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16 March 2010 @ 12:36 am
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11 March 2010 @ 08:33 am
You may hear a lot of whining from Republicans about re-distribution of wealth. They want everyone to pay what they perceive to be the fair share, probably some flat rate across all divisions of wealth. While this sounds like a good sound bite, this is not economically feasible. The truth is that the poor can not pay their share of the taxes as they are now. Someone has to pay those taxes, or we won't have good roads to drive on. This tax revenue comes from those who can afford it. If you make more money, you'll get taxed more. This is the way it has been for a long time.
If you really want to reverse this, help the poor out of poverty, but this is not possible within a Republican's economic / religious / morality-based idiotology. (Ayn Rand, author of a Republican Bible Atlas Shrugged, worshipped sociopathic child murderers as superior human beings and despised the poor as less than human. She believed in promoting individual wealth over concern for others or ways in which accumulating wealth would hurt others.) They'd rather ensure that the richest people on Earth keep more of their money. If you want to help the poor out of poverty, you'll need carrot and stick government programs to assist them. Part of that is paying less taxes.
The other gripe you may hear about is that it's ultimately tax payers who are paying for economic stimulus programs. It takes money to make money, and we're not going to make more money to get out of a recession if we don't invest it in our own economy. (I mentioned the carrot and stick before. This also means we need to re-evaluate what the government is spending money on as well.) Who ultimately pays for it? Sure, we all do, but as I mentioned, above, the poor who will benefit the most from an economic stimulus will also pay for it the least. I'm fine with that.
After all, it was some members of the richest echelons that got us into this mess in the first place by praying on the poor.
Republicans and fundamental evangelical religious conservatives are one of the last remaining great human atrocities left in the world.
If you really want to reverse this, help the poor out of poverty, but this is not possible within a Republican's economic / religious / morality-based idiotology. (Ayn Rand, author of a Republican Bible Atlas Shrugged, worshipped sociopathic child murderers as superior human beings and despised the poor as less than human. She believed in promoting individual wealth over concern for others or ways in which accumulating wealth would hurt others.) They'd rather ensure that the richest people on Earth keep more of their money. If you want to help the poor out of poverty, you'll need carrot and stick government programs to assist them. Part of that is paying less taxes.
The other gripe you may hear about is that it's ultimately tax payers who are paying for economic stimulus programs. It takes money to make money, and we're not going to make more money to get out of a recession if we don't invest it in our own economy. (I mentioned the carrot and stick before. This also means we need to re-evaluate what the government is spending money on as well.) Who ultimately pays for it? Sure, we all do, but as I mentioned, above, the poor who will benefit the most from an economic stimulus will also pay for it the least. I'm fine with that.
After all, it was some members of the richest echelons that got us into this mess in the first place by praying on the poor.
Republicans and fundamental evangelical religious conservatives are one of the last remaining great human atrocities left in the world.
09 March 2010 @ 12:04 am
