What I Would Do If I Was President...

[@zorblock2762]

German: If I was president I'll build camps 👁👄👁

[@mrravenface]

The Memories.

[@popovski4385]

@@mrravenface you mean the austrian painter?

[@slavetislamic1957]

6:20

[@davidbascom5781]

I love how everyone from Europe always makes fun of American politics and then I watch something like this and tommy is literally just an American liberal

[@longdongsilvers483]

most accurate comment, hes been showing it alot more recently

[@teddypicker8799]

He's right though the rich avoid taxes through offshore accounts or investing all their capital. People like Musk and Bezos pay less than 5% tax

[@davidbascom5781]

@@teddypicker8799 I'd rather close tax loopholes that allow them to do that than just make more taxes

[@Bova-Fett]

Not even, in some ways he would be Republican.

[@davidbascom5781]

@@Bova-Fett how?

[@3NC3PH4L0N]

6:28 RUN! Tommy wants to put Twitch in a camp to (re)educate them! :)

[@bigbubble4282]

"They will have to learn how to pay attention." A literal CONCENTRATION Camp

[@dominator1914]

@@bigbubble4282Typical German.

[@hopfinatorischerkuchenkrieger]

@@dominator1914 In Germany we call this guy "basiert".

[@RubberToeYT]

The rich tax avoiding really is so awful

[@Jacob-qr8pl]

It's awful, but like what Tommy said, they're the geniuses for finding the way to avoid being taxed. The problem is with politicians keeping the status quo to help out their rich friends and not changing the tax code into a simpler, more comprehensible system.

[@imperator_musicae4400]

@@Jacob-qr8pl nailed it

[@League_Femboy]

@@Jacob-qr8pl Exactly. And then they make excuses about it being too difficult to close loopholes etc when it really isnt that difficult.

[@zach4143]

@@Jacob-qr8pl genusises? Idk. Clever? Sure.

[@bronzewaffle2310]

The rich contribute more to society through their various companies (read: Microsoft, Amazon, Spacex, and similar) than they would if they actually paid all their taxes. The government is terrible at managing the money they already receive, imagine if they got MORE of it. We’d be in the same societal place we are now but the politicians would be lining their pockets more than they already do AND society wouldn’t have the juggernauts that have enhanced daily life so greatly.

[@bighillraft]

1:26 Tommy moment

[@Panthi-QT]

Damn, I wanna hear what tommy says about Israel.

[@FriedrichBarb]

He would want to gas ze juice

[@fromokesar0]

@@FriedrichBarb who wouldn’t

[@Gamerguy_69420]

@@FriedrichBarb bruh

[@FriedrichBarb]

@@Gamerguy_69420 🗿

[@Gudermian]

@@fromokesar0 I respect that

[@davidbascom5781]

Clearly misunderstanding birthrates issue. It's not number of people that's an issue is the demographics of people. If birthrates continue to decline your going to have a society when the majority of the people are old, not young. All of the existing support for the elderly relies on the young to pay into social programs and support the elderly. Your society becomes too top heavy and you can no longer provide for everyone

[@itsjonny1744]

Japan is a sign of how this goes and its not good, it is consistently in massive debts and the debt burden isnt shrinking despite the population doing so

[@sirrevenant1]

It's fine if the population starts to become a majority of elderly people, you just need to reform the economy to fit that. If you can the population of the world will slowly decline and be fine if you have some young people left. You can then take down some cities and regrow the earth.

[@davidbascom5781]

@@sirrevenant1 how do you propose restructuring the economy in order to do that?

[@latviankhan2989]

and this malthusian idea of degrowth is disgusting, i want more people, the people saying that we need less people are not realizing what they are advocating for, fuck malthus fuck degrowth fuck WEF

[@7Rendar]

@@davidbascom5781 You have to design a system that can handle deflation as readily as it does inflation. In the current system inflation is considered normal, even desirable up to a point, but if things start to shrink everything goes to shit real fast. It is, by design, not a stable system. It's meant to fail eventually, but in a gradual way to funnel the maximum amount of resources to the top first. That's why the divide between rich and poor is ever increasing - it's by design.

[@andrewm5629]

Demographic imbalances in the future will lead to massive burdens (ie. Higher taxation) on the working age population to be able to handle the far larger retired population...The issue is not just purely "we need more people", it's "we need to balance out the demographics or we're screwed in a few generations".

[@Seanfones]

POV: Slowly being radicalized by a German socialist

[@apian7594]

He’s just a social liberal

[@baron6588]

The guy is pro-business, tf you talking about?

[@mattshredmaster7477]

Thank God he has no power

[@wrcergrrv4603]

Well it's actually quite easy for Tommy to avoid paying a large portion of his taxes, since streamers and youtubers can write off a lot of things as a business expense and cut from their taxes.

[@TommyKay]

what for example?

[@wrcergrrv4603]

​@@TommyKay Any piece of setup or equipment, a product you promote etc. What I meant is this is easier to do compared to other businesses because streamers or KZbinrs are a very broad definition of business, as they can practically make money off of anything.

[@burtreynolds8030]

If you want to solve taxes you have to stop taxing income and tax goods and services, the ultra rich can avoid having an income but can’t avoid things like property tax or sales tax, which already scales with wealth

[@SahilShirazee]

You're assuming that when you stop taxing income people are going to go on max spending spree which is not going to happen. They're also so many more issues with no more income tax. If you want to tax the wealthy its the elimination of loopholes and a higher threshold.

[@burtreynolds8030]

@@SahilShirazee people spend the money they have that’s been a fact for all of history, regardless of class, money is always moving and that can be taxed

[@3NC3PH4L0N]

@@burtreynolds8030 Youre right. To assume everyone is equally greedy is BS. Thats not how economy works. I, for myself, am absolutely ok with spending all my money on things and if the rich hadnt that income they have, they would too. Like everyone would. We have a saying in german: "Ein Sarg hat kein Regal" (A coffin has no shelf).

[@SahilShirazee]

@@burtreynolds8030 Sure but from a macro perspective it can be tough to justify in an ideal and good system taxes are distributed to the well being of people for example countries with high rates of tax provide services to all such as free health care and cheap transportation and other forms of support like social security are things like that bad? They're bad if your rich as fuck lol. In addition certain countries avoid income taxes why? because they have huge sources of government income from commodities or from certain rules like Bermuda saying spend 250k at least to not pay taxes. Going back to the consumer and the long term if you cut taxes on income and start taxing more on spending of goods in real terms does that really change how a consumer spends if your moving the tax burden from one area to another?

[@johnyg1939]

With that watched, I think tommy would like a web game called the new campaign trail, where you campaign for president of the USA.

[@TermihnalProductions]

I just peeked the website, looks neat!

[@morganwartman8507]

Tommy: advocates for social welfare programs Also Tommy: I hate taxes Ah the irony 😂

[@javierrivera9824]

Lmao facts

[@odinscorzelli9013]

I think his point wasn't that taxes were bad, but that the system is subverted by the extremely wealthy and those that are not at the highest strata of the socioeconomic system are put through the wringer via taxes. He more so advocates that the ability to avoid paying taxes by moving to tax havens should be dealt with, or the tax system be made easier or "more user friendly" as he puts it. Anyone who battles against taxes as a concept are foolish, but in this instance I think he (and many others as this is not a new concern by any means) has a very good point.

[@morganwartman8507]

@@odinscorzelli9013 I agree he has a point about the complexity of the tax system but this is a very nuanced debate and many people do not enjoy the prospect of paying half of your salary to the government in order to ensure the lazy have a social safety net and can continue being lazy without dying. I agree with some social welfare programs and have even come around to universal healthcare but there are a ton of social welfare programs that are just a complete waste of money and only encourage people to stay unemployed so they can keep taking in the benefits that the government provides. I’d be happy to go into more detail if you would like to have a good faith discussion about this

[@makhnothecossack4948]

@@morganwartman8507 The funny thing here is, that middle and working class wouldn't have to pay half of their pay check, if the highest would pay the amount they actually should instead of hoarding it to foreign tax haven banks.

[@Haydinmela]

He's was talking about the rich evading taxes while the middle class pays a shit ton. If the rich paid their fair share the middle class wouldn't have such a big tax burden.

[@Novac_Alexandru]

German: When I will become chancellor I will anschluss Austria

[@Luckas8433]

in sweden the problem with imigration is that they dont want to work

[@eteatryufykyfkgfgjfjy3403]

Should’ve chosen better immigrants from Africa or east Asia

[@agrippa5643]

Send them back to their mudhuts, the f your waiting for?

[@CODELIRIOUS-sy8xz]

Blatte

[@rohitsawant5805]

Yeah, it works when you import the right kind of immigrants i.e. Indians, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Filipinos, Vietnamese, etc. The ones who are highly educated/skilled, work hard, are law abiding, tax paying, and start businesses. When you import Middle east garbage who don't want to integrate in the western societies you get what you deserve. Did Sweden have rioters, bomb blast, shootings, stabbings, 10-15 years ago ? NO! Then the useful idiots from EU all of sudden decided to open the flood gates and now we are here. How's the dIVeRSitY and INcluSIon working out?

[@davidzajaros5732]

Yeah, total truth.. system sucks.. I have been scammed of all my money as a student.. authorities cannot do anything..

[@cykacat]

dommy logic: we don't need more people, look at the city we need more people, nobody is doing jobs

[@braedenrussell8570]

Tommy wears the red tank top and goes on the communist rant

[@TheindigenousSyndicalist]

How is the exploitation of immigrants communism?

[@thecl0ck30]

Tommy going full revolutionary

[@IAmWarden.]

Tommy regretting not buying a house in a tax heaven.

[@yurivii]

I love the thumbnail troll. It was fucking awesome.

[@Ben-rd3mg]

Tommy saying the birth rate problem isn’t an issue lol

[@ramanujbaruah2200]

it really isnt, though I have different reasons for thinking this

[@w925gaming6]

okay I understand tommy's view's as a perspective of disagreeing while ignoring it. However, when tommy Literally says he is going to try and "educate" specific political views that's just shockingly/abhorrently anti-democratic.

[@lunaticluke1058]

Yeah but the decline of Europes younger population is dooming the European economy. You can't have 1 young person support 3 old people it doesn't work. this is exactly what is happening in China too. Another example is Russia in about 10-15 years they won't have an eligible army, this is actually one of the reasons Putin is attacking Ukraine as a last ditch effort.

[@Smithistory]

High taxes on the middle class is the price of government social programs, there are not enough ultra wealthy people to pay for it. The math just doesn't check out.

[@enzaquarto4940]

Anon wake up, there's another whacky streamer's political opinions video to hear

[@lawden210]

The top 1% are evading taxes We should follow their example

[@sashabraus9422]

51%?? Gawt Daym

[@drpolargaming]

Tommykay for president 2030

[@js_munchies]

I'm just sitting here like umm is he gonna play the game or not?

[@baseditalian03]

"nicest guy ever " is a little bit toxic with chat sometimes eh, just saying

[@gdasgadghafhadfhafd9160]

man says there are too many people on earth. 80 million in germany and 1.5b in china. does he realize that we live in separate countries and have different interests. he fanboys over defending ukraine and taiwan but with what people?

[@latviankhan2989]

exactly, the west will die out at this rate, and no the idea that there are too many people is stupid, the earth is more then capable of providing humanity many times over, since ancient times growth - the spreading of the seed has been humanities caling not degrowth

[@Carno_Yujia]

It's not just that either, clearly he doesn't fully understand the ramifications of a declining birthrate and as referenced by him later in the video "immigrants need to come in" will cause untold consequences for Germany and its national identity in years to come. Look at Sweden, France and the UK - places that took in large numbers of immigrants. I like Tommy but I am ashamed at how easily some people will agree to his points when they hold limited ground or reality ahah

[@danielkjm]

*Soo you dont wanna pay taxes. Soo you have the same take as the Rich.*

[@jjbolts3988]

Nobody WANTS to pay taxes (if you do why do you?).

[@yousefshehata6330]

I live in Dubai, the only "tax" we pay is value added our salary is not touched, I can't believe the taxes you have in the west, why haven't you revolted yet? State sponsored theft is what your tax system is

[@Pavel-wj7gy]

You don't need to go to Madeira to save money. In Ukraine, your tax as an indivdual entrepreneur would not go north of 25%, give or take.

[@fmc7774]

Why is that the thumbnail tho?

[@thi.]

because of clickbait

[@svampen7782]

Tommy isnt right but not necessairly wrong on some points. Like Immigration, countries dont need immigration because the issues he talked about can easily be fixed and tbh are not actually a problem most of the time, myself and most my friends work these so called "Low paying jobs" or whatever. And actually when it comes to migrant workers it has been in my experience not a very good source of workers as they have very often been shit at the job. But also we do have a low birth rate problem in Europe, but all we need to fix it is for people to have 2-3 kids each, it can be fixed by giving more welfare for having kids. Changing the demograpic of the population in a country too much will cause problems, Look at Mali with no single majority demograpic the country is in a civil war. Some pockets of immigrant are fine but you cant just import massive numbers, it will cause a rift between the native population and the immigrants. Just a fact of life. Btw, if you are gonna respond then make sure you read my whole comment word for word, i dont want to deal with someone who just nitpicks stuff to flame me.

[@0ld_Scratch]

camps were you learn to pay attention, how would you call that in German again?

[@wojtek9675]

8:32 we are not against immigration. we are against illegal immigration and "asylees" who are really just young single men who have no respect for women or the culture. if you just move past all the tourist attractions in Paris, London, and berlin they're all slums full of the "hard workers." They commit the vast majority of crime despite being the minority in the country. we understand immigration is important but tis also important that the people coming to our countries are good people.

[@curiousgeorge2082]

how about you solve the birth rate problem? Then you won't need immigrants and you won't need to destroy your culture, herritage and language etc.

[@duhviking5451]

51%!!!!!!!!???!!!!!

[@salahmahfud588]

Here in Libya we don’t pay any taxes

[@piroDYMSUS]

What was in that cut off part about Palestine?

[@felixhistorygaming8503]

Tommykay for president 2024?

[@chengzhou8711]

In this episode, we see Tommy do a basic critique of neoliberal capitalist ideology

[@konplayz]

good that he isn’t president

[@khinev3128]

Yo you need to make a political problem solving video compilation man

[@mariosvourliotakis]

I think the birth-rate falling is bad. Tommy, the more elders in Germany, the higher the Taxes will be for you!

[@benhoffmann3821]

I love Tommy but his political viewpoints and his knowledge on actual politics is very very shallow and oversimplified.

[@EvonLanvish]

Make a video about the Spanish flu.(Extra history recommended)

[@Jacob-qr8pl]

This video 100% translates to the U.S.

[@Chaz16]

51%…. F that

[@thepowerofsand6180]

This stream sounds like it had alot of political takes, every clip I see of it he's going on a rant

[@Nooob3775]

I disagree with him on a lot of topics but I do agree with him on the imitation problem

[@RandomAutist]

Dommy in the search to be relevant, found himself, being too... Based.

[@yourunfinishedcollegeessay3565]

i liked the politics section at the start of the video.

[@ilovebatata19]

The borders 🤤

[@PolishEngineer456]

I wonder how he would solve knife crime in UK or uniting the USA

[@WrenchedAdvice]

He probably wouldn’t solve the knife crime in the UK since he doesn’t want to reduce immigration

[@slivan]

First idea that german gets to solve issues. Camps.

[@Jug_Pack]

Classic Tommy. Saying that the European birth crisis is good because there is too many people in Germany and the world, while also saying immigration to Europe is extremely important and necessary.

[@quinzys1729]

Oh yeah Ungespielt (Unge) is the face of german youtubers besides montanablack. Ive always wonderd if tommy watches any german youtuber or just english ones.

[@juanmendez3290]

Damn, every day tommy is more and more based

[@TheindigenousSyndicalist]

How is the exploitation of immigrants based?

[@saethorkarl700]

what mods he using?

[@Njerimebanane]

the great war redux

[@calebszyszkiewicz719]

Bro look how america does tax.

[@Sagoner]

Become what you hated

[@oliverstianhugaas7493]

"Rich guy" Bros Tommy lives in an apartment, he is not rich.

[@HuntPost22]

Literally said “you and me, the middle and lower class” but ok

[@silentworkhorse1347]

Tommys take on birthrates are so bad.

[@arielest6749]

i just watched some german complain about stuff

[@johanneslangpap6335]

just move to Malta Tommy

[@Boretheory]

I am an Italian monarchist…. Napoleon was Italian :)

[@alessiobrlol98]

Corsican*

[@Boretheory]

@@alessiobrlol98and Corsican in the 1700s was :>? Which cultural/Linguistic group were they part of?

[@Boretheory]

@@alessiobrlol98he was born in the last days of the Corsican reppublic and the Corsican republic had Italian and Corsican as standard languages. Napoleone litterally means “Lion of Naples” in Italian and Bonaparte means “ The good part”

[@alessiobrlol98]

@@Boretheory he was a corsican nationalist and many people in Corsica see themselves as an Independent cultural group, no wonder why today One of the most powerful Independists movements in France Is the corsican One. :D

[@Boretheory]

@@alessiobrlol98 this doesn’t change that Corsica was culturally Italian and that the French state fixed this by flooding the island with metropole and Algerian immigrants by giving incentives and prohibiting their language which was a mix between Sardinian and Tuscan. Sicily and Veneto also want to be independent but it doesn’t change the two regions were 2 of the 5 most culturally important regions for Italy. Corsicans ( native ones) are culturally Italians. Obv not by dna as there’s no such thing as Italian dna

[@ronaldarnyek3659]

thats all nice but what about the countries east of germany and the eu forcing thing like this onto them when they whould need diferent solotions?

[@bighillraft]

they can leave whenever they want

[@thepowerofsand6180]

If they don't want to follow our rules they can stop receive our money and leave. We didn't force anyone into the EU they knew the rules and joined

[@ronaldarnyek3659]

@@thepowerofsand6180 its not about the rules its about economy

[@ronaldarnyek3659]

We dont need migrant because half of the population lives in poverty. i meen stuf like that, not taking sides here

[@ronaldarnyek3659]

@@thepowerofsand6180 also our government steals all the eu money so we dont get shit from that

[@ivan200804]

Whoah. That's some commie talk!!! I wake up every day and listen Hymn of DDR: "Auferstanden Aus Ruinen."

[@juanvivasp]

BASED

[@sethisansestorofsatan9477]

loled on young ukranians, we are the fastest dying nation before the war

[@agrippa5643]

Tommy spitting some truth here .. The world would be a better place with him in power.

[@Prasutas]

jo agrippa, thanks bro for saving octavians behind.

[@agrippa5643]

@@Prasutas Pleasure is mine.

[@Carno_Yujia]

Lmao no it wouldn't

[@Carno_Yujia]

I respect you Tommy but I heavily disagree with many of your points ahha.

[@huseyinakyildiz5413]

Mmmm I think I'll take political advices from somewhere else.

[@nickgurr4668]

im not racist

[@peeter2624]

sweet

[@noir1923]

i am

[@3NC3PH4L0N]

Even your random profile background is brown ma dude

[@lasagna2303]

Neither am i Im just lasagna after all

[@alanelcapo46]

BUT

[@Stan3-]

Come run for office you can pace as American lots of Americans are German including me mostly

[@burtreynolds8030]

You have to be born on American land to run

[@Stan3-]

@@burtreynolds8030 I know this was a joke🤦🏻

[@pigpig1938]

TOMMYKAY FOR PRESIDENT

[@Krizzylys]

we need immigrants

[@eLeft6]

Tommy is awoken?

[@kimsnightmare]

Naa man look at sweden and say again that you want immigration.

[@fifty784]

Based

[@terrifier2845]

zyzz

[@gregoriano2432]

dommy communist?

[@rullvardi]

??

[@Gun_Metal_Grey]

East German, so yes

[@reasonvoiceof]

@@Gun_Metal_Grey this but the opposite. East Germans are more conservative and nationalist

[@feuerwerkisttoll2935]

Hes is not correct highest tax rate in germany is ar 45%

[@mehmetsahsert3284]

but there isnt just 1 single tax so any normal citizens earning litteraly melt away 60 70% of it

[@thepowerofsand6180]

There's so many extra taxes so eventually it comes up to 51%

[@zinox9262]

it's not one tax fucking the german middle class it's all the ones combined.

[@Cool-123]

I am thankful you aren't

[@dummythicc6660]

"German capitalist echonomy" Bruh

[@danielboymuk1344]

?

[@dummythicc6660]

@@danielboymuk1344 ??

[@danielboymuk1344]

@@dummythicc6660 ???

[@dummythicc6660]

@@danielboymuk1344 ????