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20 May 2012, 3:06 pm

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Executive talent is highly overrated. People make huge amounts of money for either bungling or for plans to raid pension plans and asset-strip companies. Who cares if some crybabies leave. Let them leave! There will be plenty of people who can do just as good a job for what after all would be far more than most occupations can pay.


No there won't and once they get a taste, they'll leave. Knowledge is a commodity in this emerging economy, and this conversation alone has proven to me that based on what you argue, you have no idea what you're talking about.



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20 May 2012, 11:25 pm

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The business of business is business - to make money. That's the role of these bigwigs. Their business is not to produce widgets. I repeat, their business is not to produce widgets. Businessmen and the government do not have the same interest - government, supposedly in service of the people, wants more production, the businessmen want to make more money. These are not the same thing.


You're wrong here as well. Government wants more production, because more production means more jobs, more jobs means less people collecting social aid in the form of unemployment, food stamps, welfare and other programs that cost the government money. Furthermore, it means more tax revenue for the government since everyone who works has to pay taxes.

So in the end, government also only cares about making money.


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21 May 2012, 11:48 am

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If we're talking about Keynesian economics, that argument is nothing more than an off-topic semantic nitpick. If taxes are cut in order to eliminate the surplus every time the budget has a chance of poking out of the red territory, you are l.


The "semantic nitpick" is a recognition of the facts. And only facts matter.

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It still has absolutely zero bearing on my argument. Increasing spending and decreasing revenue have the same net effect on the balance sheet. That is also a fact.



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21 May 2012, 12:01 pm

That so-called semantic nitpick is also designed to promote the idea that all taxation is theft, that government spending is evil, and therefore it's a matter of good and evil to always cut taxes and spending at all times when it's possible to do so. The end is to create a larger pool of desperate people who can be effectively enslaved so that the rich and powerful can have larger free lunches at their expense.



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21 May 2012, 12:12 pm

CSBurks wrote:
TM wrote:
xenon13 wrote:
The business of business is business - to make money. That's the role of these bigwigs. Their business is not to produce widgets. I repeat, their business is not to produce widgets. Businessmen and the government do not have the same interest - government, supposedly in service of the people, wants more production, the businessmen want to make more money. These are not the same thing.


You're wrong here as well. Government wants more production, because more production means more jobs, more jobs means less people collecting social aid in the form of unemployment, food stamps, welfare and other programs that cost the government money. Furthermore, it means more tax revenue for the government since everyone who works has to pay taxes.

So in the end, government also only cares about making money.


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correlation does not make causation and statistics without point specific supporting structure is worthless.


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21 May 2012, 1:25 pm

Oodain wrote:
CSBurks wrote:
TM wrote:
xenon13 wrote:
The business of business is business - to make money. That's the role of these bigwigs. Their business is not to produce widgets. I repeat, their business is not to produce widgets. Businessmen and the government do not have the same interest - government, supposedly in service of the people, wants more production, the businessmen want to make more money. These are not the same thing.


You're wrong here as well. Government wants more production, because more production means more jobs, more jobs means less people collecting social aid in the form of unemployment, food stamps, welfare and other programs that cost the government money. Furthermore, it means more tax revenue for the government since everyone who works has to pay taxes.

So in the end, government also only cares about making money.


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correlation does not make causation and statistics without point specific supporting structure is worthless.


No sh*t. Technically, causation can never be proven. We simply assume it because we live in an ordered universe, or so we postulate.

TM's stated hypothesis is that the government wants more production because that leads to more tax revenue. If that is the case, then there should be a positive correlation between the two variables.



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21 May 2012, 1:29 pm

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No sh*t. Technically, causation can never be proven. We simply assume it because we live in an ordered universe, or so we postulate.

TM's stated hypothesis is that the government wants more production because that leads to more tax revenue. If that is the case, then there should be a positive correlation between the two variables.


That was only half the hypothesis, the government also wants increased production due to increased employment, which again means less spent on social programs.



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21 May 2012, 5:59 pm

TM wrote:
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The business of business is business - to make money. That's the role of these bigwigs. Their business is not to produce widgets. I repeat, their business is not to produce widgets. Businessmen and the government do not have the same interest - government, supposedly in service of the people, wants more production, the businessmen want to make more money. These are not the same thing.


You're wrong here as well. Government wants more production, because more production means more jobs, more jobs means less people collecting social aid in the form of unemployment, food stamps, welfare and other programs that cost the government money. Furthermore, it means more tax revenue for the government since everyone who works has to pay taxes.

So in the end, government also only cares about making money.


The obvious difference is a democratic government must be responsive to the demands of the electorate.



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21 May 2012, 6:46 pm

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The obvious difference is a democratic government must be responsive to the demands of the electorate.


Including the dead-beats who collect welfare, feed at the trough AND vote.

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21 May 2012, 10:02 pm

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The obvious difference is a democratic government must be responsive to the demands of the electorate.


Including the dead-beats who collect welfare, feed at the trough AND vote.

ruveyn



You forgot to mention that those people finance election campaigns.



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22 May 2012, 3:00 am

xenon13 wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
marshall wrote:

The obvious difference is a democratic government must be responsive to the demands of the electorate.


Including the dead-beats who collect welfare, feed at the trough AND vote.

ruveyn



You forgot to mention that those people finance election campaigns.


They are among the dead-beats. Corporate subsidies are the worst kind of welfare give away. And bribing the politicians is among the worst of wrongs to do.

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