Originally Posted by
etucker1959
I want to beat the horse some more about the 4 people and the cart. You do know there is some Conservative think tank thinking this stuff up to satisfy their audience. (I've heard this example before) It's designed to promote the thought that individualism is the way to go and the Hell with everyone else. It's not designed to pass scrutiny with the general public though, just you and your kind. Remember what Trump just said, "don't believe your eyes" believe what we tell you to believe! Or what Gliuliani said, "Truth is not the Truth!" You need to stop calling Trump your President. What he is your "Leader" and you must believe whatever your leader tells you to believe!
Let's get back to the 4 people and the cart. Remember they gave this example to you and not some Liberal who could easily debunk that thought. What the 4 people and the cart message is, "all people must equally pull the cart or the cart won't go any where." (right?) Well if all 4 people did pull the cart, your then saying all people then should equally share the benefits. (right?) You do realize that's what Karl Marx wrote about in his book how to go from Capitalism to Socialism to Communism. So what are you saying CHUCKY? Your a Communist????? Bet you didn't see that coming?
Back to the cart.
If you ever saw the movie the Princess Bride with the guy who thought he was so smart. (the guy with the poison) He had a funny line I liked. The Hero said to the guy who was rambling along, are you done? His answer was, "I'm just getting started!!!"
Back to the cart. (I'm serious this time)
You said in your cart example, if only 1 person is pulling the cart it won't go very far. It's really a metaphor for all people working and paying tax's. You believe if everyone doesn't contribute to the system it will break down. (that's why you use that EBT card example all the time) Those people are getting Free money and don't have to work as hard as you do and it just kills you. (In business I wear down my opposing agent's the same way) lol
But what you are forgetting we have an ingenious tax system. (it's based on the ability to pay)
It start's with you take 100% of an nations wealth. You tax (Federally) the people that can afford to pay. Currently it's about 50% (remember Mitt in 2012 got caught saying, 47% of the people don't pay Federal tax's) He's right because it's based on the ability to pay. Now remember the occupy Wall street movement a few years back. It brought attention to the fact that 1% of the population owns 25% of all our nations wealth and that number is climbing. So for argument sake let's say that number is up to 30% by now. So back to your cart example. In reality 1 person (a 1% er) is pulling the cart with 30 people in it and it's doing just fine!!!!
See how bad that cart example really is??? It's just trying to justify Individualism which is not the way to go. Otherwise we end up like India where 50% of the population eat's the garbage of the other 50%.