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Tsiyu

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26. You believe in all of the magic

Sun Jun 24, 2012, 07:26 PM

Jun 2012

and none of the consequence.

It's not "magic" or "benevolent" motivation to find a resource, exploit it, produce something with it for pennies in a Third World country, get some buddy in the US to subsidize your selling it in the states at jacked-up prices paying shit wages to your US workers, having a cap on how much you have to pay if your product totally destroys someone's life, using the American highway system to transport your product all over the country, take a huge bonus before you dump the company off to buy something else and the whole time paying no taxes.

How magical!

When the fallout from all of the above becomes more detrimental than not having the little play pretty produced, the magic dims and the benevolence fades.

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Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society. [View all] kentuck Jun 2012 OP

And the higher taxes are, the more civilized you can be. nt bemildred Jun 2012 #1

SOAK THE RICH!! deaniac21 Jun 2012 #2

How about requiring they pay what they can afford. Just like the rest of us. The Wielding Truth Jun 2012 #3

I say SOAK THE RICH. deaniac21 Jun 2012 #34

Amen! They are reverse Robin Hoods! Initech Jun 2012 #36

Exactly, and it means everyone lives a more TBF Jun 2012 #4

In our case, Taxes are the price we pay for corrupt politicians, criminal corporations, and wars. Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2012 #5

If so, we're not getting our money's worth. AnotherMcIntosh Jun 2012 #6

Maybe that is something we could work on with the Tea Partiers? kentuck Jun 2012 #9

Maybe? Not a chance. AnotherMcIntosh Jun 2012 #16

Maybe you are correct? kentuck Jun 2012 #17

Wealth = incentive to create economic activity. dkf Jun 2012 #7

For greedy people... kentuck Jun 2012 #8

Look at everything you own, watch, or read and ask yourself when the person responsible for that had dkf Jun 2012 #10

Contrary to what you may think... kentuck Jun 2012 #11

They expensed everything and had loopholes large enough to drive trucks through. dkf Jun 2012 #14

Corporations suck. kentuck Jun 2012 #15

Their drive to make a profit makes my life better. It gets me access to things I enjoy. dkf Jun 2012 #18

But most American innovation was accomplished under higher tax rates. CJCRANE Jun 2012 #20

Very eloquent. In the past, that was true. But currently when the super-rich can increase their AnotherMcIntosh Jun 2012 #23

You believe in all of the magic Tsiyu Jun 2012 #26

The purpose is one thing, but what they do to get there is another bhikkhu Jun 2012 #22

That's how it used to work laundry_queen Jun 2012 #28

Exactly, higher tax rates on the rich => more spending and more investment in... CJCRANE Jun 2012 #19

Plus laundry_queen Jun 2012 #29

Society and infrastructure = the ability to create economic activity. n/t lumberjack_jeff Jun 2012 #13

The problem is wealth is no longer derived just by making things One of the 99 Jun 2012 #25

Taxes are the price we pay for strip searches at the airport and predator drones in Afghanistan. n/t lumberjack_jeff Jun 2012 #12

taxes are how congress criminals get paid. spanone Jun 2012 #21

One of my favorite quotes. nt eppur_se_muova Jun 2012 #24

Freedom isn't free. gulliver Jun 2012 #27

"...undermine people's faith in the whole American system..." kentuck Jun 2012 #30

I agree with your OP completely. gulliver Jun 2012 #31

I thought that was what you meant. kentuck Jun 2012 #32

And corporate taxes are the price Shankapotomus Jun 2012 #33

hey john89 Jun 2012 #35