TAKE THAT TO THE BANK: D'Souza drops tax lesson leftist should already know
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- čas přidán 3. 12. 2019
- According to the Left, poor people pay all the taxes and wealthy people get off scot-free! Dinesh D'Souza reveals why progressives have reality exactly backwards.
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The young man claims, "70% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck." Yes, I don't doubt that, however I think the reason is because most Americans have a _spending_ problem, not an _income_ problem.
Exactly. That same logic applies to our federal government.
It makes it seem that 70% of people live in poverty.
Did this guy bother to look that the 70th percentile of income earners make over 60,000 annually.
Is it the government's fault people earning 60,000 live paycheck to paycheck
When your willing to buy a car before it's paid off. Yes we have financial issues.
It's not that rich that are causing taxes to go up it's the pieces of crap that one free handouts that are causing the taxes to go up that's why people are having trouble living paycheck-to-paycheck as well as spending problems.
@@SamCM40K you think taxes are bad now, then wait until our ballooning debt starts coming due; that or massive inflation, which is a regressive tax on the poor anyways.
FACT: Most people FINANCE a lifestyle rather than BUILD wealth.
You said in one sentence what took me a few paragraphs to say. His point about 70% living paycheck to paycheck was so irrelevant. Most people are bad with money.
Exactly right!
Pure truth. I myself was guilty of doing that, then I wised up.
@@LiLWavy4 My wife and I were stupid financially for the first 3 years of our marriage. Most people are for a while...but as you stated...then you wise up....or you don't and stay in debt your entire life.
If black people want the Scandinavian model of taxation they will be pissed really quick when they find out their $50000 cars are now $100000 and diamond encrusted grills are now twice as expensive.
I’m a high school drop out
I have no debt. I paid cash for my home.
I make $54k.
Stop borrowing and spending.
Live below your means
Eat at home. It works
That can work for most people unless you lose your job or fall under other circumstances that make a steady income impossible. The problem being the banks prey on kids, they inundate them with credit card applications, basically telling them it's free money. Another pitfall of college, which is still a requirement (though what you study doesn't seem to matter) to land a higher paying job. TBH, I still say there should be a mandatory class in high school that teaches financial responsibility, among other ACTUALLY USEFUL life skills. These kids are obviously not getting this information from their parents.
@@Squidbush8563 your comment about college is bs. If you get ripped off by a financial institution you're an idiot. With the amount of information available on the internet you can learn almost anything you want. Also it's the parents job to teach you how to be an adult, not the schools.
You're the exception, not the rule. Most high school drop outs I've met are idiots that work manual labour.
@@schultz787 Problem is companies don't care about skills; those can be taught on the job. What they want is that piece of paper from a college/university. While you can certainly learn the information anywhere, if you don't have that fancy diploma it means nothing to a lot of employers.
@@Kreeos your comment about high school dropouts is pretty ignorant. You are generalizing a whole group of people based on the limited amount of people you interacted with. Most of the high dropouts I know are pretty successful and now have college degrees. Don't know why you're dogging manual labor. Without it you'd be sleeping under the stars, you wouldn't have something to drive your car on, you'd be working outside instead of in that comfortable office building.
"If you want education, go to the library. If you want indoctrination, go to a college." Frank Zappa.
*American college
@@dylanroll5192 it really depends. If you're going to college as a STEM major this quote doesn't apply. But for those who major is lesbian dance theory and things like that then yeah it applies.
Dylan...you think the brainwashing doesn't happen in European colleges - where do you think the American Left got their model from?
It's, "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library" - Don't know where this bastardisation of the quote has stemmed from.
@@567Productions quote doesn't apply to you if you're broke or over 300 pounds
Whenever someone says, “I did my research “ it means I spent 30 minutes googling things that fit my preconceived ideas...
J Socks ahaha yes!! The truth!
Lol but it’s true
I researched what you said and I disagree 🤣😂👨🎓
Its not like the top 1% of wage earnwrs pay 40% of federal income taxes, or the top 10% of wage earners pay 70% of total federal income taxes... oh wait, THEY DO.😨
Exactly
As Dinesh was telling him the facts, he's standing there shaking his head "no". What are they teaching in these universities?
Combat Medic opinion
Just watch these idiots at this hearing that are "professors"! I would never spend a dime sending my kids to these schools
They are teaching students how to be lambs led to the slaughter.
It seems that most universities aren't teaching facts but are indoctrinating students with leftist ideas.
It's funny how people come to these events, bring up something that they have found in their research, ask about it, and just say "No that's not true" when they get an answer to their question, that contradicts their research.
Margeret Thatcher said: "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money" I know this to be true. I live in Scandinavia!
If you would live in Scandinavia then you would know there aren't socialist Scandinavian country. But good try.
@@duhni4551 So you don't beleive me? That doesn't change much!
@@johnDukemaster I know for a fact that there aren't any Scandinavian socialist countries, it is not matter of believing or not.
@@duhni4551 She was correct
@@johnDukemaster Scandinavian countries are capitalist not socialist. The mere fact that it is a welfare state does not mean that it is socialist.
Why was he shaking his head? Poor people don’t pay taxes they get tax returns.
nit picking but: returns are forms, refunds are money you get back that you already paid in, and poor get credits/entitlements that they didn't earn.
@@nedrgr21 True and good point, so don’t the poor still benefit more than than the rich in that scenario?
@@juliettek.9440 i always look at it as yes, the poor get a cash stipend, but the rich pay for the govt services they recieve like a regulated stock market, infrastructure to utilize to grow their business, etc. I dont buy into giving $$$ away to make everyone the same bc some people can grow a business and some cant. Most people win lotttery are broke again w/in years - poor allocation of resources.
Oh yeah sure.. Get 1k back for the borderline 20k they took from your overall salary.. That's so helpful.. XD
@@rogeroropeza516 or, if you have kids, get up to $6300 in 'EITC' and $10k or more in CTC and free medical, housing, and food.
If he shakes his head enough times the facts will change.
😂😂😂
Not true. They are the facts.
I would vote for u for president of the United states, you know more about our history, taxes, and country than anyone I know including me you make me proud!!!
I applied the tax code when I wasn’t making much and didn’t have to pay taxes. Maybe students need to read the tax code.
Quintile is the bottom fifth. The question didn't mention the bottom quintile. - The questioner said the bottom 50% - . D'Souza didn't address the question as asked. -- No wonder the questioner was shaking his head, since D'Souza wasn't answering the question asked, but recast it as the bottom quintile versus the top 1%, rather than the bottom 50% versus the top 1%. The questioner was asking about the middle class, as he made abundantly clear. - - Politicians and idealogues routinely recast/change the question around to suit themselves, rather than answer the actual question asked.
When a leftists says "research" they mean they saw it on CNN
Define research in your opinion please
Or heard it from AOC.
Hahaha 🤣👌👍true
Yes!
True. Funny and sad at the same time.
The way he looks surprised and hunted when D'Souza says the low income earners pay zero tax is hilarious. He set the trap and it went off in his face immediately.
He obviously has never had anything other than a student job or maybe off-the-books cash jobs.
The amazing thing, I learned exactly what Dinesh just said in University. How far out education system has fallen in 20 years.
It's terrifying when you think about it.
As a college student (not in USA), this is exactly what we study. We study all economics models and understand their pro cons and working. The only way these people are getting such utopian visions of communism is through social media. If they open their college textbook and read, they'll easily get it. But the problem is they think that textbook is also capitalist propoganda. 🤦
Thats what happens when you lower the bar. DEI will collapse capitalism and usher in socialism.
He had that “that can’t be right...that’s not what my sociology professor said” look on his face.
Tucson Jim
He answered. The kid just didn’t want to believe the answer. Dinesh is correct, the lowest earners are exempt and the highest earners don’t pay “income tax “ because they live off wealth and investment and not an hourly or annual salary.
Tucson Jim
I followed the link. Why the attempt to insult? Your link was to an opinion piece. Opinion is irrelevant, whether you’re in agreement or disagreement with the economics. what Dinesh said is correct. It’s not about opinion. The lowest income is not required to pay tax the larger earners pay millions and millions regardless of the title of the tax. If we’re talking opinions, incentivizing the wealthy to share their wealth sounds like a good idea to me.
They have no obligation to spent it. A rich person can go buy hookers and drugs. They don’t have to buy or build an airline.
Since when is envy justified? Some people are richer than others. Who cares?
Edit. Why the hell the link to a book on amazon? Supporting capitalism are you?
Tucson Jim
It states right in the title “opinion”. piece. At least I clarified what is my opinion, since you started with opinions. You seem to have a hard time following the bouncing ball Who’s the moron? And No I didn’t do very well in school but I’ve done very well in a career. A career that has left me well off enough that I don’t have time to bitch and envy others success. I have my own success to enjoy and my own work to keep me busy.
@Tucson Jim What part did you did not understand? He answered the question directly. Federal tax rate is 37% for all who's income is over 510K a year. Those who live off there capital gain have no regular income. Thus are taxed at Capital rates the 23% he talked about. But if your drawing an income your taxed at your income rate for Federal, State and County/City rates. PLUS your Capital gains tax of 23%.
Also the NY times post is just an opinion not fact.
Tucson Jim
Quit trying to push your book on me. I think you need to re read what your referencing. Dinesh is /was right. This wasn’t about opinion. If you want to debate opinions that is a separate issue. If you don’t like how it works that’s fine but that wasn’t the point. And how in the hell do you know what this student is referencing? He didn’t state what his sources are.
"Nope, Imma shake my head and reject your so-called 'facts'."
-Every Liberal
Exactly. Dinesh perfectly rebutted all his points and even clarified the student's lazy "research" where they confused long term capital gains tax with income tax.
Came here to say that. He literally just has to open a book
It’s why we cannot have a dialogue with them.. they will not accept facts and will spout their opinions as if they are facts.
@@NPC-iy5ih Like Mike Pence pointed out to kamalalala, "You're entitled to your own opinion, but you're not entitled to your own facts"! God, I love that guy
@@NPC-iy5ih Agreed! No matter how much truth you give them, their opinion is always right.
Most of the bottom 50% are not actually paying taxes.
the bottom 50% pays 3% of all fed income taxes= not much. what percentage do the consume?
I paid taxes all my working life. Now retired on SS I dont make enough to pay taxes. Of course I have to live on 1000 a month so my only vacations are when someone else buys the plane ticket.
The guy that was blabbing about his research is now listening to Dinesh & he is completely clueless about what he is being told!
Agreed. The lowest income earners won't pay any tax because there is a standard deduction in the US tax code which exceeds their income. But, if he used that term this guy's head might explode.
We can give the man asking the question credit for not having to read his question off his phone.
Preparedness is a negative?
@@RefurbishedPrototype If someone has to read his one single question off, he has not understood it himself.
@@schwarzerritter5724
I take notes on my phone all day. "Note" is an app that's been included on every phone since the advent of the smartphone.
You can write things down copy and past stats that pertain to the conversation.
I developed my entire Allocation of Parental Responsibility case....IN MY NOTES ON MY PHONE!
Throughout my work days, I would think of things that completely contradicted the judge's arguments as to why my son's mother should have sole custody.
In the beginning of October, in my first argument, I attacked the bias of the judge overseeing my family case. A week and a half ago, I received noticed that my case has been moved into a different courtroom.
Preparedness is an asset. Preparedness works. Preparedness is a thing.
@@RefurbishedPrototype It is *one* question. Having to look up one question means someone does not understand the subject. You do not see D'Souza looking up his answer.
I assume in your case, the notes you are going to use are just keywords so you do not leave anything important out. Not being able to remember one single talking point it not preparedness, it is the opposite of preparedness.
@@RefurbishedPrototype: Agreed 100%. Downside is that many do not practice reading their messages so that they pretty-much roll off the tongue. A while back, I watched one controversial speaker being asked a question by one student who just stammered and stammered over her words. It was a Leftist-Liberal, lie-filled question that she asked. The speaker answered her, and with FACTS, and then got a great applause. Then he asked the smart-mouth, misinformed, LYING student, *"I question your reading ability and comprehension. This is a college. If you're a student here, how did you get in?"* ROUND OF APPLAUSE. Politically-Incorrect controversy? Yes. The student was of Hispanic background and English as a Second Language, mispronouncing words, and using words she likely did not understand. Half way through here intro message, she had trouble with the question that followed. Yup... she kept glancing back-and-forth at the friend who handed her the question on the friend's cell phone. She walked back to her seat with NO SHAME (she couldn't understand what the audience was laughing at). Agreed. "Preparedness (AND comprehension) are a POSITIVE." Thumb Up to you.
"How can I steal from people who work harder than me?"🙄
😂 exactly
Pamela Haskell that’s how you get wealthy...
Don’t listen to what they say and start listening to what they’re really saying. After a while you realize they’re lazy, prideless, and racist scumbags that need a real world adventure to wake them up.
Banker is working very hard ;-) And he pay 2% tax through his tax heaven company ;-) But what can you know as a random worker ;-)
get elected
He said that so much more eloquently than I usually manage.
The moment someone shakes their head immediately after a response just means they're not even listening anymore
Welcome to today's colleges and universities where kids spend thousands of dollars to learn absolutely nothing.
It's worse than that, they're spending 10's and 100's of thousands to be indoctrinated with false information by communists.
Well if that's your photo...all you did was EAT....obesity itself is serious lack of intellectual ability
They aren't really spending their money though. They are just redirecting gov't guaranteed bank loans which they cant repay working at The Dollar Store. What is going to happen when the gov't has to do another bank bailout when the defaults start piling up? They will be the first in line to complain.
The problem with today's world is that smart people are full of doubts, and stupid people are full of certainties
Dunning-kruger affect
If Trump or Desantis become president in 2024, I honestly hope they hire Dinesh D'Souza as a close advisor. I don't remember the man ever saying anything I disagreed with. He is extremely book smart with a ton of common sense to go with it.
the look on the guys face when d souza starts citing facts is so precious lol
I love how personal accountability is never addressed when the wealth inequality argument is made...
Reo Logan spot on
Right because every single poor person makes perfect financial and life decisions. Every single one. They never commit crimes or buy cigarettes or lottery tickets. They purposely live above their means so they can save. They don't have cable. They are constantly trying to find new skills they can learn in the workforce. They actively look for better pay. They always show up to work on time and never take sick leave unless they need it etc. I am being sarcastic.
Exactly! Wealthy people aren’t evil beings, a lot of them work very hard, they should be incentivized for this! Sjw college kids and welfare queens/kings want hand outs with out the hard work
The only way to make money in a capitalist market economy is to make voluntary deals between the capitalist, the laborers and the consumers, which is beneficial to all involved, otherwise they wouldn't take the deal.
There are some regulations that need to be made of course in order to correct market failures such as monopolies and such, but over regulation only serves to impede the people's entrepreneurial spirit, and will end up hurting that same society in the long run as over regulation and taxation of the businesses will drive these leaders and innovators away to more business friendly nations.
Thus, we come to the dilemma of properly balancing free market enterprise with government regulation over market inefficiencies and failures. Falling too far into either side will lead to demise, and that's why the conversation will be everlasting, as it should be.
Sadly, too many people are too misinformed to engage in this kind of discourse, so inequalities in society tends to lead to socialist tendencies among the lower classes and a revolution usually ending in the whole country's demise. Worse yet, these lower classes of people are raised to rely upon government support, welfare and such, pushed by the left in order to further their socialist ideologies, which inevitably result into a communist regime, with the elites of that party at the top and the rest relying on them indefinitely. Pure slavery.
@@user-wz7kq2iy5e still it is not someone elses fault. Unfortunately in real life you can be unlucky without someone having to take the blame
The student clearly does not enjoy having his ideas challenged just by the way his face twists into a pretzel hearing Dsouza
Did you see his face when Dsouza talked about the VAT tax? As if Dsouza was lying to him. Lol 😆
@darrellw dobson Don't say that, that's not nice. 😆😂🤣
Maybe the questioner was thinking, "I said bottom 50%, not bottom quintile". And, maybe D'Souza got to the bottom 50% later in his response, but YAF didn't include that part in the clip.
Cuz sounded intelligent is not the same as being intelligent
Thats the problem right there, these kids are unable to listen to anyone else besides themselves and use their brain to reflect on it.
Truth is brutally morbid.
This guy asking the question has no clue of crap that he said ,poor people who have been brain washed ,he should be glad he lives in the USA.
It's painful to hear this guy. None of what he's saying are his own words.
Kyle Corrie “statistics” is their bible
Truth hurts
D'Souza never ceases to amaze me. The man's intellect is off the charts.
You need to get out more....check out his debates with real intellectual debaters......Matt Delahunty....only one example.
Way to go Dinesh; you rock the truth?
President LBJ & his War On Poverty has spent millions of dollars. We still have poverty. You cannot buy or tax your way out of poverty. Maybe we should try working & not spending beyond our means.
I love the guy who was “doing his research” was completely wrong about tax rates which could have been checked with a 30 second glance at the US Tax code.
he is not paying taxes , because he does not work, and therefore he has no idea anything about taxes LOL
the "tax code" can say whatever it wants. It doesn't mean rich people are following the rules LMAO what kind of schmuck are you?
@@zuragainview9628 Prove it.
If the rich people don’t follow the rules, then what’s the point in increasing taxes on the rich? The whole argument is nonsense.
They conflate different numbers of different kinds of taxes. Leftists love talking about "wealth" which is completely different from "income" but then they conflate the two because they get their information from activists. For example they will complain about how a major company will make billions of dollars in profit and the corporate tax should be higher, but then forget the profit goes to share-holders who either pay income tax on it, or some other form of taxation.
I spend a lot of time trying to tell high school students the difference between wealth and income. If a person makes $100,000 but they spend $100,000 on rent, a leased car, and food then they have no wealth. If someone makes $40,000, has a paid off cheap car, a small house they mortgage, and they put money into savings or investments then they have value stored up in the things they are buying.
He's been doing "research".
This is what happens when professors let you cite CNN as source material.
Tucson Jim - you sir, are an imbecile. The route word is cite, not site. It’s not siting, it’s citing!
@@andygranatelli8809 I think you meant "you, sir,...". Commas matter. Carry on.
They only let you source CNN lol
I always wonder why people think giving someone else's money to the government solves anything
Convicted felon advice. Brilliant
3:31 "Man! I thought I could just regurgitate my liberal professor's points and dismantle this D'Souza guy. He's talking about stuff way above my head. I need to tap out. Thanks a lot professor."
Not liberal, socialist.
You know you’re in for it when you hear a college student start talking about “wealth inequality “.
The problem is that too many people just complain about the tax system without learning and truly understanding how it works.
Not only do the lowest wage earners have a zero tax liability, they can get large refunds through the child tax credits.
He's been doing his "research" Watching CNN
When you memorize something someone said but don't actually understand what you are repeating. The guy probably has never paid taxes in his life.
And don't understand capital gains or basic economics. Just about everyone involved with a pension plan outside Social Security is involved in capital gains. Nor do they understand the payroll tax either, that the vast majority pay less than 8 percent when many of the self employed pay over 14 percent. Their bosses pay the other half they aren't...
Very True.
First 20 secs. How many people are living pay check to pay check because they do not learn to be financially literate?
It's insane how much money is taken by the government.
Yes it is, and will only get worse if a Democrat is in power...
And we still have to ask lenders for $1 trillion per year just to drop bombs in a desert. Meanwhile, leftists continue spreading lies the rich do not pay their fair share in taxes.
Try stop borrowing money to use for bombs first and maybe we would not have a government deficit, damn lefties!
You know what I headed? Those paycheck to paycheck people are getting a paycheck. That isn’t happening in a lot of country across the globe. There are also a lot of people living beyond their means and trying to justify non essential expenditures.
Poor people are now richer in this country than they have ever been. That’s a fact. Incomes are unequal and always will be in a free society. That doesn’t mean that it isn’t fair.
All I know is that I’m sick and tired of paying taxes so that these thieves can steal and squander the money.
It's amazing what people don't know about taxes kinda like AOC and she has a economics degree
Dalton Ballard This is the talent our universities are rolling out with framed pieces of paper by the thousands. I don't mean to be rude to the gentleman in the video or anyone else, but how on Earth are you going to expect to improve your finances if you lack a understanding of the most basic economics and regulations of the very country you live in.
@@AlphasPath AOC didn't know how taxes work in the Anderson Cooper interview but there is a problem in rural America czcams.com/video/IdwH066g5lQ/video.html
AOC was a diversity placement, and is now a diversity hire, you can hear she is thick as a post.
@OTISIN GREENER well if the government takes sway 50% of my income yeah I'd pretty much hide it where they can't find it
Having a degree nowadays isn't worth mutch. It's a system that is milking people for money
Hey, I'm in college therefore I know all
(Because my "professor" said so)
He looks like he's been in college for ten years.
Typical example of people over-educated beyond their mental capacity. There used to be an intelligence standard for people accepted in universities. Now they get accepted because they showed "perseverance".
@darrellw dobson i guess terrible that's why they are Marxists. So here is my solution defund all humanities and increase pay for professors teaching in STEM fields only.
@darrellw dobson maybe they are still pissed teachers don't get paid enough & instead of fighting for that, they went full retard... (no, that's giving them to much brain)
And to think people go into incredible debt to attend these universities and come out with those kinds of viewpoints! Lord help us all.
Knowledge is power!!! Research , Research and Research!!
It’s true - my brother pays no tax, yet he receives free medical care, etc.
On my SS I dont make enough to even file a return.
now if he has a kid he will be getting a check at the end of the year having paid no taxes at all. seems legit, right?
@@coreyg7364 ABSOLUTELY TRUE.
"Wealth inequality" is just the politics of jealousy.
Very true. No one is responsible for another person's wealth.
@@libertyspeak1883 Agreed.
Jealousy??? More like confiscation and redistribution...
It's worse than that. Wealth inequality is used by a small set of nefarious elites in order to subvert the naive population. It's a ploy to enslave people _with their consent._
26 people in the world are worth more than the bottom half, mainly due to the sentiment in this thread:
Apathy
Kowtowing to the alpha males
And apparently 0 logic with respect to what is fair...
Just fact checked this and it's shocking how confident that student was. The latest federal data I could find was 2018. In 2018 the bottom 50% paid 2.9% of the total tax in America at an average rate of 3.4%. The top 1% paid 40.1% of all the taxes at an average rate of 25.4%. He clearly never bothered to check the actual data.
These kids have never had an original thought of their own.
Live within your means and live a great life. I do
That student only knows what his teacher tells him. He knows nothing about taxes or tax laws. A grown man with the mind of a qlten year old.
"For the past 40 years we've been trying the same nonsense over and over" He got that part right
Bless u souza.right u r.
People want to try and punch holes in the way the economy is booming and this guy gives them the truth and they still don't want to believe it.
The top "1%" pays more in individual income tax than the bottom 90% COMBINED ...
Where is the source on this? I’d like to use that fact when facing misinformed liberals
@@nataliagil6230 this is a little misleading, but I'll try to clear it up to not be accused of spreading misinformation...this only refers to FEDERAL income tax....but you can look this stuff up on your own through The Peter G. Peterson Foundation
He was actually correct tho, because he said the top 1% OF the top 1%... when you get to people like Oprah, Bill Gates, etc...
They simply don't pay anything... because they know the people who's job it Would Be to come to their door - won't... because those people are smart enough to know that someone like Oprah has the clout to ruin that auditor's life, completely.
Sometimes a figure a little further down the list tries it... Wesley Snipes did... and he went to jail.
All the while naming names of those he worked with who just Didn't Pay anything and were never bothered over it.
@@nataliagil6230 The IRS website has all of the data. You can follow their links over to the US tax code, and apply those percentages to the total taxes collected by bracket to determine how much of those earning in the top 10% are within the top 1%.
The figures they give are only in the 10% categories, but it also gives averages per, and total payers - which you can use to determine that the Only way to achieve that figure is if the top 10% of that 10% are paying about 90% of the 93-96% that 10% are paying.
Meaning the top 1% pay around 90% of all taxes paid each year... but it varies a couple of percent either way.
Basically, a 2d linear equation used to determine how many are paying enough to fill the total, when you know what portion is being paid based on their position within that 10% bracket.
That's using stats to twist a view. The top 1% earn more than the other 99% combined so proportionally you would expect they pay more. Its not exactly shocking or groundbreaking.
70% of americans living paycheck to paycheck doesnt translate to we need socialism...
Boom. Facts hurt...
That dude’s fantasy world got crushed by the truth.
"People are living paycheck to paycheck"
That is a personal choice for most of those people. Yes, I know there are exceptions but the vast majority of those people choose to live that way and unless there is a cultural shift toward financial responsibility that will not change
This is what is baffling. They really assume everyone is working their butt off and responsible. Go to any major chain restaurant and you’ll see that’s false.
Tbh people who are working hard in each job they have, and not getting a higher paying job is because of how hard it is to pay college education without being in debt
I agree. I see some people complaining about not having money to pay medical bills or put food on the table of their children. However, at the same time, mom has new salon nails, the latest iPhone, and handbag. As a young mother, I did without in order to provide a better life from my children. No new car, clothes, dining out (even McDonald's). If you can't pay your bills you have not business spending money on frivolous purchases.
Rishab bomma Getting a college education is very easy to pay without going into debt. I’ll break the math down for you.
Not to mention the lack of any money managing skills and idiotic spending habits that could have been taught in our failing public school systems.
After that man asked his question he didn't seem to be listening/absorbing what was being said. He had what I would call rejection face.
He was there to bloviate, not listen.
Always love the people who say this never worked a day in thier life in a manufacturing job
The little girl sitting to the left of this guy looks so sad. Why do they all look like this? They're only happy burning and looting?
she didnt get her dope and alcohol today
She don't look happy that's for sure
I was wondering if it’s a transgender.
She's dreaming of Blakk Large Mlestation 🤣
When you're on the left, you're never happy. Come over to the right ;)
I wish leftist would stop talking about Appalachia. One I live in Appalachia. Two people have gotten their jobs back because regulations on mining and fracking have been decreased. Three many people in these communities who struggle are those unqualified for those jobs to begin with. Four people in Appalachia aren't just blue collar. They are academics, corporate vp's, and other white collar professionals.
Dude was not happy with the answer because it robbed him of his moment to virtue signal 😂😆🙄
D'Souza understates his case. Those that have income due to dividends really pay a double tax, the tax on the corporate earnings, and then the tax on the dividends. Dividends are distributed after corporate tax is already paid. The combined tax is much higher than the 23% cited here.
"Statistics for me…" that line always strikes me as odd.
You can tell when he said “VAT Tax” that guy had no clue what he was saying
Holy crap, you're right. Lol.
Rather than referring to it as vat-tax , D'Souza should have said Value Added Tax, it is in fact a purchase tax on all goods and services.. In the UK it is presently set at 20 % and is added, for example, to the cost of a new car or a bill for work done by a plumber.
brian rodney I’m from Kansas and I know what VAT is. Why can’t that guy know? We can’t go around explaining every possible concept in the world which comes up in conversation, it’s impossible and exhausting. People need to take control of their own education and at least attempt to acquire some basic knowledge.
well to be fair I didn't know what the VAT tax was at first but I didn't really care about the Scandinavian model to begin with
@@brianrodney712 the kid brought up taxes and specifically mentioned Scandinavia. It's obvious he didn't even bother to look into the tax code of an area he used as an example in his question. It's his own fault for not being prepared.
AS ALWAYS D, NISH YOU ARE CORRE T
He's shaking his head because D'Souza's response is different than what he had read on Facebook
This guy was basically saying, "See how smart I am? Notice me!"
Alabama Woodsman agreed and yes I need my happy face sticker and a trophy for trying lol
I love how we talk about "Wealth" inequality but they NEVER talk about Risk, Decisions, Good/Bad Choices, Working months/years with no pay, sacrificing everything you have for a idea- Inequality.
I have buddy who made over 1 million last year. No one seems to know or ever ask about the time he came to me to borrow $92 because his lights got shut off. His car got repo'd for 3 months. He was 5 months behind on his mortgage and lost his house in a effort to make his business work. NOBODY wanted to share in that, but NOW that he is a millionaire they want MORE EQUALITY FROM HIM???
Sounds about right. The left seems to assume that rich people were just born that way, they have no conception of self-made millionaires (even tho there's ample evidence for this) cuz it challenges their narrative of class warfare
So true!!!!!!!
Or that somehow a guy like LeBron James or George Clooney who earn more than most business owners, are never lumped in with them. But work your ass off building a business that employs tens of thousands people, and you are somehow a villain.
Bore off. Citation please? Whats your cut off point for rich? How about some hard numbers to support that? How many were born into relative wealth but parlayed it thousands of times over? Or did you pull it out of your ass just like the dumb fuck in the video? Ill hold my breath waiting for your answer.
I had this experience too but with my sister. I remember when she is dead broke! Glad she made it and make her business work. She's not a millionaire yet but she's getting there!
Many people choosing to live "paycheck-to-paycheck", boo hoo, shows just how prosperous a country the US is that people have no concerns over want.
There will be disparity when you have freedom.
almost everything that kid said was a lie....
Donovan Williams not according to his “facts” and “statistics”.
"So I've been doing a lot of research on this topic."
TRANSLATION: "CNN, MSNBC, & my anti-Trump professor said..."
@Mike Jones Wrong. It's not okay.
@Mike Jones When either side just regurgitates the opinions of those who already agree with them, that's not research.
I didn't think my reply to your reply was that difficult to understand.
Haha " so I've never heard of Thomas Sowell" I mean I've done research.
"I did my research" oh that made me cringe. 🤣
The moment that he said that the lower income class is paying at a higher rate I knew he was wrong. I been there and I knew I was getting Xmas at tax refunds time.
The driving force behind “wealth inequality” is covetousness...........
100%
70% maybe.
The primary concern is that gross income inequality undeniably cripples the economy...
Well said.
@@dragonhold4 no, extreme poverty cripples the economy. That is not the same as wealth inequality.
Wealth inequality is really low in Venezuela. Everyone is roughly equally poor. There’s nothing virtuous or successful about their economy.
This is because actual money is irrelevant to economic strength of a nation. WEALTH is a much broader term that encompasses production, opportunity, education, property, and GDP. Just looking at wealth gaps doesn’t tell you anything about the economic strength of a nation.
"So I've been doing research..."
Ok good, keep going.
"...on wealth inequality..."
So you just went and gulped down some propaganda. Awesome.
He did some marxist research.
@@whitexchina -- _BINGO!!!_
Oh you forgot about victimhood
If the middle class didn't have to pay taxes used to give free money, health care, schooling, housing, and driver's licenses to illegals, and free needles to drug addicts they would have more money to feed their families with.
"So, I've been looking at Twitter, and having done this cutting-edge research, I want to ask you...."
Ive worked paycheck to paycheck my whole life. Manage your money, suck it up.
If you live from pay check too pay check , you did it to yourself , opportunity is what America give you .
If everyone is special than no one is special.
That one clap though. xD
That was halariious 👏 one clap for about 2 seconds
Just the facts sir
prime example of how a question can be statistically wrong with a word being submitted inaccurately...🤔...
Had the student started with "I am led to believe....", then he might have some chances with his question.
Unfortunately behind being 'led to believe' still makes him a follower and like most followers they don't apply critical thinking to anything they read or hear. These people who are led to believe typically fit the role of an employee (and there's nothing wrong with being an employee, I'm one of them) whereas those who will not be led would make great employers. There we have the basis for different classes in a democratic free market society.
The lowest income earners make barely anything, so how can they possibly pay more in taxes than the richest of the rich?
He doesn't answer his question he completely sidelined it and started answering a totally different question
Love Dinesh.
"I bin doing my research".... gets hit with facts and figures.... "rolls eyes madly", not wanting to believe...
Someone programmed that guy with BS.😢😢😢
When somebody says "so on and so forth" they indict and convict themself as a buffoon.
The fact we have a paycheck is a blessing.