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At What Point Does Atlas Shrug?
National Review ^
| November 13, 2008
| Peter Kirsanow
Posted on 11/13/2008 4:20:54 PM PST by NCjim
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posted on
11/13/2008 4:20:57 PM PST
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NCjim
To: NCjim
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posted on
11/13/2008 4:21:46 PM PST
by
Guenevere
(Do not be afraid of tomorrow.....God is already there.)
To: NCjim
Atlas shrugs when the producers go on strike and refuse to produce for the looters and the moochers.
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posted on
11/13/2008 4:23:08 PM PST
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Publius
To: NCjim
Not only do I pay much more than my “fair share,” I’m vilified while I do it.
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posted on
11/13/2008 4:24:32 PM PST
by
Arm_Bears
(Wag more; bark less.)
To: NCjim
I think Atlas is already shrugging. All these "gimmie gimmie" bail outs are really starting to pi$$ off the taxpayers who are paying for it all. Without consumers buying and paying taxes, the businesses and the beast of the government don't stand a chance.
(Join Operation Thrift)
To: NCjim
The shrinking percentage of taxpaying Americans is a very dangerous trend. Eventually, as Tytler observed, the non-taxpaying masses will vote themselves largesse from the public treasury, and us “rich” folks (aka “taxpayers”) will be outvoted, out-represented, and outnumbered. And the nation will be insolvent.
If you have earned income, you should pay taxes — something, anything.
At what point do we invert the Founders’ cry to “no representation without taxation”? But of course, that will never happen.
How about this: If you receive more money from the federal government — either by interest income or wealth redistribution — than you pay in, you don’t vote.
To: NCjim
The government is actively bailing out anyone who has been irresponsible. All of the people who have behaved responsibly are being forced to give their wealth away to people who specialize in pissing wealth away.
Not sustainable.
To: branch15_5
How about this: If you receive more money from the federal government either by interest income or wealth redistribution than you pay in, you dont vote. Sounds like a plan!
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posted on
11/13/2008 4:28:48 PM PST
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NCjim
(The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
To: Publius
Articles like this that show who ISN”T paying taxes are nice, but they are incomplete without the really surprising figure: the top 1% of incomes are paying 40% of the income tax. It should ask the obvious question — “How difficult/easy would it be for that top 1% to opt out?” Because there is no way the remaining 99% can pick up the slack. That would require almost doubling all their taxes.
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posted on
11/13/2008 4:29:37 PM PST
by
Kellis91789
(Democrat: Someone who supports killing children, but protests executing convicted murderers.)
To: concerned about politics
If Atlas were in fact shrugging, Obama would not have won, or if he had won, you would have witnessed the various Atlases of America putting down their burdens.
I don't see anything happening yet.
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posted on
11/13/2008 4:29:58 PM PST
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Publius
To: NCjim
Zimbabwe still hasn’t hit rock bottom.
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posted on
11/13/2008 4:30:11 PM PST
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Mr Ramsbotham
("A laurel, and hearty handshake ....")
To: NCjim
It doesn’t matter if he shrugs or not. There are a billion Chinese and another billion Indian guys willing to take up the slack.
In fact, they’re standing around chanting, “SHRUG! SHRUG! SHRUG!”
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posted on
11/13/2008 4:30:27 PM PST
by
durasell
To: NCjim
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posted on
11/13/2008 4:31:45 PM PST
by
Bigun
("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
To: concerned about politics
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posted on
11/13/2008 4:31:57 PM PST
by
Gemsbok
(Will the real Barry Dunham, Barry Soetoro, Barack J. Obama, Barack Husein Obama...please stand up?)
To: ClearCase_guy
“The government is actively bailing out anyone who has been irresponsible. All of the people who have behaved responsibly are being forced to give their wealth away to people who specialize in pissing wealth away.”
Very true. I wonder how Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, BMW, Mercedes and all the other solvent automakers who have plants in the U.S. (and their many employees) feel about bailing out their uncompetitive, failing counterparts?
To: branch15_5
How about this: If you receive more money from the federal government either by interest income or wealth redistribution than you pay in, you dont vote.Up until 1933, there was an instrument called "the pauper's oath". If you were on any form of public assistance, you were required to sign that document and give up your right to vote until you were producing again.
The Great Depression killed it, and then the 26th Amendment finished it off for good.
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11/13/2008 4:32:09 PM PST
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Publius
To: concerned about politics
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posted on
11/13/2008 4:32:13 PM PST
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Gemsbok
(Will the real Barry Dunham, Barry Soetoro, Barack J. Obama, Barack Husein Obama...please stand up?)
To: NCjim; jellybean
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posted on
11/13/2008 4:32:25 PM PST
by
fanfan
To: Publius
That works when you actually produce something. Part of the conspiracy to destroy the US is based upon chasing out as much manufacturing as possible. Now we sell each other houses, stocks, services, cr$p food and information. We produce so little it is deeply concerning. The good news is that this may backfire on the conspirators when more manufacturing returns here because it will be cheaper.
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posted on
11/13/2008 4:33:20 PM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
(Nemo me impune lacessit.)
To: Arm_Bears
Not only do I pay much more than my fair share, Im vilified while I do it. That's the part that really pisses me off... It's bad enough to take a lot more from me, but to then turn around and call me a thief and liar and slaver because I run a business? Well, if you don't like what I do then keep your hands off the results of what I do...
It's like those early "abolitionists" who publicly decried slavery, but were more than happy to make money off of building and repairing slaver ships...
Hypocrisy, thy incarnation is Obama!
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posted on
11/13/2008 4:33:48 PM PST
by
PugetSoundSoldier
(Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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