[quote=paramount]No worries for the public sector though.
Gov. Jerry ‘Moonbeam’ Brown’s primary policy is to take from the producers (ie. private sector) and give what he took to the consumers (ie. gov’t workers, welfare recipients, etc…).[/quote]
Seriously, paramount…did a public employee steal your wife away or something? You seem extremely bitter, on a personal level, regarding public employees. Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t you work for a government contractor? How do you figure you’re any different from the rest of the public employees who “suck off the government teat”?
All you’ve done is make personal attacks, without any understanding of how public spending works. You apparently don’t grasp what countries without government spending look like vs. those that have extensive public programs.
I’ve tried to explain to you how public pension systems work, but you keep coming back with painfully ignorant statements…and no facts or logic to ever back up what you’re trying to say. You’ve tried to imply that I didn’t understand anything about economics, and then proceeded to say (in that very same post!) that McCarthy was a Communist who was responsible for taking down private unions.
Can you keep your personal feelings out of it and try debating based on logic and facts? Otherwise, you’re just coming across as ignorant and bitter. You’re not making any valid points, just ranting. Try debating, instead.
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Submitted by paramount on February 19, 2011 – 4:55pm.
One of the targets of McCarthyism was unions, including SAG.
[Quoting CAR]”Not only that, the money from govt workers goes directly into the local economy. If that money is pulled out, how in the world does anyone think it would benefit workers in the private sector?”
I am an engineer by training and as such know very little about economics, but I know enough to see that you have even less knowledge than I do. Every dollar that is taken from the private sector to pay a government worker is one dollar less that would be used more efficiently by the private sector/producers.
In other words, gov’t workers are for the most part overhead.
Just for fun, here is an article written by someone who clearly wanted to prove that high taxes destroy and economy. Unfortunately for him, he wasn’t able to show any correlation. It’s also interesting to note that the nations with the “lowest tax rates” also provided universal healthcare and other, more generous social safety nets for their citizens.
Here’s a tool that can help you see how high taxes affect economies and the well being of citizens of these various countries.
I’ve linked to the “distribution of income” stats. You can see how income distribution DOES seem to correlate with how well a country performs, economically, socially, and politically.
