Does anyone agree with this ?
21 Jul 2011, 4:59 pm
Dear U St
Does anyone agree with this ?
Can you quote any prominent Democrat saying he or she is "for income
equality"? It is true that most Democrats favor less extreme income
inequality than most Republicans. Capitalists associated with the Democratic
Party also tend to be more willing to pay taxes. That is because they have a
little more commonsense than their Republican fellow capitalists and
understand that taxes are necessary to keep the capitalist system running
smoothly. For example, if there is no money to repair crumbling bridges how
can capitalists transport their goods? But neither group of capitalists want
to give up their privileges and establish a society based on equality.
Sincerely
Stephen (for WSPUS/WSM)
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22 Jul 2011, 4:04 am
They say in spirit that it is for bridges and then in reality appropriate it for high-speed rail under the guise of public transit spending. They then call for people to drive less despite the fact that it is the road-going public who subsidize every public transportation system in America save for NYC. If we could only all be as rich as NYC.
They also want to tax people based on how many miles they drive, so that only those who drive, and therefore pollute, are the ones who pay for the roads they damage and the environment they ruin not realizing that the ones who drive or are driven are the most productive in the country, and the ones who pay for the roads they drive on, while subsidizing public transportation.
Everyone paying regaurdless of use into the collective pool helps "Subsidize" our affordable way of life. Note that virtually all goods transported use the highway system, and even a majority of services use the highway system. Whether it be a hotel offering a shuttle to the airport, someone transporting beer from a local brewery, fedex ground delivering goods from SFO airport, or a truck carrying a shipment of TV's from the Port of Oakland to a Bestbuy distributor. By having a pool of people WHO ALL DEPEND on these goods and services either for a livelihood. Just because you can bike to work at your local whole foods grocer doesn't mean that you don't benefit from paying taxes into supporting and maintaining our roads.
If you liberals really cared about public infrastructure, it would have constituted a larger portion of the stimulus. It, however, doesn't even rival the amount that universities got. Your priorities are obvious, and crumbling roads or our aging electrical grid is not one of them, whereas ensuring future professor salaries are.
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22 Jul 2011, 10:03 am
Does anyone agree with this ?
Can you quote any prominent Democrat saying he or she is "for income
equality"? It is true that most Democrats favor less extreme income
inequality than most Republicans. Capitalists associated with the Democratic
Party also tend to be more willing to pay taxes. That is because they have a
little more commonsense than their Republican fellow capitalists and
understand that taxes are necessary to keep the capitalist system running
smoothly. For example, if there is no money to repair crumbling bridges how
can capitalists transport their goods? But neither group of capitalists want
to give up their privileges and establish a society based on equality.
Sincerely
Stephen (for WSPUS/WSM)
No that is just something they say so us people on the bottom of the economic ladder will side with them in the hopes of getting some assistance. they are no better then the republicans and the republicans are no better than them.
