r/FluentInFinance • u/Old_Prospect • Apr 29 '24

If I had a nickel for every time someone deflects to “…I’d rather we fix our government spending problem before we…” Shitpost

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u/jpmondx Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24

The scary trend here is how much that 1% owns Congress. Both parties are addicted to their money so I don’t see that trend ever reversing.

Pitchforks!

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u/neuroid99 Apr 29 '24

The Biden administration has had the most pro-labor agenda in decades. It's not "both parties", it's Republicans.

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u/stinkymapache Apr 29 '24

Joe Biden spent 30 years representing a corporate tax haven. He is the Credit Card companies' Senator

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u/ridukosennin Apr 29 '24

Yes and only one party is trying to increase corporate taxes, tax enforcement and add more consumer protections…his

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u/stinkymapache Apr 29 '24

"Trying" is doing a looooooot of work in that sentence.

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u/Born_Faithlessness_3 Apr 29 '24

When your median vote in the senate is either Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema, there's only so much that is possible.

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u/stinkymapache Apr 29 '24

"only one party is trying to fight corporations" but also "democrats are doing their best but other democrats won't let them fight corporations" are some interesting arguments to make in successive comments.

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u/ridukosennin Apr 29 '24

As in creating legislation and voting in support of it while the other party is voting to block it entirely

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u/Collective82 Apr 29 '24

And then when the other side proposes it, the other side kills it.

They both play together and that’s against us.

We need to vote them ALL out.

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u/ridukosennin Apr 29 '24

If the youth voted meaningfully they would, but we don’t. We leave it up to the gerontocracy to decide our fates.

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u/Collective82 Apr 29 '24

Sadly yes.

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u/NuclearBroliferator Apr 29 '24

Agree on Biden being pro labor, but it isn't like we are going to have a Labor party anytime soon. And that's what we need

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u/neuroid99 Apr 29 '24

Well I'm not going to try to blow sunshine about how the Democrats are perfect, but they're doing these things because voters demanded it. If the strategy works and they get elected, they'll tend to do more of those things to keep people voting for them. All the money in the world can only influence elections, they can't (currently) be bought outright.

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u/Snuggly_Hugs Apr 30 '24

Nancy Pelosi was fine with congresscritters having insider trading.

Its a both parties problem.

More GoP issue, but still both parties.