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Originally Posted by Relentless
Yup, just let old people, sick people and poor people starve. Who cares if children are put into sweat shops for pennies a day? Our high tech modern economy is just like the low tech labor intensive agrarian economy of yesteryear. Globalization and automation are not complications at all. Lets all just go back to living like it's 1912! After all, pretending we are living in the past has worked so damn well for the Amish... Awesome plan!  |
Or we could quit spending so much on defense.
And not all "old people" starve. Plenty of "old people" have a lot more money than you do.
As for children in sweat shops...what the hell does the govt. taxing us so much have to do with that?
You're jumping all around in your argument.
Fact is the govt. does NOT need trillions of dollars each year to buy more bombs, and planes, and tanks to invade other countries. We need to stop that shit.
And no...it's not 1912. But you jumped from not having income tax to EVERYTHING being exactly like it was then. That's just foolish.
We can take the good things we have learned from the past and combine them with the good things we have now.
With that argument you just made...we are all apparently monolithic robots. If we went back to no income tax, then everything about us would suddenly revert to the exact way it was in 1912
