Posted on 04/23/2015 1:51:25 PM PDT by Kaslin
I suppose they're also upset with foreigners buying American products....which they, foreigners, do in tremendous numbers.
Unless someone literally stole from someone else, no one is poor because someone else got rich. That appears to be a difficult concept for many to understand, particularly the “social justice warriors” who obstruct traffic demanding their slice of other people’s pie.
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That is just too much logic for the left to understand. Reasoning is not their strong suit.
“the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.”
Diana Moon Glompers is running for President right now, disguised as hildabeast.
I wonder what the percentages on control of “Freedom Equality” work out to be. I doubt that I could surround myself with an armed tactically trained strike team and bill the taxpayers....
The obvious question is where is the money?
Liberal/statists act like billionaires are hiding
it all under their mattresses, perhaps in some
huge vault like Scrooge McDuck. Yet, LIVs fall
for it every time.
The reason these people are billionaires is that
their money is out working, making them and everyone
else more.
What foolishness.
You hit the nail square on the head
Where is this in the article? I read and reread the article at least a half dozen times and can not find it
Its not in the article. Its from Harrison Bergeron. Written, ironically, by Kurt Vonnegut.
The Founding Fathers believed tarriffs were a valid way to give an appropriate edge to domestic busineses.
There's the specter of the Smoot-Hawley tariff which a number of historians feel exacerbated The Great Depression. I haven't read or heard any big name conservative ideologues or pols who are for them. Maybe Ron Paul.
A fellow, a smart fellow, just might ask: “Why?”
Two reasons.
First; Pay for Play. If you want government contracts or corporate welfare. You have to persuade those in power that it is in their interest to send the federal dollars their way. How do you do that? Well you give money to the campaign funds of the politicians that profess to the philosophy of government driven economies.
Second; People receiving those federal dollars wish for those dollars to continue coming their way. The surest way to ensure that flow of money is to keep those who faithfully throw money their way in power.
I favor public policy that will increase my wealth.
Any policy that instead focuses on increasing the (tiny) ratio of my wealth to that of Mr Bill is corrupt, and the advocates of same should be distrusted and voted out of office!
The Founders used tariffs to raise revenue, there being no other mechanism yet enacted to feed the federal government.
But tariffs are evil — just because they put rocks in their harbor to keep out your boats is no reason for you to do the same!
Free trade over the widest universe increases overall wealth the most. Of course, some will get screwed because they are inadequate to compete in the wider world. But more will benefit than will lose. The challenge is to keep the losers from using the government to impoverish the rest of us.
There's the specter of the Smoot-Hawley tariff which a number of historians feel exacerbated The Great Depression. I haven't read or heard any big name conservative ideologues or pols who are for them. Maybe Ron Paul.
Ron's retired. But Rand Paul is a "free trader", at least according to the Cato Institute. As is Ted Cruz.
I also believe (although not necessarily proven) that a well-functioning economic system is a precursor to a liberated political system.
Naturally, people will point to China as an example where that doesn't hold true. But I feel China too will eventually experience a freer political system.
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