blackangst1
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Originally posted by: Craig234
Would any of you corporatist fanbois care to explain why, if the US corporations have the highest tax burden in the world, your predictions that the higher taxes would have led to the US corporations being less productive, less profitable, than other nations' corporations with lower tax burdens, that all the corporations would flee the US, have yet to occur, with the opposite in fact happening on the former?
Of course, you fail to say anything about the 'unintended consequences' of giving those corporations carte blanche, caving in to any demands.
What the embedded poster fails to note in his call for smaller government is the extent to which the corporatists have made government into a feeding trough.
I guess I'll respond since you quoted me. First off, I wouldnt say Im a corporatist fanboi, but I *DO* understand the value they bring to the country. And for the record, I never said they have the highest taxes in the world, or anything about being less productive or profitable etc...so I dont really know how to respond to that. I guess it was aimed somewhere else.
As far as your comment on corporatist's making the government into a feeding frenzy...well unfortunately you are right. But small government and successful corporations are mutually exclusive. Or should be anyway. The reason it is the way it is is because of the public. WE are the ones who continue to elect those who feed the frenzy. US. If people would actually pay the fuck attention to their own congressional leaders in their district, for whom they are supposed to represent, and simply not re-elect those who are so generous with our tax dollars, it would send a clear message to any future politicians: quit wasting our money or we WILL fire you. But America is far too complacent. Ive said it before I'll say it again. Money doesnt elect politicians. WE do.
