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1 posted on 12/18/2020 5:01:37 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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I see a lot of “poor” living in houses and driving cars that “poor” could not possibly have afforded fifty years ago.

Something trickled down - if if it was largely debt.

60 posted on 12/18/2020 6:31:57 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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confiscatory taxation is theft. In a rational country, even the rich have a natural right to private property


61 posted on 12/18/2020 6:36:07 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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Another bon mot from the LSE.

Surprise, surprise.


64 posted on 12/18/2020 6:52:04 AM PST by sauropod (Cui bono? I will not comply.)
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This is the problem with publicly-traded corporations—they orient every financial decision towards shareholders and executive compensation, while wages either stagnate or shrink in relation to cost of living; but they spend megabucks on advertising some BS “corporate caring” program that extorts from the consumer to benefit a few and provide a tax write-off.

It’s a problem of ethics.


65 posted on 12/18/2020 7:00:21 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice." --Donald Trump)
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10 years old and it still rings true.

https://youtu.be/d0nERTFo-Sk

(Yeah...You Tube, but it’s not on Rumble)


66 posted on 12/18/2020 7:06:45 AM PST by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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Re: 1982 Reagan tax cut

Two observations...

(1) Since 1982, we have imported 60 million Third World immigrants and their American born children.

(2) Half of the USA working age population receive more government benefits than they pay in taxes.


68 posted on 12/18/2020 7:26:08 AM PST by zeestephen
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It's because of greed at the top.

Billionaire Bezos' Amazon warehouse employees depend on food stamps in 9 states

The U.S. laws allowing incorporation and public shareholding were probably a good idea at the time, but these huge corporations have become a major distortion of purpose. The leaders of companies whose executives are multi-billionaires and can literally buy an election have no conscience.

There used to be an informal rule of thumb that a corporate president should make no more than 6 times the salary of the lowest-paid employee. Now look, with executive yearly compensation in the millions, and their stock portfolios increasing on top of that; one-sixth of only one million dollars is around $167,000. What janitor or warehouse clerk gets paid anywhere near that?

As John Adams pointed out at our Founding, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

69 posted on 12/18/2020 7:32:57 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice." --Donald Trump)
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Dang I can’t find anything in the CBS story that proves socialism in working any place in the world.


70 posted on 12/18/2020 8:52:37 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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period from 1965 to 2015.
Isn’t that cute! They pick a nice, round 50-year interval ending before the current administration. No cherry picking there! No sir!

Of course 1965 came immediately after the famous Kenndy tax cuts, and 2015 immediately before the Trump tax cuts. But we had blindfolds on when we picked that ’65 - ’15 interval using a dart board. Honest!


71 posted on 12/18/2020 11:57:17 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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