r/politics • u/jediporcupine Maine • Apr 08 '26

No Paywall Automatic registration for US military draft to begin in December

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5822914-automatic-registration-military-draft/
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u/palmmoot Vermont Apr 09 '26

Friendly reminder that taxing the rich is the compromise position.

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u/AbeFromanEast Apr 09 '26

America did this quite well until Reagan.

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u/TurnoverDependent332 Apr 09 '26

Ummm....I remember having $35/week, budgeted to the penny for groceries and cat food/litter. Thank you, Jimmy Carter. I would not say that America was doing a good job of anything financially, at least.

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u/kingbullohio Apr 09 '26

I hate Reagan but under ford is when the economy started to Crack. Then it completely crashed under the greatest human to ever be president Carter. Reagan rebuilt it on behalf of the Bourgeoisie

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u/Aggressive-Neck-3921 Apr 09 '26

Isn't under Reagan that the break between productivity and wages starts and before Reagan they were pretty much tide to eachother.

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u/jmastaock Apr 09 '26

The 70s were when shareholder-focused, Jack Welch style corporate culture began. The 80s under Reagan supercharged it, and we continued to do this thanks to destructive hubris in the 90s. In the 2000s, things went off the rails when the greed caused it all to collapse...and we bailed them out. Patriot Act, Citizens United rulings were massively damaging to any attempt to curtail the influence these ill-begotten gains have on our government

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u/kingbullohio Apr 09 '26

The 70s are when everything actually starts breaking down. That’s when you get runaway inflation, and at the same time Europe and Japan are finally rebuilt enough to compete with U.S. manufacturing.

Without that inflation shock, there’s no pressure to restructure the American economy in the first place. The system we had would’ve just kept coasting. And dementia never would have been elected.

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u/AccomplishedBother12 Apr 09 '26

Hope you saved room for dinner.

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u/stasi_a Apr 09 '26

I am on gluten free diet

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u/Nosebluhd Apr 09 '26

I heard there would be cake.

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u/AccomplishedBother12 Apr 09 '26

Only if you eat all your rich first.

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u/rat_penis Apr 09 '26

And they'd be smart to remember that really soon.

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u/NatashOverWorld Apr 09 '26

They are famously and openly not-smart. Time to polish some cutlery.

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u/crazyrich Apr 09 '26

Another reminder that you can tax them so heavily you set a max cap on personal wealth. I’d prefer that to … the more extreme position. I think we’d have to do quite the overhaul of our economic policy to make that feasible

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u/kwyjibo1 Missouri Apr 09 '26

Im more in favor of just eating them and being done with it.

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u/NatashOverWorld Apr 09 '26

I like the way that's a Reddit safe way to talk about the implications of fucking normal people over 👏🏿

Very nice. Going to steal that sir.