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1799: French Revolution
2029: France will be bankrupt
227 years.
They left values of liberty for socialism.
The rest of the West will follow.
💡Tax wealth, wealth runs away.
The UK is taxing the rich so all the people paying most of the tax are running away.
The top 10% of taxpayers pay 60% of all income tax in the UK so it's in trouble!
Here's the third highest taxpayer leaving.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
I think a more plausible explanation is that Americans looked over the iron curtain and found they enjoyed a far superior quality of life.
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
- John Steinbeck
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Steinbeck never wrote this; it's a paraphrase by Ronald Wright (2004), not a direct quote. Steinbeck's actual 1960 line: "we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist" — about 1930s Communists he'd met, not millionaires. empathicfinance.com/are-you-a-temp…
All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
Ludwig Von Mises
#Libertarian
The AntiState retweeted
This is what making your country an international laughingstock for Israel looks like
The worst thing that can happen to a socialist is to have his country ruled by socialists who are not his friends.
Ludwig von Mises
The average man is both better informed and less corruptible in the decisions he makes as a consumer than as a voter at political elections.
Ludwig von Mises
Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.
Ludwig von Mises
The AntiState retweeted
Say whatever you want about the woke left, socialists, “woke right”, far right or whoever,
There is no group in US politics more disgusting than those who advocate for every last disastrous war, then confidently move on to supporting the next, all while serving in none.
The AntiState retweeted
Britain is still supplying arms to Israel. Britain is still supplying intelligence. Britain is still complicit in genocide.
Family of six killed in Gaza in Israeli airstrike trib.al/1Id8h3B
