Where on earth did you get that idea? I am all for “individual” freedom. I am saying that everyone should contribute to the “common” social services which we all share, to the best of their ability.
I am opposed to the fact that a secretary pays relatively a greater percent of her income in payroll taxes than a millionaire has to pay on “unearned income” i.e. money making money without a minute of labor.
I am opposed to corporate welfare. Are you in favor of corporate welfare?"
I am opposed to unrestricted Capitalism. Are you in favor of unrestricted Capitalism
I am opposed to a high-income earner getting a disproportional COLA increase over a low-income earner. A high-income earner does not have to pay more for an egg or a gallon of milk than a low-income earner.
COLA is a cost of living increase, not a cost of lifestyle increase.
Mainly America. The more regulations we have the less freedoms we have. It is called living within our budget. regulations may be good. But you can’t get away from the fact that all regulations cost. When I was young we didn’t have many regulations. One week’s wages paid all the bills. One week paid for fun. Two weeks went into savings. I don’t see it that way for the young people starting out today.
Yes, I do. I see people who are working just to survive. They are not getting ahead. So why work. Will the minimum wage help them. Yes. Until their employer shuts down due to the cost of labor. The viewpoint seems to be for the big cities. A person working is a small town. Grew up there and plans on dying there. It may take years before another job opportunity comes along, if then.
I know people who worked their entire life. Have a home. But have to sell because they can’t afford to pay the taxes. That was not their American Dream. Biden’s inflation is going cause millions of people to lose their homes.
I’m for flat tax. I don’t agree with corporation structure. I feel owners of the corporation should be liable for the corporation. Even if they are just stock holders. People don’t buy stocks for the merits of the company. They buy for dividends. That means the merits have to be controlled by regulations. And that is not working. Right now for example regulation merits are political.
Absolutely. The greatest civilizations in history was the Egyptians. The government changed many times over six thousand years. But, the country continued because the capitalism system for the economy was not in the control of the government. The tax system was a first born tax system that limited the income of government. If the people were doing poorly. Then the government had to cut back. It also suffered. Therefore it was in the best interest of the government for the country to do well. If our economy suffers. Our government still grows on the backs of the working man.
Never really thought about that issue. I see your point. What I don’t like is what the Swamp is doing with COLA. Like changing the protein methods. Obama’s didn’t raise the COLA protein costs because their new protein method had beans high in protein. People were told to not buy meat. They could get their protein from beans. Obama saved money. Then gave it to corporations on green energy deals that bankrupted. That was one reason Trump got in. We needed leadership that understood business.
Yes, I have a mental health condition agreeing when it comes to people persistently thinking that greed should be the social norm. Follow me on the 2000 mule postings. See if you can use math and science to find truth.
Yes, a totally religious authoritarian system (Theocracy) based on cheap labor (slavery).
You want to go back there, really? You believe that system offered freedom? To whom?
Don’t you see that you are constantly contradicting yourself?
For nearly a millennium, Egypt’s early pharaohs presided over a prosperous and wealthy state that built countless temples and palaces, enormous public works, and the famous Giza pyramids. Much of that prosperity depended on the regular inundations of the Nile River in a country that otherwise would be only desert.
A copper statue of Pepi I still flashes limestone-and-obsidian eyes. The pharaoh’s pyramid was looted during a chaotic time scholars call the First Intermediate Period. PHOTOGRAPH BY KENNETH GARRETT, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Then, around 2200 B.C., ancient texts suggest that Egypt’s so-called Old Kingdom gave way to a disastrous era of foreign invasions, pestilence, civil war, and famines severe enough to result in cannibalism. In the past decade, climate data revealed that a severe and long-term drought afflicted the region during this same time, providing evidence of an environmental trigger that led to what has long been considered a dark age of Egyptian history.
I was asking if you know of some country where there is more freedom, more opportunity, and less regulations. The only examples I know of are where you can join a militia group or a gang and be “free” as long as you can stay alive.
The dogma of “no regulation” has blinded you. That change in how a week’s wages could pay the bills to now, that was Reaganomics and anti-regulation that did that. They destroyed the housing market, then got bailed out, now homes are being bought up by the wealthy, and they can set the rent to whatever they want. Things like this are obvious to me, I don’t know why they aren’t to you.
You blame “taxes”, but taxes are based on home value. It’s the groups buying up homes that are raising the housing prices. They can afford it because they are already rich. Owning land is really anti-human in the first place. We could keep the concept for unincorporated areas and speculation, but once they are towns, where we need people of a variety of incomes, it should be more like a license, or you pay to manage land, but don’t own in the sense that we do now. I’m sure you’re just rolling your eyes at this, but you don’t understand much of what I say, so, whatever.
“Yes, a totally religious authoritarian system”. It was many authoritarian systems. Kind of like what we would call “States”. “totally religious”. Yes it was. But what was religious in that time period? It meant schools, police, banking, mail system, health system. But we have a lot of data from letters people wrote back and forth. And they don’t seem any more into deities than we are.
“based on cheap labor (slavery).” The slaves worked in the temples. Don’t see it in the public. People sometimes had to work another job to be able to afford to pay to be a slave in the temples. There was competition for temple slave jobs. Temples had the best food and entertainment available. There are records of gifts from the public to the temples. A lot of flower bouquets. Which means the people had plenty of food and were able to spend time growing flowers.
Would I want to go back there? Yea. I have read a couple books of translated letters and they are no different that people from here in the Mid-West.
There are countries. But your question is open to debates on size of population and economy. Even Russia is not close on those issues. Australia has the freedoms but they are not close to our size. New Zealand, I am not sure about how their country is run today. I was quite surprised when I did business in Hong Kong. Did not have any regulations to deal with the everything went great. Japan on the other hand. I had to contact the ambassador’s office before I felt conferrable enough to sent people there. I told them there was no way that I could work under Japans regulations. They needed to tell me how other companies were able to work there. The answer was. If I have a problem. Call them and they would work around the the regulations. Learn as you go.
Look at the big picture. What happened was Hyksos brought the chicken industry to Egypt. Industrial chicken farming. More protein, more population growth. Bigger government and all the risks that go with it. In 1700 BC the Hyksos brought the hybrid olive to Egypt and again change everything. Not just in Egypt but all of Europe.
So, you found trouble “around 2200 BC.” That’s about the time Abraham, friend of El and Yahweh. All from around the Ur area. Came to Egypt’s Middle Kingdom and used his very rare skills of making glass to form a leadership power. Glass at that time was more valuable than gold. Abraham had first went to Ethiopia then to the Middle Kingdom. I would do some research into what affects Abraham had in causing civil war. Abraham is thought to have arrived in Egypt around 2150 BC. So, 2200 BC would have been about the time of his death.
I didn’t go there. Nor Japan. People with better skills than me went. Isn’t Tiananmen Square in China? The girl that stopped the tanks? If I remember correctly the laptops were just coming out. We were still using computers to fax documents.
And how big was Egypt? You cannot cherry-pick your own examples when there is plenty of contradictory evidence.
In principle, the US has an ideal system for honest people. Unfortunately, there are too many dishonest people in the US for an “honor” system to work.
When politicians can be bought, only a few rich people will enjoy the nation’s wealth. The rest will be in the working middle class that pays for all the expenses and the poor to remind the middle class to always show up on time.
We are talking about history. Can not understand your logic.
Our job is to make sure that does not happen.
That is just logical. If there was trouble in that time in Egypt. Then I would check out the Middle Kingdom. Myself I don’t understand what that has to do with Alaskan Oil. So, I am not going to offer more than a pathway.
I’m not being fussy. But we can get called out for stay off subject to long or to far. We will be told to take it to a new post. Which I am willing to do. I like history and Egypt is the country that the Greek and Romans tried to follow. Egypt figured out the problem of leadership was controlling greed. And they so far are the only county that was able to control greed. Isn’t that what socialism is about. That is what I hear you saying all the time. That the rich and corporations are greedy.
