Get Ready for the Collapse of America

The problem in America is the horrible wealth inequality. I am a small business owner, and the taxes that I pay represent between 40 to 50% of my business revenue. Yet, a business, such as Amazon pays effectively 0% tax and is showered with municipal benefits, including access to extraordinary amounts of electricity, which is driving up the utility costs for homeowners tremendously. if these large corporations had to pay even a 15% tax, the rest of the population, such as the Nurse that makes $50,000 a year, wouldn’t have to pay 20 to 25% tax. It’s all backwards and makes no sense. The working class is being driven into the ground, new entrepreneurs can’t get small businesses off the ground, and a growing number of Americans can’t afford their utilities, to save for retirement or to send their kids to university. Why should I pay more taxes than Amazon? Why should the person who builds homes, or the person who teaches our children, pay significantly more tax than a company which makes tens of billions of dollars in profit? Until the playing field is leveled a bit, you will continue to see the decline of the American brand. And for the record, I am a capitalist, but you cannot take care of a country of 350 million people without tax revenue. Since taxes are inevitable, everyone should pay their fair share, including those who increasingly get into bed with our politicians to keep more of their wealth and screw the rest of the country.

As a black man raised among US inner cities, the myth that Nations around the world will reject me is a total farce. I've never felt more welcome and safe in other countries like the Philippines

Mel Gibson was right when he said in The Patriot: "Why replace one tyrant 3,000 miles away with 3,000 tyrants one mile away?" You guys fought a war of independence on some ridiculous tea tax and now you're taxing the shit out of each other. You didnt defeat George the III., you became George the III.

The US Supreme Court’s decision on Citizens United is when the power was transferred from the Citizens to the Corporations. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act is now ignored.

Corruption has been running rampant for years now. It's collapsing because of that

I left USA in 1998 at 35. Been debt free since...no need to return.

It breaks my heart to admit it but total collapse seems inevitable. Love America but we've been ruled by people who despise us & work endlessly to topple us. Divide & conquer

I recently visited Switzerland 🇨🇭, a country that I am a citizen of and Bulgaria 🇧🇬 and was struck by how the stress level in both countries appears to be lower than in the USA 🇺🇸. I didn’t see junkies or homeless people anywhere except for a few people asking for money in front of the Geneva train station, but at night the homeless are nowhere to be seen. In Bulgaria the income tax is 10 percent and new construction of affordable apartments is going up all along the Black Sea coast. while in Switzerland the infrastructure, the railroads and everything else is in top notch condition. People in Switzerland are well dressed, polite and have money for shopping, eating out and traveling, even though they can’t all afford a private house with a yard next to the lake like my great uncle lived in with his family. It makes me wonder sometimes if the assertion of the United States being the most powerful economy in the world is either an illusion or something based on a narrow view of assessing economic strength without taking into consideration things such as purchasing parity, affordability of housing and medical care, public safety, ease of transportation, etc.

USA main problem is too much people are too self centered The country is not really united between the rich and the poor. The government has no time to care for the majority of people but more time for the rich. The divide between the rich and poor is widening with high tax and inflation. The majority of people are not happy working 2 jobs to survive .

Professional prepper here. This conversation is being had more and more, and I agree - Global South is where it's at.