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The natural resource of America is and was the people. People intent on building a future under liberty and pursuit of happiness. The infrastructure you speak of was built by private industry. Railroads? Government or private? Agriculture was built by farmers, who took risks. Your model is simplistic and without merit.
we are a phenomenon in and of ourselves. you and i could argue about history, then go out and flatten our counterpart anywhere else on the planet on productivity. its not just labor, but the overall picture.
back to business, my model is capitalism and the US, specifically. i refute the idea that we'd misstepped and point to the fact we're the only superpower on the planet, foremost, as my arguement's basis. its supported by the fathers of capitalist economics on the basics of it.
where's your laizez-faire idea coming from? please dont put forward a neo-conservative editorialist. where is it remotely in practice, while we're chasing down merit?
infrastructure is certainly public/private. we conquered the country with a public millitary. cities, the king-pin of capitalism, are huge government infrastructure investments where business and government share growth. most of our rails are government funded now, and for the last 100 years. the bond measures needed to put together the infrastructure of eastern seaboard cities, win the civil war, among other manifest desitiny conflicts in the mid-19th century, and build the transcontinental rail system, specifically, mounted the pressure to levy a federal tax.... that's just the infrastructure predating the 1900s.
the government prints the money. tax is part of the resposibility it has to make sure its worth something.
i could talk about econ for a while, but so im not barking up the wrong tree, do you acknowledge a requirement for tax, or did you craft the idiot ball yourself?
You drop the bold printed turd all on your own? Tax has nothing to do with money being worth more. It causes inflation of the money because it does not value add. It promises the money will have value to pay a debt. It really isn't even saying that at present.