Why does liberalism-socialism fail?

[Ricter]

Quote from stoic:

If you took all the income of people over $200,000, it would only yield about $1.89 trillion, enough revenue to cover the 2012 bill for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. The rich, in short, aren’t nearly rich enough to finance Mr. Obama’s entitlement state ambitions—even before his health-care plan kicks in.

No one source is sufficient, everyone knows this.

 

[Mav88]

Quote from Ricter:

google.com, search string = "per capita government spending by country"

your plot had a specific adjustment to it, or so you said.... I'm supposed sift through 100 google hits to find the one plot you posted when you could simply give me the link you used... right

 

[Ricter]

Quote from Mav88:

your plot had a specific adjustment to it, or so you said.... I'm supposed sift through 100 google hits to find the one plot you posted when you could simply give me the link you used... right

Lol, it's the first link, OECD Library.

Not sure what you mean by "specific adjustment".

 

[stoic]

Quote from Ricter:

No one source is sufficient, everyone knows this.

From the IRS. Feel free to dispute from another source.

 

[Ricter]

Quote from stoic:

From the IRS. Feel free to dispute from another source.

Pardon me, what I meant is no one source of revenue.

 

[LEAPup]

Mav88, you've gotta realize the liberals (true lunatics allowed to be free), are the true enemies to the US. They're FAR worse than Taliban turds we now shoot. I guess, read between the lines. We shoot terrorists on foreign soil thank God, and say ooh rah as we do it. The only difference in the ricters, rcgs, ak, etc,. and terrorists is they don't (yet) carry physical weapons in an attempt to change America into their sickness by force...

 

[Mav88]

Quote from Ricter:

Lol, it's the first link, OECD Library.

Not sure what you mean by "specific adjustment".

so what, I could not possibly have known that.

You said: "Anyway, perhaps Mav88 would like to measure government size taking population into account." Without explaining what 'taking population into account' means.

That's called an adjustment. Anyway gov't as a percent GDP is more relevant.

 

[Scataphagos]

Quote from LEAPup:

"... Mav88, you've gotta realize the liberals (true lunatics allowed to be free), are the true enemies to the US. They're FAR worse than Taliban turds we now shoot.

Obama is the biggest threat and the most dangerous enemy America has ever faced.

And 50%-ish of us don't recognize it and voted for him. Obama appealed to the lowest common denominator of greed... and half of us bought it.

What chance does America have for a future??

 

[Ricter]

Quote from Mav88:

so what, I could not possibly have known that.

You said: "Anyway, perhaps Mav88 would like to measure government size taking population into account." Without explaining what 'taking population into account' means.

That's called an adjustment. Anyway gov't as a percent GDP is more relevant.

It's not an adjustment, it's a different measurement.

 

[Mav88]

Quote from Scataphagos:

Obama is the biggest threat and the most dangerous enemy America has ever faced.

And 50%-ish of us don't recognize it and voted for him. Obama appealed to the lowest common denominator of greed... and half of us bought it.

What chance does America have for a future??

The need for control and hatred for those who oppose his worldview. Obama is the latest manifestation, and yes he uses the envy and greed of average americans to mainatin power.