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Here is the one issue that proves liberalism is a mental illness

Posted on 8/8/20 at 4:00 am
Posted by Geekboy
Member since Jan 2004
7658 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 4:00 am
The idea that you can tax your way to prosperity. It’s economically proven to be impossible. It’s never happened in the history of mankind. It’s never going to happen. It will NEVER work. Yet they truly believe it can be done. Like the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over. It’s this single wrong minded reasoning that brings down a country.

What Churchill said is right. “I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”

And what makes this mental illness even more disturbing is that they KNOW this.
This post was edited on 8/8/20 at 4:04 am
Posted by Pelican fan99
Lafayette, Louisiana
Member since Jun 2013
39126 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 4:27 am to
Anyone that cheers on taxation of any kind or anyone is mentally ill


Posted by mofungoo
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2012
4583 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 6:47 am to
The libs must tax everyone so they can have money for their stupid ideas. That's the extent of their economic plan - Green New Deal, anyone?

MAGA
Posted by mofungoo
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2012
4583 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 6:49 am to
The libs must tax everyone so they can have money for their stupid ideas. That's the extent of their economic plan - Green New Deal, anyone?

MAGA
Posted by goofball
Member since Mar 2015
17345 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 6:58 am to
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tax your way to prosperity


Prosperity isn't the goal of modern progressives.
Posted by MurderHornet
Beaumont, TX
Member since Jun 2020
411 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 6:58 am to
It’s easy to support legislation to raise taxes when you have a double major in ethnic studies and basket weaving and sit on the couch collecting welfare
Posted by Homesick Tiger
Greenbrier, AR
Member since Nov 2006
56137 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 7:10 am to
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Anyone that cheers on taxation of any kind or anyone is mentally ill


Travelling from New Orleans to Dallas on a dusty two lane dirt road is just a little much in this day and time don't you think?

at the down votes. I know, dealing with realism is tough for some of y'all.
This post was edited on 8/8/20 at 8:43 am
Posted by HighDesert43
SE Idaho
Member since Apr 2020
190 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 8:13 am to
So everyone in Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries with a high tax rate and high standard of living is dirt poor?
Posted by greygoose
Member since Aug 2013
14643 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 8:34 am to
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So everyone in Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries with a high tax rate and high standard of living is dirt poor?



LOL! Compare how they live, to how Americans live. If the average American looked at what the average Swedish citizen owned, the American would assume they were poor. Entirely different lifestyle there.
Posted by arcalades
USA
Member since Feb 2014
19276 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 8:41 am to
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The idea that you can tax your way to prosperity.
who said their goal is prosperity? marxism has two goals: destruction of capitalism and dethroning of God. They've come a long way toward those goals in the US.
Posted by arcalades
USA
Member since Feb 2014
19276 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 8:44 am to
seems like a compassionate person would have picked executing tens of millions of fetuses as the one issue. how does taxation trump murdering fetuses?
Posted by MikeAV8s
Member since Oct 2016
2272 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 8:46 am to
Not to mention, how old is the Scandinavian model? It’s an infant. Give it a little time. Two things I know for sure, you can’t drink yourself sober and you can’t borrow your way out of debt, even if you’re borrowing other people’s money(taxes).
Posted by tenderfoot tigah
Red Stick
Member since Sep 2004
11544 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 8:52 am to
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So everyone in Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries with a high tax rate and high standard of living is dirt poor?



No, but a 2 bedroom condo or apartment is upper middle class. People with good jobs don't have golf carts, boats, multiple vacations each year. They might be able to afford a gym membership and eat out a few times per month.
Posted by Sidicous
NELA
Member since Aug 2015
19296 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 8:54 am to
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Travelling from New Orleans to Dallas on a dusty two lane dirt road is just a little much in this day and time don't you think?

at the down votes. I know, dealing with realism is tough for some of y'all.
So you have a problem with privatization creating toll roads that are superior in many ways to govt. products? As such only those traveling the road would foot the bill instead of Joe in AK and Jane in HI paying for a road they'll never travel.

Plus privatization would respond faster to future road needs whether maintenance or creation and would provide for a financial redress of damages from neglect, engineering, other road issues in a more timely manner.
Posted by Lsupimp
Ersatz Amerika-97.6% phony & fake
Member since Nov 2003
85781 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 9:35 am to
Ok - as a maxim I agree that you can not tax yourself into prosperity. But let me demonstrate to you a RARE exception.

The City of Boulder, Colorado in the 1960s was rural in feel. And the hippies were moving in in droves. As they moved in they gobbled up all the homes and land.

Then , as it grew into the 70s and 80s they realized the feel of the town was changing. So they passed Open Space taxes that were pretty high and started having the city buy up land and space very aggressively. This in turn led to land scarcity and drove up property values. By then strict zoning laws and residential caps were in place. And they continued to buy private land for the city via taxes. And property values continued to soar.

Thus any hippy who bought and held, voted for open space taxes, became wealthy over time. They had essentially taxed ( and regulated) themselves into prosperity.
Posted by EZE Tiger Fan
Member since Jul 2004
55453 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 9:38 am to
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And what makes this mental illness even more disturbing is that they KNOW this.


Because a LOT of it has to do with envy and REVENGE. They hate you, so this is a way to "get back" at you.
Posted by ibldprplgld
Member since Feb 2008
27660 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 9:54 am to
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And what makes this mental illness even more disturbing is that they KNOW this.


And it's a fundamental component of every idea and platform they set forth...well, that and subjugating minorities.
Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
45020 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 9:57 am to
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Travelling from New Orleans to Dallas on a dusty two lane dirt road is just a little much in this day and time don't you think?


Muh roads.



Posted by Clames
Member since Oct 2010
19215 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 10:00 am to
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at the down votes. I know, dealing with realism is tough for some of y'all.





Context is something you don't seem to have a good grasp of. Typical of those with dirt-level IQ's like yours though.
Posted by FATBOY TIGER
Valhalla
Member since Jan 2016
13090 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 10:05 am to
I can't think of one country that hasn't bennefitted from America's milk and honey.

Time for those frickers to be taxed for the blanket of comfort our FLAG provides.
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