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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
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Originally posted by carpedm9587 View PostThe answer to that appears to be in the first article you posted. The Fedeeral tax cut disproportionately benefits large businesses and the wealthy, and they are looking to more evenly balance the scales by harvesting some of that gain to use for programs for the poor/disenfranchised. Whether the initiative passes remains to be seen.
You are welcome to your perspective, Sparko. I make an effort to dig out both sides of issues when and where the information is available. When someone presents one side of an argument, as is being done by many here, I simply don't swallow it whole. If that makes me "blind," in your eyes, so be it. You might note, however, that your characterization of my point misses what I actually said by a good deal. I did not say "no one is leaving." I said there is a myth about wholesale flight due to taxes that is well documented, the effect is actually fairly slight and the evidence doe snot even show that the flight is unambiguously tied to taxes. I also noted that the other side, what business are coming in and what new ones are starting, is completely missing from the discussion.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostI noticed another trend. Whenever someone presents anything contrary, you seem to dismiss it as "opinion" or saying "that an example is not evidence" or some such.
Originally posted by Sparko View PostYet you expect us to accept everything you say as fact.
Originally posted by Sparko View PostYou clearly said that companies leaving California was mostly myth.
Originally posted by Sparko View PostYou just dismissed the idea out of hand as just some sort of rumor without basis. When rogue came back and gave you evidence of thousands of companies leaving because of taxes you just dismissed that also.
Originally posted by Sparko View PostNothing puts a dent in your narrative. When pointed out that you were wrong you now try to minimize and qualify what you said as "a myth about wholesale flight due to taxes that is well documented" and claim while true, it is "very slight"
As for my "narrative," Sparko, I have changed my position on several things since visiting this site, on the strength of the argument being made. When the argument convinces, I shift my views. When it does not, I explain why it does not.Last edited by carpedm9587; 01-22-2018, 11:48 AM.The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas
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Originally posted by carpedm9587 View PostSo we have correlation. I'd like to see causation...
In practice, causation is going to be pretty hard to determine for this type of thing. I mean, you could take anecdotes like Kansas that cut taxes and had things go terribly as a result. But you probably can't get good quality data on enough of that sort of thing to provide strong proof of causation.
However, the existence of a correlation seems suggestive. At minimum it would seem to suggest that 'high'-taxes (we are, of course still talking in the <50% of GDP range, so they are actually in the lower half of any scale that goes from zero-government libertarianism to 100% state-run communism) don't destroy countries / states. So it would seem reasonable evidence that the talking-point of a few of the conservatives in this thread and elsewhere ("High taxes DeStrOy thE EcOnoMy!!!") are bunk, and that economies can and do survive just fine (and, in fact, appear to do better) with higher rates of taxation."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
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