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Republican Tax Nonsense

justbehappy

justbehappy

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T-Dawg said:
Um, our exceedingly low voter turnout, the fact that most people (and the media machines) know and care more about obscure "celebrities" than they do about politics, the fact that we have no real leftist party, etc? It's not exactly a secret that Americans are apathetic.
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Maybe they're apathetic because they're happy with the way the country is. There's no main things they wish to change, so they don't bother to get involved. Ever thought about that? If people were really into the government and changing things, than that would mean we're doing something wrong. But it's not that they don't care - it's that they're content. Change something they don't want you to change and hell yeah you're gonna see them angry.

Exactly, and before we did that, there were monopolies, there was child labor, there were poor working conditions, wages as low as the market could afford, etc.
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Not all Monopolies are bad. It is Monopolies of our necessities that are bad (like gas gouging during a hurricane when only one gas station is open for example). But say they just invented a teleportation system. The price is $5 million because they're the only ones who make them. The only people who buy them are people who really want them. Most people won't bother because they won't need one. But if they arn't selling any because of the high price, they'll lower they're price. Monopolies on non-essential things work themselves out based out demand.
Didn't the children's parents basically force them to work though? I think there's your problem right there.
Minimum wage is not necessary. It hurts businesses that don't have a huge profit (non-corporations) which hurts jobs. It's a non-necessary cycle that could control itself.

Exactly, that's what I said. You lean Republican.

Because you put your nation and government over yourself no matter what it does. In other words, you appear to think of yourself as a part of the nation rather than as an individual, which is especially bad considering the direction our nation's going. This is actually kind of ironic, seeing as how you seem to hate collectivism.
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My views are completely justified. As an indivudal, I want freedom for not only myself but my nation. It is an individual view that's based on the fact that I shouldn't only think of myself. I want everyone to have the freedom to chose what they want to do.

It could very well become an authoritarian society. All societies will gravitate towards oligarchy unless the natural trend is actively resisted.
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I'd definitely rather not take the risk.

It's not stupidity that the lower working class has done more to earn their money than the big businessmen.
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Because of physical labor? Using your brain is work too, you know. If they were smart enough to figure out some business strategy that earned than millions, good for them. You act like all rich people are heirs or they sit around all day counting their money. Just because they didn't do manual labor all day doesn't mean they didn't earn it. There are different ways to earn money - and they ALL still earned it.

You also completely ignored my point - you can make the argument that they're an infringement of financial freedom, but to argue that they're an infringement of personal freedom is absurd.
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Why does it matter what type of freedom it is? You can put any word in front of it and it still is an infringement of freedom either way.
 
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