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Originally Posted by sortie
What you said is equal to surfers saying your porn site is over paid because
your whores don't have any skills.
Then there would be a flood of happy new whores if you paid less because
now they can work too since you can stretch your budget now.  |
this is the stupidest statement you have ever made
your trying to use a market driven price as a justification to artifically inflated government defined price.
the porn models are paid what they are paid because of market conditions.
how much money can be made with the content
the stigma of acting in such a scene
the loss of future income /personal relationships etc
minimum wage is an increase without the effect of market conditions.
a way to increase the price of work when the market price given all factors (see above) doesn't justify a premium.
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Regan framed this same backward ideology when he coined the phrase "Trickle Down effect".
Regan said that if big business got tax breaks then they would have more money to
invest and the wealth would "trickle down".
Never happened. What happened was a recession in the following Bush#1 term where
America saw the extension of unemployment benefits like never before.
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go back and look at the history again
"trickle down effect" was the derogatory term used by the democrats to describe supply side economics. The principle had nothing to do with wealth trickling down it was about targeting investment into supply side (production, innovation etc) rather then consumption because reagan inherited hyper inflation and record unemployement at the same time.
What he did actually successfully stabalized the economy
bush screwed it up by not sticking to the principle.
he implemented a luxury tax on things like yachts which raised the price of those goods.
he was supposed to get 2 dollars of tax cuts for every dollar of revenue generated
the problem was because the price was raised on those luxury items
people didn't buy them
and the end result was the people building those boats lost their jobs.
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There in lies the secret to young people as to why Bill Clinton is seen as a good
president. The recession ended under Bill Clinton and return again for Bush#2.
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bush reversed the luxury tax near the end of his term
so bill clinton inherited an economy which did not have the artifical barrier to economic growth.
bill clinton major success was failing to get all the big pork programs he wanted to get thru.
health care reform dead etc.
slicky willy was a great manipulator but not a good idea man
bush was a good idea man by not a great manipulator so he had to compromise to get things done, and he got killed by the consequences of those compromises
reagan was the last great president he was an influencer and a good idea man he understood the consequences of the decisions he made, and he had the charisma to convince people to do things his way.