[at-l] Subsidies.

[jbryankramer at msn.com (J Bryan Kramer)]

I'm all for doing away with all subsidies. Bring on the Flat Tax.

Bryan

 Lex et Libertas -- Semper Vigilo, Paratus, et Fidelis!

> Skylander,
>
> Reference your post, dated 7-15-04, under the Subject heading ?Bush opens
> forest roads? where you propose, ?... the solution is Capitalism
> so that no
> subsidies be given.  Present subsidies should be phased out ...?
>
> ?There is a simple solution for every complex problem;
> unfortunately, it?s
> wrong.?
>
> Virtually our entire tax code is subsidies.  The government
> stimulates what
> it wants with tax breaks.  Anyone who makes charitable donations
> gets a tax
> break, i.e, the government subsidizes charities and charitable
> contributors.
>
> The government uses subsidies to correct when capitalism veers
> too far, much
> more generally and subtly than it can by legislation or Executive Order.
>
> I am amused by our western ethic.  Westerners (not including the coastal
> west) are proud of how self-reliance and neighborly co-operation enables
> their life style.  Well, our west is as artificial a construct as
> any theme
> park.  It would not have been settled, exploited, or remain
> viable without
> the socialistic support of the government.
>
> Your discussion of capitalism is limited to  ?theoretical
> capitalism.?  Karl
> Marx, who predicted the fall of capitalism, shared your
> understanding.  It
> does not appreciate our system of ?applied capitalism.?  The Marx
> philosophy
> failed to foresee a socialistic government, interceding with its
> capitalistic economic system.
>
> I would guess Marx?s prediction was correct, IF we only had pure
> capitalism.
>   Those who know how, and are willing to do what it takes, to make money
> would render the remainder paupers, barely kept alive; that
> system wouldn?t
> last, it would end in revolution.
>
> Steve
>
> P.S.  My post is about economics.  I thought we were to avoid political
> discussions.
>
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