Big Business: You Tax Me, I Leave.
I guess one just has to draw the line. If the mobs want taxes, handouts, and communism, well then let them have it.
Big Business for one, will be offshoring their money, and your commy dictators won’t care cuz they’ll be taking bribes. In all reality the greatest evil of the last century that is to be forgotten is the most popular one: communism. While Hitler took 12 million lives, civilian and militarily, it was Stalin and Lenin’s Russia along with Mao’s China and Pol Pot’s Cambodia that claimed over 120 million lives. Quite literally 10x more. Yet the media has all but forgotten. The people, all but forgotten.
In all this, people forget why planned government failed, why the popular worker’s movement which based so much on the ignorance of the common man, and their susceptibility to handouts from the very monster that is draining their own wallets, their willingness to push for minimum wage increases that will quite literally put them out of a job, or at the very least tens of thousands of hispanic immigrants who are vying for the increase. In all this, something seems to have gone wrong with the people here in America. Perhaps it is because we are bombarded with information. So much infact that we forget what is truly important.
Like the guy who can name every player on the Seattle Seahawks, but can’t name our Vice President, or the new Speaker of the House that they just voted into power.
It’s a shame really, and a great example of a saying I’m reminded of: “Democracy is three wolves and a sheep deciding on what’s for dinner”. I truly laugh and remark at statements like “Democracies always stay free” or some such nonsense like Bush’s democracy in the mideast proposals. I recall a little democratic nation I like to call Nazi Germany. All he had to do is burn the Reichstag and claim jews were the problem which liberals are doing yet again, ahh the neocon jews responsible for 9/11, how national socialists and leftist socialists love to hate jews. I guess people are just stupid. I think the only way democracy has even a chance in hell is only if some neutral commission controls the media, but even that would get slanted eventually. The only way to freedom is decentralization of power, state’s rights, and well Abraham Lincoln killed those, FDR buried them, and now Bush dug them up and spat at them with lip service to conservatism then goes and expands government more than anyone since FDR. Screw the two party system seriously. Let’s bring together the hippies and conservatives. Let’s bring back state’s rights. Let massachussets butt-rape themselves, and let california go sado masochistic. Whatever, that’s their problem. Let’s just make sure state’s rights come back so the bible belt can be free. We’ll see who turns out better in 50 years. A san-francisco, druggy run, high tax california or a religious, low-tax bible belt. C’mon I dare you.
Seriously if you raise taxes you lose tax revenue. It’s self-defeating. Atleast it’s true until somewhere around 15%. But we’re at like 30-40%. For instance if democrats come into congress, and raise my taxes from about 35% to 50% I’d quite literally stop bringing in money from overseas, stop hiring americans, and maybe even move my corporation to a low-tax haven like Switzerland. So raise my taxes, lose tax revenue and american jobs.
If you want more artists, give a subsidy to artists. If you want more farmers, give a subsidy to farmers. If you want more poor people, give a subsidy to poor people.
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What exact “right” of states do you want back? You live the freest land on terra and the only “right’ that you as a citizen fail to have is the right to lord your values over those who do not share them. Curiously, there is a vein of verity in what you say about taxes because people who have the power of employment wish to keep all of their wealth. This is why health care payments for workers have dwindled so much in America over the last fifteen years. Were you busy with something else over the last six years when nearly one half million jobs left high cost lifestyle America for Pune, India and points scattered across the subcontinent? Employers, corporations, which have more rights than citizens in America these days, took those health care savings, salray savings and stuffed them into the stock market which does nothing for the American economy save for raising the amount of money pension funds stand to lose if the house of cards falls. NYSE NASDAQ AMEX nothing more than casino gambling boards, pari-mutuel setups designed to keep the money flowing between the wealthy in regular cycles. And on the issue of the poor are they not the flotsam and jetsam of capitalism? Are these people in your view anything more than those who have failed and do not deserve the largesse of Mcmansion, two SUVs and a modest six figure slary no matter their skills. They sir are poor so that you and millions like you can have more than you deserve. And this is the dark spot in conspicuous consumerism that most Americans choose not to confront.
The class discussion and that of overconsumption is the debate Americans dare not have for at some point the light bulb of reason might go off above their well coiffed heads and shine a light on the hollow nature of the average life, not lifestyle of the American middle class.
Good luck broadening your horizons these next two years.
Yes, exactly. State\’s should have the rights to decide their values, not the federal government.
For instance, either way on the gay issue, one half of the country is going to be oppressed. The half that wants to ban gays, or the half that wants to encourage homosexuality. When you force federal decisions on states bad things happen. The only option for that state is refusal to follow the law.
Like will illegal immigration, many liberal states, or even cities refuse to follow the law. That can only lead to conflict. Like when South Carolina \”nullifed\” the tax of abominations in the 1830\’s which almost led to civil war then and was a part of a culmination of things that led to it later.
As for your communist views on business, you forget who it is that employs you. Yes corporations have been laying off workers and becoming more efficient.
I\’m all for protectionism, high tariffs, leaving the WTO, NAFTA and other FTA\’s.
Typical conservatism is protectionism, like in Germany and Japan and it works well there. They each have seperate problems like immigration in germany, and bringing former communist east germany back up to west german standards, and Japanese people\’s inability to stop saving and start spending which prevent service sector growth, but many economists are predicting after China\’s impending depression, which will cause one here because we are so dependent on chinese manufacturing, and inflation will rise dramatically if wal-mart can\’t keep putting out cheap goods, that Japan will emerge with a higher GDP per capita than the USA.
Our biggest problem is we are greedy. This stems perhaps from a lack of religious piety and morality (I\’m not christian but I am spiritual and follow the 10% rule) which in turn has resulted in everyone turning to materialism as their false idol.
I actually don\’t spend more on myself as my income increases, instead I donate to various organizations, or continue to expand and improve my business hiring new workers. I pay generously too, usually 20% above industry wages because I believe in quality over quantity, and rewarding good talent.