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Taxes (including deficits, which are delayed taxes), subsidies, and mandates all illustrate coercion’s progressive undermining of social cooperation. For example, when government raises taxes on income earned by benefiting trading partners, those who provide the benefits earn less over time. In response, those burdened with the new taxes have incentive to do less to benefit others while substituting more effort to avoid taxation.
Moreover, when government mandates employer-provided “free” benefits, employers then reduce other parts of compensation that many workers may actually value more than the mandated benefits, to “pay” for them. Or employers may simply hire fewer workers. We see this already in Obamacare’s mandated increases to employers’ labor costs. Employers have cut jobs and hours (the mandates don’t apply to under-30-hour-per-week workers), or employers squeeze other parts of employee compensation, including on-the-job training, which is a crucial mechanism through which workers learn their way to success.
Of course. I pay may taxes, and they get welfare. If not, go apply
Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
Reminds me of how Tony Soprano used to think it was ok if he beat you up, but then paid for the doctor bill and a nice dinner afterwards. I think a certain degree is sociopathy comes as part of human nature. It is an easily exploited "dark side" we all have to varying degrees.
So what you're saying is, socialism works...the government just gets in the way. Got it.
It is not an us and them.. Welfare recipients pay taxes too..Everyone pays taxes..
Originally posted by greencmp
reply to post by links234
So what you're saying is, socialism works...the government just gets in the way. Got it.
No, that isn't what I am saying. I am saying that charity works and it is being undermined by false conclusions based on misinformation propaganda about the success of social welfare.
Originally posted by greencmp
reply to post by Kali74
Corporate cronyism is yet another caveat associated with increased regulatory power which can be and is bought and used to establish and defend monopolies.
Health insurance and pharmaceutical companies being stunningly overt examples as they were the primary lobbyists for the ACA (though we were led to believe they were fighting it).edit on 8-9-2013 by greencmp because: (no reason given)
You pay tax every-time you go to the shop and by your food and petrol.
My friend the common struggling man is not the one you should vilify. It is the banking cartel that has just robbed your country of trillions.
If you have done any volunteering in any kind of charity on a meaningful level you would not being saying this.
Not increased regulatory power, negligent regulatory power or intentionally written with loopholes. That kind of happens when corporations get to write the regulations and then get appointed to the oversight committee's or when politicians are promised lobby or consulting positions when their time in office is up.
greencmp
Wow , I get the impression that you don't think you can be charitable without the state telling you how and what you can do. Better not walk little old ladies across the street or donate your old clothes to the needy, leave it to the professionals.