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Religion, Politics, History, Culture - Totally Incorrect!
It's not politically correct. It's totally incorrect. You're listening to the Totally Incorrect podcast with David Holliday. Taxes. I don't pay taxes.
David:I'm smart and have a very high IQ. Taxes are for losers like David Holiday. Thank you for that, Donald. I think so anyway. You're right to a very large extent in that the tax system here in the United States benefits people that earn a lot of money and hinders those that earn a lot less so that the people that earn a lot less often end up paying more.
David:But that's not the topic of this video although tax is kind of involved in it. I was thinking the other day that for anyone that's involved working for the Trump campaign and they're working in communications, they have a kind of interesting job. It's difficult for them to create good content about their own campaign and the candidates they're supporting because quite honestly, there are no good stories to write. They are just terrible people. So how do they spend their time?
David:How do they try and move things forward? And how do they try and justify their existence? Well, basically, they make stuff up about their opponents, and they attribute quotes to either Trump or Vance or various, sordid people of the Trump family and try and turn these made up things into facts. One that's come up quite recently is accusing Kamala Harris of wanting to make or wanting to give noncitizens of the United States the ability to vote in presidential and other elections. Like most of the things that come from the Trump campaign, this is obviously completely untrue.
David:But thinking about it, I can see that there are groups of people in the United States who currently can't vote in elections who really should be able to. Back in the days of the American Revolution, one of the catchphrases I don't think they called them that at that time, but one of the catchphrases was no taxation without representation. And this is because the colonists in the Americas didn't want to continue to pay taxes to the British government when they had no representation in the British parliament, and they have a point. Right? No no problem no problem with that.
David:But there are groups of people in the United States who pay taxes in the US but do not have the ability to vote in elections. One of those is obviously the folks that live in Washington DC. To this day, they have no voting powers in congress, either in the house or or in or in the senate, but they do pay the same taxes as everybody else. And I always think it's quite amusing when you see a a Washington DC license plate with the little slogan taxation without representation on it. But there's also a larger group of people that also pay taxes, both federal taxes, state taxes, sales taxes, sports stadium taxes for wealthy sports owners, and everything else, but have no vote at all when it comes to elections for the presidential election in congress.
David:These people are green card holders, and I believe there's something like 17,000,000 of them in the United States. And a green card holder, and I used to be 1, nearly 30 years ago, a green card holder is someone who has the right to live and work in the US. They're not a citizen, but they are subject to all of these taxes. It's a classic case of taxation without representation because they cannot vote to help their situation in any of the elections. So maybe even though the comments dreamed up by the Trump campaign that have been attributed to, that Vance guy and, Trump junior, the kind of slimy people in in the in the Trump campaign, But, those comments that some noncitizens should be allowed to vote is if we take that no taxation without representation idea forward into the the 20 twenties, then those people probably should be able to vote.
David:What do you think?