When history has shown that foreign wars have a disturbing tendency to somehow come to the US? The price we pay to ensure world peace is far less than ensuring that we go full Strangereal and have wars every five years. If world trade becomes non-viable, then we as a species will lose because the only way to get it enforced again at this point is world conquest and putting everyone under one banner through force.
If you haven't noticed the current system fueled our likely enemies but they aren't able to maintain themselves yet.
Everyone who needs resources or a grudge. Period.
That is a lie that you keep perpetuating, Trump (and the GOP's) policies have only made things worse. The reason for the lower income brackets getting screwed? The rich and corporations don't pay their fair share. Regulations are absolutely fucking needed no matter what, given what happens if there aren't any (i.e. lots of deaths in the name of profit)...
And none of them are a threat as I have already shown you, besides as you said they will be busy killing each other, all we have to do is watch, and make things worse for them, remember even if some faction somehow tries to unify the world, it would take years to rebuild while we are completely unharmed and can move first.
Uh-huh. Regulations only save lives. Like those Certificate of Need regulations that stop hospitals from getting built? How about the regulations that hairdressers have a 1000 hours of training before being allowed to cut hair? There are countless regulations that are needless and only serve to benefit large corporations. Getting rid of almost all of them will have a positive impact, but meanwhile all regulations are sold to the public as generic good things.
I'd argue that regulations can saves lives, but as with most things that involve people at any stage, they are often misused or misapplied. We only really need a fraction of the rules and regulations that are currently on the books, while the rest serve only to benefit large corporations or specific political interest groups, not the people at large. Compound that with the fact that as time passes and the situation on the ground changes, even regulations that did once serve the public good can later be found to be obsolete; though heaven help you if you try to either update or retire them, because the government certainly won't.
I'd argue that regulations can saves lives, but as with most things that involve people at any stage, they are often misused or misapplied. We only really need a fraction of the rules and regulations that are currently on the books, while the rest serve only to benefit large corporations or specific political interest groups, not the people at large. Compound that with the fact that as time passes and the situation on the ground changes, even regulations that did once serve the public good can later be found to be obsolete; though heaven help you if you try to either update or retire them, because the government certainly won't.
Thing is, what needs to be fixed before we can even tackle anything, is the corruption that has infested our government. Otherwise, we'll just be wasting our time spinning our wheels, while accomplishing nothing of substance.
The only issue I have with what the wealthy are paying in taxes, is all the exclusive loopholes they can access in order to avoid paying them, due to the large amounts of money involved. Things like accepting wages in the form of stocks instead of hard currency, companies "reinvesting" in themselves via "business expenses", creating shell companies, or moving their money into offshore tax havens.
In other words, if they actually paid 29% in taxes, as cited by Dr. Antony Davies, I'd have no problems with that amount; but many of them don't.
Corruption is endemic to governments. I don't think this is fixable, and human history would back me up. If there is a way to make money (or get power) by cheating the system, people will do it. It turns out that to get a government to not be corrupt, you need to attack the incentive structure, not the offenders.
The thing is, the more regulation you have, and the larger the government, the easier it is to avoid taxes through these loopholes. If the tax law was a flat "10% of the gross no matter what" it would be nigh-impossible to wriggle through and avoid paying 10% of the gross. But when the regulations take up six feet of shelf space there's so much complexity and so much wriggle room to find loopholes it's inevitable that companies will find a way through... but only the largest and most powerful companies that can afford a tax lawyer on hand 24/7 to take advantage, the middle class are hosed.I'd argue that regulations can saves lives, but as with most things that involve people at any stage, they are often misused or misapplied. We only really need a fraction of the rules and regulations that are currently on the books, while the rest serve only to benefit large corporations or specific political interest groups, not the people at large. Compound that with the fact that as time passes and the situation on the ground changes, even regulations that did once serve the public good can later be found to be obsolete; though heaven help you if you try to either update or retire them, because the government certainly won't.
Thing is, what needs to be fixed before we can even tackle anything, is the corruption that has infested our government. Otherwise, we'll just be wasting our time spinning our wheels, while accomplishing nothing of substance.
The only issue I have with what the wealthy are paying in taxes, is all the exclusive loopholes they can access in order to avoid paying them, due to the large amounts of money involved. Things like accepting wages in the form of stocks instead of hard currency, companies "reinvesting" in themselves via "business expenses", creating shell companies, or moving their money into offshore tax havens.
In other words, if they actually paid 29% in taxes, as cited by Dr. Antony Davies, I'd have no problems with that amount; but many of them don't.
That's good to hear, but there's still some loopholes that need closing.
You're not wrong. But in order to attack the incentive structure, you need to get corruption out of the government; it's basically a Catch-22.
As I said; the majority of regulatory laws on the books are not meant to protect the average citizen, but rather to advantage larger corporations and political interest groups; and if I were in some magical world where I got to make all the decisions, "Keep It Simple, Stupid" would be the principle under which I would reform the whole system.
If thats the case, then why not just say ok, I'm evil and just leave. At least that evil has it that you are not wasting lives and money.
Leftists until they started become warmongers have always been on the US is evil for interfering and not interfering. Don't have to be SJW for that.
It's actually that, but rather people in favor of "regulations that actually benefit the regular citizen" are much like those that are in favor of "common sense gun control." Said regulations have proven to hurt the regular citizen and boost megacorps again and again because the more regulations you add, the more loopholes form from interactions of the laws, and the more corrupt lawmakers will produce protections for their donors.
Well yeah, people are generally against dying/being seriously ill because they ate something that wasn't safe.