trekkie wrote:
range... you have my permission to back slap ring as hard as you want. you can even bring the mother of dragons to help you out.
I will. I just had like... half a page typed out and my browser closed. I feel like **** so I don't feel like typing again.
My main point was:
Liberals actually demote progress by taxing investment returns at a higher rate than conservatives. The idea that the rich are taxed lower than the poor is actually an uneducated idea. Look at the US tax bracket. You make 50k a year its like 15%, you make 350k+ you pay something like 35%. The way the "rich" have a lower tax amount (rate) then the poor is due to investment tax, which is something like 15% with the Bush tax cuts.
Now, logic time. (but sadly, Supply Side Economics can't really be proven or dis proven with data charts, but this isnt exactly SSE)
You have 1M dollars to invest. You can go to Liberalville or Conservative City. Liberalvill will tax you at 35% on returns and Conservative City will tax you at 15%. All other tax rate are the same. Where would you go? You would go to Conservative City and make much more on returns then if you went to Liberalville.
So, Converatives promote Adam Smiths invisible hand, letting the economy correct itself and allowing for investors to invest more with greater chance of returns, hence promoting investment which in turn promotes progress..
Like I said, a little of that is if you believe in Supply Side, which I do to a point. (SSE is lower taxes = more consumption spending, = more tax revenue) which doesnt REALLY relate to what I said, but I think it does to a point, you may want to just disregard that I even mentioned SSE. I am not thinking at my best, due to feeling like ****.
But, in conclusion. Progress in the economy and business. I'd say conservatives win. Progress with social issues, obviously I would give to the Liberals. But is that progress good? While I think progress with womens rights and *** rights is awesome, and I think it is sad tha conservatives are fighting it so much take a look at liberals push to give progress to aborting as "womens rights". **** joke that is. Remember partial birth abortions? How drugs can actually do you harm? There is a reason conservatives like being conservative.
Also, I don't think liberals are using America for the strengths that she has. America thrives of free(ish) enterprise and high competition in the market. When something is not working, lets make it easier to compete not make competition harder (talking about healthcare here). Treat healthcare as a business, not a government ran market, since that doesn't work in America. (Postal service for instance)
For example, and this is what future Senator from Missouri thinks. Sara Steelman wants to open up the healthcare marketing by running it like car insurance. For instance, I currently live in Missouri, but my car insurance is out of a insurance agency from California. I can't do that with healthcare. I am forced to have what few insurance agencies are in my state, which is a VERY small number. Want to lower healthcare? Let me buy healthcare from all over America. That will increase competition, make barriers to entry lower, and lower the overall price and give higher quality. Simple and efficient. But no, leave it to a liberal to have the government run heathcare. Thank God the mandate will be deemed unconstitutional....
Also, if anyone is going to argue about Romney Care being Obama Care. Yes, kinda, but it was VOTED in by 2/3 the vote where Obama Care is passed behind closed doors, by a liberal government that thinks the American people are too stupid to know what is good for them.
Sorry, kinda went off on a rant haha.
/I feel like ****. Ill proof and add more to this later.
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