Fix income inequality, fix the economy

[Flopper]

Poverty must be made less attractive and that will do more to end income inequality than anything else.

So we should put a heavy tax on the poor and give them an incentive to get rich?

Take away food stamps, welfare, child support, and Medicaid and they will work for $5/day like the Chinese. We will have full employment and America will be able to compete with third countries. However, I doubt many Americans would want to live in your right wing utopia whose motto is survival of fittest.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

However, I doubt many Americans would want to live in your right wing utopia whose motto is survival of fittest.

Actually thats from Darwin. Would you want to live in a world wherein survival of the least fit was the motto? Think about it and talk it over with your parents. Let us know what you conclude.

 

[Flopper]

However, I doubt many Americans would want to live in your right wing utopia whose motto is survival of fittest.

Actually thats from Darwin. Would you want to live in a world wherein survival of the least fit was the motto? Think about it and talk it over with your parents. Let us know what you conclude.

The answer is yes. Think about that.

 

[Katzndogz]

Poverty must be made less attractive and that will do more to end income inequality than anything else.

So we should put a heavy tax on the poor and give them an incentive to get rich?

Take away food stamps, welfare, child support, and Medicaid and they will work for $5/day like the Chinese. We will have full employment and America will be able to compete with third countries. However, I doubt many Americans would want to live in your right wing utopia whose motto is survival of fittest.

Taxes don't solve everything. No one needs to be taxed. However, IF people actually experienced the consequences of their actions and decisions they would make different decisions and take different actions.

Survival of the fittest is the only way to assure fitness.

 

[expat_panama]

...focus on inequity because 50 million+ are economically hurting...

...crazy. Not every product is equal and not every worker shows up on time and works hard. People are different so incomes have to be unequal.

The issue is not that there is an income gap. There has always been an income gap. The issue is the gap is growing and that threatens the middle class which is the backbone of our society.

Ah, we agree now that inequity is fine and it's stupid to say it's why "50 million+ are economically hurting". We can cut to a new blunder.

Growing income inequality it a Marxist gimmick for blaming achievers for harm caused by Marxists.

In open markets price ranges are set by free people making trades, and the process leads to prosperity. Living people are creative and that makes price ranges increase as humanity attains new heights. This applies to both price ranges for products as well as for labor. Marxists want to steal the wealth that market workers create and imagine that they can make a workers paradise where labor and other prices don't change.

It's crazy. New and better products come out all the time and new and more valuable worker skills appear every day. Over time people have always changed for the better so ranges of incomes have to become more unequal.

Hey, we're not talking economics here, were talking about envy, resentment, jealousy, and covetousness. This is sick.

 

[American Horse]

If the government could be made to stop intimidating would be entrepreneurs from creating new business and new jobs through relentless costly regulation, there would be ample jobs right now and opportunities for anyone wanting to work. What we punish declines and what we reward thrives, thus new employment opportunities and jobs decline, and unemployment thrives, particularly on the eve of the fifth extension of unemployment benefits.

Sadly, 80 pct. of out-of-work people enjoying UE benefits wait until the benefit is about to expire before they get really serious about finding a job. Meanwhile their skills have declined growing rusty, opportunities have been missed, and they have stigmatized their own resume because of remaining unemployed for so long, and aren't seen as the best of candidates for a job opening. And meanwhile they join the ranks of the chronic dissatisfied feeding on envy and resentment.

 

[Katzndogz]

Let's equalize work ethic!

 

[Flopper]

Poverty must be made less attractive and that will do more to end income inequality than anything else.

So we should put a heavy tax on the poor and give them an incentive to get rich?

Take away food stamps, welfare, child support, and Medicaid and they will work for $5/day like the Chinese. We will have full employment and America will be able to compete with third countries. However, I doubt many Americans would want to live in your right wing utopia whose motto is survival of fittest.

Taxes don't solve everything. No one needs to be taxed. However, IF people actually experienced the consequences of their actions and decisions they would make different decisions and take different actions.

Survival of the fittest is the only way to assure fitness.

You say no one needs to be taxed? So how do we finance government? I suppose in your plan there is no need for government since there is only one law, the law of jungle where only the strongest survive.

 

[Flopper]

...crazy. Not every product is equal and not every worker shows up on time and works hard. People are different so incomes have to be unequal.

The issue is not that there is an income gap. There has always been an income gap. The issue is the gap is growing and that threatens the middle class which is the backbone of our society.

Ah, we agree now that inequity is fine and it's stupid to say it's why "50 million+ are economically hurting". We can cut to a new blunder.

Growing income inequality it a Marxist gimmick for blaming achievers for harm caused by Marxists.

In open markets price ranges are set by free people making trades, and the process leads to prosperity. Living people are creative and that makes price ranges increase as humanity attains new heights. This applies to both price ranges for products as well as for labor. Marxists want to steal the wealth that market workers create and imagine that they can make a workers paradise where labor and other prices don't change.

It's crazy. New and better products come out all the time and new and more valuable worker skills appear every day. Over time people have always changed for the better so ranges of incomes have to become more unequal.

Hey, we're not talking economics here, were talking about envy, resentment, jealousy, and covetousness. This is sick.

A growing income inequality in America is no Marxists gimmick. It's fact. You need only look at the census data to see it.
I'm not suggesting that income and wealth should be the same for everyone. An income gap is healthy as long the gap is not widening as it has been for a number of years. Our democracy depends upon a strong, robust middle class. Without it, the America we know will cease to exist.

 

[expat_panama]

...An income gap is healthy as long the gap is not widening...

--meaning it must be completely under state control?

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

A growing income inequality in America is no Marxists gimmick. It's fact.

Its the perfect Marxist gimmick. Destroy the family, put everyone on welfare, make them dependent and poor, then start Barry's Marxist class war.

Why do you think 93% blacks and a like percent of single women support Obozo??

 

[Rozman]

Libs have a big hard on for more spending money...
So they will still go after the rich...
When that doesn't satisfy them they will move on down the food chain.
They will never be happy unless they have some cash to play with.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Libs have a big hard on for more spending money...
So they will still go after the rich...
When that doesn't satisfy them they will move on down the food chain.
They will never be happy unless they have some cash to play with.

its not all for play, most of it is used to subvert our Constitution by buying votes with promises of even more entitlement welfare. Why not make liberals illegal and be done with them?

 

[Rshermr]

I can't see any single government edict or policy that can "fix" that problem.

To do that we'd need tariffs and unions.

That is clearly not the direction this nation is headed.

Tariffs and unions? God save us all, you've just listed the perfect way to economic suicide.

Yes. Tariffs and unions, as in what the Germans have been and are doing. Must be a terribly bad economy in Germany.
Oops, but the Germans have one of the best economies in the world. Could Wiseacre be wrong. But of course he can. Usually is.

 

[Rshermr]

Poverty must be made less attractive and that will do more to end income inequality than anything else.

So we should put a heavy tax on the poor and give them an incentive to get rich?

Take away food stamps, welfare, child support, and Medicaid and they will work for $5/day like the Chinese. We will have full employment and America will be able to compete with third countries. However, I doubt many Americans would want to live in your right wing utopia whose motto is survival of fittest.

Taxes don't solve everything. No one needs to be taxed. However, IF people actually experienced the consequences of their actions and decisions they would make different decisions and take different actions.

Survival of the fittest is the only way to assure fitness.

Ahh. A Libertarian. Most libertarian repent by the time they reach puberty. So, which country is it that has managed to have a good libertarian economy. You know, one with wealth spread and low unemployment. As in a country that does not become a cesspool?

 

[Rshermr]

...crazy. Not every product is equal and not every worker shows up on time and works hard. People are different so incomes have to be unequal.

The issue is not that there is an income gap. There has always been an income gap. The issue is the gap is growing and that threatens the middle class which is the backbone of our society.

Ah, we agree now that inequity is fine and it's stupid to say it's why "50 million+ are economically hurting". We can cut to a new blunder.

Growing income inequality it a Marxist gimmick for blaming achievers for harm caused by Marxists.

In open markets price ranges are set by free people making trades, and the process leads to prosperity. Living people are creative and that makes price ranges increase as humanity attains new heights. This applies to both price ranges for products as well as for labor. Marxists want to steal the wealth that market workers create and imagine that they can make a workers paradise where labor and other prices don't change.

It's crazy. New and better products come out all the time and new and more valuable worker skills appear every day. Over time people have always changed for the better so ranges of incomes have to become more unequal.

Hey, we're not talking economics here, were talking about envy, resentment, jealousy, and covetousness. This is sick.

Said like the true con tool that you are.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

I can't see any single government edict or policy that can "fix" that problem.

To do that we'd need tariffs and unions.

That is clearly not the direction this nation is headed.

Tariffs and unions? God save us all, you've just listed the perfect way to economic suicide.

Yes. Tariffs and unions, as in what the Germans have been and are doing. Must be a terribly bad economy in Germany.
Oops, but the Germans have one of the best economies in the world. Could Wiseacre be wrong. But of course he can. Usually is.

yes Germany has tariffs and unions, but so does everyone. So what?
Germany is king because its auto companies: Mercedes, BMW, Audi, and VW are revered around the world. Unions nearly killed our auto industry and no one would associate them with high quality.

If tariffs and trade wars help an economy explain why or admit as a liberal you have no where near the IQ to do so.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

So, which country is it that has managed to have a good libertarian economy.

too stupid the USA is the richest and most libertarian in human history!!