War on Poverty and government efficiency

[gimpy117]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

All that proves is that the rich make ungodly gobs of money compared to the rest of everyone else. And if you think that tranfer of wealth to the rich stopped at the bailouts, you'd be wrong.

you beat me too it.

yes, their tax rates have fallen..but share in amount collected has gone up...hrm...what does that tell us...

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

A good government curbs excesses and ensures that the strong do not prey on the weak.

There's the problem I have with your beliefs. We don't have a good government, haven't in a very long time, and possibly never have. It's nice to talk of the government regulating business, and I'm all for the concept. In fact it's the only dealing I like to see between the two. The problem as I see it is that government isn't trying to regulate business - it's trying to control it. Government isn't trying to help the poor - it's trying to expand its power, using the poor as an excuse. I see the people who want to control taxes for this purpose as also wanting to consolidate power for themselves. I don't think any of them are idealists who really want to help. It's like the unions - these days it's a war between Big Business and Big Labor, and the worker is caught between the two. And the people who claim they want to help really want to make it a war between Big Business, Big Labor and Big Government, and it just gets worse.

If I'm going to be reamed, I'd rather have it be by some self-serving bigwig than by some power-hungry bureaucrat who's doing it "for my own good".