The solution is not to rob from one group of people what they earned through their own sweat and blood, the solution is to force government to ensure that there are jobs of sufficient quantity and quality that any one that desires to get ahead can get ahead.
How do you force Government to ensure that there are jobs of sufficient Quanity and Quality, that anyone that desires to get ahead can get ahead? This would be a real good trick. And BTW, how far is ahead, I know what some head is, but ahead of what.
You reduce it in size, scope and density. I can agree that government should have a role in ensuring that corporations don't go around cutting corners on the safety of their employees, but when the government fines the corporation it's pointless. Helping the person that was injured with a lawsuit would be more beneficial to the person that lost a limb or finger, or whatever.
Then we can also use tariff's to balance the cost of Using American Labor against the cost of using sweatshop labor in China. Make it so that it is not profitable to import goods from China to undercut the competition, by figuring out how expensive it would be to make the good or service here and then passing that as a duty on that good/service. In addition to the additional costs of transporting the goods this would make sure that our native industries are more competitive, and frankly, I see nothing wrong with that.
By helping one group of people get ahead, other American Workers, we ultimately help everyone get ahead through increased economic activity.
A dollar spent, is a dollar some one else receives to spend.
My problem is that when government steps in and takes a portion of the dollar on each transaction the dollar eventually gets taxed out of existence. Misguided views of what the economy is.
Stocks, once purchased are not money, and thus even if some one sits there and collects bundles of stocks they've already spent their money and given it to some one else. Wealth can not be destroyed, it can only be created or transferred.
Same with savings accounts, well at least CDs, which let the bank take the money and lend it out for a set duration, thus transferring your money to some one else to use for a period of time.
I think savings accounts and checkings accounts on the other hand really serve no purpose outside of saving enough or reserving enough to handle emergencies, and making paying bills easier.
:: shrugs :: Just my opinion.
Reducing the size of the government.... how do you get people with power to give up power. That's a good question MedicineMan, and not one that I have any idea to answer. I mean doing it how the Revolutionaries did it guarantees loss of life, and unlike them the gross disparity between any potential strength of a rebellion and the government is enormously weighted in favor of the government unless the State Militia can be convinced to go along with it. So the solution is to do it peacefully some how, but there is no party that can be trusted to reduce the size of government. Both the Repukes and the Demonrats just want to increase the size and scope of government in efforts to "solve" problems that they created.
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