Why don't conservatives realize that the stability that creates the money making environment?
they thrive in, is also attributable to social safety nets they are constantly attacking? There's a direct relationship between poverty and instability.. instability does not create an environment favoring capitalism.. Otherwise Mogadishu or Tijuanna Mexico would look like the most modern hub of capitalism. People who are NOT in poverty.. or are happy, healthy, educated, and productive arae just as important a vital resource as a smooth highway.
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Generations of inbreeding produces people who aren't too sharp. It is tough for them to grasp concepts that come easily to the rest of us.
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For the same reason they don't realize slashing education funding, especially for math and science, and insisting creationism be taught along with evolution is contributing to America being less and less competitive in the global market.
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Yet you seem to be wrong huh.
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Just because you think it, doesn't make it true.
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We understand stability creates a money making environment, what concerns us is that welfare was supposed to be a temporary hand up, now it is a permanent hand out and people have been living on welfare for 40+ years and it looks like they are never going to get off it. I would like to see reforms for this, like making people report to work everyday and finding the crappiest job for them to do everyday so that they will be motivated to get off their butts and do something. Also we need to set a lifetime limit. If you don't have these things, people will just continue to get "money for nothing"
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Yeah OK whatever, isn't that what Karl Marx said also
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As an entrepreneur, the so-called "social safety net" did absolutely nothing for me at all, except cause my taxes to be higher than they would have been otherwise, and, since some of those taxes were tied to employment, they discouraged me from hiring Americans.
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Considering conservatives are the ones creating the "money making environment" that liberals want to redistribute, and liberal "social policies" are directly what caused the need for those safety nets in the first place, I'd say your question is entirely moot. "Great Society" my azz.
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Why don't liberals realize that "stability" is a poor excuse for tyranny? Why don't liberals realize that the social safety net is not the government, it is your fellow citizens? Why don't liberals realize that America was stable, grew and prospered for more than 100 years before the first federal welfare programs were invented? Why don't liberals realize that there are million of possible solutions to any given problem? Why do they say the ONLY answer to every single problem in the universe is the iron fist of government?
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You are making assumptions based no conjecture and not supported by facts. What "stability" is provided by social safety nets? There was stability long before social safety nets ever existed. There has been plenty of social unrest since such safety nets were created. They created a concept of "entitlement" or that a person was entitled to benefits without doing any work does not create stability. It creates resentment, criminality and unrest. Today, it has created class warfare with people blaming successful people for their personal failure, demanding what others have earned and worst of all, accepting the false premise that government is the source of happiness. Below is a link to a story about Missouri Welfare recipients spending their welfare money in Hawaii. I have been working hard and paying taxes for 40 years and I have never been to Hawaii. *
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I noticed most responses tend to focus on how paying for the commons of society, (which even profit motivated capital hungry elitists use) and apparently they assume that the commons should be free exclusively for them and that paying their fair share is an affront to their money hoarding "freedoms". So, if only the poor/middle class pay for the commons, why don't we set up toll booths at every street corner so that all the tax-phobic entrepreneurs can pay a per use fee for moving their products across America, then we'll see how eager they are to pay a corner to corner "fee" to move their companies products without incurring any taxes that pay for the (currently poor maintenance) of the commons of society. Apparently, only money hoarders know exactly what taxes should be spent on and liberals do not. Conservatively-correct economic logic dictates that taxes only pay for things in society that "boot-strap" conservatives think are a waste of money like undeserving lazy poor people or at least that's what liberals have all been pigeon-holed by repetitive conservative myth-building perpetuating an anti-poor/anti-middle class worker-rights framed as the main enemy narrative that is supposedly opposed to "capitalism". In reality, we're opposed to unequal taxation burden that rewards wealth by funneling money upward to the already wealthy by stealing from the poor/middle class via unequal taxes. Meanwhile the rich take multiple tax holidays, why else do you think the wealthy wannabes are so eager to distract and divert people's attention away from all the tax avoidance schemes that they use to get back money in tax rebates for money they were never taxed on to begin with? Every time a conservative complains about taxes, remember than most conservatives avoid paying taxes, what they are in fact doing is distracting ignorant people away from noticing how much taxes they do not pay, what they want people to believe is that the poor/middle class DO NOT pay ENOUGH in taxes! Most rich pay less than half (15%) in taxes on dividends and capital gains that the poor/middle class pay on average 35% on far less money given that each tier of wealth is taxed differently and as the wealth threshold goes up, the number of tax waivers/loopholes rises exponentially, is it a dirty secret? Maybe, but who has time to worry about wealth if you're busy paying our own share of taxes, plus the taxes of the wealthy who with tax cuts their main objective, someone has to pay for the loss of revenue and guess what, that's you and me that have to bail out the wealthy who hate paying their fair share because they want desperate underpaid workers chasing down that elusive dollar to pay all their bills, vice rebelling against the ruling elite who play reverse robin hood by stealing from the poor to give to the rich, it's not trickle up, it's an upside down waterfall!
