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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: geode00 who wrote (145848)11/6/2008 1:38:49 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
"Fruits and vegetables do not receive direct price support and may be one reason why our current production does not meet the dietary recommendations.

A rather silly argument considering price supports generally INCREASE the cost of goods. So if we add them for fruits and vegetables they would tend to become more expensive, and at the margin consumed less than they are currently.

The 'market' is a theory. In the real world, markets exist because governments exist they go together.

In the real world markets exist because people desire things that other people have and are willing to trade for them.

To the extent governments keep the peace and protect property rights they help markets a lot, but markets aren't creatures of government.

You conflate wealth creation with most of the wealth going to a tiny number of people or organizations.

I do nothing of the sort. The result of wealth creation can be a lot more wealth for a tiny number of people or organizations, but they are too different things.

Also you don't have wealth going to a tiny number of people or organizations but rather a very large number.

And allowing the people and organizations that create wealth to keep it (even if its just a tiny number of each) isn't giving wealth to them.

A zero tax rate is nonsense

A zero tax rate is a straw man. Not one person in a hundred, probably not one in a thousand would argue for such a rate, and more to the point I have not.
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