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Europe's Supply-Side Revolution; It's working for Germany
Topic Started: Feb 18 2012, 11:28 PM (3,037 Views)
Jim Miller
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Neal, you don't think profit is a motivator?
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Jim Miller
Feb 20 2012, 10:07 PM
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Feb 20 2012, 10:03 PM
Jim Miller
Feb 20 2012, 09:56 PM
Add tax burden and they will do what they must to maintain their profit level. That might mean curtailing hiring or laying off. Profit is their sole reason to be in business.
Jim, that's silly.

You're claiming that if they are making less profit they'll lay off people?

That means they would be forced to produce less and therefore make even less profit.

Any manager stupid enough to do that deserves to lose his company.
I don't discuss our matters with foreigners.
But you butted into a foreigners discussion with the rest of us. Get your snotty nose off this thread.
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Jim Miller
Feb 20 2012, 10:08 PM
Neal, you don't think profit is a motivator?
Of course it is, Jim. It's the amount of profit that we are talking about. People know going in that they will have to pay taxes on their profits. If they don't want to do that, they can cut grass or work for somebody else. It's not rocket science.
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Mountainrivers
Feb 20 2012, 09:36 PM
Banandangees
Feb 20 2012, 09:35 PM
You're the Great Assumer. What I said to Brew was that everyone should contribute something, you distorted it from there.
I didn't distort anything. I questioned your assumption that poor people don't contribute and that making them pay an insignificant amount of their meager incomes would make any kind of difference in dealing with the deficit.
My answer to Brew's question was:

"To be real fair, everyone should contribute something."

That's it. Where's the assumption?

Your answer to that was: (and here is where the distortion starts)

"That's that old Fox mantra (show me where that is anything other than an opinion, an assumption). How much difference would it make in the grand scheme of things if all the poor people contributed a dollar to the national treasury. It's simply BS (your opinion and another assumption) and has nothing to do with fairness. You've been indoctrinated in every phase of Fox News obfuscation (your opinion, your assumption.

That's where the distortion of my post to Brew started and it's the start of the "assumption/distortion process," "smoke."
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Jim Miller
Feb 20 2012, 10:07 PM
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Jim Miller
Feb 20 2012, 09:56 PM
Add tax burden and they will do what they must to maintain their profit level. That might mean curtailing hiring or laying off. Profit is their sole reason to be in business.
Jim, that's silly.

You're claiming that if they are making less profit they'll lay off people?

That means they would be forced to produce less and therefore make even less profit.

Any manager stupid enough to do that deserves to lose his company.
I don't discuss our matters with foreigners.
With your lack of knowledge, I don't blame you,Jim.
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Feb 20 2012, 10:17 PM
Jim Miller
Feb 20 2012, 10:07 PM
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Feb 20 2012, 10:03 PM
Jim Miller
Feb 20 2012, 09:56 PM
Add tax burden and they will do what they must to maintain their profit level. That might mean curtailing hiring or laying off. Profit is their sole reason to be in business.
Jim, that's silly.

You're claiming that if they are making less profit they'll lay off people?

That means they would be forced to produce less and therefore make even less profit.

Any manager stupid enough to do that deserves to lose his company.
I don't discuss our matters with foreigners.
With your lack of knowledge, I don't blame you,Jim.
""To be real fair, everyone should contribute something."

That implies that everyone, whether or not they can afford to pay, should pay anyway.

I watch Fox, but, apparently, unlike you, I watch it with a degree of skepticism and come to the conclusion that they are providing a mantra for you and others who agree with you, which you accept unquestioningly and parrot at every opportunity.

So, now you're going to change the subject and argue about assumptions?
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Banandangees
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That's what I'm saying Neil, everyone (physically and mentally able) should contribute something to live in this great, free land. Something!
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Feb 20 2012, 10:48 PM
That's what I'm saying Neil, everyone (physically and mentally able) should contribute something to live in this great, free land. Something!
That would make you happy if the poor just contributed a dollar to the cause? That's an insanely rigid view, imo. My bet would be that even if everybody, most people do, contributed, you would find something else to bitch about.
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You only assume what makes me happy. There isn't a physically, mentally healthy person in this nation who can't give something of themselves for the privilege of living in and benefiting from the liberties and benefits that many have died to keep. Something. Give something.

It's only the ungrateful who would feel otherwise, and it appears that they are a growing population in this country.
Edited by Banandangees, Feb 20 2012, 11:25 PM.
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Feb 20 2012, 11:23 PM
You only assume what makes me happy. There isn't a physically, mentally healthy person in this nation who can't give something of themselves for the privilege of living in and benefiting from the liberties and benefits that many have died to keep. Something. Give something.

It's only the ungrateful who would feel otherwise, and it appears that they are a growing population in this country.
Since you claim there are such people in this country, who give nothing, even though they are able to, please cite an example of a real live, verifiable person, who fits that description.
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