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No, you think because that begs the question. You said prices would drop if corporations could take more tax deductions - can you please stick to the subject and address that?
No, I said that tax deductions and/or lower corporate taxes prevent corporations from having to charge higher prices for producing, distributing, and selling goods and services.
This is the second time you posted that, and you have yet to provide any proof for that.
I just did.
Shouldn't be necessary, though, as that is basic knowledge. That which costs more to produce, distribute, and sell, costs the end user/consumer higher prices.
Shouldn't be necessary, though, as that is basic knowledge. That which costs more to produce, distribute, and sell, costs the end user/consumer higher prices.
As a consumer of corporations' goods and services, you, too, benefit from the lower prices made possible via corporate tax deductions. If you have a pension or retirement account, you benefit yet again via corporate profits.
I have no idea why liberals seem to be incapable of comprehending those very simple facts.
You stubbornly cling to your inability to read what I wrote, preferring to assign your own misinterpretation of my clear prose.
You never took Economics 101. In a competitive market marginal revenue approaches marginal costs. Excessive profits will bring in more competitors who will drive down prices.
Those are hand-outs --- bribes, in effect, that are unnecessary, doing nothing to enhance a community. In fact, those hand-outs destroy communities.
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Working folks are required to pay into it even if they never use it
Everyone uses public education. You can argue that is circuitous, since laws compel everyone to attend education, but the fact remains that education is required to socialize people to interact with others in the Real World, and provide opportunities for individual advancement.
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The people who work face-to-face with the direct recipients of these programs don't get paid very well
They are in fact over-paid.
The Laws of Supply & Demand determine wages/salaries. Allowing unions to dictate wages/salaries only results in Capital being wasted.
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The funds are controlled and distributed by the government
You are the government.
You control the school boards. You control the State legislatures, and you control the federal representatives that make the laws that effect public education.
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It's difficult to get people to get the employees of these programs fired (even if they aren't doing their job correctly or violating policies)
You made that possible. You elect the school board that kow-tows to the unions.
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The people who work face-to-face with the direct recipients of these programs are required to follow the regulations set by the government
Again, you are the government.
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Complaining about Common Core is like a food stamps recipient complaining about the regulations on what they can buy with their food stamps.
That is a non-sequitur.
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The government doesn't give a d*mn about you!
You are the government
You elected your local school board.
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Therefore, what makes you think they care about making sure children are educated properly.
Were you elected to a school board?
Did you run for local election to a school board?
Do you attend school board meetings?
I doubt it.
If you want financial responsibility taught, then you need to show up a school board meetings.
Education is a public good. Everyone in society benefits from having an educated populace. Having an uneducated underclass is good for tyrants and not really anyone else.
You're joking right?
All of the members of Congress are highly educated. How did that benefit society?
2 pointless wars in the last decade that cost thousands of lives.
19 trillion in national debt.
record numbers of Americans out of work.
It's not the education. It's the individual.
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