Keldorn said:
-If only we had more Capitalism (and subsequently resulting corporatism), the world would be a MUCH better place !
It's not so much capitalism as it is a sense of personal property. If you own things, you're more likely to take care of things as opposed to being given things.
-Warren Buffet's income is taxed WAYYYYYYY too high at 15%, if only he could acquire house #5, car #20 and yacht #9, we'd all be liberated !!! He is a VICTIM.
Warren Buffet could also pay himself a salary under his holdings and get taxed that way if he felt he needed to pay more taxes. The fact of the matter is that when the Capital Gains Tax rate is lowered, revenue from those taxes goes up. The government gets more money and the people who invest get more money. It's the clearest cut WIN/WIN there is in the tax circle.
Now, 70% of the people who file taxes that are making less than $100k a year are paying Capital Gains, so it's not like it'll hurt just people like Warren Buffet to jack up that tax. Most people out there have investments. If you have an IRA, a small business, a few shares of stock in your company, etc. Raising that Capital Gains Tax will hurt you as well.
-There is WAY too much gov't sponsored aid for the poor under Bush. Just look at the million RICH homeless folks with their shiny shopping carts. Look at all the Katrina handouts !!!
Actually, the homeless people are better off under Bush than Clinton. Clinton did fuck all with the homeless. In fact, Clinton didn't even bother seating anyone in the chair of overseeing homeless people. Bush appointed Philip Mangano who developed a program of getting them in apartments because it was cheaper than providing health care and funding shelters.
As for the Katrina people, screw them. If anything exposed what generations of living off the government does to people, it was Katrina. If they relocate you and put you in a trailer, and you can't get a job after a year.. You should starve.
-There should be NO minimum wage. If I, the omnipotent and morally flawless businessman wants to pay a worker 5 cents / hr., then NO one has the right to stop me !!!
There shouldn't be. Only around 1% of the jobs out there actually paid the minimum wage before it was raised. You could go to McDonalds with no experience at all and make a couple of dollars over the minimum wage. Why? Because the market demanded a higher wage for those jobs.
-If I, the almighty and morally perfect bloated megacorp wants to destroy all the fish and forests for PROFIT, then you must bow to my greed is God mantra. Men are not OF the earth, we are ABOVE the earth !
The biggest threat to fish right now are artificial hormones in the water from birth control methods, but you won't see the EPA or environmental groups bitching about that.
-If I want to spew the thickest black diesel cloud out of my band of company trucks into your kid's lungs, any objection means you're a COMMIE. Since I am in pursuit of the dollar sign, you have NO right to impede my path !
Meanwhile, in reality, gobs of people are bitching about the prices of things which is, in part, caused by the low sulfur diesel mandate. That's why diesel is $4 a gallon right now while normal gasoline is $3.50.
-We need to worship profits more in our society. There is not NEARLY enough selfishness, materialism, consumerism and resource hoarding.
Consumerism is kind of the antithesis of hoarding, don't you think? You can't hoard something and sell it at the same time, you know.
-More private police / mercenaries. Let the rich have protection ! The poor ? They forfeit their right because they are poor !
Why not more private armed forces? Why be in the United States Army making $30k a year when you could be in Blackwater making six figures? Not to mention having better equipment, better benefits, less restrictions, and so forth. The idea of having to call up a superior officer to ask if you can return fire when you're being shot at probably never crosses anyone at Blackwater's minds.
-More multi-million dollar CEO bonus checks needed !
Personally, I don't care much for large corporations either. I like most things done locally whereever possible.
-Banish all the unions ! Workers deserve peanuts and pennies if I deem them to be worth only that !
Unions are a joke. Why the hell should I make less than the guy sitting next to me when I'm twice as productive as he is just because he's been there a few years longer? No thanks, I can negotiate things just fine with my own mouth. I don't need some people taking money out of my check to speak for me.
My uncle is in a trade union and he swears by the union system. Even though he lost his job to illegal immigrants who are willing to pound a nail for much less, and now that very union is advocating rights for those illegals in the hopes of collecting future dues from them, he still loves his union.
People want to talk about how greedy corporations are. Well, at least corporations actually produce something for the money they get. Union people are just as greedy, if not more so, and don't produce a damned thing.
-Since the profit motive is PERFECT, the water supply should be entirely privatized and owned by big greedy companies. If the market dictates that you are to pay $20 for a 1 litre bottle of water, then you must faithfully cough up the cash to the righteous and unquestionable, untouchable profiteers !
Yeah, it should be. I live in a town where the water supply is privately held. Up the road, their local government runs their water supply. The government run one just jacked up the usage fees for water because people weren't using enough water. That's right, they weren't using ENOUGH water, so the government jacked up the fees. This as opposed to a privately held water company which would only jack up fees if people started using too much water.
Oh yeah, and our big, greedy corporation charged less money per gallon than their publically held water supply before they jacked up their fees. Now they're paying even more than we pay here. The kicker is that both water supplies come out of the Kentucky River, the exact same source. And they're closer to the river than we are! We have to pipe that water a hell of a lot farther than they do, and we're paying less. Why? Because ours is run by a big, greedy company as opposed to the big, greedy government.
Abso-fucking-lutely, the water system should be privatized.
