What part of intelligence being multifaceted do you not understand? Competence in one realm of life does not assure competence in another realm. I've pointed out I think his temperament and lackluster leadership qualities, his wacky ideas for policy and the world, and let's not forget that as soon as he gets upset he'll accuse someone of being a
phile. I'm looking for a clear eyed subject matter expert to solve this problem. Elon ain't that.Yes, when people are actually insulted, they refer that as a "deadly insult."
I said the first part is diagnosing the problem. That means doing your homework before opening your mouth. Kind of the hallmark of a good consultant. I love how you want me to have more specific ideas than the guy you claim is qualified for the gig. I personally would look at DoD first and getting its accounting standards up to date. Decrease overall spending their to align with a less aggressive foreign policy. As for healthcare, shifting toward a more public model would bring down costs. This is also has to be paired with increased taxes on higher income folks, eliminating the SS payroll tax phaseout, etc.
Who are these republicans interested in curving government spending? I mean names.
You're referring to this story?I've pointed out I think his temperament and lackluster leadership qualities, his wacky ideas for policy and the world, and let's not forget that as soon as he gets upset he'll accuse someone of being a
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No sarcasm : Thank you for answering the question, and for once we're in agreement for alot of it... except the last sentence.
Until proven otherwise, everyone appointed to Trump's administration.
Yup, that's just the kind of level headed temperament I want in government.You're referring to this story?
Yeah, you're really reaching with the justification that Elon is easily emotionally compromised.Elon Musk wins defamation case over 'pedo guy' tweet about caver
Tesla's founder did not defame a UK caver who helped in the Thai cave rescue, a US jury finds.
Again...you don't seem to realize how big a fail in civic knowledge it is to not understand mandatory spending.
What goods and services are you referring to exactly? This economic logic is...extremely dubious. If I raise the effective tax rate on a consultant making 300K a year from 15% to 20%, how much does the cost go up for customers of companies that guy consults for?
So what you're saying is you have no evidence these people have tried to cut spending or reduce the national debt. lol
How does one find government waste without the help of a bunch of auditors and folks who know how to investigate for fraud? Are we crowdsourcing that to Twitter now too?
Again... you don't seem to realize that Elon can learn civics, if he didn't know already.
The goods and services that had their prices raised, sometimes multiple times, over the past five years.
Name a time the income tax was raised for a specific profession or job.
So what you're saying is the GOA and DNA have been successful in cutting spending or reduce the national debt? Lol.
Depends on the individuals within the GOA & DNA.
Certainly level headed compared to the only other option I had to vote for in 2020.
Yeah man, I love it when people learn on the job instead of finding a candidate who already has experience and knowledge before. but sure, let's just go with Elon taking a Civics 101 crash course 5 hours a week or whatever time he has for this side gig.
Give me an example of one that rose due to increased income tax.
I'm providing an example of a situation where income tax isn't passed along to consumers, not literally saying pass a tax targeting one profession.
You keep ducking. Nut up or shut up: you claim that this new wave of the GOP wants to reduce debt or deficits. So who are these people? Names, please.
Again, ducking because you realized how fucking childish your ideas were and incompatible with reality. "Let's do away with the DCA because normal citizens can assess whether contracts are being followed and efficient"
Sure dude, because everyone figures he doesn't already know it, because we're all focusing on one quote implying he doesn't.
It didn't rise due to an increased income tax, but because of the fed printing money to the tune of tens of billions.
Thats a piss-poor example because not only has it never happened it will never happen.
You're demanding names within the GOP putting a high priority of reducing government spending and national debt, while not naming anyone from the GOA and DNA you'd be hyped to see as consultants to Elon.
As far as I'm concerned the GOA & DNA have been useless toward the goals their departments are supposedly focused upon.
Always with the straw horses. More like I consider the guy who can take an L and not try to illegally stay in the office and refuse ot help transition administrations the more level headed guy. There are plenty of GOP politicians I consider level headed.
Yet no one was asking for his estimate, he just decided to bare his whole dumb ass on this issue. That's on him.
Again, you're arguing that increasing taxes on the rich increases the cost of goods and services. What is the evidence of this? Your evidence is even more flimsy than the Laffer Curve.
Says the guy who claims increasing taxes on wealthy people increases the costs of goods and services but can't name any examples of this.
I said literally take any of the IGs over Musk. Come on, again with the panic wrestling. Can you name even one Magahead who has consistently voted to reduce deficits and debt?
Again. Let's say those two governments are eliminated. How do you imagine finding waste and fraud without them? Also I lvoe how you are blaming the messenger here, not hte people refusing to hear that message.
My evidence is based on common sense.
Name any if those IGs off the top of your head.
Why not both?
So's the Laffer Curve. That you cannot provide a single specific example of when raising income tax on wealthy people increased costs of goods and services is damning.
Gee, I dunno, because Trump massively cut taxes on the rich? And yeah, the American economic system is rigged in favor of the wealthier, which the GOP loves reinforcing with terrible policy ideas.
I swear to God, you are on a mission to demonstrate how bad your civic knowledge is. They already do this.
Ya, so strange how the deficit explodes when Republicans are in office and cut revenue while spending even more. Spending is only important in the context of revenue. It's not only cutting the former, the latter has to go up too (aka what most developed countries do already)
They don't. As I understand it, they're an advisory board hired by Trump. They have no other function and have no autonomy to take any action. Calling it a department is deliberately misleading.
And 'President Kamala' would have continued the Trump tax cuts or there'd be a big downturn in the economy, as there always is when taxes for the rich rise.
They update their website once a week.
This isn't a 'But the Republicans did it worse' issue while the Democrats are still criticizing their own leadership for not spending enough money on bullshit like sex changes for illegals and prisoners.
