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median wage down to $26,364

Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by billwald, Oct 20, 2011.

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  1. mandym

    mandym New Member

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    The only way to do this is if the government takes over business. It will not and cannot work otherwise. And that is unAmerican and will never happen in this country. No one is going to take the risk of starting and owning the very businesses you want to destroy with this Marxist business model.
     
    #21 mandym, Oct 22, 2011
  2. quantumfaith

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    My favorite (political) quote:

    "The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other peoples money."

    Margaret Thatcher

    The problem, as I see it, with ANY economic/political system or model, no matter how well intentioned, is that it is plagued with the vagaries of human greed. Greed for wealth, greed for power, greed for status and position. History, I think quite clearly teaches us that all such systems, no matter how noble in principle, do in fact tend to fail due to corruption. It is the natural order of entropy at work. All of creation is principally entropic.
     
    #22 quantumfaith, Oct 22, 2011
  3. targus

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    And who decides this?

    In your perfect world what is the just reward for a doctor and a garbage collector?

    The same?

    Is one worth more than the other?
     
    #23 targus, Oct 22, 2011
  4. billwald

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    >We need to have a much more reasonable distribution of income and power in this country.

    A large death tax would be a start. Say for estates over 10 million.
     
    #24 billwald, Oct 22, 2011
  5. quantumfaith

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    How about only allowing a proportionate number of attorney's to be legislators?

    Bill, I am a bit ambivalent about the death tax thingy, in theory, it might serve prevent concentration of wealth a bit, but my guess is the wealthy would find a way to prevent it from occurring.

    I still think our capitalist economic system is the best thing going from all I am aware of.
     
    #25 quantumfaith, Oct 22, 2011
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