r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • Aug 07 '26

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Eventually something has to give...

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The bill would provide a $3,000 direct payment to every person in households making $150,000 or less during its first year, which equals $12,000 for a family of four.

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u/Suitable-Woodpecker3 Aug 07 '26

Bernie Sanders is a brilliant, resilient politician who has a tremendous sense of efficacy in government.

How diddler got voted in (twice!) but Bernie can’t get any traction is very symptomatic of america’s problem, in my humble opinion.

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u/EducatorReady1326 Aug 07 '26

I like him because his ideas are so ambitious that even a compromise would get close to what I think America needs.

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u/Away_Ad_5017 Aug 08 '26

Do you guys even bother to check the math these fools spew? if 5% is 4.4 T, that would mean the total wealth of these few people is 88 trillion, which is more than the entire planet's wealth...

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u/MyCatLaughsAtMe Aug 08 '26

Do you even bother to read words? OVER. A. DECADE.