We need Chinese-style autocracy

[Winehole23]

Corporatist government plus bad education, unfunded liabilities and structural fiscal, trade and debt imbalances ensure a declining standard of living for all of us into the foreseeable future, barring some miraculous transformation of our technical base that we discover and own.

Rejoinder?

[Marcus Bryant]

[DarrinS]

Isn't trade with China doing wonders for ours?

I don't know. I have seen "Made in China" stickers on plastic crap ever since I've been alive.


I know that borrowing but-loads of money from them isn't helping.

[DarrinS]

Corporatist government plus bad education, unfunded liabilities and structural fiscal, trade and debt imbalances ensure a declining standard of living for all of us into the foreseeable future, barring some miraculous transformation of our technical base that we discover and own.

Rejoinder?

You see that thing that you are typing into? You see the website that you are posting to?

Just a couple of examples. More will follow.

[Winehole23]

Oh, we're already saved. What a relief.

[LnGrrrR]

^ Is my point unclear?

Why'd you ask what the wage of a Chinese worker is then, if your point was just that capitalism was better than other economic solutions? Seems a rather specific question for so general an answer.

[Wild Cobra]

Well said.

It seems that WC thnks that all taxes on corporations are bad. I'd like to see what tax scheme he would prefer instead.

HR 25

Fair Tax

[LnGrrrR]

HR 25

Fair Tax

Ok, here's my question with those taxes.

Will they bring in the amount of revenue that the government takes in now?

If not, what programs will be cut?

[Marcus Bryant]

Would you like the list in alphabetical order?

[LnGrrrR]

Would you like the list in alphabetical order?

Ha! I already know what the list is.

"List of programs that politicians are willing to cut:

.....

.....

.....


That is all."

[Winehole23]

You see that thing that you are typing into? You see the website that you are posting to?

Just a couple of examples. More will follow.

Still waiting for the examples.

Are you waiting for a lottery jackpot to pull our bacon out of the fire, or did you have already have examples in mind?

As for the example you gave, the tech bubble already burst. PC's and SpursTalk don't fix education, debt, trade deficits, unfunded liabilities, an unnecessary global military empire and a government in bed with multinationals to the common detriment.

Try again.

[Wild Cobra]

Ok, here's my question with those taxes.

Will they bring in the amount of revenue that the government takes in now?

If not, what programs will be cut?

It is hard to really tell for sure, but it should bring in as much, but eliminate most of the cost of the IRS. Eventually, the IRS would disappear.

We need something different. The Fair Tax will never become reality for one reason. It takes control away from the politicians.

[Winehole23]

The gradual withering away of the IRS. I love it.