What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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1. But what about 420? Discount there? ~:D

   1. Guess I should stop paying my credit cards and car loan so I can save on my mortgage. God, I love this country!

2. We’ve seen this before; and by the usual suspects for the usual reason. Here it is in a nutshell.

   The new policy is how DEMOCRATS will force White People who pay their bills……pay the mortgage of black people who do not.

   It’s a lot like Obamacare. Obamacare was the way the Democrats forced people who vote Republican, to pay for the health care of people who vote Democrat.

   Pretty clever.

   1. Exactly right.

      Former Democrat congressman Barney Frank was one of the major U.S. government officials involved in creating the housing bubble which burst in 2007, leading to the greatest financial crisis in the U.S. since the Great Depression. If anyone wants a refresher on what Barney did to cause such havoc, there is a good summary at the link below:

      http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/09/28/franks_fingerprints_are_all_over_the_financial_fiasco/

3. I read about this in a book. Ray Bradbury, I think. Better athletes were made equal by being forced to wear weights and smart people had there thoughts interrupted by regular noises. And mortgages were equalized by the ability to pay.

   1. Kurt Vonnegut
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

      1. Thanks.

   2. Good analogy. Short story by Kurt Vonnegut entitled Harrison Bergeron (1951). Diana Moon Glompers is government Handicapper-General in charge of designing handicaps for those with unfair talent or ability. End goal is equity at lowest common denominator.

4. Harrison Bergeron is the short story. Kurt V.

5. To paraphrase Joni Mitchell … leave me mean Tweets on the internet but give me a capitalist society. Doncha know seems to go, you don’t what you’ve got till it’s gone.

   These FOOLS learned NOTHING from the FAILED banking regulations … nothing. If this isn’t illegal … America is doomed.

6. Work hard, get a real job by getting a real degree, pay off your college tuition loans – subsidize gender studies majors. Same people

7. We’ve already separated Church and State.

   Time for separation of Business and State.

8. Meh. Same as a progressive income tax that we’ve all been programmed to think is ok.

   Punish people’s effort and reward their sloth. Been a theme of western governments for a hundred years. I hope nobody here is surprised to see where this has lead.

   Next few years are gonna be interesting as the leviathan strains to get the last few drops of blood out of us.

   For those keeping score, it may be somewhat consequential to make note that the “conservative” govs have been happy to eat from the same trough as the Liberals over the years.

   1. But what about those privileged people who have no or little mortgage? Maybe just property tax the net: market value of property minus mortgage balance.

      1. 0Don’t worry. There is a wealth tax coming soon. It will start small on million dollar homes and the rubes will cheer. Then it will grow and expand.

         Maybe a small tax on money sitting in your savings account too. Just a small tax to start

         Holidays in Jamaica aren’t cheap.

         1. Especially when you don’t pay for them yourself.

         2. I have money sitting in savings but it’s for future needs. I am retired, so I live with what I have accumulated over fifty FN years of work and living below my means. You know ,.. so there is some left over for old age … To pay for health care that is no longer available. Food that is unaffordable .. etc.

            Take that savings and I will have nothing left to lose. That can be dangerous … when enough people have nothing to lose .. anything can happen.

            1. I am in a similar situation.
               There has been talk about abolishing the IRS and bringing in a VAT in place of it. This is not something that will ever happen, because the income tax is such a wonderful tool for government.
               However, if they ever figure out that it is a way to really screw us, they would do it. Older people living partly on savings will have paid income tax on that savings, and then would get taxed again by a VAT. On top of inflation, it’s a great master plan for poverty.

9. It is planned in the hope those on the lower income and FICO (credit score) scale will vote Democrat in the next election.

   This is something even communist Trudeau has not yet conceived.

   1. The stupid, lazy and useless already vote Liberal, no need. That the very educated wealthy also vote Liberal is just grifting, which is all Canada has ever been, one big grift.