Oh, well, I didn’t understand that your objection was pragmatic.
There is no way to get a workable solution past John Roberts. So our solution is to restart the labor revolution in this country, treating the courts & the mainstream press as fundamentally hostile. It will be a fight beyond imagining, but it has been done before.
It’s not just Roberts, its the 1st Amendment. But you seem to agree that the failure of people to exercise their rights is part of the problem.
The primal dominance of the Apathy Party. The Number Two threat to the Republic.
That can happen, but not without a real left-populist insurgency – like the Tea Party movement but LW and class-conscious.
Someone found a way to make a decent profit off of education and they did it. Are you supposing we take that opportunity away? Would you be glad then when the entire education system collapses because no one of any reasonable level of competence wants to be involved anymore? The opposite of skyrocketing college costs is not necessarily cheaper education. It could mean nothing at all.
Have you asked yourself where we would get the money to pay taxes to support free colleges? The rich people who could afford those heavy taxes would simply leave. Would the working class be able, much less willing, to shoulder the burden? Nope, they’d leave, too.
What we should do is eliminate state funding for colleges and let people pay their own way. The people who can afford it can support the system. College isn’t for everyone; there is a such thing as going to a trade school or… gasp learning a skill in high school and starting your own business!
Immigrants come here and get rich all the time. What is wrong with us natural-born American citizens that we can’t?
And where, perzackly, are these rich emigres going to go? Randesia? Great Galtistan?
They’ll go to other states with lower taxes. And if you’re rich you can leave the country, too. There are plenty of good places for the rich to retire. You’d be surprised at how happy the poor in those countries would be to be their maids and gardeners. A day’s pay doing that would feed their whole family for a week, lol.
We Americans expect to have too many things handed to us. Immigrants come here and bust their butts in the hot sun for what they get, that’s why they’re so successful.
Your getting your right wing propoganda mixed up (amazing because of its logical consistency:rolleyes:). Immigrants that come here without degrees aren’t supposed to be successful and we’re not supposed to want them.
I support open borders and an elimination of welfare programs.
Immigrants who want to come mooch off the system will wither off the vine; those who want to work hard will come and make fools of those Americans who happen to be too lazy to bust their butts for a living. I mean, we’re all immigrants here, or the children of immigrants. Who are we to tell the former natives of this land where they can go? If we eliminate welfare then what’s the problem with immigrants?
Oh yea I forgot, they’re “stealing our jobs”. Bah. A job belongs to no one unless you’re the employer.
I have no problem with a border that’s open two ways. Anybody that wants to work is welcome to come in and any millionaire that doesn’t want to live here is welcome to get out.
I’d rather keep the millionaires by having lower taxes. They’re the ones who hire people and buy things.
You mean that we should still see the progress brought by the Bush era taxes?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/10/28-0
Ah, no. They were busy speculating in housing.
I would modify that to say that millionaires who don’t want to pay taxes have to go.
Ye gods, he believes in trickle down. Who will be the one to tell him there is no Santa Claus and never has been?
Ah, tax evasion… the problem that sank Greece.
I’d solve that by replacing the income tax with a flat consumption tax.
I don’t care if wealth trickles down or not. Other nations need the working class. We don’t. We need innovators and investors in America. This country is the land of opportunity, not handouts - it’s for people who make their own wealth. They don’t really need to care whether wealth trickles down, up, or sideways… it always comes to them because they know how to find it.
Unfortunately, that does not change the fact that most Americans are working class, and always have been, and always will be. So the only relevant question to ask is, what does the working class need from the nation? (Hint: It ain’t trickle-down.)
“People who make their own wealth” – needing neither employers nor employees – includes the few remaining Mom & Pop stores, the few remaining family farmers (arguably), drug dealers (some), and practically nobody else.
Actually drug dealing’s a pretty labor intensive field. Even a low level drug boss needs dozens of employees moving the product down at the street level.
Well, too bad there’s no real money in being a YouTube hero or internet porn star.
That uncertainty in the economy that’s slowing investment? That’s lack of reliable demand. Millionaires are not reliable demand for every sector. The grindingly poor are only reliable demand for a few sectors, & they don’t have much money in any case, so calling them “demand” is being kind. It’s a broad middle-income class that really drives demand in a variety of sectors, & if that’s shrinking, then some businesses close shop.
Partial leveling, getting more money more evenly distributed, actually works.