China is a totalitarian state, with a capitalistic system controlled by the party, very far from communism, either the one dreamed by Marx or the one set in place by Staline and Mao.
And it is efficient.
incidentally, i was studying ancient Roman and Greek history at university, Master level.
Our teachers told us that they had changed their evaluation of Wikipedia.
In their field, the scientific papers are written by doctors or students writing thesis, or by them.
Wikipedia gives references, our from it.
Wikipedia is a valuable source, which needs to be checked.
âYou said something really stupid to the effect that calling China a Commie country was wrongâ
âgreenhammer doesnât see the world like thatâ
âNo matter what source you would have used, he would have questioned it.â
Its entertaining to watch these two gentlemen pick this hill to die on .
Thatâs it in a nutshell. Way back in the 70âs, the TV show âAll In the Familyâ depicted the prejudiced Archie Bunker saying Roosevelt ruined this country. Somehow, in this century, it became popular to be that character.
Itâs tragic that the âleftâ never felt a need to intelligently defend enlightened thinking, then the glorification of greed and too much never being enough - the die was set:
Grover Glenn Norquist (born October 19, 1956) is an American political activist and anti-tax advocate who is founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, an organization that opposes all taxincreases.
Norquist favors dramatically reducing the size of government.[12] He has been noted for his widely quoted quip from a 2001 interview with NPRâs Morning Edition:
âI donât want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.â[55][56]
Journalist William Greider quotes Norquist saying his goal is to bring America back to what it was âup until Teddy Roosevelt, when the socialists took over. The income tax, the death tax, regulation, all that.â[57]
When asked by journalist Steve Kroft about the goal of chopping government âin half and then shrink it again to where we were at the turn of the [20th] centuryâ before Social Security and Medicare, Norquist replied, âWe functioned in this country with government at eight percent of GDP for a long time and quite well.â[3]
And now weâre like deer steering into the headlights of speeding 18-wheeler.
Oh but subsidizing big business, thatâs just fine in Norquistâs malicious thinking.
Welfare for the Well-Off: How Business Subsidies Fleece Taxpayers
Saturday, May 1, 1999 31 min read
Federal subsidies to U.S. businesses now cost American taxpayers nearly $100 billion a year. If all corporate welfare programs were eliminated, Congress would have enough money to entirely eliminate the capital gains tax and the death tax. Alternatively, Congress could cut the personal and corporate income tax by 10 percent across the board. Either of these alternatives would do far more to enhance the competitiveness of U.S. industry than the current industrial policy approach of trying to help American companies one at a time.
Federal subsidies to corporate America take many forms: direct grant payments, below-market insurance, direct loans and loan guarantees, trade protection, contracts for unneeded activities, and unjustified special interest loopholes in the tax code. Despite their promises to downsize government, congressional Republicans have retreated from any serious attempt to reduce business subsidies. The Clinton administration has routinely requested budgetary increases for corporate handouts, including the Export Import Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the Commerce Departmentâs Advanced Technology Program.
This study refutes common myths about corporate welfare programs: that they create jobs and promote growth; that they =`level the playing field=â with our foreign competitors; that they help small businesses; and that the payments are provided without regard to political considerations. The main effects of industrial policy programs are to undermine the free enterprise system and corrupt the political system. Congress should get businesses off the dole and use the savings to cut taxes, reduce the national debt or both. âŚ
The hippocracy; double-standard, and utter lack of American Fair-Play ethics is appalling, but it is what it is - when all we can think of when we are so self-absorbed in our own self-interest. Not to mention the utter disregard for others be they human or animals.
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Oh yeah, we are animalsâŚ
