[quote]phaethon wrote:
What it ends with is more Americans struggling to survive, or much higher taxes to support everybody. I know you are against the latter so it seems clear you support the former. And that just makes you a dick.
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While I’m glad that there are voices of conservative thought on this forum, I really wish that conservatives would learn how to argue the facts. Taxes don’t support anybody or anything, it is the government revenues that are redistibuted to people. Your above post assumes that higher taxes leads to more revenue for the government to spend, but this isn’t true. In fact, the opposite is true. In our history, as well as the history of other countries, a reduction in the tax rates have been met with an increase in tax revenue, and increases in tax rates have always meant either less government revenue or lower revenue growth. Everybody was oh so surprised that the Bush tax cuts resulted in a steep increas in revenue, everybody except me and anybody who studied history. Change doesn’t happen in a vaccum, and I could have told you that revenue would go up.
Most of the AZ law simply reaffirms federal law and provides money to enforce it. We have laws for a reason, and making a constitutional argument (as Obama is doing) about a law that doesn’t even affect people who are citizens of this country, and thus have no constitutional protections, is pretty insulting. The fact that a judge could support the restraining order by saying that the law “isn’t going for internatinoal relations” just goes to show that judges are really politicians these days. We could pass a law saying that we have to give the big middle finger to France every day at 3 pm. Good international relations? Probably not, but its a free country and if the American people wanted to make it the law of the land, we could. There is nothing in the constitution saying we can’t.
The Statue of Liberty tells us to “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free…” Last I checked, Mexico IS FREE, not yearning to be. With the resources they have, there is no reason why they continue to be so destitute. However, our generosity isn’t a suicide pact. Yes, we are lucky to have been born in such an amazing country in the modern age. That fact alone means that we will have a higher standard of living than 99.999999999% of all humans who have every existed, but change doesn’t happen in a vaccum. You can’t just take money from “the rich” and give it to freeloading Mexicans. That will change the behavior of the rich and the Mexicans. We’re $14 trillion in debt. Times have changed. Sorry, time to turn out the lights.
Multiculturalism has utterly failed, and nobody, anywhere, in any time, has ever given any evidence that “diversity” is beneficial to anyone. In the years following the civil war, blacks from the south started migrating to the north, much to the chagrin of nothern black folk who had worked their asses off to escape dysfunctionality, and these same black folks were further pissed when the government transplanted ghetto black dysfunctional bullshit into their predominantly white neighborhoods in the name of diversity. There once were signs that read “no Irish need apply.” A generation later the signs disappeared. Why? Because the IRISH HAD CHANGED, not the business owners. When I see a sign at a rally saying “I’m an illegal who wants free health care” it pisses me off. Get in line, follow our rules, learn our language, and respect our culture. Why those simple requirements piss off you fucking douchebag libtards is beyond me.
Listen, I’m starting up a hedge fund right now. I’m one of those rich pieces of shit that you hate so much. I make sick fucking money. The more I read about hedge funds and how they are regulated here, the more I realize that I will probably have to organize the fund under the laws of some other country and I probably won’t be able to have American investors. This is very common for this type of fund. You have any idea how many trillions of dollars are out there in foreign funds? Money that would be pumped into the US if the regulations weren’t so fucking draconian? Do you have any idea how much additional tax revenue our government would bring in if it didn’t insist on fucking me in the ass and sending me a bill? I could have a trillion dollars, and you’d be all pissed off if you had a million, so you insist on pushing us toward a system where we both have ten dollars. Yeah, real fucking brilliant.