Nah, it is ok, so long as the government doesn't do it.  In Somolia, just get bigger guns and a bigger private military and police force, and you are all set.  Somolia truly rewards the more competitive, smarter, stronger, and more industrious.  Plus, it had the added advantage of killing off the weak.  

Good thing the government didn't bail them all out, because that would just make sure that no one learns a lesson and it will happen all over again.

Oh, wait.

Lawyering and politics are work, as much as people like to deride them, and certainly as much as shifting money around for a living seems to amount to "work," which is why i ignored your attempt at private-sector elitism and cut right to the other part of your point, that government is bad and less is more, offering an appropriate counterexample.

Christ's balls, you are incoherent. What the bleeding fuck does that have to do with what you've quoted, or with anything I've ever said?

Obviously also, businesses can't address running deficits either, by raising their prices.  And nope, you can't close deficits by having more money.  It is a maxim that people get rich by spending less money.

Ignore David Stockman saying tax rates are too low:

http://billmoyers.com/content/david-stockman-on-the-folly-of-anti-tax-crusades/

“Taxes are the price we pay for civilization,” Stockman says, borrowing a quotation from Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. “What they’re saying today is foolish, it’s irresponsible. How can anyone believe with the kind of deficit that we have — a trillion dollars, year after year after year — that we can keep taxes as low as they are?”

Nah, it is ok, so long as the government doesn't do it.  In Somolia, just get bigger guns and a bigger private military and police force, and you are all set.  Somolia truly rewards the more competitive, smarter, stronger, and more industrious.  Plus, it had the added advantage of killing off the weak.   

That quote was a response to the wrong post.

No, the point is that while some government is necessary, it's nice if the people running the show have some sense of conscience about spending other people's money instead of blowing it like drunken sailors and demonizing people for not wanting to cough up more. But then when you have someone in charge like Obama, who has never created one penny's worth of wealth in his entire pampered life, it isn't surprising that he feels that way.

No less a leftist than George McGovern came to appreciate how much government cocks up things when he tried to run his stupid little bed and breakfast. He even remarked that he wished he had known that when he was in government, which kind of makes the point that people should actually do things before they try to tell other people how to do things, not to mention what things they can and cannot do.

So the fact that it is literally impossible to close the deficit (never mind all our unfunded liabilities) by raising taxes doesn't mean anything to you?

The US just like debt riddled Europe: Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal have a big culture of tax evasion. The rich use any means possible to evade paying taxes and take advantage of tax loopholes. Libertarians/conservatives always go on about taxation being theft and the government has a gun held to their heads.

Apparently the concept that tax revenues are also too low has demonstrated no realm of possibility in your cognitive processes, no matter how many people say that the rate of taxes are too low, or David Stockman says the way capital gains taxes are set up is cronyism also.  See, I am more than willing to say there is a need for even more cuts, in addition to raising some tax rates.  You apparently are incapable of grasping the concept of the need for more tax revenue and raising taxes.  Well, guess who is going to get closer to balancing the budget, if that is the path you want to go down?  Here is a hint: It certainly isn't going to be you.