Tap wrote on Nov 6^th, 2025 at 10:20am:


Trump is literally taking from the poor to give to his rich friends (and himself). What is so wrong with Mamdani taxing the richest people in NYC a little bit more to help those New Yorkers who struggle to make ends meet? What is so wrong with him doing this so that people can travel for free on the bus so that they can instead use that money to provide more for themselves or their family?

Mortdooley wrote on Nov 5^th, 2025 at 9:15pm:


You would be motivated by "free stuff" too, if you were suffering under the current cost of living crisis - which is the case for the 50% of New Yorkers who voted for Mamdani.

Tap wrote on Nov 6^th, 2025 at 10:20am:


Past efforts to eradicate poverty are not indicative of present possibilities:

https://publicmoneypublicgood.net/

Note: contrary to what you have been taught (eg, Thatcher's delusion in the 80s,) public money is NOT taxpayer money; public money is national-treasury- issued money.

Time to start learning for yourself...

The great divide is a Chinese bot.
Designed to spread ludicrous economic theory in the west.
Best ignored

Frank wrote on Nov 9^th, 2025 at 4:01pm:


Bank notes? Who uses bank notes these days?

As for the value of a dollar: it's a measure of its abilty to buy stuff you need. 

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Your primitive grasp of money and its creation is telling. 

National treasuries CAN issue national currencies to fund essential government spending for free, though this is currently banned.

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The 'value'  of a dollar explained above.

Aquascoot's just a little bit bot-hurt, Great.

His knowledge of monetary policy has never been up to the standard of his business acumen, his motivational expertise and - most notably - his equine health care.

Karnal wrote on Nov 11^th, 2025 at 10:54am:


Spot on.

thegreatdivide wrote on Nov 11^th, 2025 at 11:22am:


1. It is NOT the denomination that it printed on the physical dollar bill, evidently, since what the value of what the particular bill can be exchanged for diminishes during the life of the physical object that is the dollar bill. So the bill symbolises something apart from itself. This is so painfully simple that it hardly needs saying, except to you.

2. housing market = houses + people needing houses. If you have a housing market crisis then you have either too few houses or too many people, which, ultimately, the same thing. How many houses are we building each year, every year? How many new people come onto the housing market each year, every year? Why is there n ever growing gap between the two? Because of government policies. Government policies make construction too slow and the influx of new people too fast.



You can print all the money in the world if approvals to build take too long and there aren't enough people and materials to actually build houses while there is a steady influx of new demand.

Again, painfully simple yet not grasped by politicians. Or maybe it IS grasped and they do want too have a housing crisis (and all sorts of other crises, all the time. There would be no need for politicians if there were no crises. The absence of politicians would go unnoticed in such a world.