Glen Contrarian
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try all that "socialized" stuff without Capitalism and see where you end up.
in any event, I don't know what you end game is here.... are you trying to say we'll get better and better if we have more government and higher taxes?...
Did I say that we need to have radically higher taxes? Well, actually, when it comes to the very wealthy, we DO need higher taxes. I don't remember a single one of them going to the soup lines back in the 1950's when their tax rates were 90%. This isn't to say that they'll actually pay higher taxes - they'd just reinvest the vast majority of their profits back into growing their business like they did in the 1950's, thereby avoiding paying the taxes but also growing their businesses...which is good for everybody all the way down to the lowest-level workers.
That said, we don't need radically higher taxes for everyone or a government that's radically bigger than what it is. What we do need is a population that realizes that properly funding schools is NOT a waste of taxpayer money, that properly funding bridge maintenance and repair is NOT a waste of taxpayer money, that ensuring that everyone has access to quality health insurance and health care DOES pay greater dividends down the road than what it would cost now.
If you want to live in a first-world nation, then you MUST be willing to do your share to pay for what's required for that nation to maintain its first-world status: top-quality schools, good roads and bridges, regulatory agencies to keep the communities orderly and to keep corruption in check, access to health insurance and health care to keep the population relatively healthy.
Is this really such a terrible thing to consider?