• Wanderer@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I think helping everyday working class people is a good thing. That’s what they want.

    Sure if you want to help businesses fuck the common people. Keep wages low and prices high and keep the upper class rich.

    Most people don’t think like that though.

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      I think helping everyday working class people is a good thing

      Just cut taxes bro. Just one more time dawg. I promise it’ll work this time, dude. Just one more tax cut. One more time bro I promise. It’s going to stimulate the economy homey. This time we swear.

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        4 months ago

        There is a big difference between tax cuts in general and tax cuts on the poorest people in society.

        But I agree. Tax cuts across the board are a bad thing usually but I can see why people vote for that. People feel they need more money and it’s not coming from wage increase.

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          tax cuts on the poorest people in society

          Are functionally no different than higher wages. But without public infrastructure - housing, education, health care, etc - what does an extra couple grand actually buy?

          We’ve seen this in the US for decades. A pittance of tax cuts pitched as a percentage of income is presented as this enormous boon. But then wages stagnate, prices skyrocket, and debts soar in the face of new privatization.

          And then we’re worse of than when we started.

          The tax cut doesn’t buy anything in an inflationary economy

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            4 months ago

            Yes so we agree. Wages need to be increased and the best way to do that is to stop businesses undercutting wages by hiring cheap foreign labour. Demand for labour goes up and with it wages.

            Inflation is largely a global issue.

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              Wages need to be increased and the best way to do that is to stop businesses undercutting wages by hiring cheap foreign labour.

              Urban density increases the efficiency of public services. Wage rates do not.

              Trying to keep populations small and fragmented does nothing to improve domestic quality of life. And rising domestic populations don’t hurt overall household incomes. Cartelized labor markets are what do that.

              Inflation is largely a global issue.

              Prices vary enormously by local regions. And price gouging is increasingly difficult over large distances.

              Inflation is most commonly a consequence of local commodity monopolization, not global price trends.

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      4 months ago

      They dont want to help working class people though. They say they want to help working class people whö they consider french enough. Just like the NSDAP said they wanted to help working class people they considered german enough. It’s a lie to get votes. Their actual policies would hurt working class people.

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        4 months ago

        French citizens.

        No country is responsible for the wellbeing of others. The days of empire building are over.