11-18-2021, 09:43 PM
(11-17-2021, 02:26 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The rich must be reined in, required to pay living wages to workers here in the home country, not outsource or downsize or buy-out or pollute. Neoliberalism must go! Reagan was wrong! We must learn this lesson, or our world will succumb to global warming. The rich must be taxed whether they like it or not!
China needs to pay its workers well enough that they can largely buy the stuff that they produce.
As for America -- no country has ever stayed rich by buying its luxuries from overseas.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.