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Michael, frankly, your being an atheist refutes my theory that atheists have higher intelligence than believers. perhaps you just grew up in a non-religious Jewish household so it didn't take much brain power to rid yourself of dogmatic belief?
the main point i want to make to you is that taxes are important. super important. how we spend tax dollars, and who pays how much, can and should be debated. what cannot be debated is that our tax dollars allow the US to be the economic superpower it is. our debt is the safest investment in the world, almost exclusively because we have the ability to pay for that debt because of our ability to tax. you like a stable dollar, low interest rates, and strong financial market? thank taxes. without them, businesses would be unable to transport goods to the market. no one would want our debt so we'd have to raise rates to lure investors. our debt may be some $18 trillion yet the world still wants it b/c they know that we can raise taxes if we need to pay our debts.
i agree with other posters who said that examining the evidence most often leads one to liberal policy prescriptions. this may not always be the case (some tough love is sometimes the best course) but i for one can't think of too many libertarian or conservative ideas that have true merit. this country has done a lot of self-sorting over the past few decades. i feel as though this has continued to the point where most of the more intelligent people have sorted into liberalism while the less bright have become conservatives. and while you may be the rare atheist conservative/libertarian, much of this sorting has to do with religion. they're your tribe, like it or not.
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Permalink Reply by matthew greenberg 9 minutes ago
Michael, frankly, your being an atheist refutes my theory that atheists have higher intelligence than believers. perhaps you just grew up in a non-religious Jewish household so it didn't take much brain power to rid yourself of dogmatic belief?
the main point i want to make to you is that taxes are important. super important. how we spend tax dollars, and who pays how much, can and should be debated. what cannot be debated is that our tax dollars allow the US to be the economic superpower it is. our debt is the safest investment in the world, almost exclusively because we have the ability to pay for that debt because of our ability to tax. you like a stable dollar, low interest rates, and strong financial market? thank taxes. without them, businesses would be unable to transport goods to the market. no one would want our debt so we'd have to raise rates to lure investors. our debt may be some $18 trillion yet the world still wants it b/c they know that we can raise taxes if we need to pay our debts.
i agree with other posters who said that examining the evidence most often leads one to liberal policy prescriptions. this may not always be the case (some tough love is sometimes the best course) but i for one can't think of too many libertarian or conservative ideas that have true merit. this country has done a lot of self-sorting over the past few decades. i feel as though this has continued to the point where most of the more intelligent people have sorted into liberalism while the less bright have become conservatives. and while you may be the rare atheist conservative/libertarian, much of this sorting has to do with religion. they're your tribe, like it or not.
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