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Thread #142802   Message #3297020
Posted By: Jack the Sailor
27-Jan-12 - 01:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: Ayn Rand
Subject: RE: BS: Ayn Rand
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Your example assumes that the only reason that the students are there is for grades. It is not realistic. some students, probably many students would study to learn. They would also go to the administration of the school for not rewarding their work and and for lying about the President.

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

In the 50's we had the highest taxes in history and the most prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

Horse shit. Society pays for poor people one way or another. Less welfare, more prisons, also, the money the poor people receive comes back into the economy and eventually back to government coffers.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

Of course it can. it can print money.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

Of course you can. You cannot multiply wealth with tax break which rich people use to buy Italian cars and invest in China.


5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

I know a lot of people who have used Unemployment Insurance and welfare in Canada and a few here. Almost none would not have preferred to work.


But what Obama wants to do is take the taxes and invest the way Eisenhower invested in the highway system. That is not socialism. It is conservative capitalism. We need to compete with China and Europe. If we don't if we just give tax breaks where much of the investment gets exported, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.