Re: NFC: Here comes BO's 10 % US National Sales tax | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Rick Lindsay (rolindsay![]() |
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Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 13:12:00 -0700 (PDT) |
Hello Friends, We are obviously of mixed minds here. Discussions like this are often contested between the "haves" and the "have-nots". I'm not sure that's the case here in FList land. Most of us 'have' to some degree. Hummm... I think it just comes down to the fact that those of us who went to school for a zillion years, have worked hard all of our lives at good jobs, paid our bills, paid our taxes, have a little coin tucked away and have no debt - are being told that we don't deserve anything that we have and that we need to redistribute it to the people who did NOT study, work, pay bills, pay taxes and save - just so that we can all be equals at some low, marginally acceptable level. That just does not work for me. One doesn't get from life what one deserves. One gets what one works for. (Please pardon the preposition at the end of the sentence.) I know I'm a hard-ass when it comes to this but I've seen both sides. I grew up poor, descended from an even poorer Scottish family. I have relatives who do NOTHING but whine - at least when their Oxycontin starts to wear off - and they get more government money than any of us - for doing absolutely NOTHING. They're ignorant and proud of it, living a lifestyle of "Why work if I can get government money for free?" That attitude is why communism and socialism does not work. I've lived in Russia and have seen it first hand. I don't care if Tim Geitner says, "Soon we won't care how much money we earn. We'll care about how we live." That's just naive (and/or more likely, intended for ears other than ours). Hummm... Socialism feels very "moral high-ground" in concept but it fails because it is counter to basic evolutionary forces. Life wants to survive and replicate, even if at the expense of others. We want to win the race/game/contest even though someone else has to loose. Its how life works. Just look at what people watch on network TV! We have to compete and we like to win! Winning upsets the balance that socialism tries to establish. The system being forced upon us now is counter to all of that. Its like saying that all the F1 teams can compete but no one is allowed to win. They must all be equals. Someone should take all of Toyota, Ferrari and McLaren's money and give it to Force India so that all of the teams will be equals. This concept violates the Great Truth of the Universe Rule #14: "No two anythings were ever created equal." That includes us, brothers. rick (That's rick with a small "r", not the other Rick with the big "R")
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