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That's becuz the isn't a single entrepreneur, businesses man, inventor that hasn't built off of what was already there. The automobile is simply an extension of the horse drawn carriage industry. Without the foundation of the carriage industry, developed over many centuries by millions of other craftsmen and artisans.
Electricity??? People have been toying with electricity for thousands of years. There is evidence that crude batteries and lights going back to the earliest historic civilizations. The latest electronic inventions being made today are built on the foundations thousands of years ago.
Did "government" aid those developments? Heck yes, almost at every step. Without a royal benefactor and sponsor inventors like Devinci would never have developed their sciences. Schools to expand know knowledge have always been funded by the government. Without a government sponsored education inventors would be inventing the same things each generation. Education allows us to build on the last generations invention.
You drive on roads YOU didn't build...
I agree with you. The small business owner paid into the system to develop this infrastructure he later used to make his business successful. Fortunately, the government is merely the middle man between the small businessowner's forced tax payment and the private company who built the road, and as such the gov gets virtually no credit.
Originally Posted by eRayP
Nope, I can't take credit, only the paying taxes part that helped paid the seals and supporting staff. At least I can say that. People who don't pay taxes took no part in helping. See, I don't mind paying taxes for something like this.
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Originally Posted by Driller1
Whoa.....
I do not pay income tax......I put my money back into my business.
This keeps the economy moving.
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I do not know what you want to know.....
Explain your post so it makes sense. Or are you just spouting?
I agree with you. The small business owner paid into the system to develop this infrastructure he later used to make his business successful. Fortunately, the government is merely the middle man between the small businessowner's forced tax payment and the private company who built the road, and as such the gov gets virtually no credit.
Nope. The government provides security, rule, and stability. Much than just a middle man and it has been this way ever since.
Originally Posted by summers73
Obama says unless you pay taxes or voted for people to make others pay, you don't qualify. Nevermind if you provided goods and services that trickled down to the troops. Nope, unless you directly mailed a check to the IRS (or voted for people to make others do it), you don't count.
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That is OK.....Obama does not count with me.
I would never let him use my money.
Ok, so you are not counted because you do not pay taxes. Yet you use everything, infrastructure, roads, etc.. that people who do pay taxes pay for. Your next sentence you say that you would Never let him use your money? You need to rephrase that "you would never let him use "other peoples money" that you legally took from people.
Even though you don't pay taxes you want Obama to raise taxes on people who DO pay taxes.
A question for our self-reliant, rugged individualist businessmen here:
Would you consider opening your business in Haiti or rural Chad or Bangladesh? The customer base is there. Heck you can sell those people just about anything because they have so little.
And if you do get welfare, remember, the people who cut your check and mail your welfare check to you also pay taxes. The mailman who puts the check in your mailbox also pays taxes. The person who exchanges your welfare check for cash also pays taxes. The people who you buy groceries from also pay taxes. They pay taxes so you, the welfare slug can get money you didn't earn. No wonder you are voting for Obama.
I agree with you. The small business owner paid into the system to develop this infrastructure he later used to make his business successful. Fortunately, the government is merely the middle man between the small businessowner's forced tax payment and the private company who built the road, and as such the gov gets virtually no credit.
What is the role of government? Could a single businessman have built the Hoover Dam? Could the Panama Canal have been built without the government pulling the forces needed together? Where would we be without Ike's interstate system? That would the shoreline of the oceans, lakes and rivers look like if the government didn't coordinate the protective barriers, harbors, levees, dams, and navigational channels they provide? Could individual property owners each protect their shoreline in a coordinated effort?
Nope. The government provides security, rule, and stability. Much than just a middle man and it has been this way ever since.
Since the money to establish such activity is obtained from the small businessowner, they are still just the middle man.
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