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- Jan 29, 2004
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Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
errr ok.... i'm not sure what your proven besides the fact that we can afford to transfer our pollution to other poor saps.
http://www.lao.ca.gov/2002/cal_facts/econ.html
california is the worlds 5th largest economy. the next largest based on state is ny. and thats only 60% of cali. texas? hah! of course you didn't post about that since it can't compete obviously.
Inbred Hollywood idiots buying $500,000 car after car and making big sales because they are careless doesn't constitute an 'economy.'
Inbred because they only date, screw, and marry anyone in their little circle of 30 people. Oh wait marriage isn?t even real anymore, so it?s just date and screw.
Edit:
Sticking to topic, I still don't support the idea of the wealthy paying for everything, esp. considering how much of the population probably aren't even American citizens.
As much as I can't stand the whole Hollywood soap opera and hate CA, I am not a communist. If millions of people are willing to give their money to a bunch of adults that act like 3 year olds and can't even tie their own shoes or piss for themselves, that?s their choice. It is never the governments place to take money from one group of people and give to another by threat of force (even though it happens all the time).
Private property rights are essential for a free nation, and the government taking collective ownership from the wealthy to redistribute to the so called underprivileged is flat out Communism. Some may call it Socialism, but when you put power hungry democrats in governement positions to control a socialist society, it becomes Communism. Lets quit being politcally correct here and call it as it is.
If we abolished half the taxes and government sponsored breeding programs we have now, I guarantee that quite a few of these evil rich people will willingly donate and run charities for such things needed by the community. Especially in Hollywood, they need all the good publicity they can get!
We hand out enough free crap as it is to people who will never contribute to the economy. Want to solve the illegal immigration problem and the health care problem at the same time? Start by taking away the free lunch, and maybe the people that still want to come here will be the ones that want to WORK and want to become citizens. The rest are no better than locusts, consuming, and never giving back, destroying their environment and themselves.
Those evil rich people...
If half of the people on this board weren't spoon fed by rich parents (your typical child of liberal parents with a BMW at the age of 16 and a free college ride) and actually had to start their own wealth from nothing, they wouldn't be so quick to try to take it away from someone else.
Do we need the government to take by force? Just research how much money Bill Gates willing gives to charities and donations and stuff. The difference is he is enacting his own free will without infringing on others. You can argue he only does it for tax purposes. Well either way the money will go to the same things via government socialist programs, or donations, so who cares even if he WAS a greedy bastard and only did it to save on taxes? The difference is you eliminate the government as the middle man and lower taxes for everyone. The other difference is that one is called free enterprise, and the other is called communism.
For anything that anyone can come up with that the governemnt can do better and more efficiently than the private sector, I could research that topic and show how just how wrong you are.
If you want to blame Jlo and friends for being greedy, don't blame them. Blame the 200 million Americans (just a random number) that would rather spend $8 to waste 2 hours of their time watching a movie instead of donating to a charity or organization that could fix whatever problems they whine about. That's ultimately where the rich money comes from. Remember that next time you go out to a movie before you moan about how 'the government' needs to take care of this or that problem and expect a few people to foot the bill. If you want to help mentally ill people, then spend your $8 at a mental research facility instead of giving selling your choice to someone else who may not care.
Just remember that greedy actor (ceo, whatever) that doesn't want to have to pay more taxes and lives in a $10 million house, YOU BOUGHT IT FOR THEM! Would you rather they live in only $9 million dollar house instead so the mentally ill in CA can get better help? Stop going to 1 movie a week (or stop buying x amount of product y) and donate that money instead. It's as easy as that folks. Getting the government involved and taxing will not help. It is not the governments job, and it will only make things worse.
