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You're saying that the wealthy will move overseas? I think it's more likely that the poor who don't have adequate medical care will move overseas rather than die. I suppose you'd think that would be an improvement, to get rid of those lazy poor people who are only a burden on you.

 

JustChristian said:

No, the poorest people could not AFFORD to move! Therefore, this analogy comes much closer to what would really happen. The richest person/people would relocate their assets (if not themselves) to an overseas location, thus saving their tax dollars. (BTW, this is another reason so many US companies now manufacture their items overseas, in addition to the lower wages they need to pay.)

Has any liberal ever considered the statement Jesus made "The poor you will always have with you" (Matthew 26:11a, NIV)? If you raise everybody's income, then the poor just make more money and are still the poor. (And if you don't believe that, answer me why the poorest American is still wealthier/richer than many, if not most, people in other countries!) If you redistribute wealth, then everybody becomes "the poor". I feel like this because so many people don't understand that: :BangHead:

Lower taxes will always result in a better, stronger economy. Higher debt will always result in a weaker economy. You cannot borrow your way to wealth, and neither can the government (at any level).

BTW, many studies have shown that conservatives and poorer people do more to help others, than do liberals in general. When more liberals give away more of their personal riches to help the poor and needy, then maybe I might start to listen to their plans to help the poor and needy!

Bill :godisgood:

 

I choose to spend my tax money on medical care for the poor. You choose to spend it on an unjust war. The United States spends more on its military than all the rest of the world combined. Why should Christians support this madness?

 

Those who correctly interpret the Bible know that when Jesus said:

"The poor you will always have with you"

He wasn't saying that we should not help the poor. He was making the point that He himself would not always be on Earth. A better passage for you to consider is this one.

Mat 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
Mat 25:42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
Mat 25:43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Mat 25:44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Mat 25:45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] not to one of the least of these, ye did [it] not to me.
Mat 25:46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

 

Well since you seem to have so many facts why don't you produce the amount of money we give to the world in aid every year. feel free to add the money spent on Iraq since we gave aid to those Iraqi's that were being tortured, mamed, murdered and raped every day.

 

The poor will move to Cuba so they can get that wonderful medical care the fat man [Is it Michael Moore, the liar who put out Fahrenheit 9/11.] did a documentary on.

 

The story probably illustrates "class envy," and I see the analogy to the rich man going elsewhere - employees in my own industry are being replaced by overseas employees because the companies pay less in taxes. There are other considerations, I'm sure (lower wages - but that is offset to a large degree by the cost and unreliability of the infrastructure), but I've read and heard that lower corporate taxes have a lot to do with it.

 

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Another leftists with reading comprehension problems!

 

>No, the poorest people could not AFFORD to move!

In the US, only the poorest CAN afford to move. In Arizona, the winos spend winter in Phoenix and summers in Flagstaff. So says my Daughter who lives there. If I was poor I would move to SanFrancisco.

 

This little parable is spot on. We are creating such a hostile environment against industry, ingenuity, entreprenuership, that America will no longer be the envy of the world. In our lust and theft of our neighbors' posessions, we will soon have no more posessions to steal. And then everyone becomes poor, just like the great utopia the Soviet Union. If the Dems are successful in getting the vast majority of the citizens bumming off the gov't, it will be difficult to ever reverse the trend, and America as we know it will be toast. And the root of it all is the breaking of the two commandments - thou shalt not steal and thou shalt not covet.

 

For companies that want to list on a stock exchange, higher corporate taxes and the cost of compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley provide some effective deterrents to doing business in the US.

 

JC, you also choose to spend your tax money to support abortion.

 

So...anyone who disagrees with you wants to kill poor people now.

Pardon me, your immaturity is showing.

Grown ups can disagree without such antics. Learn to be one.

 

Sure is class envy on this list. For starters, all who are envious of those with a good union job.