Care to comment on two liberal economic myths: ~~ ~~ 1) We can spend our way out of debt 2) We can tax ourselves into prosperity 3) Calling a tax a "Fee" really makes a difference
"1) We can spend our way out of debt"
..Equivalent statement. More credit cards, and their use, will result in a zero balance on all cards.
" 2) We can tax ourselves into prosperity"
..Taking money out of the economy, and the Government taking a cut, makes the economy weaker.
"3) Calling a tax a "Fee" really makes a difference"
..Only if you are counting the number of letters used.
1) Band-Aids on hemorrhages and creating debt for a future generations will never get anyone out of debt. Try paying one credit card off with another and see how well that works.
2) We could confiscate every dime of wealth from the top 400 Billionaires in the USA and it would barely cover ONE year of deficit spending that has occurred for each of the past three years and projected to be the same this year. It's a spending problem.
3) Fee - Penalty - Tax ...... it all comes out of your wallet just the same and you're giving it to people who will waste it today and ask for more tomorrow.
I'd like to hear some responses to a couple conservative economic myths:
1. We can get out of debt by making people who don't have money pay more (do you accept pocket lint?)
2. We can create jobs by taxing rich people less (see horse and sparrow theory)
3. Anyone who is struggling at all only struggles because they're lazy and unmotivated (not because there are less jobs than people)
4. Anyone can start up a business if they can't find another means (even though start-ups have to jump impossible hurdles to survive)
Not that these are conservative myths but they can be easily debunked.
1) When people are sucking off the govt. tit and not contributing anything to society they should be required to pay taxes like everyone else.
2) Rich people are the ones who invest in companies that provided the jobs. Go to the well too often and you wind up like California. Mass exodus
3) Struggles are nothing new no matter what the state of the economy or jobs is. It's what they do with their time and how they list priorities that makes the difference. And yes, MANY are lazy and unmotivated.
4) Anyone can start up a business if they possess the brain power, the desire, willing to sacrifice personal time and have an idea that is marketable. Ridiculous regulations, EPA restrictions and big government red tape are the unnecessary hurdles.
1. Not everyone lives off the government because they can. The majority of those who have government aid have it because they have to to get by. Not everyone comes from a six-figure background.
2. Rich people are the ones who offshore all of our jobs because it's cheaper. Supply-side economics is all about draining the well. There's no investment going on, they store it all away in offshore bank accounts and give the rest to themselves or their board of directors.
3. Struggling is much more prevalent because the powers that be want it so. As long as people fight for jobs, corporations can misuse and abuse them, underpaying them so that they remain at the bottom of the food chain, blackmailing them into doing work that strains body and mind, and firing them at-will for any or no reason - all with no repercussions because people need a job to live. The "life isn't fair" explanation is not good enough reason for corporate psychopaths to go out of their way to make it less so.
4. No you can't. The prerequisites for starting a business take many resources that are intentionally made unavailable to the common person. These requirements are exasperated by the demands of big, established businesses who wish to squash the little man trying to eke out a living (like the New York cab ...
1. Not everyone lives off the government because they can. The majority of those who have government aid have it because they have to to get by. Not everyone comes from a six-figure background.
2. Rich people are the ones who offshore all of our jobs because it's cheaper. Supply-side economics is all about draining the well. There's no investment going on, they store it all away in offshore bank accounts and give the rest to themselves or their board of directors.
3. Struggling is much more prevalent because the powers that be want it so. As long as people fight for jobs, corporations can misuse and abuse them, underpaying them so that they remain at the bottom of the food chain, blackmailing them into doing work that strains body and mind, and firing them at-will for any or no reason - all with no repercussions because people need a job to live. The "life isn't fair" explanation is not good enough reason for corporate psychopaths to go out of their way to make it less so.
4. No you can't. The prerequisites for starting a business take many resources that are intentionally made unavailable to the common person. These requirements are exasperated by the demands of big, established businesses who wish to squash the little man trying to eke out a living (like the New York cab companies who lobbied to require a $1 million decal on any new cabs) just because he might pose a threat. EPA restrictions come into play because companies knowingly and willingly destroy communities and environments if doing so means they cut costs. Deregulation does not make it easy for the little man to start a business, it makes it easy for a corporation to dump toxic waste into a suburb's water supply and give its families cancer (this has happened on numerous occasions, and still does).
..Equivalent statement. More credit cards, and their use, will result in a zero balance on all cards.
" 2) We can tax ourselves into prosperity"
..Taking money out of the economy, and the Government taking a cut, makes the economy weaker.
"3) Calling a tax a "Fee" really makes a difference"
..Only if you are counting the number of letters used.
2) We could confiscate every dime of wealth from the top 400 Billionaires in the USA and it would barely cover ONE year of deficit spending that has occurred for each of the past three years and projected to be the same this year. It's a spending problem.
3) Fee - Penalty - Tax ...... it all comes out of your wallet just the same and you're giving it to people who will waste it today and ask for more tomorrow.
1. We can get out of debt by making people who don't have money pay more (do you accept pocket lint?)
2. We can create jobs by taxing rich people less (see horse and sparrow theory)
3. Anyone who is struggling at all only struggles because they're lazy and unmotivated (not because there are less jobs than people)
4. Anyone can start up a business if they can't find another means (even though start-ups have to jump impossible hurdles to survive)
1) When people are sucking off the govt. tit and not contributing anything to society they should be required to pay taxes like everyone else.
2) Rich people are the ones who invest in companies that provided the jobs. Go to the well too often and you wind up like California. Mass exodus
3) Struggles are nothing new no matter what the state of the economy or jobs is. It's what they do with their time and how they list priorities that makes the difference. And yes, MANY are lazy and unmotivated.
4) Anyone can start up a business if they possess the brain power, the desire, willing to sacrifice personal time and have an idea that is marketable. Ridiculous regulations, EPA restrictions and big government red tape are the unnecessary hurdles.
2. Rich people are the ones who offshore all of our jobs because it's cheaper. Supply-side economics is all about draining the well. There's no investment going on, they store it all away in offshore bank accounts and give the rest to themselves or their board of directors.
3. Struggling is much more prevalent because the powers that be want it so. As long as people fight for jobs, corporations can misuse and abuse them, underpaying them so that they remain at the bottom of the food chain, blackmailing them into doing work that strains body and mind, and firing them at-will for any or no reason - all with no repercussions because people need a job to live. The "life isn't fair" explanation is not good enough reason for corporate psychopaths to go out of their way to make it less so.
4. No you can't. The prerequisites for starting a business take many resources that are intentionally made unavailable to the common person. These requirements are exasperated by the demands of big, established businesses who wish to squash the little man trying to eke out a living (like the New York cab ...
2. Rich people are the ones who offshore all of our jobs because it's cheaper. Supply-side economics is all about draining the well. There's no investment going on, they store it all away in offshore bank accounts and give the rest to themselves or their board of directors.
3. Struggling is much more prevalent because the powers that be want it so. As long as people fight for jobs, corporations can misuse and abuse them, underpaying them so that they remain at the bottom of the food chain, blackmailing them into doing work that strains body and mind, and firing them at-will for any or no reason - all with no repercussions because people need a job to live. The "life isn't fair" explanation is not good enough reason for corporate psychopaths to go out of their way to make it less so.
4. No you can't. The prerequisites for starting a business take many resources that are intentionally made unavailable to the common person. These requirements are exasperated by the demands of big, established businesses who wish to squash the little man trying to eke out a living (like the New York cab companies who lobbied to require a $1 million decal on any new cabs) just because he might pose a threat. EPA restrictions come into play because companies knowingly and willingly destroy communities and environments if doing so means they cut costs. Deregulation does not make it easy for the little man to start a business, it makes it easy for a corporation to dump toxic waste into a suburb's water supply and give its families cancer (this has happened on numerous occasions, and still does).