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Originally Posted by The One and Only...
You see, the idea is to make everyone happy. The only people whom this would hurt are the extremely rich - people like Bill Gates, to whom a 2% tax increase is millions of dollars. But even they could not complain too much, because after all, with all the money they have would it make a difference?
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So it's Ok to take money from rich people as long as they have plenty left over? Is it also Ok to force people to work on road crews as long as they aren't busy with something else or sleeping? We would all benefit from cleaner roads and highways, wouldn't we?
Or how about this: Let's just let the government handle ALL our property and resources! Surely we can trust the government to do the right thing all the time! Let's go dig up Vladimir Lenin and elect him President in 04! Yeah Baby!
FACT: The more government gains control over Healthcare, the more expensive and less equitable it becomes. This is a painfully obvious trend.
Your idea that somehow Big Government will manage to handle all our problems WHEN GOVERNMENT HAS NO CONSEQUENCES TO SUFFER FOR BAD DECISIONS is simply infantile and naive. You say profit like it's a bad thing, man!
Here's a for instance: You and your neighbor both get similar jobs at the same company. Your boss is a real hard ass and lets you know right on the first day that if you do not produce as expected, you will not get paid. Your neighbor's boss, however, shows up to work two hours late in a tye-dyed tee-shirt and flip-flops stinking of pot smoke and informs him that there is no way in the world he'll ever get fired no matter what he does because Mr. Hippy doesn't believe in being "The Man," dude...
You do the math.