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Date Posted: 00:46:17 12/26/12 Wed
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Post 315 A: teltalheart's Christmas Message
This is the time of year for gathering with loved one; family and friends to share our good fortune for being so lucky to be connected to each other. It's a time for remembering those less fortunate that ourselves and, hopefully, if we're able, trying to help in some way. It's something we should be doing all year long. But, sadly, something many of us fail to do. I read a sad statistic not long ago, that those with less money most often give a great percentage of what they have, than the wealthy do. How heartbreaking is that! You have so much, yet you can't give? What kind of people are you anyway?
I watch a recent interview between T.V.s John Stewart and Warren Buffett. In the interview Buffett made the comment and gave a scenario of the Billionaires at a table having a feast and whatever crumbs fall off the table the rest of us can have. And he, Buffett, is one of the 'GOOD' Billionaires!
He actually believes the wealthy should pay more in taxes. He pays taxes at a rate, I believe, of about 14%, while his secretary pays taxes at a rate of about 20%. The argument is "but if the rich pay more in taxes they will leave the U.S. or move their business to other countries." I say, let them. A day of reckoning is coming. A tariff needs to be put on foreign goods entering the U.S.. High foreign tariffs existed between 1800 and 1930. It gave the U.S.A. such a great surplus of wealth that this thing called 'PENSIONS' was created. You may have heard of them. That's where someone can quite working when they become elderly and not have to live in poverty. They used to be all the rage here in the good ol' U.S. of A., that is before the politicians and big business industrialists got hold of them. And before the Republican Party and Fox News made out like anyone receiving a pension was stealing from those good, kind, benevolent cutthroat Corporations.
What would high tariffs on foreign goods do? It would make those foreign goods cost more, making American made products more competitive. If they do not want to sell in our market then they can sell else where. They can take their ball and go home. We'll buy the less expensive American made products made by American workers; thereby putting more Americans to work.
Perhaps the companies that moved overseas will think twice about staying there? Perhaps the foreign companies will think about building factories here in order to sell here at less cost and avoid the import tariff. This will put more Americans to work.
If this is combined with lowering taxes on American companies THAT HAVE KEPT ALL PRODUCTION IN THE U.S.A. it will be a double whammy for foreign corporations. So you see there is something that can be done about our most pressing problem. Let us hope in the new year the politicians pull their collective heads out of their nether regions long enough to see a brighter future for us all.
By the way; if you think these Billionaires see you as a dog waiting for scraps, they don't. The small millionaire business men they see as dogs awaiting scraps. You and I who make less than $250,000 a year they see as cockroaches. That's right, they see you and I as vermin scurrying around. From one vermin to another, God Bless You. I hope you have had a good Christmas and this vermin wishes you a Happy New Year!
End Post 315 A: www.voy.com/40560/ teltalheart=Michael D. Barnes
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