Quote Originally Posted by shine View Post
i'm still trying to figure out what his post has to do with any of this. it's clear he supports obama and the socialist trend we are in.
i know very few business owners who support any of this nonsense . paying taxes does not create jobs , reinvesting in your business does . even if you tax the top 1% at 50% it will not help . the answer is to get the 5% of people back to work paying taxes. keep in mind there is 5% or more in this country that will not work period . if you want that number to shrink drug test them for welfare and enforce the back to work part of welfare . which obama is trying to get around .
It's simple to understand if you listen to what they say, both Alan, and the writers of economic "theory" like he linked to. For what they say to be in anyway valid you have to NOT believe that money is based on the exchange of value between at least two trading partners. You have to believe that corporations don't do anything of value for the money (value) they acrue. You have to believe that the "wealthy" don't do anything of value for their fellow man that may be of greater value than those who may acrue the fruits of lesser value exchange. And you have to believe that the "elite thinkers" such as themselves and those politicians they support know better how to exchange value earned by others more effectively than the earners do themselves.

That article is loaded with opportunites to learn REAL economics as it occurs in the real world, most of which is the opposite from what was stated. But most folks don't have interest in such things and it's certainly not taught in primary education.