Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Quote of the day
"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there -- good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory. Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea -- God Bless! Keep a Big Hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along." - Elizabeth Warren
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Without business, there will be no tax base, no workers paying income tax, no consumers paying sales tax. Government and the nation needs business as much as business needs the government.
I was waiting for that.
Since when will there be "no business"? No one's remotely suggesting that, least of all me. A small tax so we can afford infrastructure has always been possible for businesses to exist, let alone excel. Naturally government needs business as much as business needs the government.
Tell you what, without a middle class, there will be no good, working, functioning nation.
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