Wow, that's just evil

This is some street level thuggery. I am not surprised at all.

It starts with g and it rhymes with ruillotines

Organize. Find common bonds even with people who kind of suck.

If you're on a jury and the law is bullshit, nullify. (You don't have to show your work when you give your verdict and they can't say you gave the wrong answer. You can just say not guilty, even if that plumber really did push that billionaire into a wood chipper feet first.)

How do you stop this crap.

You'd need some kind of large popular movement engaged in a collective struggle to reassert ownership over the physical and bureaucratic infrastructure of their communities.

Rob the poor to pay the rich USA mentality

Really no other way to become rich, when you think about it.

The tariff is federal income

Officially, yes, but it's much more accurate to call it a consumer expense. Because that's what it is.

The federal government cut corporate taxes and otherwise enriched corporations by much more than the tariffs and the vast majority of the corporations just raised prices by as much as or MORE than the tariffs, raking in huge profits while most people have to be buried in debt to just survive.

The amount is (presumably) identical.

Weird to assume accurate math and a lack of grift from the fascist kakistocracy, but you do you, I guess 🤷🏻

I see a whole bunch of charlie sheens in my trailer park but it usually involves lower grade drugs and lower grade women and shit ton of fox news

The trickling up policy

That's the fun part: the ratchet only goes one way. Another fun part? We're doing more tarrifs!

To be clear, a default would be far more painful than the austerity required to stabilize the debt.)

Hard disagree. The debt is already unpayable, and austerity cuts the kind of investment that creates economic activity, like schools and infrastructure. And our schools and bridges are already collapsing

And it's not just national debt that has become unpayable... We have levels of debt that can't be repaid at all levels. It's a big part of why everything is becoming unaffordable

This is part of the collapse of an empire. It's happened before. There's three ways out of it. The first is a jubilee, a one time general forgiveness of all debt (unlikely). The second is a revolution and reorganization where we don't acknowledge prior debt

The most likely path forward is hyperinflation, where the majority of debt is shrunk by devaluation of the currency

No amount of austerity will get us out of this hole... The purpose of austerity is to extract wealth through opening outside investment and suppressing economic development. It's purpose is to keep countries on a debt treadmill indefinitely