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Our national debt is somewhere around $13 trillion.
At at some piont like all debts it's going to have to be paid off.
What's the plan for that?
Cut spending, starting with all the subsidy and entitlement programs, foreign aid, pet projects, etc.... have a flat tax rate on every dollar earned by every citizen... figure out what rate will allow us to pay for our required governmental spending plus enough to start paying down the debt... pass a constitutional amendment requiring 80% congressional approval and presidential signing to allow any deficit spending, citing the absolute constitutional authority allowing that spending... every citizen paying for the running of the government and the paying down of the debt that the government has carelessly created
Yeah, it all sounds good but you and I both know that it ain't going to happen.
First, stop overspending. Slash it to the bone, all departments and budgets. THEN start paying off debt with the overage.Our national debt is somewhere around $13 trillion.
At at some piont like all debts it's going to have to be paid off.
What's the plan for that?
That's all a nice way of saying they are protecting my assets from theft. In particular, they are protecting whichever asset is being stolen. Like any other firm, the amount they charge for this protection is based in some measure on how much they are protecting.....................
That's a matter of my constitutional right to ownership being violated.
Not at all. Theft is a criminal issue. Property ownership rights protection is a constitutional right.
That's all a nice way of saying they are protecting my assets from theft. In particular, they are protecting whichever asset is being stolen. Like any other firm, the amount they charge for this protection is based in some measure on how much they are protecting.
What is wrong with right wingers? If ALL of the nation's money is concentrated in the hands of only 1% of the population, then no one else has any money to spend. Result? Depression. It's that "common sense" they claim they have over education. The super rich don't make nearly the jobs the right thinks they do. They have been completely bamboozled.
That's all a nice way of saying they are protecting my assets from theft. In particular, they are protecting whichever asset is being stolen. Like any other firm, the amount they charge for this protection is based in some measure on how much they are protecting.
Not at all. There is not a "cost" to protection of property ownership rights.
What is wrong with right wingers? If ALL of the nation's money is concentrated in the hands of only 1% of the population, then no one else has any money to spend. Result? Depression. It's that "common sense" they claim they have over education. The super rich don't make nearly the jobs the right thinks they do. They have been completely bamboozled.
Here's the data set, Vlad.
Please show me which year the New Deal wealth redistribution ended the Great Depression
1933: 24.9, 1934: 21.7%, 1935: 20.1%, 1936: 16.9%, 1937: 14.3%, 1938: 19.0%, 1939: 17.2%.
Take your time, I've only been posting it for about 6 weeks and still haven't gotten a defensible answer from anyone
Theft (a criminal issue) is handled by the police (whose pay I provide) as a means of protecting my property (a constitutional protection.)
One of the primary duties of a police officer is to intervene in the protection of my constitutionally-protected property. That's why I pay his salary. and if I have a more expensive house (more to protect) I pay a larger portion of his salary.
I'm truly not sure where the disconnect is between what I am trying to convey. Let me try this- if someone steals something from you, do they legally own it at that point?
Did the rich get rich all on their own or did they achieve their goals through the efforts (and sometimes exploitation) of others?
That's all a nice way of saying they are protecting my assets from theft. In particular, they are protecting whichever asset is being stolen. Like any other firm, the amount they charge for this protection is based in some measure on how much they are protecting.
Not at all. There is not a "cost" to protection of property ownership rights.
your police work for free, do they?
your patent attorney, he does it pro-bono?
This is a discussion about federal tax rates, not state and local law enforcement costs.
There is not a cost at the federal level for property ownership rights protection.
No, if someone steals something from me they do not legally own it. That is because they have violated my right to exclusive ownership of that property.
This is a discussion about federal tax rates, not state and local law enforcement costs.
State and local law enforcement costs are picked up in part by the federal government.
There is not a cost at the federal level for property ownership rights protection.
That would come as quite a surprise to myriad attorneys working on intellectual property rights at the patent office, DoJ etc...who don't work for free.
of course they do! They create and maintain the structure that I use to enforce those rights, they maintain a military to make sure that everyone is protected by those rights, and they pay the salaries of a wide range of people involved in protecting my right to the property I own.No, if someone steals something from me they do not legally own it. That is because they have violated my right to exclusive ownership of that property.
Exactly.
Now, your right to exclusive ownership is a constitutional right, and is equal to the rights that everyone else has, and is protected equally by the constitution. The federal government does not incur costs to protect those rights, whether you are wealthy or a pauper.
And you have exposed yet another expansion of federal government tendrils that does not belong... answer, cut federal funding of local police
you do not get a patent for free, you are indeed charged for it...
of course they do! They create and maintain the structure that I use to enforce those rights, they maintain a military to make sure that everyone is protected by those rights, and they pay the salaries of a wide range of people involved in protecting my right to the property I own.
Does this structure cost vary, depending on the property value of different citizens?
you do not get a patent for free, you are indeed charged Yes, you are charged for it. Then, if it is violated the government spends money to protect your property.
Are all citizens given the same rights to pursue a patent and have it protected?
