Becker (Ted Danson) on the Breakdown of Society

More sad than funny - because its true

[@billsmithjones756]

Like the fact he’s motivated by social responsibility not greed. Rare seeing such enlightened topics being shown in a humorous fashion

[@MrGordonSims]

“I saw a bird going hop, hop hop”, by Henry Gibson. I saw a bird going hop, hop, hop. And when I saw the bird going hop, hop, hop, I said “bird! Stop your hopping, stop your hopping, stop your hopping!” And when I said “Bird, stop your hopping, stop your hopping, stop your hopping!”, it didn’t. Miss that guy.

[@catweasle5737]

Back when TV was entertaining.

[@hadji828]

Ted Danson has to be one of the greatest comedic actors I've ever seen. Becker was my favorite character that Ted did because I totally understood the guy. Henry Gibson was also great in this episode.

[@regpharvey]

Yeah, if we only raised Federal taxes on Joe Schmo in Podunk Oklahoma to pay for all the problems on the streets of San Francisco, all of our problems would be solved... Just forget about the fact that SF has one of the wealthiest tax bases in the country and its and CA's confiscatory tax rates haven't solved a damn problem on their own in the past 50 years, yeah, if we just raise Federal taxes everything will be alright lol.

[@adamsmith6389]

Hilarious, if we only taxed more lol

[@larryyoderlarryyoder353]

In office 42 years and has done absolutely nothing for the people he represents, sound familiar?

[@davemarsee102]

Sounds like you want him to unilaterally raise taxes on you

[@lonestar2078]

we keep giving government more and more money, yet they can never do what they say they will. so we give them more money, and they still demand more money because they didn't get enough last time. Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution lays out what the federal government can tax. And if we went back to following Article 1, Section 8, we'd have a surplus. it's not that we don't have enough money. the problem we have is that government refuses to live within its means, and when things have to be cut, no one on either side of the aisle is willing to make the difficult choices and cut what is truly eating up our dollar: welfare, food stamps, and social security

[@AegisNova]

Another Texan with no grasp of corporate subsidies and how much they cost taxpayers. Another Texan who ignores our defense budget, and wants to blame social programs that cost a fraction.

[@tomwanek673]

Yeah, this may come as news to you, but doing stuff costs money. If you shut off the money, everything works more poorly or doesn't work at all. But hey, let's keep ensuring that billionaires pay far lower tax rates than store employees, or cops, or small business owners. I'm sure it'll trickle down any day now. In the 2023 federal budget, welfare, SNAP, and host of other programs to help people account for about 8 percent of the budget. And yet we keep cutting those programs because otherwise we'd have to put taxes at an appropriate level for the wealthy, and apparently we can't have that. It's bullshit, and I say that as someone who's started, run for 16 years and then sold a company.

[@KUROHiTO88]

Social Security's fine. It's all that money were giving to Ukraine/Israel that bothers me right now.

[@graciemollie69]

You want no taxes? Then dont complain about not getting something you expected to get for free.