02-03-2021, 02:25 PM
(02-03-2021, 01:48 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(02-03-2021, 12:40 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(02-02-2021, 03:44 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Big tech and the uber rich support trickle down, and that's what you and the Republican Party supports. Democrats do not.
Gun laws work. Societies that have them have less violent crime and less gun violence. So, once most people in the USA agree with the conservative "liberals" that Einzige quoted, and not with the commies he quoted, then if you buy guns on the black market, we will keep taking them away from you no matter how long it takes. And clearly you have violent aims, so they should be taken away from YOU. We're a comin' fer youse guns, babyAnd if you violently rebel, it will be a lot easier to take your guns, because prisoners have a lot tougher time getting them.
Which Democrats don't support it these days? I've been in some really nice homes that are owned by Democratic voters. Go ahead and come for American's guns (mine included) and make the same mistake as the British in the past. Like I said, once the war with the Democrats begins, there will be no place that's safe for the Democrats (any Democrat) to live/go/visit in the entire country.
Classic's first two sentences win the prize for astonishment. He forgets that trickle-down doesn't trickle. It does not create wealth except for a few. The trickle-up economy, the regulated and taxed mixed economy, is what creates wealth. We all benefit, and if we had this economy, many people of all Parties would have nice homes. Trickle-down economics is a policy, not an inventory.
Even worse with trickle-down economics, the creation of wealth that few can own does not create greater wealth. Overall prosperity depends upon people making transactions that create happiness. The wealth that the super-rich get ends up as tangible objects like real estate or ends up bidding up the cost of super-desirable art and antiques. If people are prosperous enough, then they can make not-so-rational decisions (like buying more car or better consumer goodies than one really needs) that causes prosperity for more people in a cycle of purchasing and production. Economic policies that enrich the Master Class and nobody else lead to panics and depressions because they do not create more economic activity.
Quote:Your Party wants to reserve nice homes for a privileged few. Some Democrats today are wealthy and benefit from trickle-down economics, but they realize that their wealth is endangered by an economy that is narrowly-based, and in which many are poor. And they realize that life is less valuable too, if its riches of all kinds are restricted to a few armed people in gated communities, which is what YOU want.
Of course! All economic orders, ours included, have people who would succeed economically under any system -- like cops, senior military officers, high-level academics and researchers, barristers, physicians, architects, engineers, accountants, entertainers... the trick for economic success is to make possible delight for others who might be more successful in some systems than others. If you want the true measure of prosperity in a society, then compare people with similar occupations such as barbers, bakers, and schoolteachers who do much the same functions in Saint Petersburg, Florida and Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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.