15 Jul 2023 6:59 am
razoo » 15 Jul 2023, 5:42 am » wrote: ↑ Friedman believed government was too large and intrusive, and that by cutting taxes, the size of government would be reduced.
Our disagreement lies in the ability of any tax cuts to achieve their prescribed ends: namely shrinking the size of government. Remember, it was not tax cuts per se that Friedman advocated but rather a retrenchment in the state.
Our view, which we developed in a recent study entitled Tax Payers and Tax Takers, is that tax relief that results in larger and larger shares of the population being exempt from paying any meaningful taxes leads to more demand, not less, for government.
The trouble with removing large numbers of people from the cost of paying taxes is that it establishes the foundation for ever-increasing demand for more government programs regardless of their actual benefits. The democratic decision-making process gets distorted when large segments of the population are relieved of paying the cost of government.
An example of this phenomenon is playing out in the U.S. In 2011, according to the Tax Policy Center, a little more than 46 per cent of American tax units individuals or households paid no federal income tax. Almost 28 per cent paid neither income nor payroll taxes.
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Its over, same thing happens to all fiat currency systems, interest on the debt is about one trillion per year and the gov is still passing out feudal monarchy styled subsidies to various favored corporations who have little or no functional participation in the USA economy.
VP Harris: "when we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce the population more of our our children can breath clean air and drink clean water."
When the all the strange paranoid plans and experiments fail the fuedal commune group peasant who payed for all the stupid failed crap takes the blame and the solution is death.
The rest of us can go limping down the open road with nothing but a few clothes and some experimental medical treatment paperwork in the WWIII conditions that government is creating.
Delusional paranoid craziness, USA is only a small fraction of the world population.
Bipartisan spending Bill Contains $575 Million for ‘Reproductive Health’ in targeted areas where Population Growth ‘Threatens Biodiversity’ (Grizzly bears and other large predator animals that make farming or ranching impossible).
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"We have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to," Schumer said during the press conference. "The only way we're going to have a great future is if we welcome and embrace immigrants, the dreamers and all of them.
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