Dumb Letters to the Plain Dealer Part 464: Teh Free Marketz R Broked!

[HughBeaumont]

http://blog.cleveland.com/letters/2010/12/the_envy_of_the_left_interfere.html

Today's astounding display of ignorance comes from . . . Roy Baggs. I mean, that name sounds like a character from a turn of the century morality play . . . anyway, The Free Markets are broken, taxes are teh DEVUL and the left is not only misguided, they're also jealous. :eyes:

In reference to the letter to editor by Ken Kowalski, "Trickledown is a fallacy" (Dec. 16):

I am forever fascinated by the way taxes have been sold to the rubes since the onset of the first permanent income tax in October 1913.

Reduced to its simplest form, it appeals to basic human greed by informing me that although the tax man may be socking me pretty hard -- he's going to hit the other guy even harder. Satisfies me every time. The contempt exhibited by Congress for all taxpayers is odious.

And, yes, Ken, trickledown economics is, in fact, a "myth." It is the left's murky explanation of how they view what remains of our battered free-market system and capitalism itself.

I'm not a rich person. Don't even know any. But it occurs to me that our government has no inherent right to the assets of "the rich" simply because they have wealth and others do not.

Roy Baggs, Olmsted Falls

Boy are you stupid, Charlie Brown.

If you're fishing for "myths", try that "battered free market". This market is only "Free" in terms of what the rich and their corporations receive at the behest of what we're forced to continually give up for their continued pleasure and dominance.

Nothing about this market was ever "Free" while a 430-1 gap exists between CEO and the average worker's salary. Nothing about this market is ever free while workers continually get fired through no fault of their own and not re-hired, while money being sat on by businesses isn't getting circulated in the economy in any meaningful and progressive fashion.

It has nothing to do with "jellusee", Roy. It's called common sense. Damn it, the ideas that the rich shouldn't pay more taxes and that taxes fund "entitlements" is just childish crybaby horseshit. They use the most resources, they own the most wealth (what is it, the top 10% of earners possess 71% of the wealth?), they should pay more for living in the society they do and for the wealth that their resources allowed them.

[liberal N proud]

1. We are surrounded by them

:hi: