[MD] Is ideological thinking hard wired?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Khaled Alkotob <khaledsa at juno.com>:

> Hello Platt
> 
> 
> .Platt
> > Ignoring the fact that the U.S. has seen no decrease in the national 
> > poverty rate
> > after spending 11 trillion dollars since the beginning of the War on 
> > Poverty is
> > something only a liberal could do. So don't talk to me about being 
> > "rigid" and
> > "closed-minded." 
> >
> Khaled
> We have been here before. No properly thinking progressive denies that
> welfare needs to be reformed. The system should only be there as a
> temporary safety net, and not a way of life.

So how come we don't see "properly thinking progressives" reforming the welfare
system? Or our failing public schools? Or our failing infrastructure? 

> And while we are on the subject of welfare, I would like to see a free
> market dictate which businesses survive and which don't.
> Corporate tax subsidies have got to go too.

I agree. Not only corporate tax subsidies by corporate taxes have got to go, too.
They are simply passed on in the prices charged for goods sold.

Platt



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