Thursday, January 24, 2008
No, I don't want my $600
In days when I served as a left wing agitator on right wing message boards, I was repeatedly asked for the $300 I got from the Bush tax cuts. Yes, there are many people that clever.
This new bi-partisan free $600 is a stupid idea. It's just that much more debt we're collectively racking up. When government spends money on credit - tax cuts or rebates, earmarks or wars - it does indeed artificially give the economy a short-term boost. But that boost is no different than the boost a small business owner gets when he pours more money into a failing business by putting expenses on a credit card.
The economy is unpredictable beyond the fact it runs in cycles. I just wanted to go on the record now so I have something to point to should any of my left wing comrades offer to take my $600 if I don't want it.
Labels: free-markets, left wingers, liberalism, right wingers, taxes
// posted by Erik @ 1/24/2008 09:46:00 PM
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Friday, September 28, 2007
AOL-Time-Warner can block content as easily as the Myanmar government
This is why we can't trust telecommunications companies to remain neutral towards the data they transfer.
Labels: free-markets, technology
// posted by Erik @ 9/28/2007 02:47:00 PM
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Sunday, August 26, 2007
More Imaginary Liberals
Beth continues to pontificate from the suburbs,
Further illogical ideas: the liberals who denounce free market capitalism. They say how dare the Wal Mart heirs get money for doing nothing but sitting on their butts. Nevermind the fact that they get said money from you and I paying for items at Wal Mart which we consume. But the lefties have no problem giving welfare money to people sitting on their butts doing nothing, where you and I give our money in taxes and get NOTHING in return for that money we gave. Meanwhile the lefties ignore the fact that the Walton family has a foundation, and that Wal Mart has programs that also give back to the community.
I frequently cite the WalMart heirs as an example when someone tries to claim we live in a meritocracy or that excessive wealth is OK because those with it perform excessively valuable work. So, that's probably me she's thinking of, an actual person.
She goes of the track of reality rather quickly though. I don't typically shop at WalMart. Around the year 2000 I bough a spatula at a WalMart because my car broke down near one and I needed coin to make a call. The plastic part separated from the wooden handle the first time I used it. Last summer, I moved to within 1/4 mile of a WalMart: Since that time, I've bought 2 aquarium air-stones there. I recall on that visit I picked up a bag of cookies or chips.
Yet Beth is angry because I allegedly contribute to the enrichment of people I use as examples of the excesses of our free market.
She also fits in a welfare queen complaint even though those receiving welfare have been required to work for over a decade now. It's easy to be a pissed off right-winger when you allow yourself to create the reality you're pissed off about.
Labels: conservatism, free-markets, imaginary liberal, walmart
// posted by Erik @ 8/26/2007 09:42:00 AM
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