If they're so poor, that they have to get welfare, then they can't afford a soda water. Besides, as the Libbos tell us, it's bad for them and as long as the goverment is picking up the tab for their healthcare, they have to live a 100% healthy lifestyle. Don't like it? Get the **** off welfare and pay for your own soda waters and your own healthcare, you own self.
Actually he just slapped a new label on it. It was around in the late 1800's under the name "horse and sparrow" economics. Feed the horse all the berries, it leaves seeds for the birds. You can see why it was renamed.
socialism hasn't worked either and has resulted in over 100 million people being murdered
punishing the rich doesn't make the poor more able to compete in a modern economic system
addicting people to government provided dependency doesn't make them prosperous either-in fact it prevents them from competing which is why people like Buffett support such nonsense
Oh, please. :roll:
Rightwingers operate under the belief that if someone is poor, they should be denied even the remotest semblance of "frivolous luxuries."
Their definition of a "frivolous luxury?" An occasional freakin' soda.
:doh
Actually, it's almost exclusively right-wingers who use this argument.
However, since you obviously agree with this argument, then I have every right to insist that taxpayer-funded school lunch programs offer ONLY 100% healthy food/drink. All you righties and your whiny kids on board with that?
Actually he just slapped a new label on it. It was around in the late 1800's under the name "horse and sparrow" economics. Feed the horse all the berries, it leaves seeds for the birds. You can see why it was renamed.
If trickle down economics doesn't work; what does?
If trickle down economics doesn't work; what does?
Letting bush taxcuts roll back. That is what will work. Need proof? See late 90s.
That's going to be situational, I expect. We've certainly got historical precedence to support the fact that pushing wealth upwards doesn't improve the life of everyone else.
Why? Trickle-down ignores the entire demand side of the equation. If a business doesn't have sufficient demand to justify a new hire, it's not going to hire. Give rich people all the money in the world, if there aren't more people buying whatever product or service they're trying to sell, they aren't hiring anybody. As far as the purchases that rich person makes, you get rapidly diminishing returns as income goes up. A man earning $2 million per year is not going to buy twice as many cars or twice as many televisions or twice as much booze as a person making $1 million. If I doubled my salary, on the other hand, I probably would buy twice as much booze!
Wait. That came out wrong.
Rich people having more money isn't what we need right now. What we need is average joes like me to buy more crap.
How does raising taxes help? Please, be more specific.
I feel making peeps that make more pay more taxes helps us all unless we want a fair flat rate tax system.
The days of people that do not need it being able to live off our government for life via social programs are over in case you did not know.
Giving people help so they can become productive members of our society is a good thing
Letting bush taxcuts roll back. That is what will work. Need proof? See late 90s.
How does raising taxes help? Please, be more specific.
They never will answer that.
and subisidizing dependency on the government so those so addicted will generally vote for those who feed their habit is not a good thing.
So what would YOU do to stop these voters from doing this?
apdst asks
and Turtle opines
its been answered more times that your probably can count to but you simply do not like the answer.
So what would YOU do to stop these voters from doing this?
Refresh our memory. Or, just admit that none of you have a clue.
the first thing to do is to create a tax system where one group cannot vote up the rates of another group without paying more themselves. that would stop the pandering
secondly, we need to stop economic incentives for irresponsible parents to continue to breed.
third, those on the dole would be required to engage in public service-be it picking up trash on the highways or removing graffitti on buildings. yes there are some on the dole who cannot work but there are plenty who can. As a Young attorney I spent alot of time in "Room A" (arraignments) of the county courthouse and I saw lines of those on PA charged with all sorts of crimes. If you are fit enough to rob a hot dog stand operator or jack some guy's car you are fit enough to do some manual labor
thats where the money is that is not going to basic needs of life.
So, you support the government taking all the desposable income from the private sector?
no I do not
You want to know how additional hundreds of billions of dollars will help?
We can do several things with it that we are not now doing
1- we can use it to decrease the deficit
2- we can use it to rebuild some of our failing infrastructure or to fund the types of public service programs that Turtle just suggested and endorsed or other good things
3- we can use it for a combination of both
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