Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Unemployment Causes 45,000 Suicides Each Year" video.

There are other factors besides unemployment that leads to suicide.
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Kyle said in another video that conservatives are generally more happy. Now he is saying that under conservative party then we have more depression? A contradiction. I will also cry BS on that connection in general. There is a reason why I never heard of that book or the person who wrote it.
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***** I pay attention, it is a very broad, and bias assumption to feel that when conservatives are in power then the country is more depressed or there are higher suicide rates. In 2008 when it went up, according to this video, the democrats were in control of congress. From my experience when someone tries to make these types of correlation they are very bias, cherry picking data, and overall reaching for anything to draw up a conclusion that they want.
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Jacob Oxendale Policies that are bad for individuals are also bad for society. Take, for example, higher taxes on the rich. You may feel that it is bad for the rich but good for society, but the fact is that if you take from them they are going to take something of yours. That will typically be of less jobs, higher prices, less creation of wealth and so on. Supporting and protecting individual freedoms and rights is good for society.
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***** The rich already pay the vast majority of taxes.
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Jacob Oxendale A few things. One, our tax code is too complicated as is. We need a simplified tax code and lower taxes. Another, money flowing around the economy doesn't mean anything if goods and services are not produced. We can easily create a greater flow of money but if goods and services, and ultimately wealth, are not being produced, then that money is worthless. A reason why businesses make a profit is because they invested their money to generate wealth. If a business is just sitting on their money then they are not generating wealth and expanding their business and a competitor will squash them in the end. The idea that trickle down doesn't work is a shallow way of thinking. Isn't your car better than it was 30 years ago? Cell phones? A VCR cost around $2000 in the past, now Blu-Ray players cost around $80. Goods and services are getting better due to trickle down economics. Wealth trickles down. Money is nothing if there is no wealth.
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Ylze Tyr One, he called them tax "right offs" as opposed to "tax write offs" and did it twice, so I question if he knows what he is talking about. Another, he feels that businesses don't invest their profits when also questions if what he is saying is true because no business will be asinine enough to not invest profits to improve over the competition. Also, coming from a family who has an uncle with PhD in economics, two siblings with MBAs, and a few small business owners I do know a few things about business and economics.
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Ylze Tyr I doubt he is a business owner because what business owner feels that businesses just sit on profits and don't invest it? Also, being around people who study and work in a certain area does increase your knowledge in such area. In graduate school I am studying physical chemistry, but I also hang around a lot of plasma physicists and despite not studying plasma physics I do know quite a bit about it just from that alone.
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Jacob Oxendale Profit is what you make after your investments, you investments generate profits if you make a good investment. You can't invest if you don't make a profit.
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***** You can pull out a loan to make an investment, but if you don't make a profit then you can't pay off that loan thus you can't make an investment.
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Jacob Oxendale You, after all your business expenses, make $100 in profit. You then invest $80 of that to expand the business somehow. The next time around you, due to your investment as in a new piece of technology or advertising or giving your business a facelift or whatever, make $200 in profit. So that $80 turned into $100. You now have more profit and can invest more to expand your business. The idea that businesses just sit on their money is asinine. They invest it. There are cases where they save for a raining day but there isn't any thing wrong with that. When a business saves that money being saved, usually in a bank, is then used to give out loans such as home loans. The bank makes money and the business makes money from interest rates. In the end the money a business makes in profits just isn't idling, it is being invested in some way or another. If you raise taxes then businesses will find frivolous ways to count something as a business expense, for example, a dinner with a client. You don't have to motivate businesses to invest, they will do it already.
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***** The world is messed up in several ways, and there is actually little anyone can do about it (most of the time). Just living your life and not worrying about things and helping around the community you can is great. A problem of many of the political left is they feel they can do some "good" for society and solve these problems. Their methods are terrible though. They don't go out and actually physically do anything besides use government force to try to "fix" the problems and then just create more problems. I would be pretty mad as well is I was that ignorant in that approach.
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