03-07-2002, 09:55 AM
In another post, Andy, you wrote that
1) You paid over $500,000.00 in taxes last year, and
2) If you paid up to $600,000.00, or down to $400,000.00, it wouldn't make one bit of difference to YOUR lifestyle.
This is the typical, shortsighted, selfish attitude of the limousine-liberal class. They don't know jack about economics, and they don't give a hang about anybody but themselves. So I have two questions for you,
1) Whatever you do for a living, how do you figure out how much of it to do, what quantity, and
2) How do you figure out how much to charge per unit, for the quantity you do?
Because, obviously, the purpose of what you do is not designed to help your lifestyle, BUT TO IMPROVE OTHER PEOPLE'S LIFESTYLES - otherwise, they wouldn't be paying you for it, you dolt!
So, when you say how you don't mind paying taxes because "you can afford it," you are completely ignoring the fact that it is the people who can't afford it, who are getting less of your product, at a higher price, because of your taxes.
A tax on you is a tax on everyone who benefits from what you do and, as such, the first people to suffer from a tax on the very productive are the very unproductive.
But it never occurred to you that what you do with your time and money is valuable to poor people in some indirect way. Only I can prove that, because of taxes, you give them less of that value.
And who gets more value, when you spend less time and capital producing, and divert your earnings to Washington? Why, you do, of course, Andy! It is, after all, the limousine liberals who wish to feel good about themselves, rather than the perpetual victims the programs are theoretically supposed to help, who decide whether a program is "working" or not.
And if the politicos can use your dollars to buy off unions and reduce the number of teachers*, for instance, while at the same time convincing you that they are "for education" or something else you never even bother to check the actual results on, all the better.
In truth, as long as some politician mails you a letter telling you all the "good" he is doing, you would rather send your money to him to finance an army of desk jockeys and paper pushers - and leave your own lifestyle unaffected - than produce more of the things most average, hard-working people need and would pay you for more of.
Seriously, Mr. Productive, is there anything we could do to get you to work more, to produce more, or to charge less? Or are you just that selfish? Meaning, are grinning politicians the only people worthy of your generosity?
eLROY
*Private-school, meaning voucher-school teachers get paid less than union teachers. So protecting the public-school monopoly reduces the total number of teachers employed for the same amount of money.
1) You paid over $500,000.00 in taxes last year, and
2) If you paid up to $600,000.00, or down to $400,000.00, it wouldn't make one bit of difference to YOUR lifestyle.
This is the typical, shortsighted, selfish attitude of the limousine-liberal class. They don't know jack about economics, and they don't give a hang about anybody but themselves. So I have two questions for you,
1) Whatever you do for a living, how do you figure out how much of it to do, what quantity, and
2) How do you figure out how much to charge per unit, for the quantity you do?
Because, obviously, the purpose of what you do is not designed to help your lifestyle, BUT TO IMPROVE OTHER PEOPLE'S LIFESTYLES - otherwise, they wouldn't be paying you for it, you dolt!
So, when you say how you don't mind paying taxes because "you can afford it," you are completely ignoring the fact that it is the people who can't afford it, who are getting less of your product, at a higher price, because of your taxes.
A tax on you is a tax on everyone who benefits from what you do and, as such, the first people to suffer from a tax on the very productive are the very unproductive.
But it never occurred to you that what you do with your time and money is valuable to poor people in some indirect way. Only I can prove that, because of taxes, you give them less of that value.
And who gets more value, when you spend less time and capital producing, and divert your earnings to Washington? Why, you do, of course, Andy! It is, after all, the limousine liberals who wish to feel good about themselves, rather than the perpetual victims the programs are theoretically supposed to help, who decide whether a program is "working" or not.
And if the politicos can use your dollars to buy off unions and reduce the number of teachers*, for instance, while at the same time convincing you that they are "for education" or something else you never even bother to check the actual results on, all the better.
In truth, as long as some politician mails you a letter telling you all the "good" he is doing, you would rather send your money to him to finance an army of desk jockeys and paper pushers - and leave your own lifestyle unaffected - than produce more of the things most average, hard-working people need and would pay you for more of.
Seriously, Mr. Productive, is there anything we could do to get you to work more, to produce more, or to charge less? Or are you just that selfish? Meaning, are grinning politicians the only people worthy of your generosity?
eLROY
*Private-school, meaning voucher-school teachers get paid less than union teachers. So protecting the public-school monopoly reduces the total number of teachers employed for the same amount of money.