Fact Check For The Feckless And Factless
By Mitch Berg
Honestly, with some of these lefty s**tpost farms, I’m not sure why I bother fact-checking anything. They don’t care, and they bank on their audience not caring as well.
But there’s always the off chance that I’ll catch someone who hasn’t checked all of their brain in at the lefty claim check, who is looking for an honest answer to a stupid question.
To wit:
So let’s get this straight:Â in the past 60 years, the United States has spent $22 Trillion dollars – more than the annual gross domestic product of China, or about 3/4 of a year’s GDP of the USA – to “eradicate poverty” and its effects.Â
But, on top of all that spending (which is ongoing, and has accelerated well ahead of inflation), taking a small tax onto the small number of billionaires is what it’ll ackshyually take to fix the problem?
Huh.
We’ve been so close, all along!
OK. Now let it sink in. Â
Then press flush.Â
March 27th, 2025 at 10:56 am
My goto response for someone bitching about taxing the billionaires: “Envy is the ugliest emotion.”
March 27th, 2025 at 3:32 pm
Forbes says the combined net worth of the top 400 wealthiest Americans is $5.4T & just less than 800 total billionaires; so maybe $6-6.5 T total. Federal budget is ~$6.5T. Who would have thought we just needed to increase the federal budget 2% to solve all the problems?
March 28th, 2025 at 11:47 am
I regard this about the same as when I saw a poster in a coffee shop claiming that one could make a vehicle like the Explorer get 35mpg. “Well, show me where it is in the dealership, then, and I’ll buy it.”
Nothin’, natch.
In this case, I think that the key issue with the left is not that they think an additional $120 billion will fix problems that $22 trillion didn’t fix, but rather that they think that an infusion of money is going to help people who, by and large, don’t understand the dynamics of getting and keeping a job, getting and using a bank account and credit, and the dynamics of improving one’s skills and job history to get a better job. They are, in effect, giving teenage boys whiskey and the car keys, and then acting shocked when the end result is disaster. They simply do not understand people.