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> Don Quijote wrote:
>
> > > Fuel prices in the United States are not "too low" or "artificially low." Such statements are
> > > lies from the Left used in the desire for the United States to far more heavily tax fuels as
> > > is done in Europe and elsewhere. Neither our fuel prices nor our AIDS or tuberculosis rates in
> > > the United States are "too low" or "artificially low" compared to rates in other nations where
> > > these rates or fuel prices are higher.
>
> > The revenues from higher taxes could be used to fight poverty. But, of course, who cares
> > about it...
>
> We have spent billions, trillions, fighting poverty.
>
> There are other, equally if not more desireable things, on which someone might want government
> to spend vast new revenues, but that doesn't justify such actions by themselves. People as it is
> are getting tired again of too-high taxes. You can claim all you want that the spending helps
> people or the economy, but that's for the benefiaries; the taxpayers and the economy are harmed
> by the taxes. And harm is not restricted to the economic: the programs for which government has
> spent money to fight poverty and such have failed to eliminate poverty and often act perversely
> to bribe or even reward the poor, and bad decision-making. (As a Democrat who has written a book
> on the "actuarial limits" to the foolish insistence on having government be a substitute or
> surrogate for the family, also known as "finite limits" in eco-speak, but referring to what
> people are able or willing to pay in taxes, our government social "insurance" programs are the
> equivalent of fire insurance that pays people to leave pots of boiling oil on stoves.)
Yeah, of course, it's a matter of "priorities"...
HOW THE LION BENEFITS FROM THE LITTLE ANIMALS' POVERTY
One day all the little animals went up to the King of the Jungle and complained about their poverty,
and in particular about the fact that every time, during the dry season, they had to travel long
distances to drink the precious fluid, and demanded a water well be built for them... They cited how
the resources that they contributed to the kingdom were wasted in wars and fancy projects to the
tastes of the King... He, however, replied with all kinds of excuses: the lack of resources, that it
wasn't a matter of him not wanting it, but that it was a matter of priorities --which was one of his
favorite words...
Meanwhile, an Owl --who had very good eyes-- had been observing life in the jungle, and thought this
way: "Every time there's a dry season the little animals must come to the little dirty waterhole
where the Lion waits for them... Had they been well fed and strong, he would have had to run after
them and even risk resistance..."
And that's how the Owl landed an important --and well paid-- post in the brand new Astronomy
Department created by the King of the Jungle... to the effect of exploring life in other planets...
> > Subsidized prices, urban sprawl and poverty are as American as Coke...
>
> It's worse in other places. Also, whining and mischaracterizing the situation here in the United
> States doesn't merely fail to make your case, it undermines if not destroys it.
I know, it's so much worse in China and Bangla Desh...
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> Don Quijote wrote:
>
> > > Fuel prices in the United States are not "too low" or "artificially low." Such statements are
> > > lies from the Left used in the desire for the United States to far more heavily tax fuels as
> > > is done in Europe and elsewhere. Neither our fuel prices nor our AIDS or tuberculosis rates in
> > > the United States are "too low" or "artificially low" compared to rates in other nations where
> > > these rates or fuel prices are higher.
>
> > The revenues from higher taxes could be used to fight poverty. But, of course, who cares
> > about it...
>
> We have spent billions, trillions, fighting poverty.
>
> There are other, equally if not more desireable things, on which someone might want government
> to spend vast new revenues, but that doesn't justify such actions by themselves. People as it is
> are getting tired again of too-high taxes. You can claim all you want that the spending helps
> people or the economy, but that's for the benefiaries; the taxpayers and the economy are harmed
> by the taxes. And harm is not restricted to the economic: the programs for which government has
> spent money to fight poverty and such have failed to eliminate poverty and often act perversely
> to bribe or even reward the poor, and bad decision-making. (As a Democrat who has written a book
> on the "actuarial limits" to the foolish insistence on having government be a substitute or
> surrogate for the family, also known as "finite limits" in eco-speak, but referring to what
> people are able or willing to pay in taxes, our government social "insurance" programs are the
> equivalent of fire insurance that pays people to leave pots of boiling oil on stoves.)
Yeah, of course, it's a matter of "priorities"...
HOW THE LION BENEFITS FROM THE LITTLE ANIMALS' POVERTY
One day all the little animals went up to the King of the Jungle and complained about their poverty,
and in particular about the fact that every time, during the dry season, they had to travel long
distances to drink the precious fluid, and demanded a water well be built for them... They cited how
the resources that they contributed to the kingdom were wasted in wars and fancy projects to the
tastes of the King... He, however, replied with all kinds of excuses: the lack of resources, that it
wasn't a matter of him not wanting it, but that it was a matter of priorities --which was one of his
favorite words...
Meanwhile, an Owl --who had very good eyes-- had been observing life in the jungle, and thought this
way: "Every time there's a dry season the little animals must come to the little dirty waterhole
where the Lion waits for them... Had they been well fed and strong, he would have had to run after
them and even risk resistance..."
And that's how the Owl landed an important --and well paid-- post in the brand new Astronomy
Department created by the King of the Jungle... to the effect of exploring life in other planets...
> > Subsidized prices, urban sprawl and poverty are as American as Coke...
>
> It's worse in other places. Also, whining and mischaracterizing the situation here in the United
> States doesn't merely fail to make your case, it undermines if not destroys it.
I know, it's so much worse in China and Bangla Desh...
http://webspawner.com/users/donquijote