Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SilentZ who wrote (766927)	1/30/2014 1:50:20 AM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB steve harris Respond to of 1576160

>> But it can be effective. I do wish someone would provide an example of government being effective. I've never seen that. Even when they do get things done, it is poorly when contrasted with private enterprise alternatives. The truth is the only things government is "effective" at doing is those things that private enterprise cannot possibly do.

To: SilentZ who wrote (766927)	1/30/2014 2:28:30 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576160

Z, I ran some of your posts on this topic by an economist friend of mine a few weeks ago and he said that your examples were "basically winning the lottery." That's a common theme among the left. Success is "winning the lottery." Therefore it needs to be taxed as such. I argued this before, and I'll argue it again. I don't want to be taxed as if I just "won the lottery," and I'm pretty sure most successful people, especially owners of small businesses, don't want to be taxed that way, either. This is the Fauxcahontas mentality, that people owe a large part of their success to big government. Tenchusatsu