Trickle down economics

  • Thread starter Thread starter JamesATyler
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
Arkansan said:
The obvious solution to trickle down is to place the bulk of the tax burden on very wealthy corporations. Use tariffs to ensure they don’t respond by exporting jobs overseas.
Click to expand...
They do that in Japan, things are very expensive there. Not good for consumers.
 
Lemuel said:
I read the Constitution. I study it. I come up with my own thoughts. It was written for the people, not the supreme court. I don’t need opinions of the court to form how I think.
Click to expand...
That is not how government or the Constitution works. We cannot have 100 million sets of laws based on everyone’s personal opinion of the Constitution any more than we can have a billion denominations based on each one’s personal opinion of Scripture and/or Tradition.
 
Last edited:
@pnewton

It’s a very Protestant way of thinking to think like that. I can certainly understand how someone who grew up with a sola Scriptura mindset could end up having a sola Constitutiona mindset as well.
 
pnewton said:
That is not how government or the Constitution works.
Click to expand...
Maybe that’s not how it works for you, and that’s perfectly fine. But that is how it works for me. I would rather spend the time studying it and gaining my own understanding of it than listening to what others think.
 
@Lemuel

There’s no need to make it an either/or proposition.

You can both study the Constitution on your own, and pay attention to how an organ such as the Supreme Court applies it to the Nation today, and learn from other scholars of the Constitution.

The Catholic Church is a very both/and type institution, whereas American Protestants tend to take a very either/or approach to many situations.
 
Last edited:
When it comes to tax policy it is about how much and for what reason is it fair for the government to take a citizen’s money. The first right of the money belongs to the citizen. Even if they made 10 trillion dollars by inventing a gadget that everyone in the world wanted, all of that money belongs to them first. It is theirs. Then they pay taxes. The whole idea of taxing them more is based around the idea that since they have so much, they owe other people something more than, for instance, a middle class person. That isn’t true. The people got their gadgets. That is all that was owed. The government just reasons they can take more because the average person doesn’t care about that. The average person wants his gadget and a rebate, via taxation, because they figure the gadget maker is just too successful. It has nothing to do with being fair. That is they way it looks to me.

When it comes to fairness, why does the average person get mad about a CEO taking a large bonus? The company did well and made a fortune. The people working got the wages they agreed to. The company still has large amounts of profit so they give large bonuses to who they want to. It is their money. Why should the average joe be angry about how a successful company spends the money they earned? He got his products at the agreed price. Everyone was paid. No one has a fair right to tell the company they must give the money to this or that person. But people want to do that and they want to use the government to do it.
 
Using the Government as a tool to tamper individual greed and ensure other human beings are not swept under the rug and forgotten is a noble cause.

There’s good reason why the Church and the Holy Father continually rail against the dangers of unbridled capitalism. It reduces the value of individual humans to dollar signs, when in reality each and every person on the face of the earth is worth more than all the money in the world.
 
I don’t think it is noble at all. If you want the money to go to the poor then give it to them. That is noble. You don’t have to spend your money on their goods and services.
 
You can’t just expect rich people to do the right thing and help the less fortunate.

Which is why it’s good to have the Government of the People to tax them and ensure the general welfare of the entire populace.
 
buffalo said:
A rising tide lifts all boats and why America’s poorest are still among the richest in the world.
Click to expand...
I’m sure those Americans living on the streets, those going hungry, and those without access to medical care will somehow feel better now that they know this!
 
Last edited:
Jesus said to care for the poor. And he also said that if someone chooses not to, it’s our duty to force them or steal it from them to care for the poor.

I admit to missing that lesson in church.
 
Jesus said to render to Caesar that which is Caesars, Jesus also paid the Temple Tax for himself and Peter.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top