Originally Posted by ZZman
In my defense I don't complain about taxes. I pay what they say I owe. I don't ask for a tax cut. I would rather have my tax money going for what it is needed for including helping others.
What are you, "defending"? So you do what every American does. You pay your taxes. Big deal. "Asking" for a tax cut, or complaining about paying them means nothing. If you don't pay, or don't pay enough you'll be audited and forced to pay. And you have no idea or control of where your tax money goes, or how it's spent. It may be spent, "helping others" by paying for the next JDAM our military drops on their heads. You have no say in the matter. One way or another, you help pay for every fighter plane in our inventory. That doesn't give you the right to take it up for a spin.
As for everything else involving how "caring" you are, and what you want as far as paying everyone more, while holding hands and singing Kumybya. You are living in an economic fantasy world. That is completely void of any and all economic common sense.
You cannot dictate or control wages. You cannot control how or where companies manufacture their products, or spend their profits. You cannot "tax the rich" into oblivion by stealing their wealth. Then turn around and give it to poor, uneducated souls who are not worth what you are paying them, just because it warms your little heart.
All of this nonsense has been tried several times over. In countries around this planet. And every time it has it's failed horribly. The only people who rant about how wonderful socialism is, along with all the government economic theft and controls that it brings, are people who have never lived under it. It results in nothing but economic disaster. Read a history book, or pick up a newspaper.
Governments produce nothing. They cannot give anything to anyone they don't first take away from someone else. They have proven over and over they cannot economically run any program they manage with economic solvency. Regardless of how much money they take from the citizenry to do it.
You have example after example of countless government programs in this country alone, that have all been economically run into the ground by these elected idiots. And now you want these same financial nit wits to get involved in wages, prices, and the manufacturing of products in private business. All you are going to establish is a solid cornerstone on which to build an economic disaster. And the only "fairness" you will achieve is the equal sharing of misery.
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