Orange_Juice
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- Jul 24, 2008
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If consumers take responsibility for themselves, work, provide, earn... they can still drive consumer spending... consumer spending is not directly tied to taxing the rich and handing out to others... consumer spending is not tied directly to government entitlement handouts...
Take the entitlement checks for what they were/are... a ploy. a tickler... a teaser... and yes, while they extra spending does boost (if it is spent), it is not the only way a boost can happen
You want wealth redistribution... go live in Sherwood Forrest
That's not true. Progressive taxation has been in place for decades and has redistriubted wealth to the middle class through pork spending, military spending, health care spending etc.
Cut all those things, let the rich keep their money and fire all the workers and you would see the American middle class shirk drastically. And since American consumer spending drives the world economy also, the global economy would go into the shitter.
But hey! Oil prices would fall due to low demand!