PBS, NPR and the Demoncretin party are breeding commies like roaches.
In the scientific method, we form a hypothesis, experment and reach a conclusion.
So for 100 years we ran the same experiment in human suffering "socialism".
We did "East Germany vs. West Germany" we did "North Korea vs. South Korea" we did "Cuba vs. the rest of Latin America (yes Cuba is the poorest in this hemisphere) we did "Tiawan vs. China" we did "Eastern Bloc Europe vs. Western Europe" we did "The United States vs. USSR" we did and we did and we did, and at one point we were even willing to blow the entire planet up over this question about "who's property is it?"
After all the death and human suffering and grinding poverty we still have people here in the USA that believe it will work this time, no matter how many times we test it.
That according to Einstein is the definition of insanity.
I think 6% of GDP is reasonable (period)... to take 28-50% of the fruit of anybodies labor is theft. It's not your money, get it. If you take it by force you are stealing.
Before 1913 the US Government took no income taxes and the US was by far the riches country the world had ever seen in so short a time with the largest middle class ever.
So commies unite for tested and proven poverty!
unions gave us our big middle class. nobody complained about the federal deficit before the '80s, when reagan cut taxes for the rich.
communist countries were never truly socialist. stalin abandoned marx's fundamental principle of 'from each according to ability, to each according to need' by changing the last word to 'work' instead of 'need.'
oppressive dictatorship is bad whether right or left, but capitalist countries made it worse by refusing to trade with commies and doing all they could to sabotage them. that made them paranoid and even more oppressive as well as hurting their economies.
but no, cuba's not the poorest in the hemisphere. check your facts.
oh, and last time i looked, china's gdp was pretty high and growing fast.
wish i'd known yahoo would break the link. the lesson for me is i should've put in a link to the original npr story, since now i don't even recall what it was about.
ReplyDeletenow a bit more on the comment i commented on:
- other than being factually challenged about cuba, the unknown commenter apparently thinks taiwan [which he misspells] is communist rather than mainland china.
- it's an exaggeration to say we were 'willing' to blow up the planet over the issue of property, but i would agree that many were willing to *risk* such a disaster, though i'm not sure an economic issue was actually their motive. rather, it was the perceived military threat posed by the USSR.
- if governments are just, they collect only as much tax revenue as they need to provide necessary services. the issues are whether there is a compelling interest in providing particular services and whether their cost is reasonable, not what percentage of GDP is reasonable.
- impossible to know the origin of the notion that this country was the richest on earth before 1913. our rise to prominence and power mainly came after that. more important, it's absurd to claim that our wealth and large middle class were primarily due to the lack of an income tax. i'm not sure if the word 'delusion' applies, but it's close.