BlackSand
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It has a lot to do with it if you sell boating courses, air horns, life jackets, lines, ropes, anchors, fishing gear, trailers and the like. That's the point, you want tons of low-level economic activity. The high-end shit helps almost no one. Home Deport doesn't need Mitt Romney buying houses, it needs the average Joe.
A $100,000 boat has everything you mentioned and a ton of more stuff.
More high-end stuff that takes educated manufactures to build ... Supplying more specialized and better jobs.
Of course if you would rather keep folks sewing life-jackets in sweatshops ... You would make a pretty good candidate for a Progressive Liberal.
Think small, bottom of the barrel and backwards ... Remain small, bottom of the barrel and backwards.
He sounds like the people who put a "luxury tax" on yachts in 1990. Predictably, the result was the implosion of the market (down by a third in the first year) for US boat builders!
Most people that can afford a $1,000,000 yacht can afford a luxury tax.
The people it hurts are those who are rewarded for their time and effort in being able to afford a $100,000 boat.
Most Progressive Liberals just don't have the courage to explain how they would rather keep the top and the bottom separated and at each other's throats.
It is the standard "plantation mentality" that only survives when there is an imprisoned bottom class.
The best way to ensure that continues is to ensure that no one gets out ... And there is no reward for success.
It is like the old Iron Curtain without the walls, tanks and guard towers.
They kept telling the people inside it was to keep the bad people out ... When in turn it was only to keep the people inside from leaving.
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