Losing respect for Rand Paul

[GUBU]

Yeah, but how do you fix government? The only thing that really impacts governments in NA seems to be cash, and in order to have a government-impacting amount of cash one must be a corportation. It's paradoxical. At least if we keep our cash as individuals, we can then spend it on the actual goods and services we value instead of it disappearing into a void of subsidizing whatever corporations got the incumbent government elected.

You won't get to "keep your cash", as individuals..and I find that people often fail to account for the effect of subsidy and regulation on whatever tiny little pile of ameros they actually do have.  There's a reason that people who live in places with "free markets" are poor as shit....

More buzzkilling.."keeping our cash" is a euphemism for failing at our civic duty to fellow man through simple avarice.  See: this latest tax cut.  It;s easy to see why this is a bad idea when you realize that -you- are someone else's "fellow man".

What supporters of capitalistic economic systems fail to realise, every single time, is that "no man is an island". Every single decision by a government or major company has a huge impact on thousands if not millions of people. Cut the tax rate by five percent or create fake intra-company loans to offshore entities and the tax money lost results in poorer transport infrastructure, schools without teaching materials and hospitals without the skilled staff to save lives (not to mention the many myriads of other things that governments do which nobody thinks about when they cheer rich people evading their duty to pay taxes).