Back to episode — Episode 1360 Scott Adams - Biden Speech, Senator Tim Scott's Rebuttal Through the Persuasion Filter
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d it? The moment I heard this, I thought, well, maybe they didn't have justification before, but you certainly just gave it to them. Immediately after seeing Biden say I have no reason to have a hundred rounds, immediately I thought to myself, how can I get more ammo? Did anybody think that? How many of you thought to yourself, my God, how can I get more guns and more weapons because he's talking…
← Previous segment →m, Joe Biden. I work for a living. I don't make billions of dollars because I started a company successfully. And conflating me and all the people who are, let's say, doctors or lawyers, consultants, entrepreneurs, we're not the ones who make this whole country work? No, obviously you need everybody working. But you couldn't take away this group of Americans, the ones who are individuals just excelling and inventing stuff, curing people of diseases, fixing legal problems. We're kind of important. The people who just go to work but create enough value that we get into this Amazon.com conversation, do you think I'm anywhere near Amazon.com? I earned every penny I have, and I don't think you should take it away from me by changing the rules after I made my money. That's my problem.
If this had always been the rules, if I had entered my career with a certain set of rules, I would have said, oh, okay, you know, that's what I chose. But when you change the rules after I make my money and now you're going to take a third of it away or whatever it's going to be, not cool.
Let me suggest an improvement to make this at least somewhat equitable. And it would go like this. I don't believe that anybody over 50 should ever have their taxes increased. That's it. Now, how you treat corporations is separate. If you want to put a minimum tax on corporations, you know, that's something to talk about. But I don't think an individual who's just working for a living is not a corporation, just works for a living and is successful. If you're over 50 and you raise their taxes, not cool. Just not cool. And anybody over 50 should just vote out of office anybody who even thinks of raising their taxes. Because that group worked their whole life to have what they have, and it isn't your job to take it away and give it to somebody who didn't do that. It's just not cool.
So if Biden said I'm going to tax the corporations a little more, have some minimum tax, I'd be open to that conversation. I don't really know if the economists have sorted out whether that's good or bad or even if they can tell. But when you tax people above a certain age and take the money that they've worked all their life to earn through no crime, no crime, you — so that's what I think of Joe Biden.
All right. New York Times in a tweet referred to Biden's economic plans as Biden's latest ambitious economic package. Is ambitious a good news word? Ambitious is a persuasion word. Right now it is ambitious. I would say that it's an accurate word. It's a very ambitious plan. But if you're only going to pick one word, is that the one you pick? That's the one that sums it
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all up? It's ambitious. I would have said huge, huge, enormous. If you said enormous, there would be no opinion in there. But as soon as you say ambitious, that's an opinion. And the New York Times is already defending against Project Veritas for their opinions that they're packaging as news. Here's another example. That's an opinion packaged as news. All right. Here's some fake news that probabl…
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