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Originally Posted by bobsoap
Counterquestion - has ANY government that has deregulated and lowered taxes been able to create STABLE and FAIR living standards for ALL its citizens, along with a HEALTHY, PROSPERING, and LONG LIVING (read: not collapsing) economy?
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Government creates nothing. People create things. Government redistributes (steals) and destroys (regulation).
Why are we concerned with ALL citizens? Citizens should be given an opportunity to succeed, by removing regulation and taxation, and it is up to each individual to earn his own dinner. Your ideal of a marxist utopia fails every time it is implemented. It usually fails badly.
Stability is not natural. Change (chaos) is a natural state of nature. And it is a natural state for man, and his lifetime.
If you want prosperity, get out of the way of the people who produce it. People who can manage capital, and create savings. People who work a second job and avoid debt. You don't do it by putting those people into a debt (fiat) money system, and then taxing them to create a glass ceiling.
Ever notice that more comes out of the US than anywhere else? Remember when the Berlin wall fell, and East Germany was exposed as being decades behind the rest of the world? Freedom works. We need more freedom, and the poor, will be able to feed and clothe themselves, instead of being subservient to a government that steals in their name, and (coincidentally) takes a healthy cut for themselves and their cronies.