(October 23, 2014 at 12:46 pm)Heywood Wrote:(October 23, 2014 at 12:45 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: There is plenty of money out there, it's just that the rich have it all. So the answer is punitive taxes on the rich. They can afford it.
Money doesn't make people better off. Stuff makes people better off. I don't care how many 0s rich people have on their ledgers. I want their stuff. But if you took all the rich people's stuff and divided it up among everyone...you wouldn't notice a difference in your standard of living....they just don't have enough stuff.
How do you actually make people better off? Make more stuff.
Rich people currently have a lot of tax breaks, but all they do is let the money build up in their accounts. Give tax breaks to the poor and the more money they have the more they will spend, they do not have any spare money so what comes in goes out.
So for a healthy economy give the poor more money, they will help circulate it. Rich people are like log jams on the economy just building it up where it does no good.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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