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To: TimF who wrote (584592)	9/8/2010 4:08:43 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577883

The United States of Inequality slate.com

To: TimF who wrote (584592)	9/8/2010 4:17:24 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577883

The Chinese pay zero capital-gains tax. If we had zero capital-gains tax in the United States ... we'd be dramatically better off." As Jon Stewart recently explained, "So that's the Republican plan -- to fight socialism, we must become communists." Paying zero-capital gains tax, means becoming communists... What an amazing leap of illogical thought. Did you really miss his point? There are many factors that play into a nation's economic well being. What's ironic is that after years of condemning the purported communist economic model, suddenly Rs are deciding its not so bad....or at least aspects of it. Sure seems pretty hypocritical to me. The Chinese have become more fascist in many ways than communists, they are nationalist, they control large sections of the economy that they don't actually own, but then there are still large and significant state owned industries so the communist part is there as well, as well as some real free market parts. Its a mix of all sorts of things. Exactly. Out of that complex mix Ron Johnson finds two things he likes, a more certain business climate (which is a rather ill defined concept, and also might be inaccurate in terms of describing China, but doesn't seem to be a communist idea), and zero capital gains tax. And so that supposedly means he's calling for communism. That's like arguing that if you liked a painting that Hitler also happened to like that you're a nazi. Stewart is only pointing out Johnson's hypocrisy of which there is a lot. Recently, the dude was complaining about gov't intervention until it was pointed out that his company got a gov't subsidized loan to build a factory. Then he tried to hide it by changing his website commentary.He's a class act.