jlf1961
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A couple of points:
Venezuela is not a Marxist country, but a socialist one, and there is a big difference.
And Secondly, and more to the point, Karl Marx, contrary to what every jack ass who never studied political philosophy wants to claim, never advocated anything remotely like the Soviet Union, Venezuela or any of these other fucked up countries trying to make the claim that they are following Karl Marx.
Socialism, is, in its simplest form, the political philosophy where the people own everything, all the businesses, factories etc and are paid as equals.
And true socialism will not work, not in the modern world, or any future world where a child is taught the idea of personal property.
The Soviet Union began under Leninism, continued under Stalinism and finished by total economic collapse. Proving that a communist society cannot survive. China is experimenting with growing capitalist markets, and is growing economically after how many years under Mao Tse Tung's idea on how socialism should work? Hell he had to die in order for China to evolve.
Karl Marx dealt with the alienation of the worker from all aspects of the industrialize society, and how the worker should become an integral part of the who economic machine that drives a health economic market.
He realized that market expansion will not work if everything is kept equal, and that expanding markets benefits everyone, from the business owner to the worker. He advocated unions, but not the way the Americans have taken unionization, wanting more for less. His idea was the workers gained benefits for increased production where they have a bigger say in how to achieve it, your basic happy worker is a productive worker.
And he certainly did not advocate a welfare state or fixed prices.
And contrary to what that idiot said in the damn video, while it is true that the highways are paid for by the people that use them, she better look at how much all of the commercial transport companies pay in fuel taxes, highway use taxes and everything else compared to the average car owner.
Guess what bitch, the car owner pays a state fuel tax, and a state highway tax when they register a car. A trucking company pays state and federal fuel taxes, state and federal high way usage tax, as well as paying a fee to operate in other states besides their own.
And those companies pay the bulk of the cost of those interstates, and do it twice.
As for education, clearly she does not realize that school taxes are not paid by just folks with students in the schools, they are paid by the property owners in that school district, regardless of if it is a residence or a business.
So the owner of that factory she was talking about is paying for the education for those workers he/she has hired.
And thanks to our wonderfully failing education system in the US, in many cases, further training is needed and the companies pay for that too.
As for fair taxation, lets consider something.
Many corporations make billions, and end up paying almost nothing in corporate taxes, thanks to loopholes created by both political parties.
And as far as personal income tax, no matter which party writes the new tax laws, the lower middle class is the ones that get fucked.
Before taxes, in 2015, the total American business profit in 2015 was $2.4 trillion dollars.
If you hit them with a 39% tax rate as some of the higher personal income brackets are screwed with, you would have a $936 Billion federal tax revenue.
That is on net profits, not gross profits, so that is after all the business expenses are taken out.
Now for the same period, individuals in the US paid taxes on $14.5 trillion dollars.
Now if everyone in the US was hit with a flat 12.5% tax rate, you get a total income tax of $1.8125 trillion dollars.
Total annual tax revenue to the US would be $2.7485 trillion dollars.
Now that would still leave us with a federal budget deficit of $1.3985 trillion dollars.
Now, if congress would listen to the GAO, you know that bunch that tells them how the money is spent, and consolodate agencies that are doing the same fucking job, you could eliminate a large chunk of that 1.3985 trillion dollars.
You think I am joking? Consider this:
There are 10 different agencies under the Department of Health and Human services addressing AIDs in minority communities.
Autism research is run by 11 different agencies.
Eight independent agencies in the Defense Department is working on finding MIA and unreported Prisoners of war.
Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado has 8 different satellite control centers to monitor 10 different satellite programs, and when you add the NASA facilities doing the same work, the number is tripled.
According to the GAO, in 2014 they added 26 new areas in the Federal Government where federal government programs are fragmented, duplicative, overlapping or just inefficient. Add that to the 162 areas identified in past reports, and Congress has a road map for saving tens of billions of dollars a year.
Then you have agencies that are in direct conflict with each other.
And finally there are the hundreds of billions in spending on social handout programs, make it mandatory that in order to get welfare one must either go to school to get into a good job field or work to offset the costs of foodstamps etc.
You know the 'workfare' idea that keeps getting shot down?
The US cannot afford to be handing money to people who can work and dont.
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