Taxes are the lowest they have been for a long time. Lower they have been in decades and decades and decades.
Your pop quiz also has a fallacy to it. It would have to be assumed in reality that there was only the option of paying more in taxes or hiring people. I take option C, they do both. They are sitting on massive wealth and the income gap between the rich and everybody is more than it's been since well before the lifetimes of almost everybody on this board, maybe since America's Gilded Age back more than a century ago. In fact lets make that option D. They not only do both, but they no longer get unequal access to lawmakers because of their wealth to devise the laws to benefit them more than everybody else, like say the tax code that funnels money to the poor to them. They no longer use their wealth to get to use loopholes or schemes to evade taxes or pay ridiculously low amounts on each dollar they make. Then you can add on to that they don't exploit people either here or abroad to get any more wealth. They make up for decades of exploitation they have already done. They have to make money by actually doing something instead of just using financial engineering where they move moeny around. They are held to ethical and moral standards with how they run their business. How about add on to that they don't destroy ours or anybody else's environment while they are at it.
...Yeah, I think I'm going with option D here.
I've known about very few people that were rich and fully deserved what they had.
Ummm...yeah doesn't that religion you talk about so much have things in it about taking care of the poor and doing it because you should love your fellow people. There is that whole stuff about the love of money being the root of evil too.
I don't know what your definition of "hoarding" is, but "keeping their money and not giving it away" seems like a pretty good description of it.
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Okay, let me see if I can go point by point...
Taxes are the lowest they have been for a long time. Lower they have been in decades and decades and decades.
Okay, let's assume that American taxes on business are actually the lowest in the entire world (are they?) add to the taxes the cost of unnecessary regulations, you know, the "fill this up in triplicate" bullshit. Then add to that the cost of benefits, etc. and the costs of new hiring outweigh the benefits.
Your pop quiz also has a fallacy to it. It would have to be assumed in reality that there was only the option of paying more in taxes or hiring people.
So, hiring people is not enough? The point of the my pop quiz question is actually "would you prefer to see more money go to the government or go to the people", too bad that most libs make the mistake of believing that "government = the people"
I take option C, they do both.
Open up your own corporation and do that. Live by example.
They are sitting on massive wealth and the income gap between the rich and everybody is more than it's been since well before the lifetimes of almost everybody on this board, maybe since America's Gilded Age back more than a century ago.
True, especially since 2009..... what happened back then?
In fact lets make that option D. They not only do both, but they no longer get unequal access to lawmakers because of their wealth to devise the laws to benefit them more than everybody else, like say the tax code that funnels money to the poor to them.
So the rich became rich by stealing by having money funneled to them from the poor? :dunno: In that case you should be angry at the gov. for making such an unfair tax code.
They no longer use their wealth to get to use loopholes or schemes to evade taxes or pay ridiculously low amounts on each dollar they make.
True, the most complicated the tax code is, the more loopholes you will find. Get rid of it and implement a fair flat tax, after all a tax rate of 10% for $1,000,000 ($100,000 for those who are mathematically challenged) is still a hell of a lot more than 10% of $10,000 (only $1,000).
Then you can add on to that they don't exploit people either here or abroad to get any more wealth. They make up for decades of exploitation they have already done.
Decades of exploitation? Wake up and smell the 21st century. We're no longer living in an age where your employer works you from sun up to sun down and if your employer does that you can definetely file a complaint to the Dept. of Labor.
They have to make money by actually doing something instead of just using financial engineering where they move moeny around.
Doing something? Now, when you're talking about corporations, they definetely do things, like the thing you're using to write stuff online, your iphone or cell phone, corporations make products. Banks make our money work, I put my hard earned cash in there in a savings account, it gains interest, I buy stock in another company, the company uses that money to upgrade equipment, hire people or open up new places of work and they pay me back for the use of my money. That makes me believe that you really have no idea how capitalism works to begin with, you must have some distorted view of it most likely taught by an Alinsky type.
They are held to ethical and moral standards with how they run their business. How about add on to that they don't destroy ours or anybody else's environment while they are at it.
Again, it's a free country, get together with like-minded individuals, pass the hat around, get some $$ together and open up your own goody-goody corporation and show the evil ones how things are done. Live by example.
...Yeah, I think I'm going with option D here.
I've known about very few people that were rich and fully deserved what they had.
Drug dealers? They definetely don't deserve what they have. But people like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, my boss, people who worked hard, provided other people with their own careers, they do deserve what they got.
