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I know it’s not really a typical thing to talk about on this subreddit, but I think it’s important, and I’d like to see the general consensus.
Thomas Massie is a far-right American Republican congressman. He worked with progressive liberal Ro Khanna to get the ball rolling on releasing the Epstein Files, and he opposes sending aid to Israel. He is, by all accounts, one of the last true libertarians. He votes with his party about 90% of the time.
He just lost his GOP primary because of those two things: releasing the Epstein Files and ceasing aid to Israel. Those two in tandem were enough to warrant over $15 MILLION in AIPAC money and active campaigning from the POTUS himself, in order to deseat probably the most popular Republican in Congress.
Let me be clear here: I do not support Thomas Massie. He is a pro-life, pro-gun, anti-*all* foreign aid, far-right American Republican. I would not vote for him under any circumstances.
HOWEVER.
This shows to me that the GOP stands for absolutely nothing. For all his faults, for all his failures, for everything he is and is not, he is a conservative in every way.
So this is MAGA. This is today’s GOP. They’ll defend neo-Nazi group chats, antisemitic slurs, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, misinformation, anything else really. But they draw the line at being anti-Israel and anti-pedophile.

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Very barebones and economically illiterate idea:
A lower deficit stimulates the economy.
Tax the rich, say a 1% wealth tax.
Put all the money from the wealth tax straight into driving down the deficit.
This stimulates the economy for everyone - *including the rich*, who now make more money from investments to offset the losses from the wealth tax.
Avoiding capital flight, strengthening the economy and not cutting a single cent.
Is this a good idea?

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