Presidential Alert?

[Mr Puggsly]

haxxiy said:

Mr Puggsly said:

A national text is where the government has gone too far?

Not the wealth redistribution and endless regulations?

I think there's a limit where economic liberalism ends and corporativism begins, don't you?

One merely has to look at Trump's environmental policies. Claiming there is a war on coal and in turn slapping a 30% tariff on solar panels, for instance. If that wasn't a huge red flag  already, look at how he removed regulation for hazardous chemicals on air and water. Who would even benefit from that? Even if, I don't know, there was the benefit of some 0.1% of extra jobs created at certain companies due to it, do you agree with it?

Besides, I belive, given your political inclinations, you would agree merit is a large part of the capitalist free market. However, a lot of inequality actually comes from inheritance (which effectively given unearned wealth to random people much like lottery) and those who merely manipulate money, not from the worker or the entepreneur. And it has been shown the economy can, and often is, negatively impacted by speculation and wealth concentration.

The solar panel tarriff is just that, a tariff. Buy American. Anywho, dems always argue they wanna pay higher taxes. Do it via a tariff.

The enviormental thing is a much broader argument and our environment has been getting cleaner before we got really nutty and political about it. There are reasonable policies, but some are a waste of time and resources. Unintended consequens, etc.

Most wealth actually comes from hard working people that didnt necessarily have much. Saying people have unearned wealth is more like bitterness about coming from nothing.

In the US, most people can aquire wealth buy focusing on education, not having kids at a young age, and simply not making terrible decisions along the way. Wealth redistribution has done more to encourage people to make poor life choices and expect some government handouts. Now thats not everybody who benefits from these programs, but many. Its funny, if you create an econcomy that encourages job growth, pull back government handouts, it seems to lower unemployment. Geez, I wonder why?