Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Guess Who Works The Most In America -- The Poor" video.
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Baby Punter Nobody paid those high taxes. Joseph Barr in 1967 complained that 155 Americans earning over $200,000, one earning over $23 million, paid no income taxes. Taxes were cut and the code was made simpler to increase tax revenue. It worked to a point. The 1969 tax reform, signed by Richard Nixon placed Nixon in the higher tax bracket where he only paid $789 in taxes. In all, anyone who references those higher taxes during that time as support for higher taxes is being shallow in that it doesn't tell the whole story.
Taxes are also only one factor in the economy. Now while this country has never faced a major recession before the federal income tax, and since then has faced two, one also has to realized that spending has increased since around that time as well. We are trying to spend our way into an improved economy which doesn't work. You also have to notice that during times when we had higher taxes or lower taxes, our revenue to percent of GDP was basically the same.
The issue here is that we need to push policies that promotes wealth creation, not job creation or money flow. Jobs and money mean nothing if we have no wealth being created. We can easily flow money and create jobs, Cuba does that very well. Is that the economic model we want to follow?
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Baby Punter It is debatable who has the best healthcare. The US has the best quality of care. Anyone who denies that is being partisan. The biggest problem in the US is cost. In other countries they do have longer wait times and lower quality, especially for elective specialized care. Socialized care is good for basic care as in a check up or if you are pregnant (except in the UK they lack hospital beds for pregnant women), but it is terrible for specialized care.
You also have to look at the state of France as a whole. France has high unemployment, low productivity and poor in innovation and research. France's overall economy is poor and isn't a model to follow.
Now you tried to compare us to Finland and Sweden. The US has states with a greater population than those countries. You really can't compare the US to those countries. Also, they are not as socialist as you may think.
The US is number 4 in productivity, it leads the way in research and innovation in technology and healthcare. We are an overall stronger country than those countries you are trying to brag about. We have actual progress which is what we need. We can see to it that everyone has healthcare, a home, food and so on, but it would come at the cost of progress. It will hinder progress. Which will you rather have, no progress and future generations having the same goods and services we have, or progress and future generations having it better than us? Look at those in poverty now compared to the 50s, someone who is lower class is better off than someone who was rich in the 50s. Our definition of comfort is higher than that in the 50s, or even the 80s and 90s.
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Baby Punter Yes I have heard of that period, that is 5 years and 5 months, around 5 years like I said and strong growth. The Great Depression was a double dip recession, so we didn't recover as fast as you are saying. What would you rather have, a depression lasting 5 years or one lasting over a decade?
Under Bush we were fine until the democrats too control in 2007. Even with that we saw a recession but than under a democrat congress and a socialist president (at least pushing for it) we didn't recover. As I said, recessions happen, Bush left when it started, it was under Obama that we saw slow recovery. Also, under Clinton we saw limited spending. I said before that taxes are a small part of the issue.
As I said with our healthcare, we have the best quality in the world. The only country comparable would be Germany. Germany does a lot of things well, I will admit that. There are some things they are inferior too such as their university system but they do some things well. France doesn't. Their economy is weak and not a good model to follow.
You did try to compare the US to Sweden and Finland. I am state rights individual and support doing domestic policies at the state level knowing it will be more effective. When we can reduce domestic polices down to the state level than we can run government programs better like Finland and Sweden do. There is more to it than the policies they have.
The reason why we are stronger than those countries is because we don't follow them.
France isn't an economic powerhouse, their economy is poor. The UK isn't any better. As I said before, Germany does a lot of things well. At the same time their system wouldn't work in the US. For example their university system, it wouldn't work in the US. Leaving university enrollment to only the elite would not work in the US. Where in the US we allow almost anyone in a university and it works well.
So what you support is people have equal access to goods and service that we have now? Ok, that is fine. Now in 20 years when the goods and services haven't improved would you call that a success? I wouldn't. While someone who is rich may have access to a yacht or a Porsche, I have access to a Cobalt which gives me over 30 miles to a gallon and will probably last to 200,000 miles. Someone who is rich has access to surround where I have a nicer sound system than what people had in the 80s. I am not rich by the way, I earn very little. You want equal access to goods and services and I want people to have access to better goods and services as time passes.
The better goods and services don't appear out of nowhere, they have to come from somewhere, and that is form investment from the top.
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Baby Punter Recession happen. One happen at the end of Bush's term, bad luck on his part. But they shouldn't take 7 years to recover from but that is what happen under Obama due to his poor leadership.
The US has the best quality of healthcare in the world, the only problem with the system is cost. But would you rather have high quality of care or cheap care that is inferior. I take the former.
Based on productivity France and the UK are not doing well compared to the US. They lack in progress compared to the US. Not a sound economic model to follow.
Germany has high admission standards, they are very selective in who goes to college where in the US we have a system where those who lack skills and knowledge can go to a JuCo or a CC to take remedial courses to get into a larger university. We offer opportunity. And working with foreigners at the university they picked the US over Germany because one, we speak English and their second language was English like most countries, and two, universities pay their graduate students enough to actually afford bills and rent to where they don't have to get a job, Germany doesn't do that. The US offers flexibility, jobs on campus and opportunity for all. And cost is an issue, but almost anyone qualifies for loans and if you work hard and earn the right degree you will easily pay them off. The US has the best university system in the world.
The reason why someone, or a company has money is because they offer a good or service society demands. They have something society is willing to buy. Due to competition they will invest in developing a better good or service, failure to do so will lead to that company going under. That is why we see progress. If a company is just going to lose that money they worked hard to earn than what is the point of working hard? The rich don't just sit on their money.
Giving the rich money isn't trickle down. Giving money away doesn't solve anything, it devalues the dollar. What Hoover did, increasing spending, doesn't help. FDR did the same thing. We saw a double dip recession because the first recovery was artificial, that is why it crashed again when he stop spending (kind of). FDR increased spending and we saw the longest recovery ever from a recession, it correlated with massive federal government spending. FDR was an overrated president and the New Deal did a lot of harm. There is a reason why we had slow recovery. We can't spend our way out of the recession. The Obama administration tried the same thing giving $85 billion a month to the stock market. It clearly didn't help.
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Baby Punter The problem with the US system is cost. Problem is that taking subjective opinions isn't the best. I would like healthcare as well if I had to pay little because I don't have anything seriously wrong like most people. The issue is that we need to focus on specialized and critical care which the US excels in. I like the idea knowing that if something critical happens I can get immediate and high quality of care as opposed to a place like the UK where you have to wait months to get a MRI, or in Canada where you can't get surgery if you want it.
By your stats you proved my point that the US is high on productivity. So what is your point? It is relevant to healthcare. One argument for universal healthcare is that it leads to higher productivity, is surely doesn't though when one looks at it.
We have cheap options for schools. My undergrad was $10,000 a year where others are $10,000 a semester. And my $10,000 was including summer. Currently I pay little in tuition due to my TA ship. Several businesses pay to send their employees to get their masters. We have as system where people can get their college paid for and even get money to earn a living, it requires work though. I know about the stats of med. school students and high loans. Now how much do they get paid after they are done?
http://pharmacy.umn.edu/pharmd/admissions/
There in pharmacy they have on average $107,000 of loans, but a median starting salary of $120,000. As I said before, get a degree that actually means something than your loan wouldn't matter. And $29,000 in loans isn't much and should easily be paid off if you earn a college degree.
So the Waltons sit on their money? Those Walmarts that they keep opening just appeared out of nowhere? Right. I referenced Nixon to show that during those times of high taxes nobody paid them. People just don't get rich, they get that way by investing and developing capital. It isn't like the money came out of nowhere. In this point you need to learn what money is. Just because the middle class has more money doesn't mean they are better off. Money only gets its value based on the goods and services available. If we give money away to people without developing goods and services than all you have done is lower the value of the dollar. The min. wage argument is asinine in that there isn't one good reason to even have it. All arguments supporting it are easily debunk. Your argument of more money in the hands of the lower classed is debunked because they will be earning more money without the production of more goods and services, thus prices go up or jobs are lost.
Under FDR it was the first time the government tried to spend it's way out of a recession. The recovery was artificial because it wasn't the market recovery, it was the federal government holding it up. As soon as the let go the economy fell apart. We have never seen that in the past and there is a reason why, federal government spending doesn't help. FDR enacted more spending and the recession lasted a long time. We have never faced anything like that before in the past and haven't since until 2007. This time we didn't face a recovery though despite the increase of spending. But in the end the New Deal and spending by FDR didn't help, it made things worse.
I am not advocating giving money to the rich. We shouldn't be giving money away. We should allow for a system that creates wealth and capital, not a system that just moves money around. You are screaming about jobs and money when that doesn't matter, wealth is what matter. People actually work less and produce more these days due to technology. Our jobs are easier. We can easily create jobs and flow money around. We can raise taxes and build that Keystone pipeline but instead use spoons to dig. It will never get built but we will always have jobs and money flow. The economy is more complex than what you think. To you it is all about money (which you clearly don't even know what money is) and jobs. We need to focus on creating wealth.
And we do have the best university system in the world. As I said, we pay our grad. students to come here, enough to where they can pay rent. Germany doesn't do that.
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Baby Punter Commonwealth is not a credible source. Like most sources on the issue they are vague and leave out a lot of details. The overall issue with healthcare in the US is that universal healthcare won't work in the US. Our society is completely different than that of other countries. The system we have works great for us. Universal healthcare has it's problems, anyone who denies it is being partisan. That is the other issue, why should we push for a system that has problems as well? Why not push for something better? Why can't we be different? You have no problem confirming to other countries. If that is the case then move to one. As I said before, the US is number one in innovation and we should keep it that way. Anyone who is myopic like yourself shouldn't be involved and should stop holding us back. The US does a lot well in healthcare. We are number in in responsive care. We have the best quality especially in specialized care. We don't have people waiting months to get a MRI and eventually die from curable problems. We should stop comparing us to another system that has problems as well and push to have the best system possible.
I guess I wouldn't expect anything less form someone who is lazy and just wants a handout. Those who want universal healthcare just want a handout and don't want to work for something better. That is not how we get better as a society.
You cited the huffington post, that is all I need to know how partisan you are. The Huffington Post is as liberal as it gets and is as unreliable as it gets.
The simple fact is that the US leads the way in productivity. The lowest I have seen it was 4th. Why do you want to push for more socialism that will ruin our productivity? Oh, that is right, you are lazy and unproductive myself (I apologize for acting like this, but at this point I see you are citing bias sources. I am working on my PhD and I get frustrated seeing individuals just settling instead of pushing for something better, hard work doesn't take talent or ability).
No, the rich are not just sitting on their money. Your thought process on that is asinine. If they were Just sitting on that money it would lose value. At worse they have it in banks who use that money to give out loans or invest in other ways to grow the economy. The rich don't just have the money stashed away under their beds. They are finding ways to make more which grows the economy.
The time you referred me to was when you said the government was giving money to the rich. That is just giving money away which I don't agree with. Also during the Gilded Age we saw strong economic growth, and the two recession were brief compared to the one in 1929 and 2007 when massive spending, regulations, and taxes were put in place. Funny how that is never mentioned from the left, how the slowest recoveries occurred during times of higher spending and taxes and regulations.
Wealth, the amount of assets one has. I, as a lower class person has more wealth than some rich guy from the 50s. I have more wealth than most from the 80s. We have access to smart phones, high speed internet, flat screen TVs, better cars, etc. The poor have more assets now than ever. That is from wealth creation that trickles down.
What I am talking about with Keystone is jobs. You are claiming that we need to create jobs, jobs are easy to create, wealth is harder. Jobs are a small faction of the economy, wealth is what is important.
The fact that use "common sense" in your recent argument shows you have little knowledge in what you are talking about. When you can't define your stance you use a term like "common sense" which is a type of genetic fallacy that makes it seem like that everyone should know something and there is no debate. I have shown you the tax issue already how higher taxes don't mean anything because flow of money isn't important, it is the creation of wealth. Zimbabwe has a lot of money flowing through their system, they also have 80% poverty.
Germany students don't have more money, especially graduate students. $29,000 in loans isn't that high, that is like a car loan. The loan situation in this country is overdramatized. If people would pursue a degree that is worth something then it wouldn't matter. Also in the US we have athletes that attend college for free that wouldn't otherwise if it were for athletic scholarships. We have scholarships for those who are low income. The US has a lot of opportunity, more so than other countries. We have a situation where one can go to college and not have to work much during their college years. In Germany, even as a grad. student they have to work full time to pay bills. Not a strong system.
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