WSJ columnist calls for return of Robber Barons

[LuckyTheDog]

http://finance.yahoo.com/taxes/article/108963/bring-back-the-robber-barons

From the article:

I say, bring 'em back, and the sooner the better. What we need, a lot more than a $1,000 tax credit, are industries no one has thought of before. We need vision, vitality and commercial moxie. This government is draining it away.

This is more evidence to support my theory that the central thesis of today's conservatism -- if you break it all down -- is that the 20th century should be repealed. Unleashing business to rig markets, pollute with impunity, smash the heads of union organizers, hire child labor and pay workers with company script is not the answer.

[Mari333]

1. bring back the guillotines

trickle down economics never worked, wont work now, hasnt ever worked. the rich stay wealthy and it creates a new slave labour pool for them, thats all.
only an idiot would write bring back the robber barons. shit, man, the motherfuckers are already here.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

2. Shit, I thougt they were already back!

It sure has felt it, the last eight frickin' years.

[Warpy]

3. Christ, how can they be so wrong after the experience of the past 30 years?

Obviously, starving government is part of what killed industry in this country, removing the infrastructure it depends on. The other part is the antitax fervor that extended itself to common sense tariffs, allowing companies to exploit third world labor and sell their crap at first world prices, the top executives pocketing the difference in legalized embezzlement.

Obviously, what the mean old gummint needs to do is get mean and strip all that wealth off the top and recirculate it in the form of infrastructure improvement and seed money for startup industries using the newest technologies. That's the only way we're going to get it back, people, efficient use of energy compensating for cheap wages.

Honestly, if fattening the robber barons was the road to prosperity for us all, food pantries would be out of business and unemployment checks would all be warehoused, mouldering from disuse.

That dog don't hunt, the horse done escaped, the teams have left the field, turn out the lights. That song and dance should get this guy the hook and he needs to get off the stage before the cabbages fly. The only people he has left to listen to him are Generation Suck, retirees who really believed in Reagan and still do, insulated from reality by Social Security and Medicare.