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have had*

@@devedee2393 😂😂

@@devedee2393 it deserves more tbh

@@devedee2393 has had*

Marvee78 i would be too

Capital gains tax.

Hell yes, I would be as well

Ron has a daughter?

Patrick stepdaughters. He’s got 1 son.

@@Stupiddumbmanditoryhandle what when i don't remember. Did Tammy get pregnant?

@@PasserbyP Yeah, both. One daughter is from Tammy 1 and the other from Tammy 2.

coguepard2 eh no. Both from his new wife Diane. She’s introduced in season 5. She already had 2 daughters.

Didn't even face her, he just answered 😂

YES

Don't forget "capital gains tax" or whatever that means

@@Aslan5812 it is a tax not on your income but on the sale of assets you own that have appreciated in value (ex: shares of companies or real estate). And yes, I am fun at parties.

@@josepedroalves5087 Thanks, good to know. Although I still don't get it :D

@@Aslan5812 Suppose you make $10'000 a month and have 2 houses: the one where you live and a second one you purchased as an investment for $1'000'000. Of the $10'000 you pay 50% income tax, so you bring home $5'000 a month. Regarding your investment house, as long as you hold on to it, you pay no capital gains tax, however, suppose after 5 years you sell it for $2'500'00: you will pay a tax (let's say 50% as well for simplicity) on your $1'500'000 gain. That's the government's second bite, the capital gains tax!

Its not a land mine

@@prospero4183 but Ron didn't know yet at this time

@@prospero4183 Can you imagine if the girl detonated the "mine" and got the ballons?

And the "it seemed appropriate at the time" that follows is great too !

the classic I know3 this is a tv show but seriously kids are being brainwashed like this. it's just a cute report? no it's subtly putting pro-government ideas in her head. notice the question is: why government matters and not do you think the government matters and why

@@BlackScisir I would also add that it's a stupid question to begin with. What point of reference is a child supposed to have on the subject? Is she supposed to write about how the government she lives under matters, or how a theoretical ideal government would matter? I bet the teachers who thought up the report don't even realise the number of governmental systems that exist and just assume that it only counts as a government if it can be described as a democracy. She could just as easily write "government matters in North Korea because it is the greatest threat to your life on a daily basis."

Yeah, but that's exactly how it is, they give out a serious, convoluted topic and expect things like, government is great, because they build roads and make sure my mom and dad have a job and that I get good education. That's it. You go out of that frame and you're weird. School is allll about doing what's expected of you, nothing else, or maybe, surprises are good, but in the form of doing what's expected of you, but like really really nicely polished.

@@BlackScisir That IS the joke...

@@dingdingdingdiiiiing The whole purpose of school was to create workers for factories. I.e. do what you are told, this exact way

Glad we watched the same video guys

@@crownedstag647 underrated comment

Funny that landmine wasn't her first, and only point.

@@crownedstag647 yeah what a point of commenting dialogues, I didn't get

@Nik Nik mulk ka naam mat badnaam kero, ja ke tv dekho

The best no ive ever heard

Yes eating your childs lunch and giving them anti-personell explosives are both excellent parental qualities

@@timpyrules Very good lessons of Ron. Goverment doesn't matter and defend your property(the mine is not activated).

@@mikehoot3978 "Government doesnt matter" Ow gotta put some protection on that edge someone might get hurt

@@timpyrules You don't need a goverment to protect anything. mises.org/library/production-security-0

@@timpyrules In Soviet Rus --- errr.

The Thought Police are convening on your location, stand by for processing and do not resist.

Well the mother isn't arguing that the answer is wrong...More like berating Ron for his irresponsible behaviour towards a 4th-grader :D You'll notice it's also one of the few times he actually backs down from the confrontation ^^

@@MrGenericNickname Because if the girl keeps going with this she will have a bad time at school. As he tells her in the end, better to keep an open mind, read a lot and wait until she comes of age.

@@Javitomanzano in this decade in USA kids having a bad time if say the opposite actually. There is no protest in such opinion like "government don't matter", it's the mainstream.

well it was a full report, she only answered three words. she could've sticked with the opinion that the government does not in fact matter but it should've been a full report

Hey she has 2 to make a rectangle so it's 40%

What do you want with twenty percent of a sandwhich? I'm supposed to give you ten percent? Okay let me go get your five percent...

Estate tax

Exactly like the government.

That's how much they tax you. If ron was a bernie supporter, he would have ate 80%, then gave 19% to a person who was too lazy to make their own.

You sir, have your priorities in order. I've long maintained people don't really care for their children, they just do enough to convince themselves they do to avoid the emotional crucifixion they deserve.

@@alexdenton9176 All i know is that generations after me are going to be way more fucked than i was cuz "tv parenting" seems to me far less damaging than easy access to internet. On one side kids will be somewhat smarter due to all the knowledge they have on hand. On second theyll be even more withdrawn and asocial because theyll probably be communicating through devices more than in person than even my generation lol. It just not going to end well lol.

@@Andytlp TV parenting is also shit. Implanted shitty ideas in all of us. With KZfaq you at least have a chance at affecting your own programming. It's still pretty bad though.

But It's a field trip. I always was allowed to take a snack with me on (and only on) a field trip :)

The landmine was a bit much

@@bigfan1041 and the lunch

What do you mean reasonable, I'd hand her an AR-15 a couple of mp5s, a nuke or 2, a government sponsored private military, of course it would be under closed doors, and off the record. And a 50 year old Whiskey.

@@Y.M... I aadmit to have explained taxes this way to some of my coworkers.

@@TheBayzent did you mention that without taxes we'd have no schools or police forces and gangs would be able to control the streets?

Only if he actually understood how taxes work.

@@LadyDoomsinger Yeah stupid Ron, they take lunchmoney not lunch

LadyDoomsinger, he does, that's why he is Ron Swanson, and not you. Taxes are scary, and seeing as I already pay 70+% in tax. With 66% being income tax.

@@livedandletdie do you seriously have taxes that high?

​@@Ake-TL In my country, I you inherit money you have to pay taxes. If you inherit property you have to pay taxes as well, depending on the value of that property. Many people here had to renounce the inheritance because the property value was higher than the money they inherited. Yep, the State here seizes the dad's stuff and demands the heirs to pay a ransom for it.

You are smart.

@@Amantducafe whoosh

... full of balloons :D

that's the kind of merchandasing I'm interted in buying.

Thats not what triggered means.

I'm triggered because you and apparently 143 others don't know what triggered means.

A trigger refers to certain stimuli which evokes post-traumatic stress in a person suffering from PTSD.

don't breed

@InsertRandomName try clearing KZfaq history and search

@InsertRandomName go to the KZfaq settings, there you have options to either pause or clear history and searches

So so late but nah..

Politics included they're exceptional

Well, you could argue that current administrations arent living up to the ideal...

​@@INeedJesus4sure Deregulation some things is at least a step in the right direction. The government can't screw you over if it doesn't have power.

I agree. A stateless society would've been much better.

@@Lorkisen Regulations exist to ensure liberty for all. Wouldn't be much liberty in a country where murder was deregulated, eh?

Libertarianism is a socio-economical equivalent of Flat Earth. It "seems reasonable" if you are sufficiently ignorant. It's hilarious in Parks&Rec, not so much in real life. Essentially, it's like saying humans can fly (by relabeling falling from high-rise windows "flying"). What happens if government disappears? Some marauding gang around comes along the next day, takes everything you own and gangrapes you in the ass. And - surprise! - this gang is called "your new government".

Yes

It's been here since the first episode : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pMqEqaict7CzhJs.html (I don't remember that shotgun in any other episodes though ?)

Also, we later learn that the claymore was a birthday gift from Leslie... with a very predictable load : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kMl8opuotdWvqJc.html

hippity hoppity, your kid is now gay

@@plainidiot7596 gay? That's soo 10 years ago. Now your kid is a gender-fluid non binary transexual. See you tomorrow. : D

I have this funny feeling notably individualist libertarian man Ron Swanson would probably support people's rights to be LGTB whatever openly just sayin

then again, Ron Swanson is a better libertarian than most IIRL libertarians

I work for the government and I agree 100% with everything Ron says. Hell, I don't believe my job should even be allowed to exist.