“We need to create a system where equal right of all citizens to health, educati
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“The more a person needs to be right, the less certain he is...”
“The same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.”
Title couldn’t say it all.
Title couldn’t say it all.
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Capitalism, on the otherhand is like belief in the Easter Bunny.
SJG
Equal access is very different than a right.
And then, trashing union and safety protections, and environmental protections, and giving tax breaks to business is counter productive.
The problem with a welfare state is that then welfare recipients become the national scapegoats.
So the answer is to go the next step, Universal Basic Income.
The Constitution does not call for right to health, education, work, food, etc. But it is based on the idea that this will always be a basically fair society.
What stands in the way of this? The Work Ethic.
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The concept of winners versus losers is meaningless.
One of the ultimate assholes is skibum609.
SJG
SJG
This lasted up to about the Civil War. Then after you had the first moves to restrict the power of big business in the Granger Movement and in T.R. and his Trust Busting.
After WWI though he had Harding lowering the maximum tax on personal income from 90% to 20%. So we had a huge bubble followed by a huge bust.
So the middle-class got relaunched via FDR, and Keynesian levels of progressive taxation. Max rate being usually 70% or 90%. Highest periods of economic growth and economic progress in the nation's history. This today is still what gives us an advantage compared to Latin America and other 3rd world nations.
It is Advanced Industrial, Information, and Agricultural Technologies which give us a vast productive surplus today.
And some have argued that the First Amendment should be interpreting the practice of prostution, as well as the privacy provisions in the 9th Amendment.
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