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Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2008.10.10 21:34:00 -
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 Originally by: mishkof
Originally by: Micheal Dietrich
Originally by: annoing
Just goes to show that the free market, low taxes economy is working as intended 
For once I can agree with you at least on the low taxes bit. Every presidential election the runners promise lower taxes and the people cheer but they don't realize it's screwing the nation as a whole, all they know is that it's more money in their pocket.
That is because the Socialist politicians do not want to stop their drunken sailor spending...If you cut taxes you MIGHT have less to spend...It figures modern day American politicians dont get it.
Regardless, expendatures have increased far faster then any tax system could keep up with anyways. No way am I paying over 50% in taxes so some states local politician can build a bridge to the North pole with federal funds.
If you guys want to be sheep and pick up the tab regardless of what is spent that is on you. I personaly prefer more responsible spending and lower taxes...Of course many of you believe that "paying taxes is your patriotic duty"...
There are two schools of thought- tax and spend, and free market.
To tax and spend is to say "we want control over what goes on in our country". So all the most important amenities (roads, emergency services, waste disposal, national defence, etc.) are dealt with communally. All citizens kick in an appropriate amount of cash, and then they elect a representative to manage the scheme. If the representative does bad, they can kick him out and elect someone else.
The free market is where you decide to leave it up to chance. You say "people will set up vital services so they can profit, so everything will deal with itself". There's no need for everyone to kick in some cash, and no need for an elaborate elected system of management. Everything will obviously cost a little more (seeing as the people running any given thing are after a bit of profit on top of the running costs), but it's also true that the risks aren't on the public, they're on small groups of individuals.
It is a dogged adherence to the free market principle, so fanatically followed since the '80s, that has gotten us into this current mess. Its the same devotion to the free market principle that contributed to the Great Depression. Advocating the free market as a solution to the current problem is naive at best. And advocating no-tax, no-spend is to advocate the free market.
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Originally by: Micheal Dietrich
You can even get a midget with a camera to sit on the floorboard.
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