Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Liberating Americans from America" video.

There's nothing wrong with prosperity. Where America went wrong is where the rest of the world went wrong: Falling for the lie that government is the source of our well-being.
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@loubob21 Wealth disparity is something that demagogues point to when they want to control the poor people. What you need to look at is how the average person is doing, not how the 1% are doing. And most of the struggles of the middle class on down are due to government interventions that have the opposite of the intended effect. They don't solve poverty, they preserve it, and the money they spend preserving poverty is a drag on the middle class and an obstacle to people entering the middle class from the poverty class.
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@markrobby7136 In France, they have rules against fake food. You can find a loaf of bread that's not full of chemicals and inflammatories.
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@loubob21 The extreme wealth disparity is mostly due to government intervention in the first place. What do you mean "would never allow?" It's not the government's job to "allow" or "never allow" income disparity.
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@loubob21 Correlation between the disparity of the one percent to everyone else and what? Correlation with what? I think every time the government steps in to "help," that the rich are enriched artificially. They can adjust to the new rule set and monetize it. And they do. You probably think high capital gains taxes are a good thing, too, don't you?
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@loubob21 The thing to focus on is not how well the 1% are doing, but how well the rest of the people are doing. If the billionaire doubles his wealth while the poor are doubling their wealth, the wealth gap rises, but the average person is twice as well off as they were, and that's a good thing. The whole "screw the rich" attitude is how the rich extend their lead even faster than they would without, say, high taxes or more regulations. You sound like you want to punish the successful, but such punishments NEVER end up helping the underprivileged. They just solidify the same super-rich people at the top, by creating obstacles to upward mobility. The key is upward mobility and its source is not handouts or higher taxes.
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@loubob21 I agree with you on one thing: Our government has been DRIVING income inequality. The Pareto principle states that there's always a small number of people doing most of the work and earning the most profit, regardless. I just understand the nature of government intervention, and it doesn't matter what the original excuse was or the original problem was that it's supposedly saving. It always helps big much more than small. It always helps the cronies of the government officials much more than the average person. It's income redistribution by other means, and the people who think the government SHOULD re-distribute wealth are always suckers, because it NEVER works the way their simple minds think it will work. Who do you think writes the fine print in the bills that get passed? The biggest donors. That's who. We have to get beyond the notion that the human condition is a problem for government to solve. It's an insolvable problem, with lots of trade-offs, and the closest thing to a solution is found by leaving people the hell alone and letting them help each other, voluntarily.
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@loubob21 The influence works both ways. What usually ends up happening is the corporations are overjoyed to have an inside track on policy, and then become obedient yes-men to everything the government suggests, and the industries in which the government meddles/helps the most grow moribund and eventually die, except for the remnant that the government itself depends upon. The Nazi government threw a lot of money and resources at the rail industry and agriculture, crippling both of them.
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