Amazing the creatures who can declare other people "American haters".Originally Posted by FMD
1. Of course, Native Americans pay federal income and capital gains taxes. They are exempt from some other taxes, and those living on Reservations are generally exempt from paying state taxes while on that land. It's a myth to suggest that they don't pay taxes, and anyone propagating it is clearly too much of a cretin to Google it.
2. There's a gun-clinging rant in there, apropos of nothing. Good work, dummy. Always crowbar that in.
3. Private enterprise built the communications system? Not the internet, which was originally a government program. Not satellite link-ups of telephone calls, which is thanks to government intervention. Every wireless frequency is publicly owned, and managed through the FCC. You need a federal license for permission to run a radio or TV station. Our cellphone system was built thanks to government management, intervention, and stewardship over the publicly held airwaves. From this article:
4. Of course, Linda D has it right. If you don't want to help pay for a first world nation, infrastructure, and economy, then you should move to a second or third world nation like, say, Mexico or Somalia. There are myriad lawless hellholes just waiting for the well-armed and poorly educated to come and build little fiefdoms with cheap labor and poor services.Alexander Hamilton’s federally chartered Bank of the United States; the Whig “internal improvements” of the early Republic; the transcontinental railroad; the land-grant colleges; the Interstate Highway System; the Internet and other government-backed transportation, communications and education endeavors aren’t just examples of “government spending” long supported by both parties. They have proved essential to the creation of thousands of small enterprises.
All major energy sources have received government help in one form or another, as have aviation, biotech, real estate and scores of other industries. Even companies that don’t get direct assistance from the federal government receive plenty of downstream benefits through the tax code.
We all should know that business can’t thrive without an educated workforce and the fair application of the rule of law. Even regulation -- the bogeyman of conservative business interests -- is a necessary condition of a stable business culture. The countries with the least regulation have the most corruption, and vice versa.
Used to be conservatives were sane and rational, and could posit a suggestion or policy point that was rational and somewhat flexible. Goldwater laid the foundation of the modern-day conservative movement, and it's only gotten worse since the 80s. Now, they tell you to STFU or urge you to go and die.
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