09-20-2017, 04:49 PM
(09-19-2017, 09:44 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(09-19-2017, 09:33 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Unlike with you, I think in his case it is the latter since he rarely if ever makes new arguments.
I think you've got that backwards. Most people have to encounter new ideas more than once if they are counter to a lifetime of propaganda exposure - especially when the propaganda specifically includes simplistic ways to reject those ideas. In addition, I believe, he has a vested interest in the welfare system. Get him a job that takes him off welfare for a few years, and he might suddenly become open minded.
That's rich! For someone to accuse another of being close-minded, you should be bit open-minded yourself. Yet you continue to peddle supply side economics, especially growth-through-tax-cuts, as axiomatic, when there is no evidence to support it. More to the point, it's been a dismal failure every time it's been tried. I cited Kansas and the counter experience of California, and you claimed California was going broke. Never mind the dynamism of the California economy, apparently the Kansas example was even too much for you to defend. Have you had a change of heart?
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.