Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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Funny how all the jobs are dissaperaing but the unemployment rate of around 5.1% is about the same as during CLintons fabulous economy

"For every guy who leaves the table with chips someone goes home without. For every guy who has a nice house on the ocean, a lot of others are hungry."

One of the liberal core fallacies.

New ideas can create worth w/o taking away from anyone else. Look at the value Gates created w/ his software. Solely through his ideas ( and cut throat marketing ) he created billions in value. It's that sort of class envy that dooms liberal thought.

'Unless you're printing money "

Ummm, isn't that what the Fed does? A lot of new ideas or technology actually help others do their own work more effectively and thus create value for the buyer and seller. Ca[italism is not rape, despite your 60's view of the world

"Remove the leveling influence of taxes (what Adam Smith called "transfer payments"

It's all a question of degree. Are you saying that the provider of value is not entitled to the fruits of their labor more than someone who is not providing value to society. In your world should all income just be divided among all citizens equally?

Again, in the real world this has never worked. THe Soviet Union crumbled for just that reason. Removing the profit motive doomed it to failure