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Hilarious video, but very misleading. Technically none of those kids had to work for that candy,
Not true at all. They had to walk around and get the candy from various houses. That's work by any definition. It may not have been hard work, but it was work that got rewarded. The lazy kids would not go to as many houses and therefore not get as much candy.
Lets do this experiment with Vegetables or a kid getting nothing but pretzels and apples in his hallloween bag and see what happens. I bet every single one of them gives up his share.
When its something crappy like a veggie they will give up there share but when its a commodity like candy they will be greedy.
Lets do this experiment with Vegetables or a kid getting nothing but pretzels and apples in his hallloween bag and see what happens. I bet every single one of them gives up his share.
When its something crappy like a veggie they will give up there share but when its a commodity like candy they will be greedy.
Is halloween candy really earned? What if research finds that kids in upper middle class neighborhoods get twice as much (and twice as good) candy per house as kids in working class neighborhoods? Did the UMC kids really earn twice as much candy as the working class kids? Did exclusionary zoning redistribute candy from the working class kids to the UMC kids?
So many possibilities to explore...
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LOL. If you ask these same eight yr olds about education they're going to say throw away the books and just let them play video games in the classrooms. They want to skip schools, eat junk food all the time, and watch cartoons all day. Yeah, let them teach us about our tax policy. Make sense. So basically the point is that the Republican platform is a child's play. Not surprising to anyone not drinking the kool aid.
However, if you tell the kids in advance that the organizer needs to collect 2,000 candies to be send to the needy and disabled. So for every 5 candies the kids collect, they have to drop one in the needy bucket. I think they'll say that's fine. And after they've collected the candies, you tell them there's this group of kids who collect the most candies but they don't want to dispose of their candies to the needy, instead they want kids who collected less candies to give up more candies to make up for the number. Now, if you ask them if this is fair, they will unequvically say no. Guarantee.
Easily the two best responses here. Everyone else is muttering something about communism and completely failing to display any critical thought.
Not true at all. They had to walk around and get the candy from various houses. That's work by any definition. It may not have been hard work, but it was work that got rewarded. The lazy kids would not go to as many houses and therefore not get as much candy.
It's a perfect video lesson.
Seriously?
I said if I were a kid, I'd believe that trick or treating is work but as an adult, it's honestly not. The kids literally have done nothing, the ones who financed the event did. If anything this a lesson about welfare, those who worked to buy them their costumes, the candy, etc had to give those kids the candy. In fact, that's exactly what is, a welfare lesson video. They should've gave a few adults a few buckets full of candy and give the children say five pieces of candy, and lets see how that works out. The kids would literally be begging for redistribution of the candy, not saying "well, they earned that candy so they deserve to keep it all". What these kids got were, by conservative definitions, a handout. They did not work for that candy. At least the poor have to actually work for theirs.
Edit: technically the kids really are asking for handouts, they walk up to adults and they give them candy.
Next Halloween I think I'll do a Republican Tax Policy video. I'll have a trunk full of Candy, and give it out based on how much you have in your bag. The more candy you have, the more candy I give you. The best part is I will have financed my trunk full of candy by stealing from the kids who were too sick to come out or too poor to afford a costume and were thus too embarrassed to come out. When those sick/poor kids ask "what about us" I'll simply tell them "don't worry, the kids with all the candy will have so much that they will get so sick of it, and then let the leftovers trickle down to you! Sure, they'll have eaten all the snickers, reeses cups and other good stuff, but there will still be plenty of double bubble gum and smarties!"
I'm honestly speechless, I haven't encountered someone that is so oblivious.
Welcome to CD politics.
There are plenty of valid economic arguments against the GOP on elections/romney tax fraud thread.
Here you may just get people who use you tube to understand Macroeconomics 101.
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