Dammit, I KNOW better than to waste my time with armchair rightists, and I still get roped into this

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11. For Cato folk, I usually say something like, and yet the Koch Brothers, Google, BMW, (name a few

others) all do business here. The CATO line is that if you raise taxes businesses will leave and people will be without jobs, blah, blah, blah.We already know that isn't true, but enough Repubs believe it. The CATO folks need to be reminded that the businesses that would leave if we raised taxes (In their world) routinely do business in countries that have higher taxes and more social safety programs, anyway. Besides, where would they go? If Apple threatened to move out of the US tomorrow over higher taxes, where would they go where the taxes were lower?

Remind the CATO types that proof exists all over the world that businesses will make money in spite of higher taxes and unionized labor. The price that businesses will pay for taxes and labor is what is demanded of them. Nothing more and nothing less. Germany just requires a higher price than the US currently does.