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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (362418)	12/12/2007 12:38:21 PM
From: SilentZ	Respond to of 1582500

>Instead, you let the free market do its thing, and then the tax revenues will follow. Not if you keep reducing taxes. It doesn't work that way. -Z

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (362418)	12/12/2007 12:50:32 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1582500

JF, > That IS the problem. You want a free ride. You take the stability, the legal system, the good roads, the good police and fire, the good health care, the large military, the reliable energy, the good phone system, all the benefits for granted. They cost money. You want that shit but you want to pay 3rd world prices for it. Or put it on debt for some other generation. What brings us all of these benefits is a strong economy. Not "country club dues." You don't tax people into a booming economy. Instead, you let the free market do its thing, and then the tax revenues will follow. Do you understand how foolish you sound? The free markets have created one of the worst financial crisis in this country has faced in over 17 years. Keep mouthing the ideology without understanding what it means.........it will allow you to remain in denial and ignorant of the truth.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (362418)	12/12/2007 1:31:09 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1582500

What brings us all of these benefits is a strong economy. And taxes. They go hand in hand. You can't build roads with a "strong economy"; you need taxes. And you can't have a strong economy without infrastructure and some degree of egalitarian distribution of wealth. It's obvious you don't recognize that. It's much easier for you to accuse me of wanting a free ride. This as you push for higher taxes, thinking that's going to help cut spending and sustain all of our public services, a lot of which are already inefficient in its spending. Low taxes producing debt is a strategy for disaster, and denial in it's worst form. It's the 'free ride' mentality of the Neo and you seem to share it. It's anything but conservative.