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This is awesome example how liberal capitalism works in practice. 1 percenters complain on their blog how streets should be cleaned from poor, sick and ugly.
by kapupetri2 12y ago
This is awesome example how liberal capitalism works in practice.
1 percenters complain on their blog how streets should be cleaned from poor, sick and ugly.
How about changing your system so, that govermnent takes of care poor and sick, instead they have to rely on donations?
- edent 12y agoBut the less tax I pay, the more jobs I create!
- Kurtz79 12y agoIf the perfect economic system was invented, all the free nations would be using it. Given the choice, between the two, I would also prefer "social capitalism", probably due to my background and upbringing, but by no means I can say it's a perfect system.
- ivanca 12y agoRepublicans are usually against giving "things for free", so connecting this issue only with liberal capitalism is a bit misleading, because it's a wider opinion than that. But anyway, I do agree with your sentiment.
- josephlord 12y agoI think he meant liberal capitalism in the liberal/free/laissez faire sense not in the sense of the US slur for someone not quite as right wing as the tea party sense.
- TheCoelacanth 12y agoRepublicans since Reagan are huge proponents of neoliberal economics while Democrats tend more towards Keynesianism. Liberal economic policies are definitely to blame, but the party that is usually identified as "liberal" in America isn't the economically liberal party.
- dragonwriter 12y agoBoth Keynesian and neoliberal economics are developments of liberal economics.
- sp332 12y agoHow is getting money from the government not a donation?