The Obama vs Romney battles continues

[nicoenarg]

Are the red states not mostly living off the blue states?

How will JWB's proposed country fund itself?

I'm not trying to be sarcastic or anything but are you by any chance thinking of the case of England and Scotland?

 

[ElQueso]

How will JWB's proposed country fund itself?

You know, in a perfect world, a government/country would fund itself like a business. I don't know exactly how it would work, but it's certainly been suggested many times.

If a government was run like a business, it would be forced to create income streams. But if it wasn't the only business in town, in whatever industry it went into, it wouldn't be fascism and it wouldn't be a monopoly. If the government had to play by the same rules everyone else had to comply with, it would be a win-win for everyone.

A government could do just that, in general outlines, with a small income stream as fixed taxes allows the government to reinvest that money in businesses, and earnings from those businesses (which by the way, really create jobs) and small taxes recovered from that growth would come to the government.

It would limit the size of the country and/or what the government could afford to do.

With a steady income in free market enterprises like everyone else, it could use those profits to first build a common defense. If it could afford it, a common infrastructure, although there's nothing that says the smaller political units couldn't coordinate that between themselves as well, if it was in their interests. Remember, if everything is run as free enterprise, it would be in the interests of many parties to build roads connecting centers of commerce and production.

If it wanted to go into the healthcare business because it thought it could do better - go for it! But it would still have to compete with other healthcare companies.

Look at any monopoly in the history of the US (probably anywhere else as well) and you'll find that most were created with the help of the government and the rest didn't last very long - they were usually started by entrepreneurs that were ahead of the game, but others always catch up and take the wind out of the sails and there is no more monopoly.

Let government constrain itself by funding itself and playing by the same rules as everyone else.

 

[scotttswan]

Actually, it's quite the opposite. The only states in the US that are truly self sufficient are Red states like Texas and Utah.

NOT that I am in any way suggesting they leave the Union.

Also should note that I did not right the letter, just found it very amusing and mostly true

really?

The 10 biggest net recipients of taxpayers’ largess were, in order, New Mexico, Mississippi, Alaska, Louisiana, West Virginia, North Dakota, Alabama, South Dakota, Kentucky and Virginia. The 10 states that paid in the most and got back the least were New Jersey, Nevada, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Illinois, Delaware, California, New York and Colorado.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/welfare-queen-states/2011/05/17/AFzTK45G_story.html

 

[scotttswan]

I'm not trying to be sarcastic or anything but are you by any chance thinking of the case of England and Scotland?

Scotland would do fine without England but that's another conversation.

 

[NomadInBA]

I find the US elections even more amusing than the Argentine ones and not necessarily in a good way. The thought of either of these candidates getting elected (or re-elected) is worrying…..

 

[sesamosinsal]

I'm voting for Marty Huggins.