More fun with Freepers

[Mythsaje]

In reference to tax cuts for the wealthy:

<<Sounds like you are one of those folks that think we can tax ourselves into prosperity.

You do NOT create jobs by increasing the cost of doing business.>>


No, but we also don't create prosperity by giving money to people who have more motivation to send that money outside of the country by way of investing in foreign labor rather than spending it internally on American workers.

Poppy Bush called it "voodoo economics." It's also known as "the trickle-down theory." Either way it's a siphoning of American resources on the ground for the benefit of the few.

The average wage is going down and decreasing the spending power of the average citizen. When the average American citizen has decreased spending power, it adversely affects local economies.

Your philosophy, in its way, is JUST as bad as the communists, in that it's all or nothing with you folks. There is no understanding that we need to balance capitalism with a sense of community responsibility and an interest in promoting the common welfare. Giving huge tax breaks to the ultra rich does NOTHING, in and of itself, to help the economy. It all relies on how those tax breaks are spent, or not spent, into the economies where those people live.

You abandon the notion of the "commons" and make everything about individuals. We are not solitary creatures, and never, in our history, has anything been accomplished by individuals at the expense of the community. What you folks emphasize is the exaltation of the individual OVER the pack, and, for social creatures, that's simply destructive behavior at its worst.

I find it rather sad, frankly, because you know not what you do. And you neither understand nor want to understand why it's a problem.