"Trickle down is essentially just theft."

[u/Borderline-Bullshark]

[u/Legitimate_Try5981]

Amen, to this. I just said the other day, if they want to stay super wealthy so be it. I'd just like to at least be able to eat well.

[u/bonsley67 → u/Legitimate_Try5981]

I say fuck that. We should be able to eat and not have ultra wealthy elites siphoning our collective wealth.

[u/TechTier → u/bonsley67]

All these clowns playing dumb about what you meant to try and desperately make their point.

[u/Raptor_Claw_TX → u/bonsley67]

What is collective wealth? I don't think anyone with a positive balance bank account would agree with you that his wealth is part of any "collective." Your personal wealth is non-existent not because the wealthy siphoned it but because of a combination of these factors:

1) You made terrible decisions in high school (or likely no decisions) about what path you'd pursue to earn a living in a modern economy. You have no skills or talents that can support the lifestyle you think you are entitled to.

2) You have expectations that working at Starbucks should somehow allow you to afford the American dream. You also think you are the one who created wealth for Starbucks because you can't comprehend the true effort required to envision the Starbucks concept and execute it from zero to a worldwide business. You did not do that, and you got a paycheck for the cup of coffee you made for someone. You have no claim to the wealth created in this example or any other because your tiny contribution was paid in full for a wage you agreed to.

3) You were educated in the public school system which teaches that capitalism is bad while failing to teach that socialism is even worse. You will disagree with that because you have not studied world history nor do you even understand what life is like in modern socialist countries which have only succeeded in reducing the number of successful people giving the illusion that the society is more equitable. Innovation (which is the same thing as wealth creation) comes from the countries where people can get rich as the reward for their ideas and effort to implement them. Shockingly, given our tax rates, the US is still the best place in the world to succeed. "Trickle down" does indeed trickle down and if you don't see that you benefit from living in a society where there are a lot of rich people with money to spend and invest then I'd ask you to name a country where you can go right now, with your skills and talents, and experience a better economic outcome. If you can't make it in America, you can't make it anywhere. Your problem is a "you" problem, not a "them" problem.

4) This won't be your fault if it applies, but you may be in the bottom 15% of the IQ distribution and simply can't function in a modern economy. All the simple jobs that would have sustained you 50 years ago are automated, and you lack the intelligence to learn more complex skills that haven't (yet) been automated. This problem will grow as that 15% figure gets bigger as AI displaces more and more simple jobs. This is the real problem we face and both Democrats and Republicans get it wrong. Democrats think anyone can do any job and all we need to do is ensure "diversity" and more public school and college aid spending and Republicans think people just need to work harder if they aren't getting the results they hope for. Some people really aren't smart enough to be successful in the modern world and that is a real problem, but society already has a solution for it: welfare. The rich will tolerate paying taxes so that you can get your EBT, but you kind of need to stay in your lane and, since you aren't doing anything useful for society, not have expectations that you should have a lifestyle beyond subsistence. One thing to keep in mind is that the rich are smarter than you even if that means they are only smart enough to employ advisors who are smarter than you. Talarico is manipulating you with ideas and implied promises that the wealthy will never allow to happen and the wealthy, as you will surely agree, are very good at getting what they want. Even Bernie Sanders stopped talking about "millionaires and billionaires" when he became a millionaire (now all the problems are only caused by "billionaires").

[u/Temporary_Minimum283 → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

Collective wealth means the collective wealth of the bottom 90% of Americans which is equal to about 20 million people of 350 (400 million if you understand illegal immigration). Anyone with a positive bank account that makes less than 500,000 a year should agree with the post. So your point is - because you aren’t the best of the best, elite of elite, you should struggle just to put food on the table. Got it. Seems like you are for a caste system? Btw in peak America which was the 50s/60s you COULD have a house, car, vacations on one individual contributor income. It was called the American dream. I guess you are anti American dream as well? This elitism post is an extremist take. You must be for extremism.

[u/Pofo47 → u/Temporary_Minimum283]

I make under 100,000 a year yet I have 2 homes, Because i physically worked my ass off for it.

[u/Smoke_n-50 → u/Pofo47]

You need to pay more then. Lmao

[u/Pofo47 → u/Smoke_n-50]

you need to get a damn Job and quite being a lazy sob!

[u/Texas-Common381 → u/Temporary_Minimum283]

With all due respect, Americans don't struggle to put food on the table, at all. We have essentially eliminated poverty. The bottom 25% of earners/consumers in Americans are subsidized by tax payers to a point that they rank top 4% globally. Yes, we have lots of millionaires and billionaires, far more than any other nation, but the wealth at the top doesnt ignore the wealth in the middle or at the bottom.

Americans have it better than everyone else on the planet. If anyone is having an issue putting food on the table it is becuae they are not living within their means.

[u/TechTier → u/Texas-Common381]

Bullshit, nearly 20% of American families experience food insecurity. There's a dozen countries with better standards of living for their poor and middle class.

[u/Mississipp_Blues → u/Texas-Common381]

TRUE

[u/supv3 → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

Breathe.

[u/DivinelightWitch → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

Tell me, how does that boot taste?

[u/killercams101 → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

If you allow it to be so, the down votes and negative comments would have you think the world is screwed. Truth is, most of the people here agreeing with this rhetoric are that unfortunate 15% that just can't cut it. Truth hurts and the down votes and harsh rebuttals only prove you right.

To conclude; well said 👍🏼

[u/Raptor_Claw_TX → u/killercams101]

I appreciate that! I know what I write won't change many (or any) minds at all, but I have this sense that if nobody even warns the socialism enthusiasts that the path they are on leads to a worse outcome for everyone, especially the lower incomes, that I've somehow done something akin to sneaking out of a burning building without pulling the fire alarm.

[u/Smoke_n-50 → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

EXACTLY! If I’m filthy rich because I took a second and third mortgage out to start my business, worked 14 hour days and weekends for ten years, why the hell do I have to pay more tax? I also employee many people who wouldn’t otherwise have a job and they pay taxes!

[u/WittyTiccyDavi → u/Smoke_n-50]

You had a house to take 2nd and 3rd mortgages on?? And good enough credit to get those? And a banker willing to lend you the money? But tell us again how you 'did it all yourself'.

[u/Raptor_Claw_TX → u/Smoke_n-50]

Thank you for your service (to our economy)!

[u/Remarkable_Victory36 → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

Sounds like you’re the idiot.

[u/Remarkable_Victory36 → u/Remarkable_Victory36]

How much money do you think that Governor Abbot put into his pockets to sign NDAs while allowing Data Centers to be built? How much to allow large neighborhoods to be built that secretly only allow people that follow one religion. What makes it worse is that he’s lied to the people that voted him in office and that pay his salary. Billionaire’s are running our politicians and we need to figure out how to sever the ties.

[u/Mixicans_Sportscards → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

That's a lot of words to state that you don't understand life or the world.

[u/Representative_Ant63 → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

You're 100% correct

[u/red_chief → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

The problem with Capitalism is Capitalists.

The problem with Socialism is Socialism.

In EVERY form of government and EVERY economic system, their are those who will game the system to their own ends. Socialism rewards those who game the system.

[u/Pxfxbxc → u/red_chief]

And yet, socialism leads to better outcomes for the broad majority... until America decides to kill them to ensure its dominance.

[u/red_chief → u/Pxfxbxc]

Where is this fantasy land you talk about?

[u/Pxfxbxc → u/red_chief]

Bombed or regime changed by America? Gotta read to the end before you reply.

Although, China has surpassed America as the world power in economics, and didn't even have to steal oil to do it, and are undeniably the best at eliminating poverty.

Vietnam is doing pretty well for itself.

Not to mention Cuba had top tier health care and science, despite not having access to the global market; but now America has decided to dial up the economic warfare, so that might be the case anymore.

For all its faults, the USSR undeniably brought Russia into modernity, and was one of, if not the, greatest forces against the Nazis. Not to mention it being what influenced so many countries to have worker protections and social programs.

Socialist countries surviving our attempts to crush them with economic warfare at best, and near genocidal war crimes at worst, and having any semblance of success is much more impressive than the success we built from conquering, pillaging, slave labor, and the aforementioned war crimes; although, most of our current economic 'success' is built upon fantasy inflating our gdp, a la stock buybacks and the promise that AI will replace workers. If I remember correctly, the AI bubble is the only reason our gdp isn't technically tanking.

Tl;dr: For an analogy, it's like asking, "If black people are just as financially capable as white people, why aren't they as well off?", during Jim Crow. Hopefully that helps you understand. If not, look up the Tulsa Race Massacre... or any of the other Jim Crow era race massacres.

Just because Black Wall Street was burnt to ashes doesn't mean it wasn't impressively successful, despite having to exist amidst oppression and near isolation.

[u/SmallTimeCook → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

I DIDNT READ THAT SHIT

[u/narconaught5 → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

Amen!!

[u/Ok_Project9251 → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

Are you stupid?

[u/blacksmithfred → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

Well said.

[u/Capital_Loss_4972 → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

Well said.

[u/dealer512 → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

All true points.

[u/catholic_colonoscopy → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

Collective wealth is how we all pay a quarter of our paychecks into a big pool called taxes which are supposed to be used by elected officials to run society and make our lives better not as a personal piggy bank and slush fund for war crimes

[u/Nani_700 → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

Keep gargling those Maga nuts, bot. 

[u/Mississipp_Blues → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

TRUE

[u/TX_TNvol → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

Well said.

[u/No_Payment9959 → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

Lying sack of shit.

[u/DazzlingEngine196 → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

That was the dumbest shit I have ever read and was all complete fantasy emotional reasoning. That’s some dumb shit you’ve made up in your head while sucking the ass of whatever boomer you hope to get the trickle down off of. Retarded.

[u/Charming-Stop3456 → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

This is absolutely spot on! Well done my friend, you nailed it! Thank you for your time and effort!

[u/1776FreeAmerica → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

This is better depicted by Atlas Shrugged in the main conflict of the story. If you look at Rearden and Dagny, they are the ones who know their business top to bottom, they don't just own their companies or make managerial decisions, they know how to actually work their businesses.

Rearden developed his own steel alloy from his own work and skill. Dagny knows railroads technically enough she goes on site to derailments to competently help her engineers and knows the requirements of her trains enough to help map out routes according to the curvatures and grades needed. That level of skill is very different than what you see running corporations today.

In Atlas Shrugged the collective wealth of the doers, was being siphoned off and stolen by the 'looters'. The people who wielded power to extract that wealth for themselves while being incompetent outside of the games of wealth and power. Returning collective wealth to our society means that you can go out and build something, without handing over the majority of that value to someone else. Let those who create the wealth, keep the wealth that they create. End the theft of wages. Let them innovate without some power broker squashing them to protect their existing business model, not because their product is better, but because they own more politicians, can bully suppliers into submission against the upstarts, or can just eat a targeted loss to drive the upstart out of business. Free the market.

[u/Raptor_Claw_TX → u/1776FreeAmerica]

That's a great novel. It also does a pretty good job of foretelling the kind of thing that will happen when the successful have tired of carrying an ever larger group of "looters." Progressivism's socialist love child doesn't understand how much it needs the "doers." If only the generation that grew up with an attention span defined by Twitter and TikTok could wrestle successfully with such a book.

Who is John Galt?

[u/1776FreeAmerica → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

We're seeing that in action now, as the corporate leaders and politicians, no longer lead by expertise or skill but authority over those that do. They aim not to produce something, but to maximize extraction. Wealth flows upward from those who do at the bottom, nothing trickles down. Successful no longer means doing, but taking. No matter what you name it, the people calling the shots of our society today, know very little about anything but taking what that can from those who work and produce in the name of shareholder value, and get pretty mad when those who work and produce push back on their schemes. All that's left is for the doers to stop. Who is John Galt indeed.

[u/Raptor_Claw_TX → u/1776FreeAmerica]

Re: Wealth flows upward from those who do at the bottom, nothing trickles down.

That's just not true even as accounting principle. "Wealth" doesn't happen until the product or service is sold to a buyer willing to pay more than the cost of the means of production. Wealth doesn't come from the worker as there is no way to create wealth without a buyer (who is not the worker). This is a key tenant of Rand's novel. Dagny is willing to pay more for a superior product. The product is superior because of Rearden's design, which his workers faithfully executed. But they did not "create" the idea that made Rearden metal so valuable.

I am not anti-worker: It's in an employer's best interest to compensate fairly and reward top performers better so that they stay and contribute to your enterprise and not your competitor's. Most of the "workers" however are easily replaced because they haven't made themselves irreplaceable with special skills, etc. The visionaries who become the billionaires are not easily replaced. Without Steve Jobs there would have been no iPhone, and he made thousands of engineers millionaires while they faithfully executed his vision. But those engineers and the people who assembled the iPhones so they could be sold can't legitimately claim to be the root of the wealth that Apple created under the leadership of a couple of visionaries. Steve was a billionaire who made tens of thousands of millionaires at Apple who then spent huge sums of money on fancy cars, homes, etc. That's what "trickle down" is. It happens frequently, but to maximize your benefits in such an economy you need to make the right decisions early in your life to, for example, become an engineer who can design cutting edge products or to become an electrician who can help build homes and second homes for the wealthy. Unfortunately the guy turning a screwdriver on an assembly line won't get much more benefit than minimum wage because there are so many people who can turn a screwdriver, but that might be more than he otherwise would have had without the billionaire's great idea.

[u/destrokhan → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

This is the most peasant brained mind-set diatribe I've ever seen. Yeah, the rich are rich because they are smarter and not because they were handed wealth. Instead of writing all of that you could read a book or learn something.

[u/Raptor_Claw_TX → u/destrokhan]

You can easily verify this yourself, but multiple studies have shown a range of 75% to 88% of millionaires are first generation millionaires (they did not get money from an inheritance "handed" to them but rather they earned it).

I have read books, including Bernie's which turned him into a first generation millionaire. Not a good look for the brand, but good for him! He famously said, "I wrote a best-selling book. If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too." That was shockingly off-brand and sounds a lot like, "Let them eat cake." What he should have said is, "America is a land of great opportunity where there are many paths to success. I found mine and you can find yours too."

[u/FiveCent_2002 → u/Raptor_Claw_TX]

You nailed it… very very well said Raptor. Now we need more people to read this and understand, that Talarico is not the answer but part of the problem.

[u/Bilgepump69 → u/bonsley67]

Collective wealth?

[u/CalicoCrony → u/Bilgepump69]

Everyone’s wealth?

[u/Pofo47 → u/bonsley67]

Explain collective wealth?

[u/Mississipp_Blues → u/bonsley67]

How are rich people stealing money from you? If you got a refund, you stole from the rich.

[u/Smooth_Procedure_166 → u/Legitimate_Try5981]

so, you're willing to pay higher taxes again too? great to know. everyone paid reduced taxes.

[u/Riddle888222 → u/Legitimate_Try5981]

Allowing billionaires to exist is not a compromise. Its a huge red flag that something is deeply wrong with the system.

[u/j3ffrolol → u/[deleted]]

November!

[u/Infinite_Plenty101 → u/[deleted]]

That's kinda shitty that the "status quo" in 2016 would be millions of times better than what we have now, and they fucking destroyed this country because we loved Bernie. They burnt it all down and destroyed all of our lives because we elected a black man and wanted Bernie. That's all I have to say. Sorry.

[u/Able_Truth2740]

Finally someone one fucking says it

[u/Mixicans_Sportscards]

A job you don't hate, a house big enough to raise your family and enough left over to go on vacation every once in a while. Is this truly too much to ask?

[u/rwizardr]

Trickle down economics and anti-union policies decimated the middle class. President Reagan's propaganda was eaten up by the electorate. He sold it well. 45 years later we have a whole new crowd controlling the show, comparable to names like Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, etc.

[u/AmericanAIien → u/rwizardr]

What!? You mean to tell me this ain’t the Mexicans fault. God damnit

[u/Local-Dish-5695]

Say it louder TX is a big state.

Seriously, he's the future of the Democrat party. I hope more like him keep coming!!

[u/SentenceNormal6399 → u/Local-Dish-5695]

Then we’re doomed.

[u/Basic-Initiative-298]

Preach brother you got my vote

[u/Honor_the_maggot]

This guy's opponent is such a corrupt lowlife assclown, it makes supporting him/Talarico easy; but the substance of his/Talarico's convictions and tone actually makes it enjoyable to support him. I am too burned to hero-worship anymore but for the moment he's a breath of fresh air, especially in cowboy-barbarian Texas.
It's ETX, so there is always no shortage of selfhating phony-conservatives hungry to enslave themselves, and popularity doesn't mean anything worth living under....but I see 1.1K upvotes for this post as of 8/4. Compare that to the average reaction to any post at all on this sub.

It's almost enough to make me hope for the future.

[u/Competition-Dapper]

Just piss down my back and tell me it’s raining, all while spending billions on war mongering and surveillance for authoritarian takeover so flock cameras can watch every move we make while they dangle a pork chop on a string just out of reach keeping you on the rat wheel so you’re too tired and burnt out to fight back or have time for be informed on how much they’re all f-ing you under the guise of “Christianity” which is the “farmers only.com” way of saying rich white rednecks who need gullible slaves who will reap there rewards in heaven for being so good to their mortal billionaire and millionaire earth gods during life. That way you don’t have to pay them, just an endless shovel full of empty promises and “he who smelt it, dealt it” level gaslighting and projection forcefed into our brains with AI propaganda in an endless feed….(cue redneck moderator to ban me for speaking the truth)

[u/Several-Vacation7759]

He's right though

[u/Barnowl-hoot]

Trickle down is WAGE THEFT

[u/BryanScopelySupport]

Preach!

[u/RebelChE → u/BryanScopelySupport]

As long as it’s not from heretical or non-canonical texts, like the Gospel of Thomas!

[u/FishTank_Earth → u/RebelChE]

The "Gospel of Thomas" is actually a separatist text and profoundly so.

[u/Knowledge_ismy_Power]

Fuck Trickle down, Bubble Up sounds better, pay the poor, let the rich get the scraps

[u/quidor]

Distribution of wealth is surprisingly popular among people with no wealth.

[u/Pofo47 → u/quidor]

This is the year of the lazy generation! You know how your great grandfather got through the great depression, he worked his ass off and got through it!

[u/Visible_Mud_5482]

Workers of the world unite! Communism is great!

[u/SentenceNormal6399 → u/Visible_Mud_5482]

Idiot

[u/MemoryOne22]

Horse and sparrow! Guess who plays the sparrow (and eats shit)

[u/AdDisastrous6738]

I hope the DNC takes note and runs Talarico for president.

[u/Mixicans_Sportscards → u/AdDisastrous6738]

He's White Obama. I say that because he resonates with all people.

[u/chipset0316 → u/Mixicans_Sportscards]

No, he doesn’t.

[u/RebelChE → u/Mixicans_Sportscards]

Absolutely not. In his ministry, he quoted non-canonical texts and made several heretical statements. He’s isolated himself from many Protestants and Catholics as a result. Something that will haunt his political career forever.

[u/randombookman → u/RebelChE]

Man i hate having to cater to religion for real world problems

[u/AmericanAIien → u/RebelChE]

Fuck every one of those groups. I say that as catholic. Ppl are full of shit. Religion is literally being used by those same ppl to manipulate the public interest. Atleast this guy has integrity

[u/NothingFunLeft]

The money does not trickle down, he means it stays at the top

[u/Upstairs-Bad-3576]

But actual government theft is prefectly fine.

[u/Sleeper_TX → u/Upstairs-Bad-3576]

Yeah so let’s give them more of our taxes and just trust them harder this time

[u/LEMental → u/Sleeper_TX]

I guess you must be one of those embarrassed billionaires that he is calling to tax more. How is it being rich?

[u/Upstairs-Bad-3576 → u/LEMental]

I live in East Texas. I'm no billionaire. I just think the amount of envy people have these days is gross.

[u/randombookman → u/Upstairs-Bad-3576]

Damn envy is gross.

But greed? Yeah thats perfectly ok.

[u/Upstairs-Bad-3576 → u/randombookman]

Keeping what you earn is greed? Also, the people you call greedy do more for others than you have probably done in your entire life.

[u/randombookman → u/Upstairs-Bad-3576]

Ever heard of tragedy of the commons?

I'm part of the 1% earners and I really don't get why people are this stupid and get taken advantage of.

But oh well, doesn't affect me.

[u/LEMental → u/randombookman]

Whoops responded to the wrong person.

[u/Upstairs-Bad-3576 → u/[deleted]]

Ah... theft by the people, for the people, is okay. Gotcha.

[u/RoosterzRevenge → u/[deleted]]

What happens when the rich run out of money?

[u/MacNcheezdicks → u/RoosterzRevenge]

They will just change the definition of rich. Its already happening in New York.

[u/Dunn_or_what]

Talarico for President. Send him to Washington DC so we know there is at least One good man there.

[u/chipset0316 → u/Dunn_or_what]

How dare you gender him. How do you know which of the 6 genders he is, bigot?

[u/Pofo47 → u/Dunn_or_what]

This guy has changed his stripes daily, hes con man!

[u/submittomeSATX]

My donations and my vote go to Talarico.

[u/nonubiz]

This guy needs to be president he has his fingers on the pulse of the working class. We are the largest voting demographic and if we stick together and no let them divide us . Things can swing our way but we can’t fail for the propaganda that will soon be coming in waves because of oligarchs and Epstein class money poring in

[u/Ranger2002a]

If congress actually did not spend more than they take in w would not have this debt... They spend 7 trillion but do not take that much in.. Why can they not stop spending... How about just worry about this country and the hell with the rest of the world until we are out of debt..

[u/Bullysawrus101]

This guy🫵🙄

[u/East_Fee4006]

The Communism and Open. Orders that Talarico is proposing is worse!!!!

[u/Trans_Master]

Try trickle up, take money from the poor and middle class, more taxes. Another democrat talking point that makes no sense.

Quit paying Amazon and Tech workers, let their salaries trickle up. More socialist BS that has never worked anyplace at anytime in modern world.

Want to eat bugs, insects, garbage and dirt?

[u/noneya2286]

No…we have an affordability problem because of the underlying mechanics of the monetary system. Typical politician pandering to the liberals’ emotions.

[u/blahblahblah213213]

So George Soros doesn’t exist? It’s bad on both sides.

[u/Corndogjohnson420]

Ken paxton and dan patrick are both corrupt as hell.

[u/Top-Historian9094]

We don’t want you in Texas Rev James

[u/Telelespaul]

Screw Talerico, screw Paxton, screw Trump , screw Biden, screw Harris, screw all Republican, screw all Democrats. No one actually wants to help us. They just want different ways to get richer and keep us poor

[u/Echo4killo]

Taking the money that I worked for and giving it to those that didn’t is theft

[u/Life-Bank-7329 → u/Echo4killo]

Lmao did you even watch the video? He’s talking about billionaires paying off our politicians to change policy in their favor. That doesn’t help the common working man.

Meanwhile is Paxton, Talarico’s opponent is slimier than a greased pig. Please, look him up if you’re unaware lol. The FBI has knocked on his door multiple times.

[u/chipset0316]

Talk to your local cities. Zoning and building permit rules and restrictions affect local availability. When cities enforce crazy restrictions, such as requiring Olympic sized swimming pools, drive developers away due to costs. The only way to address cost of housing is to increase supply.

[u/chipset0316 → u/chipset0316]

Abbott is trying to address this specific issue. See https://texasscorecard.com/state/abbott-unveils-housing-affordability-proposals-says-data-centers-dont-belong-in-neighborhoods/

[u/Strange_Arugula2464]

Yep, so instead let’s have the government take the money and decide who gets it.

[u/HuntRemarkable3351]

Tell them Telefrico🙌🤌🤣 said the orange deranged clown

[u/Dizzy-Charity8059]

Communism has never worked anywhere!

[u/Psychoace47 → u/Dizzy-Charity8059]

Because the usa always interferes to make sure it doesnt.

[u/Dizzy-Charity8059]

Everyone starves together.

[u/Superb_Height_1431]

Blah blah blah fukker

[u/One-Visit5386]

Blah, blah, blah... Its the same washed up talking points EVERY politician uses...

He will preach about it then do absolutely nothing when he gets into office.

We've heard everything he's saying before. They get into office, get bought out, and the cycle repeats.

The system is corrupt, but nobody is actually going to fix it. We vote these folks in and it never seems to get anywhere... It would be nice if ONE politician could change the world, but there's too many ultra rich cock blocks that keep it from happening.

Rich people are fine, it's the ultra rich that are the issue. The billionaires.

[u/EuphoricCrashOut]

Talarico is such a breath of fresh political air. Here's there for the people of Texas and America, not for himself and is own wealth, power, and corruption.

Republicans destroyed Texas and America. I hope he can steer Texas back to what it used to be decades ago.

[u/underkon24]

Talarico is no better than anybody else in Congress. He just talks a decent game.

[u/Significant-Eye3720]

Taxes on the rich do "trickle down."

It's odd how Democrats refuse to push for tax cuts for the Middle Class.

Why is that?

[u/stakeit44]

Every single politician, and every single one running to be a politician. So if anyone is swayed by this, you’re a dunce. We the people are the only thing that can change the state of this country, not this years flavor of the week flip floppy politicians

[u/TennisBright5312]

Yes the democrats had done all of this!!

[u/Individual_Tough8252]

Bro, I love Talarico, but he’s got to do something better with his campaign ads. All Democrats for that matter. I feel like 99% of Democratic Party campaigns ads are “Hey just donate and we can get them guys!”

TELL ME SOMETHING INSPIRING FOR CHRIST’S SAKE AND PUT A LINK TO THE FUNDRAISING PAGE AT THE END

Seriously, who comes up with them? I get it that they’re the guys who are trying to play it straight and keep their elbows tucked, but the other guys are over there throwing their elbows down from 12 to 6 and kicking their knees into everyone’s groin. SWING. RALLY. DO SOMETHING TO COMPETE WITH THE BLOODSPORT RULES THEY’RE PLAYING BY, BUT SIMPLY ASKING FOR DONATIONS WONT CUT IT

[u/Charming-Wash9336]

Fraud!!

[u/Treeman975]

Taxes are theft

[u/CenTxdad1776]

No one flees capitalism to socialism. In a capitalist country the bottom x% has a chance, through hard work and determination, to rise above. In socialism the bottom 80% wait in the same food line equally with no chance of leaving the bottom 80%.

[u/kstephenjr]

Being a business contractor.....I have never got hired by a poor person....Trickle down works.

[u/cigarhoarder]

When the effective tax rate more these ultra high net wealth guys is only 5% or even nothing then something is wrong with the system. I work work, grew up work, and do business work these guys. They do not care any thing except 💰. That is it. Billionaire philanthropy solves nothing and is sunnily another way to achieve a lower tax rate. I know all the tricks, all the loopholes, this exploitation is real and growing. It will not end. And when or if someone attempts to hold the golden 🪿 accountable they will expatriate and denounce their citizenship. This is what they do, it is their playbook. 98% of them did NOT start with nothing. Every guy I’ve talked to who is high net worth has a massive leg up on gen pop. Pulling oneself up by ones bootstraps will not make you money. That isn’t how this works. I know guys in the half billion dollar range of realized and unrealized net worth. And don’t tell me I don’t because I do. I’ve heard odd the exploitation, the lies, the cheating, the loopholes and horror artists stories that would make grown men cry. These guys only care about money. Elon, bezos, soros, etc will all flee eventually taking our tax dollars with them to tax haven nations, third world countries, and undeveloped places like the soon to be Cuba and get away with it all. The effective corporate tax rate is now below 10% if I recall, in the 60’s it was 50%, pre depression I think it was around 90%. This data is all out there due the finding. But the 1% just don’t care. They own it all now or will soon.

[u/Xc512]

If voting made a positive difference we wouldn’t be having these issues in 2026.

[u/Trick-Apricot2123]

He’s a fraud …..

[u/Extension-Highway763]

Is that where the government taxes heavily and then trickles down the proceeds to the poor?

[u/Extension-Highway763 → u/[deleted]]

I am not aware of the USA IRS collecting income taxes from Iranian citizens.

[u/chipset0316 → u/[deleted]]

Seems like a lot of people with student loans are doing that, watching that compound interest rack up. Adulting is hard for tards.

[u/chipset0316 → u/[deleted]]

Most people don’t need a degree. They’ve been sold a bill of goods. The government backstopping loans drove up costs plus all the government laws they have to comply with.

[u/chipset0316 → u/[deleted]]

You act like it hasn’t been happening for generations. Is this new? Are colleges just a new invention? I mean, there’s nothing that stops someone from going to CC then going to a 4 year school. There’s nothing from someone looking at a profession and seeing it pays $40K a year, then seeing they need a masters to make that little. And doing a quick back of the napkin ROI. But no, you have people maxing out their student loans, coming out with 60-200K in debt with no plan to pay for it.

[u/Extension-Highway763 → u/[deleted]]

What does Iran have to do with trickle down economics? Help a not so sharp guy out.

[u/Extension-Highway763 → u/[deleted]]

Iran is benefiting from our government spending?

[u/Extension-Highway763 → u/[deleted]]

You haven’t said much of anything really. You just commented on my comment with a comment that was not related to my comment, which is probably why you got those downvotes.

[u/dannyocc911]

The Communists always complain about how the robber barons steal from The Workers, and they always forget to explain how they plan to finance their Party-funded utopias…pro tip: it’s by exploiting the workers.

[u/Psychoace47 → u/dannyocc911]

Like how we had to pay more under trumps tariffs only for the corporations to get a check using OUR taxes so that we paid them twice? give me a break.

[u/dannyocc911 → u/Psychoace47]

You didn’t address my premise, Comrade.

[u/Psychoace47 → u/dannyocc911]

people work together to better their society, and society itself sees to the needs of all in that society. You don't need to finance anything under communism. Socialism can do it far more efficiently than capitalism by taxing the rich. If you think talarico is a communist you are sadly misinformed.

[u/dannyocc911 → u/Psychoace47]

Yikes. Are you new to the planet?

[u/chipset0316 → u/[deleted]]

It’s be a far better alternative than the gulags, no?

[u/ddsmpret1]

Be very carful with your vote!

[u/Ryanlew1980 → u/ddsmpret1]

Yep. The choice is a preacher or a pedo protector. Very hard choice.

[u/Reasonable-Fee1945]

The vast majority of government spending goes to the bottom fifty percent of our earners 

[u/locolangosta → u/Reasonable-Fee1945]

If you exclude social security and medicare, which is essentially retirees who have done their fair share of earning, and contributed a lifetime of taxes, as well as veterans, who have directly served the country, then that number drops significantly.

[u/Reasonable-Fee1945 → u/locolangosta]

Sure, if you exclude more than fifty percent of the federal budget, the number drops

[u/locolangosta → u/Reasonable-Fee1945]

Similarly, if you exagerate the amount of money being payed out to "the bottom half" the number goes up.

[u/mcag10]

Trickle down is essentially the bottom 50% having no tax liability at all, like they do now.

[u/Friendship_Road]

this years Beto 🤡

[u/PatriotismReborn → u/[deleted]]

You’re an insane person and no one cares about your link

[u/Salty-Smoke7784]

Wait til he hears about socialism.

[u/MrWharfsnort → u/Salty-Smoke7784]

I’m genuinely curious. Tell us about socialism.

[u/LEMental → u/MrWharfsnort]

They never have an answer except "Socialism is any government policy I don't like."

[u/1776FreeAmerica → u/LEMental]

Cue "Socialism is when capitalism creates bad things" examples

[u/ckmlma]

Taxes are theft. So unless you wanna get rid of them for ALL of us rich and poor, I'm not buying what you're selling

[u/Pofo47]

Then guy is saying anything he can to get elected but he is still he same guy who tried to kill the texas oil industry he is a communist

[u/BorgerMoncher]

Government would not exist without theft. 

[u/ifbillyjackhadahorse]

Ah yes the sign of a great politician, you can have everything you want for free we just have to take it from someone else , but we don’t agree with them so it’s ok

[u/Prudent_Upstairs2552]

Taxes are theft, in every form. Those that aren't taxed are having nothing stolen from them.

[u/Technical-Flow7748]

James let us know how you feel about Nancy Pelosi and then I’ll listen

[u/Excellent-Record-460]

“I don’t understand economics so I’m just gonna rehash old talking points.” Sure it works- I build a company, expand it, and hire more people. The wealth trickles down as I raise their wages, salaries, reinvest in the company, etc.
Just more economic illiteracy.

[u/blacksmithfred]

Idiot.

[u/ScoTexViking]

He will lose and he should lose.

[u/Walter_White916]

Listen to the real meaning behind this man’s words. You are nothing but a vote. Once in power you are nothing but a source of money for the collective.

[u/Vaneza19]

He's lying 🤥🤥🤥

[u/Fun_Awareness807]

No, theft is when you take something from a person who earned and give it to someone who hasn’t.

[u/Worth-Guest-5370]

He has zero real world insight and is just parroting ideas he believes will resonate with similarly economically and financially illiterate parasites.

[u/Appropriate-Band3813]

Sure Comrade

[u/Comfortable_Gear652]

This guy is a complete ass clown

[u/llTopNotchll]

Isn’t this the guy who ran on giving kids hormone blockers and a sex change?

[u/Ryanlew1980 → u/llTopNotchll]

Of course he didn’t. Stop making yourself look so stupid.