Skeeter,
>>he sees the demicans as taking better care of the needy than the republicrats - and he's pretty much spot on. <<
Let's not have another pointless conversation. Either accept this is as reality, or ignore it.
IMO, you have a fundamental misunderstanding of our system and economics.
Increased standards of living for "ALL" (both rich and poor) come from efficient allocation of savings. Anything that increases savings and its efficient allocation is good for everyone - including the poor.
However, it is a LONG TERM PROCESS.
If you take money from a wealthy person and give it to a poor person, without question you are helping the poor man more in the SHORT TERM than if you allowed the rich man to save and invest it.
However, if you look out many years, the country (including the poor) would be in a much better position if the money was saved and invested instead.
It's true that the increased wealth that results from increased savings and investment may or may not be distributed equally (the rich may increase their standard of living even faster than the poor), but a small piece of a much bigger pie is larger and better than a small piece of a smaller pie.
It is rich business owners that provide jobs for the poor and middle class. It is the hard working poor employed by the rich that save a few dollars, invest, and then become middle class, and then rich etc....
If you punish the top, you punish us all.
The only real debate is making the tough choices between maximizing the long term and dealing with the short term problems of the poor and needy that need immediate attention.
The "fiscally conservative pro business right" is almost always geared towards maximizing the long term.
The "tax and help the poor left" is almost always geared towards maximizing the short term.
Both views have merit at times, but that's the real debate.
The one problem with much of the left is that it's often about more for them. Many hate the success of the rich. They hate unequal distribution of wealth. They don't even understand the economics or what the right is trying to accomplish.
Basically a whole shitload of them are economically borderline brain dead and/or jealous idiots, but they do have big delusional hearts. ;-) |
