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Originally Posted by Delgar
I've tried hard to stay away from this guy's posts, and many reponses are saying things close to what I'd like to also say, but this is so fundamentally ridiculous I just have to chime in.
This is putting the burden on enterprises to hire people to work or pay them to not to. This is not even communism level of stupidity, its stupidity. You can start a business and hire someone but if you let them go because you have a machine that can do the job, you still have to pay them?
You should get off the internet and start communicating via carrier pigeon, though even that might be too much technology for you, as that puts some guy sending smoke signals out of work, not to mention those tending the fire and curing the hide.
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If you took the time to read the post I was responding to instead of just looking for a line from my post to take out of context and then attack a point I was not trying to make, you may have noticed that the point I was responding to was the argument for consumption taxes as a means to fund income equalization would be a burden put more and more on employers if more and more people lose their jobs. Do the math, less consumers=less consumption, meaning less revenue generated by a consumption tax. With less consumers able to be taxed and an increase in the revenue needed to fund equalization, where would we make up the shortfall? Who would have money left?
If you are having difficulty staying away from my posts, maybe try the ignore button? You seem to be getting worked up over your own misunderstanding, not sure what my posts have to do with it. Many of the posters in here may not agree with what I'm saying and vice versa, but I will say that I still take the time to consider what they are saying and given some PMs I've received from posters in threads like this as well as the response posts that are at the very least respectful and well thought out, I'd say most people here are at least take the time to consider and think about what I have to say. If we were all hiding in the dark waiting for an opportunity to attack and insult a specific poster simply because we don't agree with them, as you appear to be doing, it'd be a pretty lousy thread now wouldn't it? By all means continue doing so if you so choose, but attacking my views with childish insults really isn't going to dissuade me from posting them, nor will they bring any legitimacy to your argument. Just seems like a lot of headache for you to go through with no real gain. Not sure if it's a communism level of headache but a headache none the less.