Evictions. I have no words

[AlNg]

Other issues, such as health issues, damage, etc are still grounds for eviction.

How does that matter if the courts are not processing eviction cases ?

 

[Suudy]

How does that matter if the courts are not processing eviction cases ?

My reply was how things are handled locally. Our courts aren’t shut down.

 

[Sarcelle]

This really isn’t a Republican vs. Democrat thing. Both parties (minus the few genuine leftists who used the Democratic party to get into office) are invested in turning the United States into a neo-feudal society. Evictions are great for that since real estate companies can hoover up foreclosed properties, redevelop them or just raise rents, and turn the speed of the neverending debt treadmill up another notch. It’s a bipartisan effort.

Spot on.

The middle class has been under constant assault in this country even before the pandemic. The goal is to obliterate the middle class and emerge with a vast peasant class and a landed aristocracy who own most of the wealth. Both Republicans and Democrats are complicit in this. They serve the rich 1% instead of the people.

 

[JonNC]

Both Republicans and Democrats are complicit in this. They serve the rich 1% instead of the people.

I’m a Republican and I don’t serve the rich 1%, which, incidentally, is not static. The richest 1% pay 40% of the income tax. They provide millions of jobs. If you benefit from a government program, thank the wealthiest 1% because they pay a huge percent of the bill.
I’ve never made more than 60k in any one year of my life, and I don’t begrudge people being wealthy. As I said earlier, if You want to end crony capitalism, do away with political power in Washington.

 

[AlNg]

Our courts aren’t shut down.

That’s nice. It is different here.

 

[Sarcelle]

If you benefit from a government program, thank the wealthiest 1% because they pay a huge percent of the bill.

I meant the politicians of both parties.

I’m a Republican too.

The rich will always find loopholes to evade and avoid taxes. Otherwise, offshore bank accounts wouldn’t be a thing.

The trickle down economy where the rich are favored in hopes that the crumbs from their tables will hopefully make their way down to the masses is a fairy tale.

 

[JonNC]

The rich will always find loopholes to evade and avoid taxes. Otherwise, offshore bank accounts wouldn’t be a thing.

Then change the tax system. Eliminate income tax and adopt the FAIR Tax. I don’t see any point in blaming people for limiting their tax liability.

The trickle down economy where the rich are favored in hopes that the crumbs from their tables will hopefully make their way down to the masses is a fairy tale.

Yes. What you describe is a fairy tale that in no way describes trickledown economics. People become wealthy by creating and providing goods and services that improve people’s lives. Bill Gates is wealthy, but he didn’t start that way. Many people are employed and many more have improved lives because of his work, because his product, his employment or his company’s stocks.
The economic growth pre-Covid was sparked by lower taxes and reduced regulations. No, government doesn’t cause economic growth, but it can get out of the way of it.

 

[Sarcelle]

I never said anything about government taking over.

I am not a socialist but I am against a small percentage of the population holding most of the wealth while the rest of us fight over the remains.

There is nothing virtuous about being wealthy especially if the wealth was won through unmitigated greed and the exploitation of people.

As for the wealthy generating jobs, notice that the jobs are going overseas where there are more poorer people that can be exploited to generate more profit for the already obscenely wealthy.

 

[JonNC]

I am not a socialist but I am against a small percentage of the population holding most of the wealth while the rest of us fight over the remains.

This isn’t an accurate description of the American economy. The top 1% account for roughly 18% of earnings.

There is nothing virtuous about being wealthy especially if the wealth was won through unmitigated greed and the exploitation of people.

There is nothing virtuous In implying that the wealthy earn their wealth “through unmitigated greed and the exploitation of people” without evidence.

As for the wealthy generating jobs, notice that the jobs are going overseas where there are more poorer people that can be exploited to generate more profit for the already obscenely wealthy.

Actually in the last three years, jobs have been coming home because of a change in tax and regulatory policies.

 

[Sarcelle]

Actually in the last three years, jobs have been coming home because of a change in tax and regulatory policies.

Jobs have been coming home because of the rise of automation. You don’t have to pay robots anything at all and this beats paying the pittance that is paid to workers in third world countries.

 

[ProVobis]

am against a small percentage of the population holding most of the wealth while the rest of us fight over the remains.

You’re right about holding wealth of any degree. This doesn’t increase the GNP. Only the circulation of money can do that.

 

[Regular_Atheist]

Then change the tax system. Eliminate income tax and adopt the FAIR Tax. I don’t see any point in blaming people for limiting their tax liability.

Do you blame people for living off of welfare, perhaps while being able to work?

 

[JonNC]

Jobs have been coming home because of the rise of automation.

Jobs have been coming home because it makes sense now to do business in the U. S.

You don’t have to pay robots anything at all and this beats paying the pittance that is paid to workers in third world countries.

This is the buggy whip argument. The fact is automation will take place, but millions of American jobs were created in America. Robots aren’t counted as job holders

 

[Sarcelle]

There is nothing virtuous In implying that the wealthy earn their wealth “through unmitigated greed and the exploitation of people” without evidence.

I didn’t say that all wealthy people earned their wealth through immoral means.

Some don’t have to do anything, just have to be born to wealthy parents.

Some earn their wealth honestly.

Some don’t.

 

[Sarcelle]

I hope you are right.

I really do.

I lost my job due to COVID and it’s been hard keeping my morale up, I sometimes wonder if I can ever find another job again.

 

[JonNC]

Do you blame people for living off of welfare, perhaps while being able to work?

I blame government for taking the money of those who work and give it to those who can but choose not to. I blame government for setting up tax codes that encourage businesses for taking their jobs off shore.

 

[Regular_Atheist]

I lost my job due to COVID and it’s been hard keeping my morale up, I sometimes wonder if I can ever find another job again.

I’m sorry to hear that. Pretty much all jobs that were gained since the 2008 recession were wiped out by the Covid recession. What JonNC says about jobs being brought back into the US is barely true, in that what jobs have recently been “created” are extremely precarious and clearly won’t survive any kind of economic crises. This seems to basically be true for both the US and UK economies (here in the UK it’s been known for a while that a lot of the “job creation” since 2008 is either somewhat fictional or a product of extremely precarious positions, like 0 hour contract jobs).

 

[JonNC]

I didn’t say that all wealthy people earned their wealth through immoral means

Perhaps a qualification to the accusation, then.

Some don’t have to do anything, just have to be born to wealthy parents.

That’s good fortune. I didn’t have it, but I’m not jealous of those who do. Their parents can do with their wealth as they wish.

I lost my job due to COVID and it’s been hard keeping my morale up, I sometimes wonder if I can ever find another job again

I pray you will find a job. Question: did you lose your job due to Covid or due to government Actions?

 

[JonNC]

What JonNC says about jobs being brought back into the US is barely true, in that what jobs have recently been “created” are extremely precarious and clearly won’t survive any kind of economic crises.

Keeping government interference out of the market will help jobs survive.

 

[Sarcelle]

Hmm, due to economic lockdown.

I worked for the transportation industry, and the downturn in economic activity triggered the layoff.