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Intranetusa86 karma

I've heard that you have a lot of pro-Hezbollah and pro-Hamas views. Is it true that you stated that:

1) the terrorist organization Hezbollah has the right to target Israeli civilians, and

2) you stated Hamas purposely killing civilians was morally the same as Israel accidentally or unintentionally killing civilians in collateral damage?

If these are true, can you explain these beliefs or provide context for them? If they are not true, were you misquoted?

Intranetusa43 karma

It might be the dystopia of Reddit hyperboles where we shouldn't always take internet posts so literally.

Intranetusa17 karma

What are your suggested tax rates for corporations? IIRC, the current corporate tax rate is ~20%, and businesses can reduce their tax liability if they spend money on certain investments and/or carry business losses from previous years (eg. Amazon).

Intranetusa6 karma

But it’s a fictional book.

China censored Winnie the Pooh because social media compared him to China's ruler Xi Jinping

Intranetusa5 karma

In fact, even after trillions of dollars in QE, there was a noticeable deflation in 2011. The inflation from the covid pandemic did not come from an increase in spending, but from a disruption of the supply chain.

Why/what have you read that led you to this conclusion? Especially since many economists say the Federal government's bailouts were too big and the loose money policies heavily contributed to inflation?

Furthermore, have you addressed the significant differences between the Great Recession bailouts and the Pandemic bailouts? The 2020-2021 stimulus/bailouts and QE spending was significantly greater than the 2008-2011 stimulus/bailouts, and inflation can have multiple factors that includes both too much spending & QE as well as supply chain disruptions.

The stimulus spending for the Great Recession was about 1.8 trillion total spread out among 4 years. The pandemic stimulus was 5 trillion spread out among 2 years. So that is almost 3x more stimulus spread out in half the time. And the pandemic stimulus was also accompanied by the Federal Reserve buying back another 5 trillion in securities and pushing interest rates to near zero to stimulate easy money, cheap debt policies. This collectively increased our entire money supply by 40% within 2 years. And this was on top of our ballooning near trillion dollar annual deficits and 30+ trillion national debt.

So the pandemic stimulus involved several times more spending than the Great Recession stimulus in half the time, and many other federal policies that collectively inflated the money supply by 40% and devalued our currency.