What took 1 dollar in 19.50 takes 13.44 in 2025 wtf?
MazdaProphet on
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And there are people who think this is not enough. If only the government had more money to waste things would be better
In the 76 day period between Trump winning and Biden leaving office $93 BILLION was sent from the DOE, who gave it away with no oversight, to entities with no business plans or financials. That’s more than the previous 15 years combined https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1925872101224808609
AppropriateLadder497 on
This chart isn’t showing taxes going up, it’s showing when they realized people would keep paying no matter what. The jump isn’t gradual because policy improved, it’s gradual because resistance got trained out decade by decade. You give people highways, wars, emergencies, vague threats, and suddenly 5k turning into 30k feels normal because it happened while they were distracted. Everyone focuses on inflation like that’s the trick, but the real trick is that “per capita” number assumes you still feel like an individual instead of a resource. The government didn’t get more expensive, it got more confident. Once they saw nobody rolled it back in the 70s, it was over, every crisis after that just locked it in. They don’t need to raise taxes fast anymore, they just need time.
_why-tho on
If You exclude the top 1% the chart would be different
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What took 1 dollar in 19.50 takes 13.44 in 2025 wtf?
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And there are people who think this is not enough. If only the government had more money to waste things would be better
In the 76 day period between Trump winning and Biden leaving office $93 BILLION was sent from the DOE, who gave it away with no oversight, to entities with no business plans or financials. That’s more than the previous 15 years combined
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1925872101224808609
This chart isn’t showing taxes going up, it’s showing when they realized people would keep paying no matter what. The jump isn’t gradual because policy improved, it’s gradual because resistance got trained out decade by decade. You give people highways, wars, emergencies, vague threats, and suddenly 5k turning into 30k feels normal because it happened while they were distracted. Everyone focuses on inflation like that’s the trick, but the real trick is that “per capita” number assumes you still feel like an individual instead of a resource. The government didn’t get more expensive, it got more confident. Once they saw nobody rolled it back in the 70s, it was over, every crisis after that just locked it in. They don’t need to raise taxes fast anymore, they just need time.
If You exclude the top 1% the chart would be different