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Originally Posted by WSSix
What's this trickle down economy talk you're spewing? Everyone knows that is nonsense. You're just trying to protect the rich so they can continue to screw over the rest of us 
How or why people don't understand that if you allow people to keep their money, instead of seizing it through taxation, they will spend it on their own is beyond me. I guess they think trickle down economy means trickle down prosperity or that it's some how guaranteed they will be better off without actually having to get out there and make it happen for themselves. Not only that but to simply be in this hobby, which involves purely discretionary money and spending, and still claim that trickle down economics doesn't work or doesn't exist is mind blowing.
To add to Greg's comments earlier about the taxes targeted directly at yachts. I grew up in Savannah, GA. Technically, outside of it on the islands but the address was Savannah. I remember years of driving into Savannah proper and passing through Thunderbolt, GA and seeing the yachts and sailboats being built during the 80s. I didn't find out until the 90s when I was a teenager that the reason the sailboats and yachts suddenly disappeared and the company went bankrupt was because the government decided to tax people who dared to want to buy one. You may think a fancy boat is unnecessary and maybe even vulgar given that there are people who can't even afford a simple car, but you have no right to punish someone who wants to buy one with their legally earned money. It's also laughable if you claim to care about the little guy when you support legislation that results in that little guy losing his job simply because he worked at a business you deemed unnecessary.
My post isn't directed at anyone specific. Please don't take it that way. I'm just simply venting about interference in the economy by government morons who claim to know what's best for me and you. Or, who try to honestly claim the most basic and obvious truths don't exist or work. |
Do you not see that you are talking out of both sides of your mouth here? In one paragraph you accuse me of protecting the rich so they can "continue to screw us" but in another paragraph you are defending the rights of guys building yahts saying the government has no right to punish someone who wants to buy one with their legally earned money. Which is exactly what is happening with this administration targeting high earners in this country. I, and many others here, are the guys building the yahts who's businesses are being strained because our primary clientele is afraid to spend their legally earned money not knowing what else is coming down the pipeline. Is it going to last forever... no. Are people going to start buying
yahts again... yes. But in the mean time it is the small businesses that take the hit... again. The longer it keeps up the more likely we are to end up in the bread line.