LIBS, CONS, LIBERTARIANS, are the following true and real facts?

You can add paying for the luxury of being productive as another death knell.

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.

False:

when tax rates for the top 1% were @ 70%...it forced money to be reinvested..to avoid the taxes...rather than being put into the market....

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

False:

explain St vincent DePaul, the salvation army...or any other charitable organization...if you are referencing our version of stop gap welfare, again...you can pay some now..or more later in medical costs, prison costs..even the loss of life to crime...or worse: abortion

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

False:

freedom

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

False:

when this nation held the planets primary manufacturing centers, we owned the technology, and had a middle class...the money to provide the education needed to put our nation on the moon came from our government,,,and public schools...

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them; and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

false:

if this is true then WHY is our nation holding an 8% unemplyment rate instead of a 49% unemployment rate?

you are a fool....indeed...a fool

1) True, but you can use legislation to counterbalance the inherent tendency of capitalism to conglomerate wealth, enabling the society to balance the tremendous wealth creation power of capitalism with a more tempered version that lets people of different classes benefit from that wealth.

2) Sometimes true, but often not quite. It assumes a zero sum game, that wealth cannot be created. On the contrary, much of capitalism and economics deals with how wealth is created. While spending on infrastructure is a far superior method of wealth creation, spending on welfare also benefits society (from a strict economic point of view, sociological considerations aside for the moment). The person who receives food stamps then pays for food, which benefits the shop owner and his employees and their landlords and the people from whom they buy food, etc., etc., etc. who all collectively pay taxes so that person can get welfare. Now granted this simple version of welfare is ineffective for other reasons, but it is an over-simplistic example to demonstrate the principal that your statement isn't always true in a capitalist system where wealth can be created, not just shuffled around.

3) No. The government can get money from a variety of sources. It can get them from taxes, which takes it from others. It can also get money from borrowing, which can or cannot take money from others, depending on what happens in the future. It can also generate it's own wealth, which is what public pension funds do, for example. They get some money from the pensioners, but they get most of it through institutional investment.

4) False. The maximum efficiencies in the market come from fair competition among equal players. Monopolies and monopsonies lead to dead weight loss. If you don't know what all the terms in the preceding sentence mean, you aren't qualified to make this argument.

5) That isn't true either for many reasons.

A "real liberal" is not always an environmentalist. And quite the Moral Majority varieties have as a lot of a declare to name themselves "real conservatives" than the libertarians do.

Phuck you. And no, we are not talking about giving each poor person a mercedes, we just want to give those that for whatever reason can't/won't work a little something so they don't have to die on the street like an animal with no dignity.

4. No, that's completely and utterly incorrect.

It's call the multiplier effect.

DID--you eat a whole bag of Fortune Cookies???

Oh, that's so cute, little truisms.

Superficially, they sound true, but they aren't supported by the data. Sorry, "common sense" =/= facts.

Everything is true except #5..................The cons want you to believe that half of Americans are just plain lazy in order to hide the greed and racism inside of them.

No unless you believe in anarchy.

All your "trick" questions have a FALSE response from me.Papa, don't preach.