| JoeTheBro said:
This pretty much sums up my opinion on communism(nothing to do with pro/anti obama). As a person with a drive I could not stand living under the control of the government. For me it is 100% hardcore free market capitalism or bust. But I'm like the girl in the picture building a tower. Many people do however like taking naps and for those people there is nothing wrong with communism. I'm sure many of you would love just hanging around playing games. For example my brother works a minimum wage job so that he can afford high end computers while living in the basement. Communism works perfectly for his life and many others but only when it doesn't leach off other's success. |
There's no such thing as 100% "hardcore free market capitalism".
You have a public police force. Fire fighters. Military. Roads/highway. Education. The water you drink has to be regulated so that its safe to drink. FDA. etc. etc. etc. These are all public utilities basically, they're not magically free.
The people who whine about the tax rate in the US IMO have it wrong. The tax rate today in the US is lower than at any point in the 20th century. Whether it was Nixon, Kennedy, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, whoever.
What's actually happening to the US is an erosion of the middle class, it's becoming closer and closer to Mexico, which is one small very wealthy elite and then a bunch of masses living paycheque to paycheque.
My POV is a little different, I was born into a relatively wealthy family, and I'll admit it straight up. The whole point of being wealthy is to prevent "trickle down" economics as much as possible.
When you have money you hire accountants and lawyers to exploit every loophole. You make investments in the best markets, not based on patriotism, but where you will get the best return. The whole point is to keep as much of that wealth from trickling down as possible and to amass it into your investments (portfolio, real estate, ahem ... offshore accounts).
You look at countries like Canada, Denmark, etc. and it looks like people are generally much happier and it seems like people in the US are miserable, and they have a mix of free market + socialism in effect (the US does too, just to a lesser degree, and yes they always have).
