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<blockquote data-quote="brett636" data-source="post: 378001" data-attributes="member: 249"><p>The statement I have highlighted in bold eerily resembles a famous quote from a well known author. The quote reads as follows: "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." These famous words were written by the father of communism himself Karl Marx. The basic problem is that it does not work. Human nature has never allowed for a perfect communistic institution to exist and never will. Hence Economic justice = communism. </p><p></p><p> </p><p>I don't know about you, but I have never been employed by a poor person. I have never been given a job, paycheck, or offered benefits from a person who is living hand to mouth and generally does not achieve any kind of economic success in life. Your basic premise that we need to "punish the successful" is flawed because the successful people in this country are the ones creating the businesses which create the jobs which keep people employed. Despite your uneducated opinion which you so strongly cling to the "successful" or rich people of this nation are already shouldering the mother load of our government's total tax revenues. The bottom 85% of wage earners today only pay something like 2.9% of the governments total tax revenues. The top 1% pay around 45% of the governments total tax revenues which has steadily grown since the bush tax cuts have been put in place. How much more should they pay? Its a fact that government tax revenues grow when the economy grows, and the economy can only grow when people who are "successful" have money to invest. The government has proven to be extremely efficient at wasting money, so giving more money to them will do nobody any good. Our government's waste needs to be limited at the legislative and executive branches, not subsidized by the people. </p><p></p><p>This is where we come to the basic difference between you and I. I believe people succeed when they are empowered to make the choices that best suit them. This model has served our country well for the last 200+ years propelling our country to a world superpower with a model envied by <strong>billions</strong> around the world. You wish to scrap every institution we have used to get where we are today so that every person in this nation can be enslaved to the federal government in ways that would make people like Stalin, Lenin, and Marx smile from the grave. Change is the mantra spewed by a man who is a radical, with radical connections all of which whom have worked in someway to destroy this great nation. The future of our nation can be prosperous, or wrought with mandatory servitude. We know you have already chosen the latter, and I can only hope the rest of the nation does not feel the same way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brett636, post: 378001, member: 249"] The statement I have highlighted in bold eerily resembles a famous quote from a well known author. The quote reads as follows: "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." These famous words were written by the father of communism himself Karl Marx. The basic problem is that it does not work. Human nature has never allowed for a perfect communistic institution to exist and never will. Hence Economic justice = communism. I don't know about you, but I have never been employed by a poor person. I have never been given a job, paycheck, or offered benefits from a person who is living hand to mouth and generally does not achieve any kind of economic success in life. Your basic premise that we need to "punish the successful" is flawed because the successful people in this country are the ones creating the businesses which create the jobs which keep people employed. Despite your uneducated opinion which you so strongly cling to the "successful" or rich people of this nation are already shouldering the mother load of our government's total tax revenues. The bottom 85% of wage earners today only pay something like 2.9% of the governments total tax revenues. The top 1% pay around 45% of the governments total tax revenues which has steadily grown since the bush tax cuts have been put in place. How much more should they pay? Its a fact that government tax revenues grow when the economy grows, and the economy can only grow when people who are "successful" have money to invest. The government has proven to be extremely efficient at wasting money, so giving more money to them will do nobody any good. Our government's waste needs to be limited at the legislative and executive branches, not subsidized by the people. This is where we come to the basic difference between you and I. I believe people succeed when they are empowered to make the choices that best suit them. This model has served our country well for the last 200+ years propelling our country to a world superpower with a model envied by [B]billions[/B] around the world. You wish to scrap every institution we have used to get where we are today so that every person in this nation can be enslaved to the federal government in ways that would make people like Stalin, Lenin, and Marx smile from the grave. Change is the mantra spewed by a man who is a radical, with radical connections all of which whom have worked in someway to destroy this great nation. The future of our nation can be prosperous, or wrought with mandatory servitude. We know you have already chosen the latter, and I can only hope the rest of the nation does not feel the same way. [/QUOTE]
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