Bhahahahahahah! Sure bud. if you completely ignore the disparity between cost of living increases and minimum wages and the cost of housing and...you get my point. 

If you ignore all of the actual factors that matter then SURE, your theory is perfectly well-founded.

Doesn't really have anything to do with my post, I assume you meant to quote someone else.

But, if most people aren't becoming wealthy - it clearly isn't "easy".

You're right, it would be much more efficient to buy rich people more private jets and yachts.  

I might have been the only person to ever watch the show Titus, but he explains succinctly how the US dominance is coming to and end both domestically and internationally.

Trump’s War on BRICS BACKFIRES as Putin & China SMASH US Dollar w/ Ben Norton

The US dollar is in big trouble as Donald Trump's tariff threat to BRICS backfires into a major defeat. Geopolitical analyst Ben Norton explains how BRICS is far from dead as Trump claims, and why its latest moves are charting a historic move toward de-dollarization.

Pay taxes so the government can finally invest into something instead of having to settle for scraps all the time. Just look how decrepit the US look like: Streets with more potholes than roads, bridges that are collapsing due to lack of maintenance, the list goes on. MAD magazine even joked a couple years ago that terrorists won't attack the US anymore simply because they ran out of potential targets, everything looking like it's in shambles already.

Also no, they're not using this money, simply because there isn't anything they can use it on. Not even business acquisitions are big enough to shrink that pile of cash. Apple also has invested billions into AI, and did so early on already - does Siri ring any bells? - but it doesn't do anything to lower their cash amount.

Tim cook could literally Scrooge McDuck in that money if he wanted to...

Nope, Putin's currency is the one getting clobbered and the chinese leader is at just the right height in order "to get closer".  I've got a degree in finance so i know about economics.  

The funniest part about conservatives hatred for taxes, regulations & welfare is that the “golden age of capitalism” was during a time period of high taxes and growing regulations & welfare programs that saw the creation of the middle class.

The early 1930s-early 1970s saw massive investments/regulations in terms of worker rights, civil rights, housing, education, healthcare, infrastructure, transportation, communications, manufacturing, small businesses, farmers, banking, the environment, public safety, research & development, & safety net programs, etc.

So the argument that we need to cut taxes, cut regulations and cut welfare programs in order to have a productive and growing economy just doesn’t add up. It only benefits the select few billionaires & corporations that want to control everything.

You do know this actually doesn't help your case right.  If cost of living exceeds the amount or just the amount of money you actually bring home, exactly how much investment can you actually do.  Also, what you say isn't addressing the actual issue of trickle-down economics which doesn't works.  That is the main issue, investing in the rich does not mean they invest in the working class, it's the absolute opposite.  Rich people horde money, they do not spend money like the working class. Wages have not come close to meeting the rise of inflation and salaries have not gone up to match inflation.

While you can become well off if you invest in REIT, indexes, High yield savings accounts etc, even those takes decades to mature into anything of real substance and by the time if you are in your twenties and retire, the money in your account will have even less value than it does today.  So just having a job and doing what you say actually will not make you wealthy, you would need a pretty damn good high paying job before you see any real results.  Right now, at least in the US, you would need to be making north of 70K before you can do a decent amount of investing especially if you are single and either renting or owning a home.  You definitely will not be living anything of a wealthy life and you will definitely have to sacrifice a lot to build your investment portfolio for decades.  Usually the mark before you actually see any real gain in your investment is when they reach 100K.  Now tell me how long it takes to get to that level because I can use enough tell you from my own personal experience.  Even after reaching 100K, getting into a million while doesn't take as long does still take a significant amount of time and that still would not mean you are wealthy, just well off.

Xboxgreen is just an alt of Quickrick/Zeldaring. Whether he believes his bullshit or not, he only posts here to troll. Why even engage?

My thoughts on the Epstein files | Sen. Bernie Sanders

Not just about the Epstein files. (release them) Bernie says it how it is.

...

Enough is enough. Too many Americans have fought and died to defend freedom and democracy, to defend the First Amendment and the right to descent. That is what makes America great. Whether Donald Trump likes it or not, we are and will remain a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Not a country run by a bunch of billionaire oligarchs who want to move this country to an authoritarian society. Thank you.