Mojo2
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1) Tax cuts pay for themselves.
Wrong. Every dollar lost in revenue is one more dollar the government needs to borrow to pay their bills. It's so obnoxious when repubs complain of gov spending yet are too ignorant to realize tax cutting leads to more borrowing. You think over spending is the only reason for our debt? No, it is also because of Bush's tax cuts.
2) Liberals are socialists/communists
Also wrong. We are talking about fundamental definitions of words here. Saying liberals are socialists is just as stupid as saying conservatives are liberals.
3) The wealthy are not too wealthy.
95% of income gains have gone to the top 5% of earners despite the fact that the lower classes are responsible for most of the productivity. In fact, productivity has grown exponentially in the lower classes since the 30s yet wages have remained flat.
The irritating tendency of emotionally wired libs and progs is that not only are they starting from a flawed premise (that Progressivism actually works and that Big Government and more taxes are the answer...when it's never been proven before to succeed!!) but that libs and progs are so emotionally limited by their emotions that when you point out to them they are wrong they immediately lose ANY rationality they MIGHT have had to start with.
They go berzerk or as the song said, "Insane in the Brain!" So, they start out wrong and their inherent nature keeps them stupid.
They say ignorance is bliss and I'm proof of that my damn self!
And I'm not one who believes in keeping someone else from enjoying their bliss unless their bliss means I pay more or I lose my freedoms or I have to endure or tolerate policies and laws that are only going to increase my difficulty in pursuing life, liberty and happiness.
But, I'll give it a try...once again.
Number One:
Lower Taxes, Higher Revenue - Prager University
Number Two:
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Progressivism - Discover the Networks
Number Three:
Milton Friedman on Income Inequality
Julio H. Cole Professor of Economics
Universidad Francisco MarroquínGuatemala
Journal of Markets & Morality
Volume 11, Number 2 (Fall 2008): 239253
Copyright © 2008
There is a certain tension in Milton Friedmans views on the issue of freedom versus equality, which was much more nuanced than is commonly assumed. On the one
hand, he argued that economic policy should focus on freedom as a primary value;stressing equality per se could lead to economic inefficiency as well as jeopardizing
freedom itself.
On the other hand, he famously advocated government-sponsored poverty alleviation by way of the negative income tax, a form of income redistribution that is inconsistent with his general theory of the free-market economy. His justification for this policy, however, was not on egalitarian grounds. Rather, his main motivation seems to have been compassion.
Introduction
A society that puts equalityin the sense of equality of outcomeahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. On the other hand,a society that puts freedom first will, as a happy by-product, end up with both greater freedom and greater equality.
Milton Friedman on Income Inequality | Julio Cole - Academia.edu
My take on this is; Ask not what new laws and regulations should be enacted to get more $$ to the lower income earners. Focus on making the society freer. And you'll get both more freedom and the wealth distribution you want.
According to Milton Friedman.
And you are a modern patriot. We need more like you.
Thanks!
And you, too!