What if socialists designed airplanes...

[Axel]

A socialist airliner would be limited to carry only 19 pax; the capacity of the smallest types. It would be unfair to allow the 777's, etc. to carry more as they would then be unfairly selling more tickets than the 19 seaters, who can't help it that they're small.

Soon all the bigger aircraft would be out of business, which would be their own fault they are so big that they are unable to stay in business with 19 paying pax per leg. They were so big and greedy anyway, the masses are better off without them, both morally and financially.

But then, with all those big planes gone, there are so few seats left that the prices shoot through the roof (supply and demand). Now nobody can afford to fly and all the 19 seaters fall into the dustbin of history as well.

The good news, of course, is that horse drawn wagons only run on hay, so Global Warming is no longer a fear.

 

[Wanderlust]

The only thing that got us out of the great depression was WWII.

Oh, you mean the giant influx of government cash? You mean the liberal government acquisition of all kinds of pork, like tanks and planes and boats and stuff?

 

[Cobra]

Oh, you mean the giant influx of government cash? You mean the liberal government acquisition of all kinds of pork, like tanks and planes and boats and stuff?

It amazes me the amount of revisionism going on as of late.

On second thought, no not really.

 

[Wanderlust]

It amazes me the amount of revisionism going on as of late.

On second thought, no not really.

Uh, revisionism? The recovery from the great depression occurred under the watch of democrats, no matter how you look at it. Sounds like you're doing the revisioning. Ironic coming from a government employee.

 

[Cobra]

Uh, revisionism? The recovery from the great depression occurred under the watch of democrats, no matter how you look at it. Sounds like you're doing the revisioning. Ironic coming from a government employee.

Yes, I agree with you.

The revisionist epithet applies to the one's on this thread who have their head buried in the sand.

They know who they are.

 

[Wanderlust]

Sorry, I misunderstood you.

 

[En Mort Main]

When has fairness ever been incorporated into how the world should run. Am I the only one who grew up with parents who told me "life was unfair" when I would start complaining how some things were unfair.

This whole notion that some democrats and liberals have about fairness, (fairness in taxes, fairness in income...i.e. it is fair that those who make more pay more) is not fairness, yet it is greed and envy. Looking over the fence at your neighbors house and coveting it , and saying to yourself its not "fair" he has a bigger house, is not fairness. Thinking that just because someone is successful that the government should force them to surrender more money is not fair. This whole notion of being fair is nothing more than class warfare and the have nots desire to punish those that have. Envy is a powerful force alive in our country.
Maybe we should actually switch to a fair system and allow those who make the money keep the money. And as we all know the government must be funded so lets adopt a flat tax that would be fair....

On another tangent we all know Bush handed Obama a deficiet as he frequiently tells us, and then Obama spends another 800+ billion...and then the very next week talks about another 500+ billion for mortage and another 500+ for failing banks. Then has the audacity to call a summit on fiscal responsibility.....Is this guy for real a summit on fiscal responsibility when your way to handle a deficiet is to double it in two months... hell Obama's treasury guy didn't give a ******************** enough to stay awake during the summit. And how many of Obama's cabinet picks didn't feel taxes apply to them even though i'm sure their members of the evil rich.

I'm sure this post will be belittled and i will be insulted but i still very much believe that the term fairness is being used in place of greed and envy....

En Mort Main

 

[Wanderlust]

When has fairness ever been incorporated into how the world should run. Am I the only one who grew up with parents who told me "life was unfair" when I would start complaining how some things were unfair.

This whole notion that some democrats and liberals have about fairness, (fairness in taxes, fairness in income...i.e. it is fair that those who make more pay more) is not fairness, yet it is greed and envy. Looking over the fence at your neighbors house and coveting it , and saying to yourself its not "fair" he has a bigger house, is not fairness. Thinking that just because someone is successful that the government should force them to surrender more money is not fair. This whole notion of being fair is nothing more than class warfare and the have nots desire to punish those that have. Envy is a powerful force alive in our country.
Maybe we should actually switch to a fair system and allow those who make the money keep the money. And as we all know the government must be funded so lets adopt a flat tax that would be fair....

On another tangent we all know Bush handed Obama a deficiet as he frequiently tells us, and then Obama spends another 800+ billion...and then the very next week talks about another 500+ billion for mortage and another 500+ for failing banks. Then has the audacity to call a summit on fiscal responsibility.....Is this guy for real a summit on fiscal responsibility when your way to handle a deficiet is to double it in two months... hell Obama's treasury guy didn't give a ******************** enough to stay awake during the summit. And how many of Obama's cabinet picks didn't feel taxes apply to them even though i'm sure their members of the evil rich.

I'm sure this post will be belittled and i will be insulted but i still very much believe that the term fairness is being used in place of greed and envy....

En Mort Main

The tax structure favors the wealthy few who earn most of their worth from capital gains. Meanwhile, a middle class airline pilot making $150,000 a year pays nearly a third of his money to the government. So you think wage earners should pay a higher percentage of their annual income than executives who get massive stock options and rich brats whose daddies leave them a trust fund? Not only is that not "fair", it's bad economic policy. (See: "The Great Depression")

 

[En Mort Main]

your whole premise is incorrect a simple search on google will show that the rich do pay a higher percentage of taxes. But its yours to decide.....
Just a few links from a simple search on google "who pays taxes"
http://www.ntu.org/main/page.php?PageID=6

http://www.american.com/archive/200...zine-contents/guess-who-really-pays-the-taxes
(once again these a just a few results from a google search, backgrounds have not been sourced)
Would we like to continue about how the middle class pays more than the rich....This a tired arguement of the left that is basically repackaged class envy. Penalize those evil rich people it is not "fair" they are more successful than me.


En Mort Main

 

[Wanderlust]

Dig a little.

http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

The top 1% own a third of the wealth. Obviously they're going to pay a higher dollar amount of taxes, but as an income percentage, it's disproportionate. Also, the top 5% are not all "rich". Most of them are upper middle class individuals, like lawyers, doctors, and pilots, earning less than $1 million/year. It's the top .5% (those that hold a vast portion of the wealth) that enjoys the tax bias.