Michael F Schundler
2 min readJun 25, 2020

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So you are suggesting that if the billionaires in this country simply moved to another country, the US would be better off... how?

If we disallowed their products to be sold in this country, so we had no Facebook, Google, Amazon, or Apple, we would be better off because worker's time would not be stolen.

Your logic is so flawed and dumb that it is really hard to comprehend. Most billionaires have one thing in common with lottery winners... in both cases millions of people attempt to win and a few become very rich, but those few are why so many "play the game".

But unlike lotteries, the millions of people who start businesses in order to attain a level of wealth benefit us all. It is precisely this "culture" of free market capitalism that floats all of the government entitlement programs. How is the owner who employs 50,000 workers exploiting workers and the owner with 5 workers not doing the same thing?

So in essence, you advocate socialism, why has no history of producing enough good and services to feed people as the solution? Have you been watching the goings on in Seattle with the new nation of CHOP. Is that your idea of nirvana where everyone relies on "foreign aid" from the capitalists on the other side of the barrier?

The myth that billionaires take corporate welfare is a myth... To the extent billionaires get tax breaks its hard to say they are getting corporate welfare... the vast majority of income taxes are paid by the wealthy... so any "tax breaks" they do get are largely "tax refunds". Welfare is when you receive more from the government than you pay in...

It reminds me of the other myth that US citizens bailed out the banks in the Great Recession. Arguably if you look at who pays the taxes, the wealthy bailed out the banks... and by the way, the banks paid it all back with interest.

Increasingly economic mythology is dominating what people think is true. Next time you neighbor knocks on your door and asks you for your car keys so he or she can use your car... will you give them to him or her? Why not, you didn't build the car... the money you used to pay for it was money you got from a consumer or taxpayer, it really wasn't yours... far to many people have embarked on a form of mental gymnastics that has very bad outcomes...

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