r/Conservative • u/Pessimist2020 • Dec 22 '20

Americans Excitedly Anticipate Getting Paid With Their Own Money Satire - Flaired Users Only

https://babylonbee.com/news/americans-excitedly-anticipate-getting-paid-with-their-own-money

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u/ultranothing Cynical Conservative Dec 22 '20

If the whole point of the “stimulus” is to boost the economy, then literally any activity that involves spending your check is correct.

So ultimately, it's less taxation and allowing people to keep more of their money which actually promotes a healthy economy? I'm shocked.

It's interesting, though. We get taxed out the rear and then when something bad happens, we're given more of our money to spend in order to "save" ourselves.

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u/TheAzureMage Dec 22 '20

Essentially, yes.

The stimulus part, anyways. The downsides are the future debt, which requires either government become more responsible with spending(hah!) to compensate, or we suffer a corresponding drag later.

Lowered taxation is great for the economy, but Gov can still find a way to screw it up.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20 edited Dec 24 '20

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u/StarMagus Dec 22 '20

Exactly. As much as people hate the poor, they spend almost all of the money they get on activities which directly stimulate the economy.

I make enough that if you give me 1,200 or 600, I have to decide if I want to spend it on random shit, like a new TV, Clothes I really don't need, and the like. OR, and this is the important part, I can just stuff it into my savings in which case it doesn't do a thing for the economy now.

Somebody who is barely getting by or even not making it, they are going to spend every last cent of it in the short term.

If you want to stimulate the economy in a crisis, they are a much better bet.

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u/All_names_taken-fuck Dec 22 '20

OR you could donate to a local charity or feed bank.

The line of cars for a local church food bank near my house was four blocks long last week.

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u/StarMagus Dec 22 '20

I could, but I'm not going to.

Which is why giving the money to poor people who have to spend the money in order to survive is a better use of a stimulus.

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u/psychic_flatulence Gen Z Conservative Dec 22 '20

Sounds like you guys are saying the same thing lol. Not sure where he mentioned the ultra rich shouldn't be taxed lmao.

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u/sadacal Dec 22 '20

Tax cuts disproportionately go to the wealthy. Just look at the last tax cut, working class people saw maybe 100 bucks back, while wealthy people got millions. With direct payouts everyone gets 600 bucks, rather than most of us getting peanuts and wealthy people getting millions.

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u/randomizeplz Dec 22 '20

Investing stimulates the economy. Nobody is stuffing their mattresses

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20 edited Dec 24 '20

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u/randomizeplz Dec 22 '20

https://finance.zacks.com/stock-stocks-affect-economy-2233.html

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20 edited Dec 24 '20

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u/randomizeplz Dec 22 '20

so what

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20 edited Dec 24 '20

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u/randomizeplz Dec 22 '20

boost indicators that actually matter and are of significance. you realize that money velocity was the lowest its been in forever when we had the lowest unemployment ever, right

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u/Nosrac88 Dec 22 '20

If you think billionaires just sit on piles of cash then you slept through econ

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u/j0sephl Moderate Conservative Dec 22 '20

The irony is lost on the Dems. However in this case it’s more like a family member giving you cash on credit. They are just going to come back and ask for more money because they are broke and can’t stop spending money.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20

Yea. All the multi millionaires and billionaires would help the economy so much more if they didn’t have to pay taxes. Oh wait.

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u/ultranothing Cynical Conservative Dec 22 '20

But they're generally the folks who employ the most people and invest in improving the products and services they sell

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20

So yea, rich people create more low paying jobs that are barely enough to live on and barely enough to make a person feel like a respectable human. But they’re forced into it anyway because that’s the American way. They weren’t born in a better zip code

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u/churnate Dec 22 '20

If you’re not making money because you lost your job you’re not taxed to begin with.

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u/ultranothing Cynical Conservative Dec 22 '20

You get taxed on unemployment. Also, this applies to employed people mostly.