Re: Reject the Welfare/Warfare State

Lance McLain <lance-X3DuywwxauBWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.music.dadl.ot
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Nov 9, 2010, at 1:12 PM, Peter T. Chattaway wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> > I mean, even lowering taxes on the rich obviously creates jobs. >  
>> Because the rich either spend that money (somebody has to make the  
>> > stuff they're buying) or they invest it (somebody works at the >  
>> companies they invest it).
>>
>> The economy will not improve if the rich are buying more...it needs  
>> the rest of us to be buying more.  If only the rich by the new TVs,  
>> cars, etc, the economy suffers.  It isn't the rich we need to worry  
>> about being able to buy stuff-most of them are able to do so  
>> regardless of taxes.  It's the people farther down the line.
>
> Yes... the people who *could* be hiring nannies or mechanics or  
> plumbers or tutors or whatever, if only they weren't taxed so much.

Yes, some would...but a large number will be paying off debts with  
that extra money (paying for the products already created and jobs  
already worked and gone).  Until a significant portion of the  debt  
clears, there will be no growth, and subsequent hiring.

regards,
-Lance

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