2033 5 месяцев назад

      Remember the Day before 911??
      They announced 3 Billion was missing from the Pentagon!!
      911 was an inside job.
      The Truth is out there.
      The Bush's are EVIL.
      AND WHO ARE THEY REALLY??

    • @robertchiarizia9463
      @robertchiarizia9463 5 месяцев назад +15

      @@backagain5216 I would own it
      , because I will pay someone’s taxes and the house is mine until they pay me back.

    • @tsparks4133
      @tsparks4133 4 месяца назад +194

      It was $2.3 trillion and had gone unaccounted for since 2000. It was last mentioned by Donald Rumsfeld on Sept. 10th, 2001. You know what happened next.

  • @RAJJ1987
    @RAJJ1987 5 месяцев назад +6289

    The problem with taxes is not that they CAN be used for our common good, but that they are in large WASTED on things we never asked for.

    • @Barskor1
      @Barskor1 5 месяцев назад +61

      Ok what happens when the government does so well that no politician has anything they could offer you to get you to vote for them? Failure is reward with bigger budgets and more power to "Fix" the problems round and round till the wheels come off in a revolution or collapse.

    • @Fitz1993
      @Fitz1993 5 месяцев назад

      @@Barskor1 You have to be incredibly stupid to think that what you said made any sense lol... What would they offer to get elected if they started using tax dollars to actually solve problems? First off, there will always be problems to solve or things to improve upon, so this line of thinking immediately falls apart as soon as you think about it for more than 2 seconds. But even if they did somehow create a utopia we would elect leaders based on their leadership capabilities and not false promises... It's not exactly rocket science.

    • @santosdr2
      @santosdr2 5 месяцев назад

      Maintain instead of fix. innovate, create efficiency. these things become the new points people can run on.
      @@Barskor1

    • @userunknown1030
      @userunknown1030 5 месяцев назад +45

      @@Barskor1 this has always been a problem but money and taxes isn't the only thing they can run on because things like crime and such other issue that have nothing to do with taxation exist they can run on cleaning up that stuff and or some other issue people think is a problem. the government the federal government was meant to be small and do next to nothing in our day to day lives and it worked that way for about 75 years once they start trying to control everything in our life is when shit went down hill.

    • @CarbageMan
      @CarbageMan 5 месяцев назад +44

      Worse, used against us.

  • @chamonix2602
    @chamonix2602 5 дней назад +321

    Most countries consider healthcare for its citizens a basic human right.

    • @Vic-Meow
      @Vic-Meow 4 дня назад +20

      The problem with that is when the country and bureaucrats and money grabbers are the ones choosing the definition of health care. In those programs, the program defines how you're allowed to manage and pay for your health. I want to choose for myself, and don't want them dictating how I do it.

    • @helloitsmehb
      @helloitsmehb 4 дня назад +21

      @@Vic-Meowsame way for your corporate healthcare. You dont get a choice and it’s costing more money from you and/or your employer
      Affordable basic care should be a basic right. Affordable! Not free

    • @muslimcel4581
      @muslimcel4581 3 дня назад

      Unlike zionist states of america

    • @loriegosnell9355
      @loriegosnell9355 3 дня назад

      It’s all used by the politicians for their own agenda. Scum who won’t and never have worked, and illegals are getting my disability while I rot. They refused to repay , not “give” actually because I’m a tax payer! I also get no help with healthcare at all yet I’m disabled with no income. If it weren’t for my boyfriend I would be homeless and die. SERIOUS. They are STEALING OUR $ for sht!

    • @anna_maria_georgiou_garner.81
      @anna_maria_georgiou_garner.81 3 дня назад +5

      ​@@Vic-Meow in Cyprus we have a national health insurance that covers almost everything but the dentist's only chose to offer a free dental clean once a year doctors can choose to be part of it and we get a pay deduction depending on your income and how many children you have, they give mother's of four a monthly benefit and a tax free low emission car (we prefer hybrids as fuel consumption is lower and road taxes are dirt cheap but it must be brand new, not used, car's here ain't cheap and the wages need some work for the blue collar industry, i know because I am married to a blue collar man and i am proud of him for being such a hard worker and still doing his body building, ladies trust me if you come across a good and decent blue collar man maybe you should give him a chance. Not all gentlemen wear suits, and not all men that wear suits are gentlemen. Sadly our stupid politicians are taking sides in both wars, and Hezbollah has been hurling threats of strikes against us, Beirut is a half an hour flight from where I live. So yes our politicians now feeling uneasy after the European union elections ended and a 24 year old tiktoker beat them to the pole and popped the floor with their stupid excuses, we don't buy a word they said so we punished them in the most legal nonviolent and democratic way, even the msm is telling them they have failed, trust me we the unvaccinated people and more and more of the vaccinated people are coming to our side after the side effects kicked in, some feel guilt for telling their family to get vaccinated and now are left to mourn them. Our health system was really pushy about the vaccines so both msm and the ministry of health have hurt people, gladly we had some awesome doctors on our side but they got so badly slandered. No system is perfect but if we as citizens can put our pride, ego, personal problems aside for a moment and Start making suggestions of how to get something done nothing can stop you! You vote so you hire that means your politicians are there to serve YOU, remind them that! For the safety of humanity worldwide don't vote Biden. I'm not a trumpie but the more i hear what he says the more i respect him. Better trust the village jester than the suited con.

  • @paullyon3760
    @paullyon3760 5 дней назад +57

    Americans don't like government interference in business, but have no problem with business interfering in government.
    Ayn Rand assumed free markets and capitalism are the same thing. They're not.

    • @martimallory8195
      @martimallory8195 День назад +16

      The perfect world in her books exists in a vacuum of childless, brilliant, healthy adults all in their 20s to 50s. No one is old, infirm, mentally ill, handicapped or needing extensive medical care. It’s a fantasy world that in reality doesn’t exist.

    • @marlkarx1757
      @marlkarx1757 День назад

      Ayn Rand incorrectly assumes there is such a thing as a free market within a capitalist economic system. There is not.

    • @l.e.phillips
      @l.e.phillips 9 часов назад +7

      I’m glad I didn’t have to scroll down very far to find a sensible comment.

    • @Ron-lx7sc
      @Ron-lx7sc 3 часа назад

      Extreme views of the world don't work .
      Why is the clip edited so poorly?💩

  • @francissandova7164
    @francissandova7164 5 месяцев назад +2298

    But the worst thing is to pay taxes to give life pensions to all politicians!!

    • @katydid2877
      @katydid2877 5 месяцев назад +96

      No one who works for the government should have a pension funded by tax dollars.

    • @sf9145
      @sf9145 5 месяцев назад +19

      Amen.

    • @cynthiadiaz7519
      @cynthiadiaz7519 5 месяцев назад +30

      THAT NEEDS TO CHANGE THEY THINK GOD DOESN'T SEE THAT!!!!!

    • @henrychurch6062
      @henrychurch6062 5 месяцев назад +8

      "A pension is available to members of congress 62 years of age with 5 years of service; 50 years or older with 20 years of service; or 25 years of service at any age." That seems alright to me. I too get a pension in my job with similar rules.

    • @francissandova7164
      @francissandova7164 5 месяцев назад +8

      @@henrychurch6062 that’s different

  • @11bravo13
    @11bravo13 17 дней назад +413

    The problem is not taxation.
    The problem is accountability

    • @TheBuddyLama
      @TheBuddyLama 5 дней назад

      Taxation is theft and slavery.

    • @TheBuddyLama
      @TheBuddyLama 5 дней назад +8

      "It would be thought a hard government, that should tax its people one-tenth part of their time, to be employed in its service..."
      --Ben Franklin

    • @independentthinker8930
      @independentthinker8930 4 дня назад +4

      Yes it is taxation. Geez, bet you think you should ask "the kings" permission to do anything as well

    • @infiniteinspiration1628
      @infiniteinspiration1628 4 дня назад +1

      😮❤

    • @independentthinker8930
      @independentthinker8930 4 дня назад +4

      What I'm seeing is examples of Stockholm syndrome

  • @jaysmith7613
    @jaysmith7613 4 дня назад +154

    The mistake in Rand's reasoning is that no man produces his wealth alone. He does it with the roads and street lights and emergency services like the police, fire department, and EMT services, a standing army. He does it with the governmental legislatures that produce fair laws, judges that give due process. He travels on government-constructed bridges and uses courthouses.. We all agree to a social contract that allows some bureaucrats to take away a bit of our rights and our money in order to create public works that no individual could create and maintain. Taxation is one of the things we pay for in order to live in a social reality which allows the greatest number of people to continue producing wealth and to have the greatest amount of freedom. Of course, taxation alone won't produce that. What's required is a fair, dynamic system that balances governmental powers and balances individual rights with the general good and produces a harmonious society that allows for creativity and productiveness. Pure private ownership, as Rand advocates, has several limits and has the potential to produce a virtual slave class. Her mistake is that she reacts against the ideology of communism only to go to the other extreme of pure individualism. But reaction never produces a good result. God and Truth are in the details.

    • @faithm9284
      @faithm9284 3 дня назад +18

      So how did we manage before 1939 before income taxes? Tariffs on foreign goods was enough. Greed perpetuates income taxes. Haven't you noticed the taxes that were to go to school supplies, sports, books, etc. are now an additional burden on top of the parents along with their income taxes? When there is an abundance of tax money at the end of the fiscal year does anyone get a check refund? No, it's quickly wasted on something not necessary when it could be used for something like school supplies! There are so many other examples.

    • @jaysmith7613
      @jaysmith7613 3 дня назад +10

      @faithm9284 What country survives solely on tariffs? The problem is not to tax too much and not to waste the revenues. Freedom is a dynamic process. Throwing out the system rather than just constantly tweaking it is nihilism. The US regulates the waterways of the world, which, in turn, allows us to keep producing wealth. Of course, the rest of the world could contribute more. And we could wield our power to better effect. Btw, how do you propose we pay the army, police force, courts, judges, bureaucrats like DMV clerks, road crews, DOT crews, pay for street lights, feed the poor, go to Mars, and fight wars? On tariffs?

    • @spentron1
      @spentron1 3 дня назад +12

      Exactly. There are answers to that question, but this is incomplete at best. Also I don't think she understood ultra-wealth, beyond which can be truly earned.

    • @jaysmith7613
      @jaysmith7613 3 дня назад +4

      @faithm9284 But I can't believe that the US relied only on tariffs on foreign goods to finance the federal government, including the military. In your scenario, we must have had immense reserves of tariff money by 39 to be able to fund WWII, including defeating Germany and Japan simultaneously and financing the development of the A bomb. Also, we have a lot more international competition now. If we tax China too much, they'll look for other markets. Plus, they can out wait us since they're a totalitarian society which government doesn't care if it sacrifices millions of its citizens in order to starve us out of our bargaining position. Eighty five years later, the world's a far different place now than at the start of WWII.

    • @onangelwings462
      @onangelwings462 День назад

      You're brainwashed. There has not always been income tax. We used to be able to keep all the money we made and there were still wealthy people. Government is TOO big that's why they steal our money.

  • @alexzaha
    @alexzaha 8 дней назад +21

    I guess Ayn Rand walked all the way to the studio that day through unmown meadows.

    • @aubo2116
      @aubo2116 2 дня назад

      Weak

    • @cassandro9445
      @cassandro9445 9 часов назад

      ​@@aubo2116she's the weakest of them all, yes. Her insecurities and trauma-driven responses are so transparent 🥱

  • @handyman1016
    @handyman1016 14 дней назад +482

    What's hilarious is that people really expect a thief to spend the money he steals wisely.

    • @czarinacourtneyal-marmont4699
      @czarinacourtneyal-marmont4699 6 дней назад +1

      Surely some must.

    • @sunnystormy4973
      @sunnystormy4973 6 дней назад +2

      -ikr ... !-

    • @PoetOfNoise
      @PoetOfNoise 5 дней назад +4

      The thing libertarians prefer to not understand is that money is a socially mediated representative of value, not a sacred value-thing in itself that emerges from some innate grandiose productivity, as Rand's entrepreneurial protagonists pretend to possess. Money is literally "produced", i.e. coined and printed by the state. It can't be privately owned as such, only in its capacity to function as exchange value under certain conditions that are guaranteed by the state. Rand sidesteps this problem by fetishizing gold, as many value essentialists resort to doing. But that just means replacing a later version of the fetish with an earlier one.

    • @ms.5779
      @ms.5779 5 дней назад +1

      Exactly!!

    • @charleneallison500
      @charleneallison500 5 дней назад +1

      So, anyone with wealth is a thief?

  • @itskomp
    @itskomp 5 месяцев назад +3304

    Everybody who is forced to pay taxes should be allowed to vote on where it is spent.

    • @MrJerichoPumpkin
      @MrJerichoPumpkin 5 месяцев назад

      that is a really brilliant idea, let the morons have more power!

    • @theurbanthirdhomestead
      @theurbanthirdhomestead 5 месяцев назад +127

      I certainly wouldn't choose warfare!

    • @visdes1174
      @visdes1174 5 месяцев назад

      Not a secret agenda/project burried in over 800 pages when voting is in an hr.

    • @DVXDemetrivs
      @DVXDemetrivs 5 месяцев назад +5

      Hehehe

    • @M-Geez
      @M-Geez 5 месяцев назад +17

      I agree 👍

  • @waynegilchrist1596
    @waynegilchrist1596 6 дней назад +101

    Our government operated for 162 years from 1887 to 1939 without income tax. The tariffs on foreign goods was sufficient. Even then, at the introduction of the then called "Victory Tax" proposed that the taxes taken would be reimbursed after WW2 and only those earnings $5280 or greater were assessed as that was a substantial sum at the time. It was like taxing only people with incomes of close to $200,000 a year. The $5280 gauge was standard until the 1960s and maybe into the 1970s. The greed of our government officials kept the Victory Tax, changed it to "Income Tax," and they have been robbing us ever since!

    • @craigbhill
      @craigbhill 6 дней назад +2

      Sorry, bankers were behind the income tax and it began in 1913, not 1939.

    • @c.a.3358
      @c.a.3358 5 дней назад +4

      From 1887 to 1932 we had how many roads and how many cars driving on them? Oh not that many , right? 😅 Oh yea, that's why it worked way back then. You want it all but you want it the same as it was 162 years ago? Great plan🙄

    • @amerocker
      @amerocker 5 дней назад +2

      Odd because it was in 1973 that PedoPeter became US senator for Delaware.

    • @elizabethclaiborne6461
      @elizabethclaiborne6461 3 дня назад

      No, that’s not how it worked. Go to real school. Prager U lies.
      Income tax started in 1913 to curb the inequalities wrought by the Robber Barons.

    • @dohc16vturbo4g63
      @dohc16vturbo4g63 3 дня назад +6

      ​@@c.a.3358 income tax doesn't pay for the roads; the gas tax per gallon does. Same thing with schools, parks, etc, except those are from property tax (ie land)

  • @ccmjj9770
    @ccmjj9770 5 дней назад +60

    She was also a massive hypocrite.

  • @artofsam
    @artofsam Месяц назад +713

    Not one person who pays tax would be complaining whatsoever if money was actually being spent on roads, infrastructure, public services, schools but we know damn well the money doesn’t go to any of those places.

    • @patrickcoffman4774
      @patrickcoffman4774 18 дней назад

      The money is spent on infrastructure and schools, hospitals and such. Your not driving on dirt roads. You clowns think the money goes nowhere, problem is the goverment is taking to much and siphoning the money to things we don't need or want

    • @Alabalik66
      @Alabalik66 17 дней назад

      Moron. If it doesn't go to any of those places, how do you think they get built? Magic?

    • @Cabbagehead25
      @Cabbagehead25 17 дней назад +21

      Then how are they built?

    • @charlesb8
      @charlesb8 17 дней назад +36

      ​@Cabbagehead25 With the least amount of money. Contracts goes to the cheapest bids and built like 💩 look at all the pot holes for example. Don't worry Ukraine loves your labor.

    • @LeggoMyTailyPo
      @LeggoMyTailyPo 16 дней назад +17

      Yeah and that's not even a liberal or conservative thing either because both sides are guilty of it. Democrat or Republican doesn't matter. Neither party wants to spend the taxes on anything that benefits the public that they extract their taxes from. So I'm not sure how that makes liberals more mad than conservatives. Neither side wants to be heavily taxed with no benefit from it or say so in how the money is spent. Liberals and conservatives agree when it's them being taxed. But when it's everyone else then they have different opinions on who and how much should be taxed. So they both agree on the basic position of "tax anyone you want except me." They both think that way. When it's your taxes they could care less. When it's their taxes it's the end of the world.

  • @greenflame8398
    @greenflame8398 5 месяцев назад +3587

    Taxation is really only part of the problem. For me, the biggest problems are waste, fraud and abuse, corruption, and social engineering using public money.

    • @erah4994
      @erah4994 5 месяцев назад +77

      our tax money makes all of them possible!

    • @Rampart.X
      @Rampart.X 5 месяцев назад +54

      Value for money is what people should demand.

    • @carmens3685
      @carmens3685 5 месяцев назад

      Truth is, the rich take more in subsidies than this "social engineering". However, they want you to look at a food stamp and THINK that's the problem.

    • @sjoekiloeki
      @sjoekiloeki 5 месяцев назад

      Or sending billions to Ukraine from our tax-money and think that they can beat the Russians?

    • @aud6480
      @aud6480 5 месяцев назад

      correct
      @@erah4994

  • @ojay8961
    @ojay8961 4 дня назад +10

    I don't want my tax dollars sent to Ukraine or Israel, but I have no freaking choice

  • @deeetherton445
    @deeetherton445 7 дней назад +45

    If it is being forced to give something up then it is armed robbery.

  • @stkyfngrszmooth
    @stkyfngrszmooth 5 месяцев назад +1419

    Let's not forget that at least 30% of that money doesn't go to any of those things. It goes directly into the pockets of the people who handle that money, and it happens 💯% of the time.

    • @Biden_Cult_Morons
      @Biden_Cult_Morons 5 месяцев назад +28

      10% for the Big Guy 😂

    • @aleksandrasialtsis4382
      @aleksandrasialtsis4382 5 месяцев назад

      Politicians after all "need" money to pay people off. Such dirty politicians they are!! Trump 2024!

    • @captainjack5529
      @captainjack5529 5 месяцев назад +48

      Only 3% of the money donated to the American Red Cross goes to charity. The other 97% stays in the American Red Cross for their services. Most the management makes over 1 million in salary.
      My wife’s friend pays herself $75,000 yr salary to run her own non-profit organization that buys books for local libraries. I heard a woman refer to her as a “saint”
      The politicians in my state claim 50.4% of our income goes to taxation by the time the last penny of the dollar is spent.
      It’s captivating…

    • @iloveit9468
      @iloveit9468 5 месяцев назад +29

      How much is going overseas?…we are paying the salaries of people in Ukraine right now not only the w@r. And I bet Americans don’t even know about that part of the ‘aid’ money paying them salaries because they can’t work right now…..wow!

    • @zzzxxzzz3248
      @zzzxxzzz3248 5 месяцев назад +25

      68¢ of every welfare dollar goes to the government bureaucracy that collects and distributes the remaining 32¢ to the welfare recipient . Never in the history of the world has a society ever taxed itself into prosperity !

  • @marcmann3073
    @marcmann3073 5 месяцев назад +1316

    The question is: when will American taxpayers, come together and stop the misuse of our money? 🤔

    • @AzerinaM
      @AzerinaM 5 месяцев назад +40

      I ask that all the time..

    • @jonjacobjingleheimersmith1424
      @jonjacobjingleheimersmith1424 5 месяцев назад +51

      Never.
      United we stand divided we fall.

    • @Guimhj
      @Guimhj 5 месяцев назад +7

      That'd be communism

    • @annettecody2817
      @annettecody2817 5 месяцев назад +72

      Our freedom is an illusion, and nowadays the veil that used to protect the illusion is crumbling away.

    • @504cp
      @504cp 5 месяцев назад +42

      When we go back to 1776!!! All aboard!!!

  • @c.a.3358
    @c.a.3358 5 дней назад +10

    The only people stealing taxes, are the people who don't pay taxes on their billions. Do you drive on the roads? Do you use the hospitals? Do they save you when you have cancer, heart attack or did your wife and daughter get to have their baby's in a nice sterile hospital with pain killers? Do you have 16 toilets in your mansion that you flush and have proper sanitation? Well, if you stand by what this woman says, then those of us who pay for these things by our taxes, then you have no right to use what we pay for, just as she says we have no right to force you to pay. It's not that hard. I pay for groceries before I leave a store. But millionnaires should get to walk out of the grocery stores without paying because we have no right to take your money by force. Yea, that seems fair omg🙄

  • @beatraad
    @beatraad 5 дней назад +8

    It was garbage when she said it and it’s still garbage now

  • @Backyardmech1
    @Backyardmech1 Месяц назад +494

    $600 goes from my bank account to someone else’s, and my GREAT government wants to know “why,” while they send blank checks to foreign governments. 🖕🏻

    • @111Sunshine
      @111Sunshine 26 дней назад +9

      Are u talking about the Ukraine? Because if u do, than u clearly don't understand that us fighting putin rn with Ukrainian hands. And if they don't, putin will take advantage and fight Nato countries which close to Russia. And, if it happens, America have to not just write a check, but send actual soldiers there and it will cost many us citizens lifes.

    • @GrimRuler
      @GrimRuler 26 дней назад

      @@111Sunshine No one cares. Ukraine can get bent. Americans are suffering and your response "but but what about bad man Putin". Want to send more money to Ukraine, then answer this: Why is it that Russia only invades Ukraine when Democrats are in charge and why do we have to send money each time?

    • @Bls-of1ld
      @Bls-of1ld 25 дней назад +12

      ​@@111SunshineYou don't know that

    • @Bls-of1ld
      @Bls-of1ld 25 дней назад +25

      ​@@111Sunshineu should have that same energy for Israel

    • @edmunddantes935
      @edmunddantes935 25 дней назад +3

      Ya know, the problem with being king of the mountain is there's always someone trying to knock you off. The US is the king of the Mt, do you agree? Would you have that any other way?

  • @grilledcheesesammy
    @grilledcheesesammy 5 месяцев назад +387

    The government couldn't explain where over a Trillion dollars of tax money went. Everytime theres an audit, a building burns down.
    Literally.

    • @ELSHELL
      @ELSHELL 5 месяцев назад +23

      How much did the Pentagon lose around 9/11?

    • @LukasMatejka-du5hb
      @LukasMatejka-du5hb 5 месяцев назад +43

      @@ELSHELL that's his point..... TRILLIONS of dollars were "lost" in the accounting, because a plane crashed into the accounting wing of the building..... how convenient, right.... G.W. Bush and Dick Cheney were two sneaky foxes, weren't they :D

    • @17chris18
      @17chris18 5 месяцев назад

      @@LukasMatejka-du5hb Are you actually suggesting that 9/11 was a scam? Are you kidding me right now?

    • @lancefurcinite6518
      @lancefurcinite6518 5 месяцев назад +17

      ​@@ELSHELL 2.3 trillion, to be exact.

    • @ELSHELL
      @ELSHELL 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@lancefurcinite6518 ty

  • @cheesemouse7774
    @cheesemouse7774 6 дней назад +7

    It's called, "Voluntary Compliance" by the agency who is their "hired hands" to "collect" it. It's "collected" by "intimidation" & by the threat of "duress".

  • @eddielew2292
    @eddielew2292 4 дня назад +7

    When she was diagnosed with cancer, she applied for Medicare. So much for her warped theories.

    • @roblapouple7552
      @roblapouple7552 4 дня назад +2

      Because she paid for it. You want her to pay twice ?

  • @gitasingh1437
    @gitasingh1437 5 месяцев назад +358

    Across the world the Taxpayer is abused by a tight group of Criminals . Period .

    • @Ming1975
      @Ming1975 5 месяцев назад

      Not really, the US is way way more corrupted compared to the countries it accuses like a Karen projecting and slandering everything she is on you. That means Russia and China are actually way better managed and you can actually go there and witness first hand how bad are the lies told about them.

    • @Gigi1111Layna
      @Gigi1111Layna 5 месяцев назад +8

      🎯🎯🎯exactly 💯

    • @backagain5216
      @backagain5216 5 месяцев назад +10

      They feign outrage at each other but it’s all to con the taxpayer. You are correct.

    • @muzim8931
      @muzim8931 4 месяца назад +6

      No lie detected.

    • @Jmar1024
      @Jmar1024 4 месяца назад +12

      The Rothschilds. Yeah I said it!

  • @nickgray6305
    @nickgray6305 5 месяцев назад +4689

    Imagine how low our taxes could be if we kept the taxes Americans pay in America instead of giving billions to countries that hate us and keep most of it for their personal interests?

    • @robokat36
      @robokat36 5 месяцев назад +213

      But then how will people like Biden get their kick back? I think we need to audit every politician that has become wealthy and find out how they did it.

    • @toddyoung913
      @toddyoung913 5 месяцев назад

      Actually you might be surprised how much US wealth flows from cheap access to those foreign nations surpressing the people of those countries building up industries and taxing raw matetials used in US goods because of the money the US gives that are pocketed by those corrupt leaders, also most of the US companies now exploit that cheap foreign labour to keep your prices down.

    • @stephenforrest6111
      @stephenforrest6111 5 месяцев назад

      America's wealth is made from these countries.

    • @jamesrepper
      @jamesrepper 5 месяцев назад +150

      Imagine if the wealthy paid taxes like we do. Imagine the money we could generate

    • @fumanchu7563
      @fumanchu7563 5 месяцев назад

      Yeah.. and the rich blue states taxes propping up and subsidising the .... the poor red states!

  • @Nine28457
    @Nine28457 4 дня назад +6

    It’s not just about building the roads, hospitals, schools. It’s about people collectively using those services. We need to have a collective source of funds for community to thrive. How could we not? The problem is with their mismanagement.

    • @dmur612
      @dmur612 2 часа назад

      Seems to me that a system comprised of a *single* institution, authorized, by *FORCE,* to make people fund these services, under threat of having their assets, freedom and possibly their *lives* taken from them is *RIPE* for “mismanagement”.
      In fact, one could argue that “mismanagement” is *THE LEAST* of it’s problems. Monetary inflation, social/class/economic/cultural/religious/ethnic/racial/gender/etc vitriol & division, not to mention, an inevitable & uncontrollable increase in global interventionist & imperialist conflict, *INVARIABLY* leading to war and *MASS death* have proven, empirically, countless times to be the results of such systems..

  • @r.kilsby1323
    @r.kilsby1323 10 дней назад +30

    💯
    Atlas Shrugged should be mandatory for all students in the United States of America, high school and college.

    • @MicheleKaiser-io2dx
      @MicheleKaiser-io2dx 8 дней назад +5

      It changed my life and gave me hope!

    • @paulcarpenter6345
      @paulcarpenter6345 7 дней назад +1

      ​ same for me.

    • @paulcarpenter6345
      @paulcarpenter6345 7 дней назад +1

      Fantastic, The Fountainhead is another great read.

    • @fumanpoo4725
      @fumanpoo4725 6 дней назад +5

      No

    • @lyricuniversity4745
      @lyricuniversity4745 6 дней назад

      It’s a staple in most liberal art colleges curriculum especially in the philosophical disciplines so this statement that progressives hate the text is a lie.

  • @TheSigelo
    @TheSigelo 5 месяцев назад +314

    When it comes to Tax, it's a losing battle because the people are refusing to do anything about it.
    - You work, you pay tax.
    - You go shopping, you pay tax.
    - You live in a home, you pay tax.
    - You have water, you pay tax.
    - You have electric, you pay tax.
    - You want to use the public street, you pay tax.
    - Public transport, you pay tax.
    - Sewage, you pay tax.
    - Does your town have a town centre? You pay tax.
    - You want police? You pay tax.
    - You want hospitals? You pay tax.
    - You want a fire station? You pay tax.
    - You want parks? You pay tax.
    - You want rubbish disposal? You pay tax.
    - You want recycling? You pay tax.
    - You want health insurance? You pay tax.
    - You want car insurance? You pay tax.
    You pay tax, on money that has been taxed multiple times over.
    By the time a single coin, or a 1$ bill has swapped 10 hands, it has gone through so much tax that, "technically", that 1$ bill should no longer exist, yet somehow it does.
    Yet, when you raise critical points of concern, people either
    1. Ignore you.
    2. Raise a stupid point.
    3. Talk about irrelevant things that have nothing to do with the subject.
    Goverment officials DEPEND on these stupid people, because they know that the majority of people are stupid, thus, they supress the smart ones.
    So when the minority of smart people is supressed, guess what happens. That's right, they stop trying.
    And when the smart people stop trying, the stupid ones see the results of their stupidity when sh*t hits the fan, and then, and ONLY then do they go "Oh... the smart ones were right all along". But by the time they come to that conclusion, it is to f*ck*ng late.
    The people are sleeping. They are beeing robbed right in front of their eyes, and they thank the robbers.
    Humanity.

    • @NotIT777
      @NotIT777 5 месяцев назад +30

      And that's just the tip of the iceberg lol....

    • @DistinctMale
      @DistinctMale 5 месяцев назад +15

      Great response!

    • @mariereed8534
      @mariereed8534 5 месяцев назад +15

      we are taxed for the air that we breath.

    • @dennylewis636
      @dennylewis636 5 месяцев назад +13

      Would really like you to be in charge of the UK! We need people like you!

    • @WillNeNe
      @WillNeNe 5 месяцев назад +32

      And now that I think about it we’re are paying for them to pay other countries for their people to come here and it is in the millions, but we pay taxes for you not to help the homeless, our desolate communities, this is so cruel and disgusting. We have no choice to pay, but it doesn’t even help the people, communities or our roads, schools anything very sad. We are prisoners, and they are taking most of our hard earned money.

  • @heidibee501
    @heidibee501 5 месяцев назад +267

    ONE THING that NEEDS to be WRITTEN into TAX LAWS is that the money taken will be spent on the PEOPLE WHO PRODUCED IT and NOT be SPENT in ways that HARM ANYONE.

    • @henrychurch6062
      @henrychurch6062 5 месяцев назад +10

      That's a cool idea, but how do you choose which people deserve the money and which don't? And what could you choose when what's the best for one group is bad for another? And who would be in charge of making those decisions? And would this person require vetting in some way to avoid favoritism and if so what qualifiers would be used to appoint them and who would get to decide those qualifiers and..... (endless loop)
      TLDR - Humans are really bad at agreeing on things.

    • @heidibee501
      @heidibee501 5 месяцев назад +14

      @@henrychurch6062 What l meant was the money should never leave the country, i.e., billions for other countries' wars, or promoting gender studies in different countries (propaganda). In other words Americans should not be told they have to wait longer, or they may never get pensions in the future, while the President promises Ukrainians pensions. That is the AMERICAN PEOPLE'S money and should be SPENT on IMPROVING the LIVES of AMERICANS. Before a President is sworn in he should have to complete a checklist of tasks he will fulfill and not being wasteful with the people's money should be at the top of the list. If he fails in these basic tasks he should be recalled.

    • @henrychurch6062
      @henrychurch6062 5 месяцев назад

      @@heidibee501 I think gender studies is a vastly misunderstood field. For example: How do we advertise this Gillette razor to men, and what color can we change it to so we can get women to also buy it at a higher price? How does the army craft recruitment pitches to attract female soldiers? What kinds of images make men want to smoke your brand of cigarettes? If you remember the early 90's girls had Polly Pocket, and following it's success boys had the almost identical but far more masculine Mighty Max. All examples of gender studies in action: It's not voodoo, it's just a natural extension of capitalism. Does it have some funny and weird applications too? Of course, but most of it is very based in reality.
      But further - how do you choose what is in the best interests of Americans? The Americans themselves are very different people with very different goals. Should we build a library or a sports center? A food pantry, a block of low income housing or a homeless shelter? Is this wetland that prevents floods worth draining for a highway that saves millions in travel costs? Would this savings be of any comfort to the people who's homes are now in a flood plain? Should schools teach science? is science too dangerous? Should a minority demanding creationism taught instead of evolution be approved? What if they want to teach Hinduism or Shinto creationism?
      And even further - How would you choose which goals a president meets or doesn't meet? And which lives of which Americans get to be improved and which don't? Andrew Jackson improved lots of lives pushing west, but also authored the trail of tears genocide for example.
      Also our country is our country because of foreign aid. We defeated England in the revolutionary war with an army bankrolled by the French and the Dutch, and with the support of soldiers from France and Spain sent to die in a foreign war halfway across the world.
      We only captured and defeated General Cornwallace because the French Navy prevented him from evacuating Yorktown and gathering reinforcements.

    • @robertchiarizia9463
      @robertchiarizia9463 5 месяцев назад

      @@henrychurch6062 easy, if the money is not spent for an American 🇺🇸 citizen, then it is illegal. That would solve all of our problems. There is enough money, but it gets spent on foreigners because our politicians are on the take. Only spend taxes on Americans for America. Foreigners can be handed a bill for their own deportation.

    • @Calrad
      @Calrad 4 месяца назад +3

      The entire tax code should b re-written by the people.

  • @tysonb3568
    @tysonb3568 3 дня назад +3

    The problem is not taxation, the problem is Taxation of citizens.
    In the old days only corporations paid taxes…now it is reversed, WE are literally paying their taxes.

  • @AnonosaurusRex1
    @AnonosaurusRex1 3 дня назад +2

    Her philosophy is full of holes, if you read it closely. It is Absolute Individualism, and this is just as ridiculous as Absolute Collectivism.

  • @JC-rb3hj
    @JC-rb3hj 5 месяцев назад +519

    She also said in this same interview "You know as well as I do that the American people have never really been given a choice."

    • @namename-qb5xe
      @namename-qb5xe 5 месяцев назад

      Yeah, no one is haves a free choise, u ha e to eat sleep and shit every day, have to hunt or get a imagination thing called money to have this freedom, free is a fucking made up word doesn't really exist

    • @AmadeuShinChan
      @AmadeuShinChan 5 месяцев назад +3

      But i was toldthat there was a vote of whether to use german or english as the 1st language, 💯% of the votes went to english. Wise choice, let me tell you as someone, who has german as 1st language.

    • @Faithandseekerofchrist
      @Faithandseekerofchrist 5 месяцев назад

      The government's give us a false sense of freedom of choice witches to essentially obey them or give you consequences such as ruining your credit and even going to jail where you are basically blacklisted from a lot of jobs because they don't want somebody that went to jail. I don't think people should go to jail for not paying their taxes if they don't consent to that. That should be a personal choice. I can understand going to jail for murder, stealing, abuse or SA. But not if you want to pay your taxes. I voted a couple years ago because at the end of the day they work for the same agent just different side of the coin.

    • @tyronejohnson4746
      @tyronejohnson4746 5 месяцев назад +17

      That’s why we have a two party system if we the people stop voting in the same crooked people over and over again we might stand a chance

    • @backagain5216
      @backagain5216 5 месяцев назад

      @@tyronejohnson4746How’s that working out? All that happens is that one governing party is cycled out and another corrupt one elected.

  • @jeffneff951
    @jeffneff951 4 месяца назад +262

    The problem is they dont stop at building the necessities, they just keep taking more and more for nonsense that makes only the politicians and their friends lives better..

    • @There-Is-No-Virus
      @There-Is-No-Virus 3 месяца назад +6

      Taxation theft is just one small part of the bigger problem which is capitalism and trade itself. There are alternatives which are neglected such as RBE.

    • @123tanjad
      @123tanjad 3 месяца назад

      The whole system is schizophrenic, we selected politicians who were supposed to represent us and pay them for bringing laws that screw us?!?!? Ridiculous

    • @YibuYibu
      @YibuYibu 3 месяца назад +6

      You are not making sense. Do you know what capitalism is?
      It is private control of business.
      You are saying that taxes are robbery then proceed to say we need to tax businesses.
      You want to control business through government but don't want government in control. That's just weird. We could just flatten taxes and only ask for them in one place, like at point of sale only. This way you free up money in the economy and you force government to reduce its size and scope down to actual necessities. Letting the people control how they want their money spent.

    • @DSR299
      @DSR299 3 месяца назад +2

      Well, the way this can corrected, reversed or changed is citizens VOTING for better governance and less spending. But so many people don't care and just let it go - and the government power grows and cannot stop becoming more possessive of our lives and hard=earned property and income. I always vote even though it doesn't seem to matter, and I keep hoping enough of my compatriots vote for true Conservatives to stop the nonsense. But alas....

    • @ALL_KNOWING_GURU
      @ALL_KNOWING_GURU 3 месяца назад

      you must pay for transgender surgeries of the poor!

  • @pallehansen1145
    @pallehansen1145 7 дней назад +18

    Fine, pay for your own roads and hospitals all by yourself, then!

    • @Jahn_Pah_Jonz
      @Jahn_Pah_Jonz 2 дня назад

      Roads get paid for with gas taxes and road tolls, dingus. These are completely voluntary.

    • @pallehansen1145
      @pallehansen1145 2 дня назад +1

      @Jahn_Pah_Jonz so you agree that taxes are necessary to pay for roads? They may be voluntary, but they are taxes none the less. The same applies to hospitals. The human condition is a fragile one, so at one point in your life, you will need to go to the hospital. User payment is all good because you only pay when you need it, except for the fact that in this case, the prices are so high that it will bankrupt you and you won't have a home to return to. Because who ever thinks they will need it and saves up money for it! Do you, dingus?

    • @Jahn_Pah_Jonz
      @Jahn_Pah_Jonz 2 дня назад

      @@pallehansen1145 pfft! You actually thought I paid my hospital bill? 😆

    • @pallehansen1145
      @pallehansen1145 2 дня назад

      @Jahn_Pah_Jonz and that kids, is how you completely undermine your nations health care system financially, making treatment less likely to be adequate and even more expensive! Good job, average American, you've done it again 👏 👍

    • @pallehansen1145
      @pallehansen1145 2 дня назад

      @Jahn_Pah_Jonz and that kids, is how you completely undermine your nations health care system, making treatment less likely to be adequate and even more expensive! Good job, average American, you've done it again 👏👍

  • @karijohartmann2649
    @karijohartmann2649 3 дня назад +1

    There's a special kind of person that thinks Rand makes sense... yet they can't deny that she died on the dole and how miserable we all would be if her excruciatingly long, overtly simple-minded tomes were "madness in motion"... reading any of her books, are like reading an 800-page first grade reading primer, that gently caresses you with the idea of donating your liver today! And those of weak minds will keep reading and be seized with the urgent desire to DO SO. And the saddest thing is... She grew up in a place where THERE WERE NO CHECKS AND BALANCES. But curiously the people that are most in favor of her policies AND political beliefs, are those who want to do away with checks and balances entirely. The Republican party has become so radicalized that we would be living in an annex of Russia within the year if it was up to them. Sure they are into smaller government. A small but extremely potent kabal of people who will control you and will not listen to you. Thank fate our forefathers predicted all of this madness... The apologists for the kings and queens... The boot lickers... And those in power... Amazingly, they saw this far ahead. But Rand was no ideologue. She was the equivalent of the most malevolent vision of Doctor Seuss for only the most impressionable of liver donors. Lol

  • @thomasderouin72
    @thomasderouin72 4 месяца назад +210

    A government TRILLIONS IN DEBT wants me to have a fkn credit score!!

    • @robertcummins7739
      @robertcummins7739 4 месяца назад

      Trump created 8 trillion with a Republican majority just saying

    • @hopeful6157
      @hopeful6157 4 месяца назад +14

      💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

    • @TStLou1
      @TStLou1 4 месяца назад +16

      F the Federal Government- all criminals

    • @Bikegypsy-ji7xs
      @Bikegypsy-ji7xs 4 месяца назад +6

      No, the government doesn’t care about your credit score, but companies do.

    • @theresedavis2526
      @theresedavis2526 4 месяца назад

      ​@@TStLou1Corporate America is full of criminals and the Capitalist system has enabled those criminals to take control of the federal government!

  • @Unit_With_Legs
    @Unit_With_Legs 18 дней назад +284

    You ever see these good Samaritan videos? People diving into water, burning buildings, jumping in fron of animals to save or protect strangers? People will always willingly give to help each other but don't like being robbed by a corrupt government.

    • @annissa5356
      @annissa5356 6 дней назад

      Ikr. It’s 100% robbery!! And, who decides how much these crooks make?! Their salary should be around ours! Our politicians are millionaires, for doing nothing, except for making us harder working slaves!! Ridiculous!

    • @swagwolfgang
      @swagwolfgang 6 дней назад +5

      Not all good sameritans would give money to anything that is not going to make them money.

    • @czarinacourtneyal-marmont4699
      @czarinacourtneyal-marmont4699 6 дней назад +3

      I don’t like being “robbed” by anyone (so I stay heavy)+IDC who it is you can get it too! You’ll need to pry it from the vice-like grip of my cold dead hands man bc I’m no punk+hate a bully. Fight the fair one son!

    • @chamonix2602
      @chamonix2602 5 дней назад

      I don't think trickle-down infrastructuring would be effective.

    • @beatraad
      @beatraad 5 дней назад +2

      Demonstrably false.
      These videos get attention not because of the rarity of the event itself, but the rarity of the people who step up to help. If everyone went around giving the homeless money, firstly they would not be so many homeless and secondly we would not watch the videos, because they would not be interesting since everyone would be giving them money.
      The Bystander Effect is a perfect example of the broken human psychology that we need certain structures to help fix, including government and policing.

  • @ofern321
    @ofern321 3 дня назад +3

    Her answer was childish then and it's childish now.

    • @grille-pain3686
      @grille-pain3686 2 дня назад

      It's not childish at all. She's not saying taxation is wrong, she's only saying people who are paying taxes should have a say about the use of all this money. Which is like, I don't know, real democracy? You don't want to pay for politicians to misuse and waste your own money, right?

  • @marilynjackson5752
    @marilynjackson5752 3 дня назад +1

    This is what an oligarchy says. Democracy is a cooperative effort.

  • @spacebronco
    @spacebronco Месяц назад +498

    Distribution of wealth is the problem. The plumber down the street provides for everyone, the person on wall street provides for themselves. One of these is invaluable to society

    • @hossdozero
      @hossdozero Месяц назад

      A very large, misguided portion of society is in love with the Idea that whoever controls the paper is special. They aren't and the reason poor people are poor right now is simply because the wealth has been allowed to move through their hands before anyone else's. Fuck whatever moral failing any of these shysters, and heartless gargoyles want to try and pin it on.

    • @JjJ-uj9bp
      @JjJ-uj9bp Месяц назад +6

      Think about it when grud goes down nome of these things will help, people need to b more self sufficient.

    • @georgiypotulov23
      @georgiypotulov23 Месяц назад +11

      Correct, dear god give this guy a billion views

    • @01wcsr
      @01wcsr Месяц назад

      We have more than enough contributions if we had a 20% flat scale & the rich wouldn't care the problem is that's not enough for the govt theift, waste & corruption. Slush fund its a fucking Joke!

    • @intanettrappin8367
      @intanettrappin8367 Месяц назад +4

      😂 how ? Wall Street guy provides more than the plumber

  • @kbotah2023
    @kbotah2023 2 месяца назад +275

    "The Pentagon cannot account for $2.3 trillion dollars."
    -Donald Rumsfeld
    September 10, 2001
    The next day was 9/11

    • @anitahagerty6856
      @anitahagerty6856 2 месяца назад

      The Pentagon is criminal. 9/11 occurred to eliminate the records and be perceived that we were under attack.

    • @KevinKenna-wv6qx
      @KevinKenna-wv6qx Месяц назад

      60 billion went to Ukraine and a bunch of billions went to enemy Iran

    • @vana4054
      @vana4054 Месяц назад +27

      In other words, we need to wipe out our records before they start an investigation into where we used that money for and for who. Typical.

    • @justinmanson2793
      @justinmanson2793 Месяц назад +12

      Don't forget about Lucky Larry!

    • @adrianfytr35
      @adrianfytr35 Месяц назад +6

      ​@@justinmanson2793Is that the "Pull it" guy?

  • @jasonfitzpatrick414
    @jasonfitzpatrick414 7 дней назад +1

    Because she sees or saw clearly. We gave the government the income tax under the guise of it being temporary, well, it's been temporary for about ninety years. It only takes about 120 million people to band together and say no to the income tax.

  • @Tecobelli
    @Tecobelli День назад +1

    So if I don’t want to pay for roads, hospitals or schools I don't have to? Great. How can a society function?

  • @F0ndlzDaKl0wn
    @F0ndlzDaKl0wn 5 месяцев назад +196

    As a former gov employee, i can shock you by stories of how they use the money. Its like monopoly money. They write themselves in for overtime while not even doing the overtime, they sold practically brand new equipment and split the money. I could go on and on. All true .

    • @theresabrents6402
      @theresabrents6402 5 месяцев назад

      The military is the worst about wasting your tax dollars. During the 80’s they would literally shove helicopters off the decks of carriers along with tools because at the end of the year. October rolls around everyone was clamoring for more money and had to show a need. I was a dental assistant and we literally threw instruments and supplies out in order to get more money and purchase new equipment. So wasteful.

    • @steveogle3679
      @steveogle3679 4 месяца назад +8

      Individual integrity matters. Or the whole thing falls apart. Hence here we are.

    • @summerforever6736
      @summerforever6736 4 месяца назад +2

      And you choose to work for them?!?!??

    • @stevejackson971
      @stevejackson971 4 месяца назад +7

      you should tell the public about it or you are bullshit

    • @coachronhelpingtoheal7135
      @coachronhelpingtoheal7135 4 месяца назад +5

      Please continue, it is very interesting.

  • @sierratonin69
    @sierratonin69 5 месяцев назад +112

    We just had a voting session in our local town for a pickleball court. It was going to cost over 1.5 million and of course would come out of taxpayers pockets. Half the town tried to guilt trip others into paying, while the other half stood their ground and voted against it. It was not approved. Moral of the story: people should be able to pick and choose where they want their taxes to go. Not forced.
    Also taxation is theft but you know it's never going anywhere

    • @george40nelson4
      @george40nelson4 5 месяцев назад +1

      You sound like a critical thinking Ayn Rand type Objectivist and that is wonderful !

    • @justjoy1229
      @justjoy1229 5 месяцев назад +5

      Heck. Find some volunteers. Raise the funds. Thang won't cost that much. And build ur community. If u all want it bad enuf.

    • @dananorth895
      @dananorth895 5 месяцев назад +5

      Set up a pickleball court in a parking lot, abandoned lot or park. Problem solved.......for those who actually want it. But that's not usually the case.

    • @phil8528
      @phil8528 5 месяцев назад +5

      Anything with a name as silly as pickleball gets a downvote from me, just on principle.

    • @brianpedigo1306
      @brianpedigo1306 5 месяцев назад +3

      Lol, I'm sure that we live in the same town!....The money would be better spent on the lack of affordable housing issues!

  • @kayoss8787
    @kayoss8787 6 часов назад +1

    Ayn Rand… progressive don’t hate for her ideas they hate her for being a hypocrite to them.
    You mean hypocrite that swore she would never use social services and did when reality set in. But she paid into it… she used more than she paid into it… which is just the reality of a system forced to be expensive to exist because of those that have no problem accepting the benefits and rewards of a shared society bit suddenly cry theft as good Christian’s when they share the expense or cost of a shared society.
    Finally, Rand relented. “Whether she agreed or not is not the issue,” said Pryor, “She saw the necessity for both her and [her husband] Frank.” Or as Weiss puts it, “Reality had intruded upon her ideological pipedreams.” That’s one way of interpreting the contradiction: that Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism, “has no practical purpose except to promote the economic interests of the people bankrolling it”-the sole function of her thought is to justify wealth, explain away poverty, and normalize the sort of Hobbesian war of all against all Rand saw as a societal ideal.

  • @marshallbaxter9231
    @marshallbaxter9231 3 дня назад

    Calling yourself a patriotic American and not paying your taxes is the same as a parent saying," We love our kids but we don't want to feed them". Her accent alone is a clue to how American she is ( or was).

  • @ianking-jv4hg
    @ianking-jv4hg 3 месяца назад +367

    All infrastructure before 1913 was built without taxes in the U.S.A.?

    • @jefftomasello3258
      @jefftomasello3258 3 месяца назад +76

      Not income taxes. You kept what you EARNED!

    • @nickzalucha218
      @nickzalucha218 3 месяца назад +30

      wasnt alot prior to early 1900s in context to the tax machine,wasnt paved roadways for automotive travel,wasnt electrical grid, national parks,or fed schools

    • @johnathondavis5208
      @johnathondavis5208 2 месяца назад +16

      @@nickzalucha218 Illiteracy at that time was just as demonstrable as your reply.

    • @mysty0
      @mysty0 2 месяца назад +76

      Corporations paid Taxes, but have been working on shifting the burden of Tax to the Workers making Labor tax the primary source whereas Labor Tax was previously seen as Slavery and Abhorrent.
      Corporations pay tax (tribute) because they have entered into an agreement with the Government, previously the Crown, to annex X natural resource in return for Z.
      The thing I dont understand is how the American People fought a War with England so the English Crown didnt Tax the Trading Companies operating out of the 13 Colonies they were bequeathed. The Trading Companies literally convinced the average man to get up and fight a War that had nothing to do with them and would actually be fighting for their own enslavement to those Trading Companies

    • @sneakthieve
      @sneakthieve 2 месяца назад

      We’ve done a hell of a good job erasing everything before the New Deal in this country. People will tell you there’d be no roads, post offices, electricity etc without government. Meanwhile the government has created monopolies where many of these things can only be done through them.

  • @liepa7768
    @liepa7768 24 дня назад +143

    She's talking about democracy. However, not a single country in the world has democracy now

    • @elcarajo66
      @elcarajo66 18 дней назад +6

      Possibly only Switzerland. Direct voting and citizen armies in the cantons.

    • @Briselance
      @Briselance 16 дней назад

      ​@@elcarajo66
      Direct voting, but on what themes? All? I highly doubt it.
      Citizen armies in the cantons? There are no citizen "armies" in canton. There is only one army: the Swiss Army, with cantonal garrisons. And with a mandatory national service and reserve time (from 20 to 58 years old, or something along those lines), with a core of professional soldiers.

    • @JacobTheRipper-wp3dq
      @JacobTheRipper-wp3dq 15 дней назад +2

      @@BriselanceSwiss army not a profesional but armed to the roof

    • @JacobTheRipper-wp3dq
      @JacobTheRipper-wp3dq 15 дней назад +1

      Iceland

    • @user-tx6bf1kc7w
      @user-tx6bf1kc7w 14 дней назад +13

      Do you all know the difference between a Democracy and a Republic? Do any of you know Americans are not a Democracy but, a Republic?

  • @shaneashby5890
    @shaneashby5890 7 дней назад +13

    Yeah, you can see why Communists don’t like that type of conversation.

    • @richardkagolo6020
      @richardkagolo6020 5 дней назад

      Read on how community operates. Leave alone propaganda

    • @shaneashby5890
      @shaneashby5890 5 дней назад +1

      @@richardkagolo6020 The fact that you think what that woman just said is propaganda tells me everything I need to know about your intelligence.

    • @1ico007
      @1ico007 4 дня назад

      The government in Communist system is fully in charge of running the country in every aspect of its citizens. Thus, officials take 100% responsibility for short falls and wrongdoings. whereas in the Western social democracy where govermont has as minimal control on only vital community projects and
      taxpayers money are given to private
      developers to carry out the Works and often is exposed to corruption and opportunity for money grabing firms and unaccepted deales with government officials. Donatioins of big companies to sponsor Govenment officials through elections for returning favours causes waste of taxpayer money.

    • @shaneashby5890
      @shaneashby5890 4 дня назад

      @@1ico007 Communism is not just about an economic system, communism is actually about a permanent state of revolution.

    • @shaneashby5890
      @shaneashby5890 4 дня назад

      @@1ico007 It’s always pure comedy to me that people like yourself talk like you think you know what it is. Communists are revolutionaries, communists don’t build, they only know how to destroy.

  • @yuyutsuh
    @yuyutsuh День назад

    She did not answer the question of “how do we build public infrastructure without taxation” even remotely. If you find this answer convincing, you have to be utterly blind

  • @michaelboerlage7988
    @michaelboerlage7988 5 месяцев назад +1016

    If the taxpayer's money was well spent then no one would mind taxes.

    • @aarongray7861
      @aarongray7861 5 месяцев назад +23

      This was the case right up till Regan. After that, we see a very clear decline in the wellbeing of everyone who couldn't drown politicians in money

    • @h.a.l.3980
      @h.a.l.3980 5 месяцев назад +12

      This is complete BS. People would still bitch about taxes if it were used to save their own life.

    • @Shwettyballs53
      @Shwettyballs53 5 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@aarongray7861
      They were mostly all bad, but Reagan was the worst.

    • @DadeMurphie
      @DadeMurphie 5 месяцев назад +2

      If billionaire spending raised the quality of life for everyone then no one would force taxes.

    • @SickIntentions
      @SickIntentions 5 месяцев назад +13

      @@h.a.l.3980 Hi, I'm from denmark, notoriously taxed. low corruption high welfare, never heard anyone complain.

  • @Backyardmech1
    @Backyardmech1 Месяц назад +83

    My liberal sister was annoyed by this, but now I see why. Same sentiment should be why politicians are worth MILLIONS after a few years on a Congressional, or even Senatorial salary, but they don’t have to disclose Shit when asked by the government.

    • @Med1na2012
      @Med1na2012 16 дней назад

      The reality is taxation is a farce! We pay taxes only to uphold the illusion that you’re funding the government WHICH YOU ARE NOT!
      It’s SHOCKING but it’s TRUE! The government is funded by money printing! Treasury bonds. Paper backed with paper! A bubble that will inevitably/eventually burst. The situation is even worse than it seems/looks. Because if most people be it Australians, Americans and the rest of the world were to become aware of this farce, confidence in the/our currency would be lost! The dollar would FALL & the western civilisation with it!
      Henry Ford said it well a century ago:
      “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

    • @TheFergyme
      @TheFergyme 14 дней назад +2

      You didn't explain ANYTHING about why your "liberal" sister was annoyed.

    • @Backyardmech1
      @Backyardmech1 14 дней назад

      @@TheFergyme Because the system worked you nitwit. Having a “system” that failed several generations over, and ended MILLIONS OF LIVES for the “system.” Communism has failed at life and equally meant death to millions.

    • @Backyardmech1
      @Backyardmech1 14 дней назад +5

      @@TheFergymeMaybe you should rewatch the video and listen to what she said. Forcing money out of my pocket through legislation is legal theft, in the name of “taxation.” I have no choice as an individual to approve or disapprove that pound of flesh torn from me. Who’s “oppressed?” The people who produce a wage, or the government who just strong arms people out of their money?

    • @tz7813
      @tz7813 14 дней назад

      Look for this headline:
      Not A Single American Has Received Biden's High-Speed Internet Despite $42.5 Billion Funding In 2021
      Pretty much explains everything in real time!🤪

  • @docliquidplays7989
    @docliquidplays7989 4 дня назад +3

    "Get it voluntarily." LOOOOOOOL. Ok, Ayn.

  • @appaloosa42
    @appaloosa42 5 часов назад +1

    Hospitals were in the main funded by voluntary community philanthropy, morphed into businesses and were forced to close by government edict or hostile takeover

  • @bevygaines
    @bevygaines 5 месяцев назад +210

    Why do politicians make $177,000 a year? What do they do to deserve that????

    • @kashaid
      @kashaid 4 месяца назад +21

      tip o the iceberg, I care less about giving a large salary but more about the kickback and insider information that they get from lobbyist because they're working in their interests, not ours.

    • @larrywakeman4371
      @larrywakeman4371 4 месяца назад +12

      NOtHING sit around in expensive suits

    • @TheGirlnurse
      @TheGirlnurse 4 месяца назад +9

      Screw us

    • @treehouse2902
      @treehouse2902 4 месяца назад +27

      How do they all retire as millionaires is the bigger question.

    • @kashaid
      @kashaid 4 месяца назад +12

      The problem is we've been sold a falsey that we should look up at the rich and powerful because they're our betters, no we shouldn't, we're not serfs from the middle ages - it should be about character and your value to the rest of the community as a human being!

  • @jeffhampton5040
    @jeffhampton5040 10 месяцев назад +1622

    The problem isn't being taxed, it's how the money is being mismanaged.
    The government squanders the American peoples money on a yearly basis.
    Government is the world's worst run business.

    • @matiyev
      @matiyev 8 месяцев назад +43

      Tell me one government that doesn't mismanage the money?

    • @kellbell8198
      @kellbell8198 6 месяцев назад +31

      Facts... because good people don't mind contributing to those things and helping our children and elderly and veterans. But I'm not willing to help those who are using our money for their own personal gains.

    • @Randaddy96
      @Randaddy96 6 месяцев назад

      When in office Obama doubled the National Debt to over 8 Trillion. Biden added another 23 Trillion. Another 2 Trillion went up when Trump was in office.
      We need to Starve the Government into reasonableness. Vote for Fiscal Conservitives only, & hold them to their task or replace them.

    • @davestuddaman8127
      @davestuddaman8127 6 месяцев назад +11

      ​@@matiyev Poland

    • @AceofCrazy89
      @AceofCrazy89 6 месяцев назад

      Any government that has a military is mismanaging funds.
      Governments that prop up corporations are mismanaging funds.
      The problem is capitalism

  • @ryanziegler1410
    @ryanziegler1410 Час назад

    I'm conservative and I hate this woman with all my heart. Her book derailed the Right in a way that is irreparable. Libertarians are not Conservatives

  • @ardentizzy7720
    @ardentizzy7720 7 дней назад +1

    So she believed taxation should be voluntary and only by consent ? .. I can see that working 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @richardkagolo6020
      @richardkagolo6020 5 дней назад

      The tax payers should have a say on how taxes are spent. It's easy to spend some other person's money, but you have to be cautious on your own money

  • @crystalcresie5333
    @crystalcresie5333 3 месяца назад +73

    Roads in Louisiana are horrible, yet we pay federal and state taxes. Taxes on everything! You need licenses, permits, insurance, etc, on so many things. We have to have inspection tags even though the roads mess up our vehicles.

    • @mikemossa9640
      @mikemossa9640 2 месяца назад +1

      You are definitely telling the truth. I-20 in Shreveport is so bad that you can’t even get up to speed without messing up your ride. It’s just littered with car and big rig spent tires. And it’s not only the interstate but it’s every single road in Caddo Parish unless rich people have to drive it home.

    • @alexander-prime492
      @alexander-prime492 2 месяца назад

      Republicans are terrible at utilizing tax dollars.

    • @billydakid71
      @billydakid71 2 месяца назад

      Slaves came in on ships there!!
      No white rich man wants to help African people

    • @jamesgerber4658
      @jamesgerber4658 2 месяца назад

      Stop electing idiots.

    • @user-du1tt8pn8b
      @user-du1tt8pn8b 2 месяца назад

      ​@mikemossa9640 pick up your trash

  • @user-up9rf3nw2i
    @user-up9rf3nw2i 2 месяца назад +359

    USA folk keep giving their taxes to fund wars and occupations yet they cant afford free healthcare and free university education 😂

    • @tonywheat6478
      @tonywheat6478 Месяц назад

      "USA Folk" don't pay taxes to fund wars. We pay taxes for our infrastructure to be maintained or our country to be secure. You must be from a country I've never heard of. One that the folk don't pay taxes. Or ever been to war.

    • @alexbrowne9566
      @alexbrowne9566 Месяц назад +20

      Judging a non-socialist country on their lack of socialism

    • @melissajohnson3308
      @melissajohnson3308 Месяц назад

      We do not give our taxes they are taken from us. We do not get a choice and we sure as hell do not get a choice as to how the funds are spent! Even through our elected officials are supposed to represent US they usually end up representing their own interests! But I will still take my country over a socialist country that if not for the United States of America, it's people would starve to death! There is a reason why people walk through 5 countries to get into the United States any which way they can🤨

    • @nathan8812
      @nathan8812 Месяц назад +29

      Hmmmm, and what it the tax rate in countries that have all this "free" stuff.

    • @trishloughman5998
      @trishloughman5998 Месяц назад +13

      @@nathan8812 lower than the US.

  • @Larry-v9r
    @Larry-v9r День назад +1

    She was the problem

  • @josemario95429
    @josemario95429 14 часов назад +1

    She is clearly not familiar with the problem of the “free rider” in public economics. Also, she mixes up two different concepts, money and wealth are not the same thing in economics.

  • @hardcoreplur
    @hardcoreplur 5 месяцев назад +81

    She spent her lastly day begging for money and living on social security assistance. Those same "men" stole her production, and spend it on themselves.

    • @amirahal-wehbi
      @amirahal-wehbi 5 месяцев назад +22

      It is a shame corrupt ppl were allowed to steal from her.
      One thing that I believe every American would gladly pay taxes for is social security.
      So saying that she’s lived on assistance at the end doesn’t mean anything. She said we shouldn’t be FORCED to give especially to causes that we do not agree to. It’s theft.

    • @4everseekingwisdom690
      @4everseekingwisdom690 5 месяцев назад +34

      The problem with taxes begins and ends when the US literally went broke in 1913 and had to start borrowing money..(in perpetuity (forever)) from a PRIVATELY OWNED BANK that cleverly took the name "federal " reserve to give the impression that it's part of the government but it's no more federal than federal express.. You pay taxes to the federal reserve to pay back the money the government wastes on whatever it chooses. By the way the fed is owned by the same people who own ever other countries central bank.. the already own everything by trading useless money for real things

    • @isaiahwelch8066
      @isaiahwelch8066 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@4everseekingwisdom690: Get your history right: That's not what it was.
      The Federal Reserve Act and the 16th Amendment came about in the dead of night on 24 December 1913, because of barely a quorum of Congress to do business, who, had Congress been in session normally, would have been in a minority. They also knew that in 1895, less than 20 years' prior, an 1894 attempt at implementing an income tax was struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional.
      Between 1913 and 1926, there were no less than 8 cases heard by SCOTUS. In them, there were two main points raised:
      1) Where "income" is defined as a matter of law, "income" means "profits and gains." Further, "wages as compensation" IS NOT defined as "income."
      2) The 16th Amendment granted no new taxing power or authority to Congress, as a matter of constitutional law.
      Additionally, the country did not go broke until 1926, when the President at that time, because of common people buying stock on margin, had issues stabilizing the economy. In a meeting with J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and others, those men of money made a proposal to the President: Give them the ability to control the stock market, in exchange for them using their personal fortunes to fund the market. The President agreed to these terms in 1926. However, those men, when they realized that the market was going to crash, pulled out their own money, causing a domino effect that crashed the economy in 1929, and began the Great Depression.
      That's the history -- not the "conspiracy theory" idiocy you presented here, as you have 0 articulable facts supporting your claims.

    • @crazyralph6386
      @crazyralph6386 5 месяцев назад +8

      @@4everseekingwisdom690^this guy gets it^

    • @benengle9621
      @benengle9621 5 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@amirahal-wehbiI don't want to pay social security tax. Not the way it's done now, anyway

  • @theurbanthirdhomestead
    @theurbanthirdhomestead 5 месяцев назад +194

    To all those mocking her for being on welfare, you suck for not thinking we should take care of our elderly population!

    • @MadgeGreen
      @MadgeGreen 5 месяцев назад +56

      Social Security is not welfare. A person pays for it out of their paycheck as an automatic withdrawal, along with income tax, Federal tax, and health insurance deductions.Welfare does not require a payment for services. So, she paid for her Social Security retirement benefits and she deserved them. Had she not worked then she wouldn't have been eligible for the benefits. Thank for thinking of we elderly!😊

    • @karidennis6154
      @karidennis6154 5 месяцев назад +36

      Nope. She is speaking against taxes and then has no problem living off those same taxes. It is hypocritical. If she truly believed in what she says she would figure out a way without being supported by taxes.

    • @amirahal-wehbi
      @amirahal-wehbi 5 месяцев назад +22

      @@karidennis6154
      Americans would gladly pay taxes for social security. That is not what she was referencing.
      Taxing us and using our monies for causes we DO NOT agree to is theft and wrong.
      Social security is what we want as Americans for our elderly. That’s not hypocrisy.

    • @bluem5620
      @bluem5620 5 месяцев назад +10

      ​​@MadgeGreen Thank you. Also, people who get SSDI literally paid into it all their lives jic they became disabled before retirement.

    • @Icemario87
      @Icemario87 5 месяцев назад +7

      ​@@karidennis6154Taking money from a thief isn't hypocritical, you dope.

  • @LovelyKola
    @LovelyKola 12 часов назад +1

    The spirits of those beautiful people have to be free. That lake will need to dry up or be drained to set their spirit free. Whoever planned and built that lake is cursed everyone who had a hand in that lake over the graves of all them beautiful people is cursed. That’s with all the lakes in America that’s built on top of all black peoples graves. Sad!

  • @jamalwest7658
    @jamalwest7658 День назад +1

    A. shes doesnt answer the question in this clip, she pivots to why you shouldnt take someone else's money
    B. ahh this woman was getting by on social security so she was living off the tit of the government

  • @Jmar1024
    @Jmar1024 5 месяцев назад +180

    At the pentagon nails cost 100 dollars a piece. Screwdrivers are 750

    • @thomasmcdonnell7914
      @thomasmcdonnell7914 5 месяцев назад +3

      Gee I wonder why that could be? :)

    • @katydid2877
      @katydid2877 5 месяцев назад +12

      Government contracts always line someone’s pocket. Waste and inefficiency, just like top heavy public schools.

    • @dr.burtgummerfan439
      @dr.burtgummerfan439 5 месяцев назад +2

      Well they're "mil-spec". 😂

    • @eileenparslow2060
      @eileenparslow2060 5 месяцев назад +7

      A toilet seat is $800.00

    • @henrychurch6062
      @henrychurch6062 5 месяцев назад +6

      I get the comedy, but in reality all gov buildings and acquisitions are usually applied for by bidders, and generally it goes to the lowest bidder. So "Military quality" usually doesn't mean much more than "made by the lowest bidder" which more and more frequently ends up being prison labor...
      BUT this is based on the theory that the invisible hands of the free market will guide us to lower prices. This is one of the failings of capitalism because insiders will gobble up all the contracts and work to keep prices as high as possible.

  • @jerzecandy
    @jerzecandy 6 месяцев назад +322

    Here’s my issue. Get paid from job, wages are taxed by government. Buy stuff at store for 100.00, taxed by state. Buy a house, State gets property tax. Year-end State and Federal government tax my money again.

    • @no1uno816
      @no1uno816 6 месяцев назад +39

      And if you give it to somebody they will be taxed.
      If you die and give will it others they will be taxed again.

    • @GenXDaddyO
      @GenXDaddyO 5 месяцев назад +14

      You’re confusing withholding with taxation. When you get paid from your job your employer withholds an amount for taxes. When you file your tax return, you determine how much tax you owe and compare that to the amount withheld over the year. If your employer withheld too much, you get a refund. Too little, you pay the difference.

    • @jerzecandy
      @jerzecandy 5 месяцев назад +19

      @@GenXDaddyO thanks, for clarification. Taxes on the middle class and struggling class is too much. The wealthy should contribute more and not have rules to avoid paying more

    • @TheAztec1289
      @TheAztec1289 5 месяцев назад +13

      Yeah because unfortunately wealthy people historically worked out how to avoid tax so they invented more taxes. USA has one of the worst tax systems to be honest. If you are US citizen and work over seas you pay tax to the US and for the country you earn it in.

    • @heresyseed
      @heresyseed 5 месяцев назад +4

      Fractional reserve to the rescue 😅

  • @BigBadJohn
    @BigBadJohn День назад

    That's how it was done, my family built roads, schools, churches, community halls and they served voluntarily in the military in every conflict this nation has ever had.

  • @jimkeller998
    @jimkeller998 13 часов назад

    Rand makes many good points, but the fact that she was receiving Social Security benefits and using Medicare to pay for her lung cancer treatments towards the end of her life kind of puts a taint on her philosophy. Her notion that everything happens in a vacuum and that if you achieve greatness, you did it all on your own without any teachers, coaches, mentors, parents, etc. is completely ridiculous. If I recall, all of the main characters in Atlas Shrugged inherited money and businesses from their parents and grandparents and families.

  • @i-to-the-ith_Power
    @i-to-the-ith_Power 3 месяца назад +56

    Right. let them borrow from us. Instead we pay to borrow our own money from an exclusive club so stupid

  • @jefftressa
    @jefftressa 5 месяцев назад +96

    Her family fled both Russia and Nazi Germany when things were getting really bad in those countries. As a result, she recognized government corruption at a young age. This oppression of freedom and human rights was reflected in the books she wrote.

    • @hillbillydeluxe27
      @hillbillydeluxe27 4 месяца назад

      Her family WERE nazis. Period

    • @PoboyMusic
      @PoboyMusic 4 месяца назад +3

      Yet she was a Zionist

    • @hillbillydeluxe27
      @hillbillydeluxe27 4 месяца назад +10

      @@PoboyMusic yet she spent her last days on social assistance. So much for atlas shrugged.🤷‍♂

    • @PoboyMusic
      @PoboyMusic 4 месяца назад +4

      @@hillbillydeluxe27 you pay into social security. It's your money

    • @MrTangent
      @MrTangent 4 месяца назад +8

      @@PoboyMusicAnd it’s literally taxation. She’s a hypocrite.

  • @muzzleflash1
    @muzzleflash1 10 дней назад

    In 1996, most of Australia was disarmed.
    Present day: Australia has over 14,000 pages of tax law. 🇦🇺

  • @tanzanos
    @tanzanos 2 часа назад

    She was wrong. Any organised society can not function without taxes. Seriously why are Americans so immature.

  • @Twobirdsbreakingfree
    @Twobirdsbreakingfree 4 месяца назад +420

    So, yet again, we come to the inevitable conclusion that taxation is theft.

    • @petiertje
      @petiertje 3 месяца назад

      In it's current form? absolutely.
      no matter how you look at the benefits, which are there for sure. If a government can increase taxes, and apply taxes at will, it's theft. The thing is, the same governments write the laws which they themselves hold monopoly to enforce. That is what's wrong with the system.
      People who say 'you can vote' speak the truth, but can't answer the question of how much a vote is worth.
      If I decide to stop paying taxes and produce everything I need myself, I'll get in trouble within day's, only because I am born in the country which claims to have (partial) rights to my property, be it money or otherwise.

    • @edwardeller4579
      @edwardeller4579 3 месяца назад +18

      It's almost as bad as making a fortune from public infrastructure without contributing to it.

    • @crewskater06
      @crewskater06 3 месяца назад +19

      If you give people the option to opt out of taxes, no one is going to pay in. How do you expect to build public services if taxation is theft?

    • @Twobirdsbreakingfree
      @Twobirdsbreakingfree 3 месяца назад

      @@crewskater06 firstly, properly functioning communities naturally pool their surplus resources to solve their problems.
      Secondly, when there are no public services, people stop needing public services. They adapt and become more self-sufficient and stop needing the government to provide them with everything, because if they don't, they perish.

    • @brendonkeith600
      @brendonkeith600 3 месяца назад

      It's not theft... it's EXTORTION.

  • @RandomNiiji
    @RandomNiiji 2 месяца назад +41

    3 Trillion is printed a day....why do we even have to pay taxes? You get taxed when you make money, you get taxed spending money, you get taxed for owning land & property, then you have to pay taxes yearly to the state......how does this make any kind of sense?

    • @user-wp9zh1yf1p
      @user-wp9zh1yf1p 2 месяца назад +8

      HAH!!! You said "land you own!" We don't own land or homes, we rent them. Stop paying your annual property rent and see how long you own it.

    • @aprileppler5734
      @aprileppler5734 2 месяца назад +2

      Don't forget taxes on goods, they tax Every cent like 5 times 😂

    • @Leec_1972
      @Leec_1972 2 месяца назад

      The Fed lends fake money to the government at exhorbitant interest rates and you pay it back with real money. The difference is that your money is backed by your labour.

    • @jeremycezanne6160
      @jeremycezanne6160 2 месяца назад +3

      Taxes pay interest the US owes the federal bank (which is a private bank) for the money only they can print. Charging interest on every dollar. Meaning forever in debt. But most people have no idea.

    • @RandomNiiji
      @RandomNiiji 2 месяца назад

      @@user-wp9zh1yf1p Who is "we" son? 🤔🤣

  • @user-sb2wl8zj7f
    @user-sb2wl8zj7f 2 дня назад +1

    Then dont be part of a country, live alone on your own island.

  • @JanineLong-fb8ck
    @JanineLong-fb8ck 3 дня назад

    Conservatives hate her views on abortion. But she was right about it.

  • @willmosley3215
    @willmosley3215 5 месяцев назад +92

    Progressive hate the phrase "voluntary consent" when it applies to someone else's money, but get mad when conservative judges take their voluntary consent when it comes to their abortion causes. We literally vote for presidents based on what they will take away from someone else.

    • @TrillVilla5
      @TrillVilla5 5 месяцев назад

      I think it’s the idea of no taxation without representation. The biggest issue I have is that folks who are largely represented the most by the government pays little to no taxes. How does a Billionaire get away with having the public pay for new land for them? You get what I’m saying. It has nothing to do with broke ass people like you

    • @nicholashodges201
      @nicholashodges201 5 месяцев назад

      That's because they don't actually *believe* in "consent". It's a concept they pay lip service to because they know it's important to everyone else.
      You can see this play out in their rhetoric. such as adult women being incapable of consenting to sex after 1 beer while children can "consent" to be sexually mutilated. Meanwhile the very concept of consent was completely discarded so the donors of progressive politicians could force us to test out new untested drugs.
      If our population crashed today you can bet there would be women getting forcibly impregnated tomorrow if the progressives had their way

    • @patriciaepperson2955
      @patriciaepperson2955 5 месяцев назад

      Progressives lol you got that one wrong Republicans have been the thieves for years

    • @normanhartmann9022
      @normanhartmann9022 4 месяца назад

      No, unknown electors which you and they do not choose since 1936,
      pick a President-Elect
      based on what they
      promise that they will not faithfully execute the laws and office to give to
      most everyone, the
      benefit of militancy
      as leader of the real
      majority to well regulate the people for their
      pursuit of happiness or
      else resoluteness to reject the parable of
      two debtors while
      basking in the delight
      of the parable of the talents against their enemy and bristling
      with perverse placability
      and submissiveness of the parable of the man
      with the gnarled hand
      against their family and friends except one they know better that they don’t have in Jesus who would ever speak such
      a cruel and ugly parable…as if they could
      only imagine in vain
      the necessity of
      security of blessings
      of public mobility,
      public safety and
      public schools
      accountability to the children who attend
      classes in them,
      helpful to the common
      defense and insurance of domestic tranquility by SUCH GALLANT STREAMING PRESENCE
      forbearance of arms
      to fight against a union
      from passive non-
      violent resistance that is not good enough from the start to ever be
      more great again, never
      to be infringed from
      forcing failure to accept
      unacceptable unserenity
      and pretentious and self-righteous wisdom
      of Don and Mike and Mike and Mitch with
      unremonstrant speech
      and unrepentant
      impeachment of
      redress of non-public
      grievances to un-
      petioning hateful
      and morally defective
      religious zealots and in-your-face compugners
      of living by the sword
      of the holy church in
      a divisive vain fellowship
      of all unbelieving
      AUTOCRATIC society
      with places to go and names to claim for those
      places to reach and
      better things to do than live forever with a God
      who does not choose
      the authority to seal
      their borders with
      seven marches to play seven trumpets.

    • @keithpodhradsky1314
      @keithpodhradsky1314 2 месяца назад

      Especially the corrupt GOP judges.

  • @CapitalismDeathSpiral
    @CapitalismDeathSpiral Месяц назад +61

    Yup, and I never gave consent to most things I am under duress in America. All this evil pushed down Americans throats leads to abject poverty and homelessness.

    • @AnnMartin-kr4ih
      @AnnMartin-kr4ih Месяц назад +1

      Intentionally

    • @DeadInsideUniverse
      @DeadInsideUniverse Месяц назад +1

      Yeah, and I'm sure Trump's first priority is to fix those problems!!!

    • @andrewrollason4963
      @andrewrollason4963 Месяц назад +1

      Leave America. You hate it.

    • @DeadInsideUniverse
      @DeadInsideUniverse Месяц назад

      @@andrewrollason4963 Why should they leave? Just because you aren't happy with the way things are being handled, doesn't mean you should leave and abandon your home!! I'm sure you complain sometimes??

    • @Callitout-kl1uq
      @Callitout-kl1uq Месяц назад +2

      You want to see abject poverty and homelessness? Make poor people pay for their children’s education. Make them pay to use roads. They can’t and they won’t.
      Ever see the slums in India? That’s what America will look like.

  • @dsmith3199
    @dsmith3199 4 дня назад +1

    What an idiotic statement. Economic wealth is created by the workers who produce goods and services. Without workers wealth cannot be created.

  • @larrycoldwater1964
    @larrycoldwater1964 21 час назад

    Ayn Rand was prophetic. The privatised water and sewerage system in the UK is par excellence.

  • @BlueAngeluv
    @BlueAngeluv 5 месяцев назад +14

    It doesn't take 40% of everyone's earnings, plus all other taxes to build all that. The issue is that they steal it for themselves.

    • @crystalmora7248
      @crystalmora7248 Месяц назад

      They also need to tax the rich at the same percentage% that they tax the rest of us. Then we’d have money to pay for everything. But nope the rich get tax write offs & loopholes. Thanks to the Republicans that pass things to help the rich & the corporations. Not anything to help the actual people. Trickle down economics doesn’t work.

  • @jeffteague9008
    @jeffteague9008 5 месяцев назад +146

    Ayn Rend rocks. She was before her time and shines light on the stupidity of progressives.

    • @user-ld9tf4td8s
      @user-ld9tf4td8s 5 месяцев назад +24

      She actually wasn't before her time. You can read these same sentiments decades earlier on the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers

    • @Asmrmother15
      @Asmrmother15 5 месяцев назад +3

      @@user-ld9tf4td8syou should mention who wrote those.

    • @matthew8153
      @matthew8153 5 месяцев назад +18

      @@user-ld9tf4td8s
      She also lived through the tyranny of the Bolshevik Revolution.

    • @Xianne027
      @Xianne027 5 месяцев назад +5

      I read all her books in the 1980s! Couldn't get get enough!

    • @petergreen5337
      @petergreen5337 5 месяцев назад +3

      😂😂HAHAHA. Just WISHFUL thinking and NONSENSE.

  • @robertsandberg2246
    @robertsandberg2246 2 дня назад

    "The problem with socialism is that it works until you run out of other people's money."
    - Margaret Thatcher.

  • @northernbunny9894
    @northernbunny9894 2 дня назад

    I was told that at one time, everyone paid only 10% of their income in taxes. The rich stop wanting to pay their 10%.

  • @connierenna-xf9um
    @connierenna-xf9um 3 месяца назад +282

    She “knew” because she was paying attention and didn’t have her head up her butt. She’s my all-time #1 mentor.

    • @ula6222
      @ula6222 3 месяца назад +8

      So sorry about that..
      Hope you've never used the roads, went to school or hospital, called 911 or experienced a fire....
      Etc.

    • @DBBMed
      @DBBMed 3 месяца назад +1

      Did you know she was inspired by progressive journalist HL Mencken?

    • @Hedriks
      @Hedriks 3 месяца назад +15

      @@ula6222 what she's saying is that the govt shouldn't force a person how to spend his money

    • @itsmewillieD
      @itsmewillieD 3 месяца назад

      @@ula6222roads, schools, and hospitals existed long before the federal income tax. Federal income tax was promised to be temporary until the war was over.

    • @anubis8586
      @anubis8586 3 месяца назад +7

      @@HedriksI get that and I agree but the problem is, how do we do it then? Because you’re underestimating how a LOT of people will end up not contributing to the building of society. We’ll end up living in an extremely selfish, enclosed and singular society even more so than we are right now. You’re overestimating people’s kindness, generosity & understanding along with willingness to give up some money for the benefit of all of society.

  • @abumaalik9272
    @abumaalik9272 2 месяца назад +71

    Taxation isn't the problem. It's the fact the government wastes it.

  • @SanGreal-Hanna
    @SanGreal-Hanna 2 дня назад

    She knew all this because she understood Marxism and Communism. She could see the patterns. She knew what TRUE capitalism was!

  • @alias9731
    @alias9731 6 дней назад +1

    Nobody is producing wealth out of their ass. They all use the common infrastructure and educationsystem. What she is describing is the complete bs of privatizing income and communitization of expenses.

  • @independentthinker8930
    @independentthinker8930 11 дней назад +122

    What the younger have forgotten is we had roads, schools, police, all the things BEFORE we had taxes!!!!!

    • @nonameslb
      @nonameslb 6 дней назад +17

      Where and when?

    • @independentthinker8930
      @independentthinker8930 6 дней назад +11

      @@nonameslb check your history, we had no income taxbeoreWWI IT WAS SUPPOSED to pay for the war then sunset, plus it was never properly ratified. Bit thieving poloticians saw it as a cash cow and did
      Don't let it sunset

    • @nonameslb
      @nonameslb 6 дней назад +3

      @@independentthinker8930 I'm not American, that's why I'm asking.

    • @independentthinker8930
      @independentthinker8930 6 дней назад +7

      @@nonameslb our govt is SUPPOSED to support itself with excise tax and import duties

    • @konradmichels1362
      @konradmichels1362 6 дней назад +12

      Indeed, the majority of the people back then had neither money nor any land or such, not even any freedom to earn something. Some robbers (called themselves the nobility or clerus) had it all. No schools, no hospitals for the slaves, roads and such were for the military and some business for some (who, btw., had to pay at a lot of corners, bridges and gates 😘).

  • @athenakoios
    @athenakoios 2 месяца назад +189

    The same lady 3 years after this interview demanded to be treated in hospital for no money . Socialism for chosen, capitalism for the people 😅😅😅

    • @justinjefferson5831
      @justinjefferson5831 2 месяца назад

      So you're saying socialism is immoral and stupid.
      Post proof that she ever said that a taxpayer has no moral right to the stolen fruits of their labour, you fool.

    • @ozymandias6644
      @ozymandias6644 2 месяца назад +22

      She lived her later life ons subsidised medicare and pension 🤣​@inspectremagna

    • @bigwig7111
      @bigwig7111 2 месяца назад +7

      The message still stands even if she didn't live by it.

    • @andrewvcraig3575
      @andrewvcraig3575 2 месяца назад +10

      Atlas coughed

    • @craigdenny4362
      @craigdenny4362 2 месяца назад +10

      @@andrewvcraig3575 it sure is getting easier and easier to find the fascists these days. lol

  • @tonynunez6539
    @tonynunez6539 3 дня назад

    The government should only tax those who have benefited the most from the hard work of the American people.

  • @pjaypender1009
    @pjaypender1009 3 дня назад

    No one over the age of 14 takes Rand seriously.

  • @elissasangi-hd9om
    @elissasangi-hd9om 3 месяца назад +204

    In 1968 I was in sixth grade and watched these programs all the time, PBS - programs as such were on TV all the time, on Sundays, week-day nights... My generation knows these things. Today's generation doesn't want to know. It's out there and the shame is that these programs are uploads on RUclips and nobody cares about watching them to get a clue.

    • @kelkabot
      @kelkabot 2 месяца назад +12

      We saw these programs in the 50s through the 80s because there was such a limit on what there was to watch. I always watched news programming and documentaries with my parents because we had one TV and they were in charge of it, plus there were only 4 or 5 channels.

    • @sizzlinbacon21able
      @sizzlinbacon21able 2 месяца назад +22

      Your PBS is vastly different to today's PBS...

    • @user-iy6de7qi1r
      @user-iy6de7qi1r 2 месяца назад +8

      Funny, I too was in sixth grade in 68, and didn't go woke. I've listened to PBS for decades, to hear what the left wanted to say. We do "know things" oddly enough.

    • @DAVEBROWNE2004
      @DAVEBROWNE2004 2 месяца назад

      ​@@user-iy6de7qi1r, did you know then about the right - left paradigm?

    • @zaneenaz4962
      @zaneenaz4962 2 месяца назад +3

      @@sizzlinbacon21able ....and not in a good way.

  • @aaaaaeiou
    @aaaaaeiou 5 месяцев назад +22

    This assumes that government is meant to govern, not RULE the people.

    • @michellebyrom6551
      @michellebyrom6551 5 месяцев назад +4

      That is why we use the term government, not monarchy. Government is elected and is obliged to act on our behalf for our collective interests.
      Reality doesn't match theory due to endemic corruption in the system.
      Theory is anyone born in USA can be president. Reality is anyone with enough money and the right connections can be put forward as a candidate.

    • @turqu01se
      @turqu01se 4 месяца назад

      manage the country on behalf of their employers,the people

    • @erikgustafson7365
      @erikgustafson7365 4 месяца назад

      When has this ever been the case?

    • @keithpodhradsky1314
      @keithpodhradsky1314 2 месяца назад

      Oh, you mean the GOP then in terms of RULE? The ones that cannot govern!

  • @tamwy19
    @tamwy19 6 дней назад +1

    When you take money by force from someone such as insurance companies and the government it's called extortion and that's exactly what the government is doing to the 99% of us middle-class people who keep them wealthy😅