Paulson: What would we do if Ayn Rand's novel were real?

Ventura County Star ^ | 3/16/2009 | Terry Paulson

[Islander7]

Maybe it’s time for Atlas to do more than shrug! Is it time for the top tax-paying Americans to strike?

A nationwide strike is exactly what is needed to get the point across!

[Paladin2]

Atlas Shrugged misses the intermediate masses who also would become passive-aggressive toward a government of Community Organizers. Economics is not a Science.

Taxation and expectations of future taxation have consequences. Laffer is not just the punchline to a joke.

[ducdriver]

Since November I have been busy reducing my need for income, and I know I’m not alone. There are many ways to do that.

[weps4ret]

Also needed; read “Fountain Head” to see what she predicted the press would do, in the early ‘40’s.

Gunner

[brooklyn dave]

Even though I don’t have much money...why should I begrudge the rich? I do respect some rich people more than others though...the kind that produce things or invent things...rather than the folks who made a couple of deals with property.

[Paladin2]

"When America began, government cost the average citizen $20 in today’s money."

I'd be more than happy to contribute $1000 to help spike the nth Madi's well in Qom, Iran.

[stockpirate]

I’m in love with Dagny, so what if she doesn’t exist.

[Paladin2]

"I’m in love with Dagny, so what if she doesn’t exist."

She seemed kinda particular, no offense intended.

[griswold3]

TPTB are blinded by their own ideology.
They pay no attention to the ‘tea parties’, or the capital strikes ($8T private funds), investors strike, bankers strike, etc.
They call it ‘fear’. I call it ‘anger’.
They ain’t seen nothing yet! When the growth doesn’t appear they’ll just try harder. That’s why we have to be visible!
Carl Icahn said if Obama’s plans were more taxation, he would strike. He said it would only take 2 years. I think it will take longer.

[sten]

[andy58-in-nh]

It would seem you are well ahead of the “Curve”. Even the Obameister cannot redistribute that which has never been created. ;-)

[numberonepal]

The irresponsible takers are unwelcome hitchhikers.

That would imply that you somehow made a decision to pick up the hitchhiker. This is a poor analogy. A fitting analogy is to call these people non-symbiotic parasites; aka EVIL.

[andy58-in-nh]

"I’m in love with Dagny, so what if she doesn’t exist."

She seemed kinda particular, no offense intended.

Oh, I don't know. A nice glass of wine, a gold bracelet, some Aristotelian epistemology...she'd be eating right out of my hand...

[WayneS]

What would we do if Ayn Rand's novel were real?

Well, as regards Atlas Shrugged, right now I'm sitting in front of a computer terminal.

[sten]

move your business to the internet, and move the company offshore, as we have been encouraged to do for years. pay yourself a nominal salary... and leave the rest elsewhere.

i know no other way i can personally have any impact besides taking my money off the table. my congress-critters are useless, and the media is in the bag.

make no mistake... i recommend this course of action as a way to help liberal socialism fail in the US. yes, i want it to fail and fail hard. i understand there may be some hard times... and i’m willing to deal with that... just so i can hold up the dead husk of liberalism to my grandchildren to remind them of how stupid we once were.

[screaminsunshine]

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[Paladin2]

"she'd be eating right out of my hand... "

Is that some kind of a fetish? ;-)

[combat_boots]

“We’re all in the same boat.”

No. We’re not.

[andy58-in-nh]

Yes, but I’m getting treatment.