Posted on 04/14/2014 7:06:19 PM PDT by neverdem
“How did those moneyed interests get their money?”
Fairfax, Va. #1 in per capita income.
Extortion-Care is the Government=Lobbyists Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager
Yes, I noticed the same thing there. That word smacks of Marx, Karl Marx!
ArbeitsERziehungslager
In C. S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters” the demon “accuses” God of having a bourgeois mind.
The trouble is that we have two tax codes based on how that good was produced.
One tax code brutalizes those that give up huge amounts of their time to produce by labor and skill. The other tax code gives all sorts of breaks to those that produce goods indirectly through investment.
I'm not saying one is better than the other.
And time spent working for that income should be a consideration, too. There's a huge difference between working 60 hours/week and earning $60,000/year and making $60,000 from dividend income.
Free time is worth a great deal. Some people lose their free time to earn a living and get hit with huge tax bill while others work little and actually have a smaller tax burden for the same income.
bttt
Besides Germany, I can’t think of any large country that has retained significant numbers of high paying blue collar jobs.
And Germany is not perfect.
Government spending there is around 45% of GDP which is more than the USA spends.
And German industrial workers actually produce less - in dollar terms - than USA workers produce.
The future for low skill and many high skill blue collar jobs is not good.
Machines, robots, sophisticated software, and massive immigration are a threat to wages and employment at home, a threat that grows every year.
And, consumer wise, USA companies and individuals can use the Internet to purchase almost any product they like from a foreign country.
Can “Protectionist” policies really close the door on those cheaper products?
Can labor unions really take a larger share of profits without demoralizing investors or bankrupting the company?
To my eye, this glass is half empty, and it has a slow leak.
Thanks for that, and that Paul Harvey bon mot.
Regaining Middle America - Republicans must stop putting FOREIGN moneyed interests ahead of the American ONES...
Seem???What'll it take to convince you?
Running a Deceived MORMON for President???
There ARE no taxes on business!
EVERY cost (And believe me TAXES are mere costs) are PASSED on to the consumers.
THEY are the ones who "Pay businesses taxes"!
No...
Isn't the loss of
American citizens enough already???
Nope...
Has the Government returned YOUR money that you let them use - interest free - last year?
The first three allow you to have some of the CHEAPEST stuff on the planet.
Wanna give THAT up?
The fourth BUILT this country.
(I'll assume you were talking about BOARDER INVADERS instead of LEGAL immigrants) MASSIVE giveaways by OUR 'representatives' are the problem - NOT the ones that USE (and abuse) them.
More 'foreigners' are in Dubai than natives; but I can guarantee you that they will NOT end up being able to multiply and takeover THAT country!
The problem is that no one has an economical way to use that gas because it is too diluted. If it were easy to solve that problem, it would have been solved a long time ago.
You don’t understand how markets work. If the US increases supply massively, prices would drop and much of the gas we produce would be losing money for the producer. What gas comes to market is based on where the gas can be produced cheapest.
We cannot simply throw all of our gas and oil onto the market the way you seem to think without losing money.
That’s the easy excuse but it doesn’t explain why factories are constantly trying to balance their costs and ditch inventory for the quarterly audits.
Of course companies pass costs on to consumers. Only the Occutards expect them to eat those costs.
Reducing production costs results in greater production which means jobs which means consumers.
Banning sex selection abortion would lead to a complete ban.
Starting with sex selection abortion ban would destroy the war on women argument that comes with an initial ban on all abortion.
I agree with you but I will make any political argument to get it done.
Dilution is not the problem.
The problem is a lack of pipelines and laws against export is the problem.
Understand that gas prices have already fallen massively in the US. They are exacerbated by the failure to allow export of LNG.
Again, this is something that genuinely does merit federal intervention. If building this infrastructure was what was necessary, it would produce:
1. energy independence
2. the decline of petroradicalism exported by Russia and Saudi Arabia
3. Net reductions in the need for US military force projection to protect energy source routes
Also keep in mind that what I am describing is going to happen whether democrats win or not. Republicans can accelerate the process. Unless the government seizes all private property, they cannot stop what I am describing.
America is doomed to repeat as the Global exceptional. We have vastly more fossil fuels resources than other nations. The hoax is up.
Maintaining artificially high corporate tax rates can also slow the process but not prevent it.
EXCUSE?
Again, the inventory game is played because of variable TAX COSTS that the gummint applies to business.
Those "costs" can be controlled a little.
Why pass them on to your customers if you can AVOID it?
I understand this, and wondered at your statement.
I can see that you realize the Liberal tactic/trickery of getting just a LITTLE bit of what your want now; and then a LITTLE bit more later, and then a bit MORE after that, and then...
Your frog is boiled.
Think we Conservatives can learn to do the incremental thing?
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