The problem with this kind of reasoning is that you are being logical and reasonable. But you reasonableness has no affect on looters.
Pick your poison, social unrest, or...
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No, not the destitute and the, homeless, but the middle class was far better off, especially the lower half of the middle class. There were fewer destitute. There are many factors other than tax rates. Tax rates were too high in the upper brackets in the 1950s; they are too low today, and there are too few brackets.
Interestingly, today's wealth distribution is closer to the historical norm for the U.S., aAccording to Piketty, whose book I am reading. It resembles more the distribution of other former colonial powers than it does the more egalitarian distribution of the 1950s-1960s in the U.S.. That was an anomalous period. Nevertheless, it was a better period in many respects. In other words, the anomaly rather than the norm may be what we should strive for.
This is as good a thread as any to give an example of the leftist utopia taken to it's absurd extreme.
I was out with some friends for dinner this evening. Couple of golfing buddies. There's this little Country Club in Lansing, IL. This is Cook County, about 30 miles south of Chicago. Chicago is Cook county as well.
Seems this little country club is on hard times. Place has been there for decades. The front 9 is in Cook County, IL. and the back 9 is in Lake County, IN. Cook country taxes are killing them. Taxes are so ridiculous that they can't even donate the property to the city of Lansing. Taxes on the Cook county side are $196,000.00 every 6 months. Taxes on the Indiana side are...$9,000.00 every 6 months. Lake county, IN. is far from a rural community. It's really just an extension of Chicago. It's very urban, so it's not like there's no need for tax revenue.
This is what happens when you have to support the thug lives matter crowd and the teachers union that shovels them out into the street, and of course all the democratic political machine palms that need greasing. This golf course will end up going broke and eventually go BK. Jobs will be lost. The property will go undeveloped because of the tax rate. This is happening all over the Chicago area.
Yeah, there's social unrest. Most of it caused by leftist policies and idiotic leftists who blame someone else for leftist policies, and the idiot base buys it hook, line and sinker. Stunning stupidity.
I was out with some friends for dinner this evening. Couple of golfing buddies. There's this little Country Club in Lansing, IL. This is Cook County, about 30 miles south of Chicago. Chicago is Cook county as well.
Seems this little country club is on hard times. Place has been there for decades. The front 9 is in Cook County, IL. and the back 9 is in Lake County, IN. Cook country taxes are killing them. Taxes are so ridiculous that they can't even donate the property to the city of Lansing. Taxes on the Cook county side are $196,000.00 every 6 months. Taxes on the Indiana side are...$9,000.00 every 6 months. Lake county, IN. is far from a rural community. It's really just an extension of Chicago. It's very urban, so it's not like there's no need for tax revenue.
This is what happens when you have to support the thug lives matter crowd and the teachers union that shovels them out into the street, and of course all the democratic political machine palms that need greasing. This golf course will end up going broke and eventually go BK. Jobs will be lost. The property will go undeveloped because of the tax rate. This is happening all over the Chicago area.
Yeah, there's social unrest. Most of it caused by leftist policies and idiotic leftists who blame someone else for leftist policies, and the idiot base buys it hook, line and sinker. Stunning stupidity.
Is it this country club?
http://www.nwitimes.com/business/lo...cle_afc5cbe8-d3c8-57f6-9b73-9b1340cc6d60.html
Ah. And when has that happened? Please tell me you're not going to talk about "shovel ready projects" and "jobs created and saved".
This is the old argument that government can spend money more efficiently than the private sector, and that's totally incorrect.
Yep, and the back nine, Indiana side, is going to be sold to a real estate developer and the front side, Illinois side, doesn't have any takers. This includes the city of Lansing who was offered the property for free. They can't pay the taxes.
That's a religious belief, nothing more.
Of course they can't pay their taxes, their sales are falling.