I never really cared how much money the wealthy have, because I don't see money as a finite resource. If Elon Muck has a lot of money, that does not directly affect my ability to earn. I like the idea of low taxes, because I figure individuals can find better uses for their money than the …
I never really cared how much money the wealthy have, because I don't see money as a finite resource. If Elon Muck has a lot of money, that does not directly affect my ability to earn. I like the idea of low taxes, because I figure individuals can find better uses for their money than the government can, because the government will only throw it away on endless wars and "science experiments" in which puppies are tortured, or other foolishness. If people are allowed to keep more of their own money, they may expand their businesses (hiring more people), innovate, or invest in other businesses.
Agree that many wealthy people suck, but I don't want to take their money from them. I'd just like for them to cease using their money to buy politicians who create policies that hurt Americans. We could tax them all into financial ruin, but that still wouldn't pay off the national debt -- and all the people to whom they're currently providing jobs, would then be out of work.
Interesting, BW. Are you sure that taxing the rich wouldn't eliminate the national debt? I did the math. It would. If anything, guys like Musk and Bezos and Gates would benefit from huge tax cuts not only because the debt is a huge threat to our economic stability and to the dollar as global reserve currency, but also because it would relieve them of having to decide who should receive their largesse (homeless Americans or starving Africans, for instance) through the (tax free) foundations they run. They could focus on what they do best (supposedly): design, advertiser and sell desirable products made and transported by reasonably compensated workers. Their tax dollars would NOT go to endless wars if they and their cronies didn't also use their money to bribe politicians to support these wars (end Citizens United!!!!) so as to make resource-rich places like Russia fair game for the sort of Western exploitation that Putin put an end to back in the 1990s. (Regime change in Russia is the ultimate goal of our proxy war in Ukraine.) Government should resolve conflicts through diplomacy, as the BRICS nations would prefer, not start wars (and orchestrate coups) for the benefit of defense contractors and giant corporations seeking to control other nations' natural resources.
I like the idea of your "Stop the Genocide" sign.
I never really cared how much money the wealthy have, because I don't see money as a finite resource. If Elon Muck has a lot of money, that does not directly affect my ability to earn. I like the idea of low taxes, because I figure individuals can find better uses for their money than the government can, because the government will only throw it away on endless wars and "science experiments" in which puppies are tortured, or other foolishness. If people are allowed to keep more of their own money, they may expand their businesses (hiring more people), innovate, or invest in other businesses.
Agree that many wealthy people suck, but I don't want to take their money from them. I'd just like for them to cease using their money to buy politicians who create policies that hurt Americans. We could tax them all into financial ruin, but that still wouldn't pay off the national debt -- and all the people to whom they're currently providing jobs, would then be out of work.
Interesting, BW. Are you sure that taxing the rich wouldn't eliminate the national debt? I did the math. It would. If anything, guys like Musk and Bezos and Gates would benefit from huge tax cuts not only because the debt is a huge threat to our economic stability and to the dollar as global reserve currency, but also because it would relieve them of having to decide who should receive their largesse (homeless Americans or starving Africans, for instance) through the (tax free) foundations they run. They could focus on what they do best (supposedly): design, advertiser and sell desirable products made and transported by reasonably compensated workers. Their tax dollars would NOT go to endless wars if they and their cronies didn't also use their money to bribe politicians to support these wars (end Citizens United!!!!) so as to make resource-rich places like Russia fair game for the sort of Western exploitation that Putin put an end to back in the 1990s. (Regime change in Russia is the ultimate goal of our proxy war in Ukraine.) Government should resolve conflicts through diplomacy, as the BRICS nations would prefer, not start wars (and orchestrate coups) for the benefit of defense contractors and giant corporations seeking to control other nations' natural resources.