rant · moment 6 of 20
Congestion Pricing, Failing Subways, and the War Economy
from King of the Restaurant with Ray Kump · #145
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4 minTim argues that environmental policies like congestion and carbon taxes impoverish working people while failing infrastructure crumbles, then pivots into a rant about how U.S. tax revenue mainly fuels a permanent war economy and defense industry rather than social good.
- 16:20Raising subway fares while the system is crippled every day makes no sense
- 16:42Service jobs don't pay like GM used to—why impoverish everybody to save the environment?
- 17:12People gloat about their own tax deductions while saying billionaires should pay more
- 17:31Taxing individuals at 70% on $10 million while corporations pay nothing offshore is backwards
- 17:55Shell companies and structured finance route corporate profits offshore to avoid taxes and shield ownership in real estate
- 18:27Tax money goes to a defense department that plunders resources and kills civilians, not to people who need it
- 18:59The entire American economy is based on war
- 19:30America's only real advantage left is having the most insanely huge military the world has ever seen
- 20:08All America makes now is drones and machinery of death
- 20:24Defense industry people constantly create new threats to justify increased spending