Re: Obamanation here today
A tax cut for business or even small business, from a certain POV just how really effective it that? For any business, what is the #1 priority for any really longterm sustainability as a viable enterprise? Customers, a demand for your services or products. Can you have all the cash on hand and capital and still fail and die as a business? Sure, here's $100 billion dollars to start a national corporation making and selling stone wheels. You'll be around only as long as the $100 bil lasts because there will be no sustainable demand for that product and thus to my point of the customer. But what if I lobby gov't and got special laws passed protecting my business interests to where gov't saw me as "to big to fail?" Wanna know why we have crap for cars and are still slaves to centralized energy grids powered by dinosaurs and ancient peet moss instead of self sufficent, low to no cost individual means of energy power generation?
Small business needs customers and where does cutomers come from? Not from tax breaks in the tax code just for businesses and let me be crystal clear on arbitrary and compulsary taxes.
I absolutely oppose them all on principle and moral grounds. IMHO they violate common sense economic law, violate the principle of individual choice and on moral grounds they are nothing more than the illusion of legitimizing a criminal gang to engage in pure theft and armed robbery under an ultimate purpose of some dreamstate utopian harmony that in fact becomes a dystopian nightmare. And yes, anyone who votes and supports the very people who do such things are co-conspirators in a criminal enterprise to commit fraud and theft. OK, we're all guilty as hell so where do we go from here?
If what businesses really need are customers, then where do we find the most customers for the bang for our buck? By giving customers the ability to exchange with small businesses, this would also give businesses the same influx of capitial as a tax break would but as long as they provide a viable product or service, this influx is sustainable. Also unlike a fixed, defined tax break which leaves the business owner indebted and enslaved to the political classes in order to maintain (should we all be having a lightbulb moment together

), the free market approach doesn't leave one in the same kind of servitude and it's ability to obtain more influx of capitial is only limited by his/her ability to maintain and grow the customer base of the business itself minus any special priviledges or interventions from gov't to the disadvantage of taxpayers and other businesses not as well connected. One way the gov't picks the winners and loses and we do business with what they give us and the other way, we pick the winners and the losers ourselves in a free and honest marketplace, not one rigged by gov't interference.
Let's be clear here also, no corporation really pays taxes just as no corporation ever pays high labor costs. I love it when all the little boss wanna bees scream about unions and wages as if something is coming right out of their pockets when it's always the customer who foots the bill just as union screams of overpaid bosses doesn't come out of worker pockets as again the customer foots this bill. Now the potential harm of both in other ways is another matter but just like corp. taxes, the customer will be the one to pay so raising or lowering corp. taxes IMO is more a red (no pun intended) herring than anything else. Also corp. taxes are nothing but a gov't shell game with the corporations themselves in on the rigging. Oh the good gov't tells us they gonna make them greddy corporations pay their fair share but let me tell you how it really works.
Gov't plays the conjob and institutes the corp. tax and the corp. profits don't come down for 2 main reasons. First , they raise the prices of goods and service or they makes various cuts that effect quality in order to pay for said taxes, Either way the poor customer foots the bill. Now corp heads turn the money over to Uncle Sam and first thing off the top of that dollar comes the adminstrative cost to pay for all those wonderful public servants who are on a sacred mission serving greater humanity. So now our dollar has had a good bit looped off the top and next come the Congressman and the Corp. lobbyist who wheel and deal and between them whack off another huge chunk so they get their cut too. And then finally all the good people that decide how our perfect little world will be run begrudgingly pass down what little is left back to the little people. To simplify, I'll take a dollar from your right pocket convincing you that you are losing nothing but rather fulfilling your civic duty and then later I'll but a dime back in your left pocket and whisper sweet nothings in your ear of how patriot and a wonderful citizen you truly are. OK, form a line and I'll sign everyone up. What, no takers? Why not? You do the same thing now and I just might give you back a quarter under the guise of having a limited gov't! You trust me on that don't you?
Where all tax breaks should take place are at the individual level period and in all tax breaks should be met equally with spending cuts. Not using debt to mask the whole thing which de-values the currency, urges inflation to maintian the debt to GDP ratio (another illusion) and saddling future generations with having to foot the bill in taxes, inflating (de-valuing) the currency or just heeping on even more debt to "pass it forward."
Why is it that we as individuals must maintian this economic priciple of living within our own means in our own economic lives and when we violate it, we pay the cost of such actions but gov't is exempt? Well we can't create our own money out of thin air like the gov't can and thus adds to the criminality of their existence in the first place but the fact is we are forced to play by very different rules. The class of the haves (Kings, Nobleman, Royality) and the have nots (serfs, peasants, the great unwashed) all over again thanks to mercantilism otherwise known as "the mixed economy!"
Here's one idea thrown out and that's just one small idea of so many that should be discussed and debated. Stop worrying about an empty suit and the whole Shakespearean theater shown nightly live from the Ministry of Truth and start demanding and pushing back.