Elmo's Timeless Liberal Wisdom
"When Conservative Philosophies Fail" by Elmo
And lets face it, conservative philosophies always fail in the end. Not just one or two of the worst of them, all of them. Every. single. time. they are tried. It's one of those inevitable facts that plagues our history. But why? Why do conservatives, time and again, fight furiously to perpetrate old cockamamie conservative schemes on our society? History is very clear, yet their belief in these debunked philosophies only grows stronger in the face of overwhelming facts to the contrary!(Remember that Seinfeld episode were George says "it's not a lie...if you believe it!")
Yes, Elmo, good point. In fact, the 20th century is littered with the massive failures of the free market....
Oh, wait... maybe I was thinking of socialism....
The answer, quite clearly, is that they are socially retarded. And proud of it, to boot.
Your meds need to be doubled.
Lets start with the founding of this great nation. With the Seven Years' War over, leaving the British strapped for cash, the conservatives of the day, who called themselves Tories, figured that corporate welfare would be the fix to their financial woes.
I can't wait for this one....
That's right, supply side economics. One of their companies, The East India Company, who managed the tea trade on behalf of the British government, was going bankrupted. So they stopped the export tax on East India Company and started charging a modest import tax on American tea merchants. Then flooded the American market with cheap British tea. The conventional wisdom was, this will work because Americans love cheap shit! How'd that work out for ya, Tories?
Good one, dick. Did you mention the little part about the British government protecting the colonies from French and Indian attack? The reason taxes were implemented on the colonies after the war was to pay back the debt the British ran up defending them. The colonists had no problem with the principal of taxation by the crown. What they did have a problem with was TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. Sorta like what your liberal cockfags want to do when they tax businesses who in turn pass the higher costs on to the consumer.
Oh... and I now turn my attention to the most idiotic notion in your argument (and there are many). It goes something like this: "The British Government taxed American tea mearchants and then flooded the American market with cheap tea from the East India Company as a form of corporate welfare".
Lol.
Ask yourself this: where did these so called "American tea merchants" get their tea from?
Give up?
The East India Company you fucking moron. It was the only source of tea in America due to something called 'mercantilism' (look it up, dumbsky)- a non-freemarket system more akin to the type favored by liberals. America did not and does not today produce its own tea.
Thus, the British never 'flooded the market with cheap tea' to put Americans out of business since there was no domestic tea supply to begin with; what they imposed was a systemic and global import tax on tea brought to America by the East India Company. By taxing the tea and allowing the colonies no alternative supply, the result was an increase in tax revenue which was passed off as a cost of living increase. The closest modern parallel would be if the government placed a windfall tax on Exxon. The oil company would surely pass on the tax to the public in the form of higher gas prices.
IN short, you have totally misunderstood history and economics but what should I expect?
Next lets take a look at The Roaring 20's. The Great War was over, and America did not want much to do with the rest of the world. Mass production and mass consumption was the way of the day. Production processes were taken out of the hands of skilled craftsmen
Whats the matter, you getting tired of your own nonsense? Ill end with this- mass production is what we have today because IT IS SUPERIOR TO HAND CRAFTMANSHIP. IT IS CHEAPER AND FASTER AND OFFERS BETTER QUALITY CONTROL. Production was not 'taken' from skilled craftsmen; Rather they were put out of business by superior techniques.
And lets face it, conservative philosophies always fail in the end. Not just one or two of the worst of them, all of them. Every. single. time. they are tried. It's one of those inevitable facts that plagues our history. But why? Why do conservatives, time and again, fight furiously to perpetrate old cockamamie conservative schemes on our society? History is very clear, yet their belief in these debunked philosophies only grows stronger in the face of overwhelming facts to the contrary!(Remember that Seinfeld episode were George says "it's not a lie...if you believe it!")
Yes, Elmo, good point. In fact, the 20th century is littered with the massive failures of the free market....
Oh, wait... maybe I was thinking of socialism....
The answer, quite clearly, is that they are socially retarded. And proud of it, to boot.
Your meds need to be doubled.
Lets start with the founding of this great nation. With the Seven Years' War over, leaving the British strapped for cash, the conservatives of the day, who called themselves Tories, figured that corporate welfare would be the fix to their financial woes.
I can't wait for this one....
That's right, supply side economics. One of their companies, The East India Company, who managed the tea trade on behalf of the British government, was going bankrupted. So they stopped the export tax on East India Company and started charging a modest import tax on American tea merchants. Then flooded the American market with cheap British tea. The conventional wisdom was, this will work because Americans love cheap shit! How'd that work out for ya, Tories?
Good one, dick. Did you mention the little part about the British government protecting the colonies from French and Indian attack? The reason taxes were implemented on the colonies after the war was to pay back the debt the British ran up defending them. The colonists had no problem with the principal of taxation by the crown. What they did have a problem with was TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. Sorta like what your liberal cockfags want to do when they tax businesses who in turn pass the higher costs on to the consumer.
Oh... and I now turn my attention to the most idiotic notion in your argument (and there are many). It goes something like this: "The British Government taxed American tea mearchants and then flooded the American market with cheap tea from the East India Company as a form of corporate welfare".
Lol.
Ask yourself this: where did these so called "American tea merchants" get their tea from?
Give up?
The East India Company you fucking moron. It was the only source of tea in America due to something called 'mercantilism' (look it up, dumbsky)- a non-freemarket system more akin to the type favored by liberals. America did not and does not today produce its own tea.
Thus, the British never 'flooded the market with cheap tea' to put Americans out of business since there was no domestic tea supply to begin with; what they imposed was a systemic and global import tax on tea brought to America by the East India Company. By taxing the tea and allowing the colonies no alternative supply, the result was an increase in tax revenue which was passed off as a cost of living increase. The closest modern parallel would be if the government placed a windfall tax on Exxon. The oil company would surely pass on the tax to the public in the form of higher gas prices.
IN short, you have totally misunderstood history and economics but what should I expect?
Next lets take a look at The Roaring 20's. The Great War was over, and America did not want much to do with the rest of the world. Mass production and mass consumption was the way of the day. Production processes were taken out of the hands of skilled craftsmen
Whats the matter, you getting tired of your own nonsense? Ill end with this- mass production is what we have today because IT IS SUPERIOR TO HAND CRAFTMANSHIP. IT IS CHEAPER AND FASTER AND OFFERS BETTER QUALITY CONTROL. Production was not 'taken' from skilled craftsmen; Rather they were put out of business by superior techniques.
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