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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I recall as a child hearing a crazy very elderly great uncle rail about how things were much better before the income tax. The problem with unwinding all the social fixes of today are no one is alive to tell us whether it was better before thei implementation and so many people make a living based on those programs and laws today that to undo them would put a quarter of white collar workers out on the street. Those are, of course, not reasons to avoid a needed discussion about dismantling the bloated govt we have at the state and fed levels. So instead, we operate under the fiction that things are better than they were before income tax and govt regulation. There's a case to be made for either side, but if you try to argue against the present status quo, you'll be villified as an absurdist or mean hearted Darwinian prick. So the real merits of the debate are never fleshed out.
Bush has angered the piss out of the Beltway just for even suggesting we should hold such a debate. To people who live their lives dealing with the govt in all its forms, thats killing the golden goose. So they offer a moralist argument that any attempt to dismantle govt is an attack on the weak who need govt.
Bullshit. Its job protection.
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Crazy old uncle's ramblings vs. Great Depression data
Ok.
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Last edited by Replaced_Texan; 03-03-2006 at 05:38 PM..
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