Why we should tax the rich more.

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Originally Posted by Wayward Clam

On the other hand, buying a box of cereal for someone poor will fill their stomach for a day. Buying a million boxes of cereal for the poor WILL accomplish a million times as much good.

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Yeah, like promote the idea of handouts.....

Followed soon after by cries of "we have a RIGHT to that free box of cereal."

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Originally Posted by paraflyer

Yeah, like promote the idea of handouts.....

Followed soon after by cries of "we have a RIGHT to that free box of cereal."

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Handouts prevent people from starving to death.

You can't eat school books.

But if you prefer, then read the above as saying "instead spend the millions on education and job creation programs instead of jewelry."

Okay? Are we done here now? :thumbs:

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Originally Posted by Wayward Clam

Handouts prevent people from starving to death.

You can't eat school books.

But if you prefer, then read the above as saying "instead spend the millions on education and job creation programs instead of jewelry."

Okay? Are we done here now? :thumbs:

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Nahhh...this is fun! :p

Now when you say "job creation programs", what kind of jobs do you want? Obviously nobody wants to add to the plethora of McDonald's, yet there's so many roadblocks to building new factories.

There's millions WASTED on the current education scheme, why would I want to throw more money at it?

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Originally Posted by paraflyer

Nahhh...this is fun! :p

Now when you say "job creation programs", what kind of jobs do you want? Obviously nobody wants to add to the plethora of McDonald's, yet there's so many roadblocks to building new factories.

There's millions WASTED on the current education scheme, why would I want to throw more money at it?

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How about throwing it at programs that show documented results?

There are a LOT of different job creation and education experiments going on in both of our countries. I know they aren't ALL failures because I keep seeing sappy-happy stories in the media about how they work sometimes.

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Originally Posted by paraflyer

Nahhh...this is fun! :p

Now when you say "job creation programs", what kind of jobs do you want? Obviously nobody wants to add to the plethora of McDonald's, yet there's so many roadblocks to building new factories.

There's millions WASTED on the current education scheme, why would I want to throw more money at it?

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How about jobs in road work, forestry, education, police, or firemen? Jobs that actually do some good, pay decently and help everyone?

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Originally Posted by jitBob

How about jobs in road work, forestry, education, police, or firemen? Jobs that actually do some good, pay decently and help everyone?

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Ok, all but forestry....

Put the Greenies/Earth Firsters out there instead, get them out of their offices...