I’m more of a far right guy. I’m against any social help, for numerous reasons:
– money doesn’t come out of thin air, if government gives someone money, then they take from someone else. Government never had and doesn’t have it’s own money.
– Social benefits can’t be redistributed without government workers. More benefits = more workers who generate no real value, just eat through the values generated by others. In Poland we have 440k government workers which translates into an estimated 4-5% of all capable of work people. Seriously?
– There is no real control over who needs this money and who doesn’t, the government doesn’t put anything in the game, so they don’t care too much and can’t adapt as swiftly as private businesses.
– The main source of governments income are taxes and monetary penalties for not abiding the law. Small and medium companies plus working class are burdened by it the most which heavily slows down economic growth. In Poland, when you count all the taxes paid (consumer taxes icncluded) it turns out that working is taxed with 60-70% rate. People get minimum wages and they are expensive as employees. Those taxes and bureaucracy connected to small and medium business opening and maintaining impedes with peoples ability to start something up. When people can’t start up their own business they have to end up as workers, which leads to abundance of workers for big companies which in turn allows them to exploit workers without remorse. Habe those people had a choice, I’m sure a big percentage of them would rather start up something of their own and steal some workers from companies like Walmart.
– Socialism only serves the big and wealthy, and the pathological part of society (for votes). They have money to bribe the politicians to create laws protecting their interests under the guise of safety for people. An example being car industry. In europe the new cars introduced to the marked need to have their safety evaluated and certified (homologation). Tell me, which new business has the wealth to destroy 10 cars before they put one out to the market?
– Pension is yet another example. It was first created by Bismarck to get funds for war and it was a golden business until they needed to start paying out money they got. Nearly every pension system works on the basis of current working people paying for current pension recipients. There are no investments for the future there. The minute less people are born than die, the economy is in trouble.
– I find it the highest form of social justice, when people who loafed around in school, boasted about their bad grades now earn s~~~. Why should I, who put in extra effort to get my education pay for those who tried to bully me in school, because getting good grades wasn’t cool? Because they are poor? They worked for being poor!!!
– You are paid what you’re worth. There is no minimum wage for engineers and programists, guess why. If what you do is worth nearly nothing then you get paid nearly nothing. Instead of crying about it, get better.
– Following previous point, minimum wage cuts out those whose wprk is not worth the minimum wage out of work force. Example, mentally handicapped people sorting trash to plastics, paper, glass etc. Minimum wage cuts those people OUT of the workforce. How is that good?
Let me quote my favourite politician (J. Korwin-Mikke) “socialism kills”.
Deadly Raver 3 years, 8 months ago.
