Next time you run across some MAGA idiot, blow their minds with this ...

[aggiesal]

[drray23]

1. Wont work. I tried before.

They will just yell fake news.

[Norrrm]

2. Trump is helping the budget by raising taxes (tariffs) without calling them taxes.

[aggiesal]

6. Prior to 1913, our country had no income tax ...

The government was supported by mostly tariffs and Tariffs were mostly paid for by the consumers which meant the average person. Oligarchs paid very little towards tariffs.

When the income tax was instituted in 1913 the Oligarchs tried to claim that it was unconstitutional and tried to repeal it ever since, because now they are being taxed.

From this, the Internal Revenue Service was created to collect our income taxes.
Mierda47 is trying to implement Tariffs to pay for government services and created the EXTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE (ERS), and if we raise enough from tariffs, eliminate the IRS. That is his end goal.

Now, who do you think will benefit the most from eliminating the IRS & funding the government exclusively from the ERS? Oligarchs!

So every time you hear External Revenue Service or when Mierda47 says it, think oligarchs.

[Norrrm]

8. Yes... and obviously it was not working or that system would have continued.

Was working great for the oligarchs, though.

[aggiesal]

9. But Mierda47 thinks he's an Oligarch & believes he can make it work. ...

The (R) party should cease to exist after this experiment, unfortunately it will bring us all down.

[DENVERPOPS]

19. He is suffering from

malignant Delusions......

[sop]

3. And corporate media continues to spread the myth Republicans are the fiscally responsible party.

[OMGWTF]

11. And the "Law and Order" party -- L to the O to the L!!

[JoseBalow]

4. MAGA idiots are impervious to facts

That's what makes them MAGA idiots.

[lastlib]

5. If MAGAts could be reasoned with......

...then they wouldn't be MAGAts. Their brains are hard-wired to repel facts and logic.

[redstatebluegirl]

7. They are so brainwashed facts are beyond them.

[OMGWTF]

10. Democrats have been cleaning up Rethuglican messes since 1933.

[Mountain Mule]

12. Fake news!

Magats are unable to accept even the smallest criticism about their dear leader. You will never be able to get cult members to turn against their own cult. Hopeless.

[summer_in_TX]

15. Trump voters aren't all Magats. So there's hope with the ones who aren't full-blown, but voted for him

because the media and those they listen to convinced them Biden and Harris were not doing a good job. Plus "the price of eggs" and so forth.

Most Americans are not well-educated about the economy, so it's easy to manipulate them.

[Mountain Mule]

16. I agree

Voters who are not mentally compromised are turning against the tangerine dictator. Thank heavens that the cult has fewer numbers than the independents and we dems combined.

[summer_in_TX]

21. Yes, and they are ones we can win over.

At least, if we don’t alienate them by being rock hard in judgment and contempt.

From reading DU, I fear too many of us are unable to work through their rage. It’ll be a miracle if we can find a path forward to a better place.

[Montauk6]

13. Alas, poor Aggiesal, they hath no mind to blow...

[Ferrets are Cool]

17. They have two words for facts. Fake News.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

18. We need to point out that multibillionaires' tax cuts cost FAR more every year.

Elon Musk's Wealth Absolutely Skyrocketed In 2020 And Beyond

By Amy Lamare on May 7, 2021 in Articles › Billionaire News
Billionaires never really have a "bad year", but 2020 and 2021 so far have been particularly amazing years for richest people in the world. The fortunes of the richest people in the world have absolutely surged during the pandemic. Just last month, the wealth of the 10 richest people in the world topped $1.3 trillion for the first time. And no one benefited more in 2020 than Elon Musk.

At the beginning of 2020, Elon Musk's net worth was $28 billion.

Elon Musk Net Worth
Elon's net worth rocketed to $70 billion in July 2020. At that point, roughly $55 billion was attributable to Tesla and $15 billion to SpaceX.

A month later his fortune topped $90 billion for the first time.

In November 2020 his net worth topped $100 billion for the first time.

Elon ended 2020 with a net worth of $170 billion. That's a $142 billion increase over 12 months.

Elon rocketed above Jeff Bezos to become the richest person in the world for the first time in the first week of January 2021. Elon ended the week of January 8, 2021 with a net worth of $210 billion.

So from trough to peak, 2020 – 2021, Elon's paper wealth increased by $182 billion.

Tesla stock has waned slightly since early January. As of this writing, Elon Musk is back to being the second-richest person in the world with a net worth $184 billion.

Musk relocated from California to Texas last year. In parting he slammed California's "complacency" as the largest economy in the U.S. and the fifth-largest in the world:

"If a team has been winning for too long they do tend to get a little complacent, a little entitled, and then they don't win the championship anymore. California's been winning for a long time. And I think they're taking them for granted a little bit."

In other Musk news, he's scheduled to host "Saturday Night Live" on May 8, 2021, with musical guest Miley Cyrus. Several SNL cast members were upset and confused by the announcement because of Elon's history of controversies and enormous personal wealth.

As a subtle protest, after hearing the announcement cast member Aidy Bryant shared a screenshot of a tweet by Bernie Sanders which said:

"The 50 wealthiest people in America today own more wealth than the bottom half of our people. Let me repeat that because it is almost too absurd to believe: the 50 wealthiest people in this country own more wealth than some 165 MILLION Americans. That is a moral obscenity."

https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/billionaire-news/elon-musk-net-worth-2020/

[yellow dahlia]

20. Needs to be on a billboard.

[Martin Eden]

22. Republicans PRETEND to be "Fiscal Conservatives"

So why is that budget deficits always INCREASE when they're in power -- are they too stupid to understand the consequences of their own policies?

NO. This is deliberate.

They have long wanted to shrink government to a size that can be "drowned in a bathtub." The strategy is to starve the beast. This means starving federal government programs of funds.

They know that trying to dismantle Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid by direct legislative assault is political suicide. Instead, they drive up deficits with tax cuts for the rich and costly wars of choice, then put on their "fiscal conservative" masks and solemnly declare that hard decisions must be made about the cost of "entitlements" we can no longer afford.

These are the earned benefits working Americans already paid for with deductions from every paycheck our entire working lives. It is a strategy to transfer more wealth from you and me to the billionaires who finance the Republican Party.

We have to stand up and say NO!!!!!!!

[CousinIT]

23. YET the media has the Republican cult convinced that Republicans are "better for the economy."

[Aristus]

24. Blow their what?

They don't have minds. And I'm not going to blow anything else...