(01-18-2020, 09:27 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(01-18-2020, 09:22 AM)mikesez Wrote:  They're socialists too, I guess.

I've been telling you that for years.

(01-18-2020, 04:37 PM)jj82284 Wrote:

(01-17-2020, 09:57 PM)mikesez Wrote: 1) Medicaid and SNAP are funded with income taxes. Income is not wealth.

2) GM and Chrysler were about to go bankrupt. More likely than not, a bankruptcy judge would have determined that the employee benefits trust should get paid first. The result would have been the same, it just would have taken a lot longer and factories would have been idle, with no parts getting delivered, in the meantime.

3) minimum wage is a question of income. A change to a minimum wage law tweaks the income distribution, not the wealth distribution.

4) which regulations are you talking about, that you think favor one industry over another? If I own the power company, I get to decide what energy source it should use. If the government makes regulations on coal so burdensome, I will use something else. I would still have 5 or 10 other choices. But if the government actually takes over the power company, they will choose what energy source is used.  Obama did not take control of private enterprises. He took some choices away from them, and maybe that wasn't always a good idea, but private industry still had many more choices left.

This passes for reason in some circles.  

This is how national socialism survived.  It convinced people like this that it was something else.