What is a Classic Liberal?

@BohemianBabe Do you hit the bong while watching them? At 65 I still smoke
a little weed. My favorite is catching a buzz and going to the gym. I have been
doing that for over 40 years. 🍻

@DogMan
Never. Billionaires have been swearing for decades and decades that just one more tax hike, and they're all leaving. They never do.

Which makes sense. We could give billionaires a massive tax hike and they wouldn't even notice. Most of their money just sits in a bank. Plus, when money is redistributed through social programs, the economy does much better, since money is actually getting spent. This means more services for billionaires to enjoy. Socialism really helps everyone, including the rich.


Yeah, it's about what we do with the taxes. Social programs to help people get out of poverty help manufacturing. If the workers have more money, they're less likely to resort to crime, more likely to start a local business.

@DogMan
Let's see, the up to $578,125 bracket was to 35%
Now the up to $487,450 bracket is 32%

By golly, it is less. What do you know. Not that it matters, but that's not what they said.


That's a wonderful idea. In fact, they have such a thing, a large number, of mostly billionaire who vote Democrat, have pledged all the billions to charity. But that's not really the people we're concerned about.

@4meAndyou My parents were the same way. I grew up in Iowa, to a WWII combat veteran.

They were conservative, but I remember them voting for Democrats too. After they got old
they could no longer vote for Dems.

@DogMan My father was born in Iowa and is buried there. I think our parents were what are called Blue Dog democrats.

@MartinII Of course high taxation isn't part of that. I meant that Nixon would be a liberal in the typical American sense of the word.

@Heartlander read Project 2025

@samueltyler2 Haaa, ha freedom of speech grants us the right to call ourselves whatever we wish. Isn’t China the People’s Republic of China? Is it really the People’s? Or is it the Communist Party’s State of China?

@Heartlander does China have freedom of speech. Can you even define what freedom of speech actually is?

@badminton JFK would be rolling in his grave if he could see what his party has become.

@Gibbon They put a peg in the hole in his head for that very reason.

@Vin53 That's just wrong in so many ways 🤪

@jackson55

@BohemianBabe If you like socialism so much, why don't you take a deep paycut
and tell your boss to give the money to the less fortunate?

Oh right, YOU don't want to help, you want guys like me to do it.

You should move to Venezuela, and achieve your dream. Unfortunately
you won't be able to eat any dogs. They have all been eaten by your fellow
socialists.

@DogMan
You're not rich. So no, I don't want you to do that.


Venezuela was never socialist, and the reason they became a third world country is because of sanctions America put on them.

@DailyFlash On the contrary, it's spot on. Reagan was indeed a liberal in the classical sense.

@DailyFlash DogMan thinks anyone to the left of Pinochet is a commie pinko.

@Jaego i do but again i judge everyone

@samueltyler2 Well it's also just in the political climate and how the laws reinforce that. Mass ownership of everything by a very small number of companies is not in the best interest of the populace but both political parties will double down every time.

@BohemianBabe have you not been paying attention over the past 40-50 years? In the US the Dems seem to have become the ones trying to balance the budget and spread the wealth and pain, the Reps have persistently been the ones playing the train ckle down game, even though they see it never works, except to benefit the richest.

@CountScrofula How Microsoft was not broken up is beyond me.

@DogMan Why do you think so?

@basilfawlty89 True! Libertarianism is cultural appropriation and my identity is not a costume!