From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 19:51:05 MST
EvMick writes
> lcorbin writes:
> > More than half the people now have absolutely no
> > incentive whatsoever to have lower taxes. On the
> > contrary, the higher the taxes, the better for them.
> Howsomever...who supplies the jobs?
Well, first, let me remind you of the good criticism
from Mike Linksvayer (3/6 6:18PM) in this thread:
>> Net tax consumers don't have much incentive to lobby for higher
>> taxes, as no one of them can expect to directly benefit from their
>> efforts. The few who pay really substantial amounts have a far
>> stronger, if still weak, individual incentive to lobby.
But that doesn't directly address your question.
> Jobs are beginning to get a little "tight" just now.
> Trucking is a "leading economic indicator"....and
> "heavy haul" (what i do)...leads trucking.
> It's slim pickin's at the moment.
Yes, just ask some programmers from Silicon valley. On the
other hand, the U.S. employment figures would be the envy
of most of the rest of the industrialized world.
> When the folks who pay the taxes go out of business....what happens?
Disaster. But what is crucial is the incentives of those
who do pay all the taxes---namely, those earning in the
top 30 percent.
It's a race. It always has been a race. Will the
big-government spenders and redistributors drain
the life blood of an economy faster than it can be
replenished, or not?
Is the demographically more successful life style
to be a high producer or a non-contributor?
> EvMick
> (sitting at home waiting for some work)
Best of luck,
Lee
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