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From: jaczak@ihuxi.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Whither Are We Drifting
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Date: Fri, 29-Jun-84 10:05:33 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 29 10:05:33 1984
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The government is responsible in a large part for the lack of productivity
in this country.  The government of this country is too large, and paying
for this excess through taxes is draining the productivity of the people
in many ways.  By drawing off so much money in taxes, the government is not
leaving enough to be used as capital for new investments (such as in the
steel industry).  The graduated tax system takes away some of the incentive
to make more money (why bust your butt if its all going to Uncle Sam?).
Many of the people in the lower income brackets rely on the government for
financial help, and this doesn't produce alot of incentive to work.

These are all symptoms of the growing control of the people by the government.
In this country (or any) productivity comes from the willingness to work, and
under a free enterprise system this means a willingness to work for yourself.
To make money.  To become wealthy.  These goals are NOT immoral.  To be
wealthy means to have control over wealth.  This can be money, property,
or business capital.  In any case it is necessary to have wealth to also
have productivity(in an industrial society).  The problem in this country
is that more and more of this wealth is being transfered to the government
(have you looked at the Dept. of Defense's budget lately?).  When all the
wealth is controlled by the government you have communism, and a short
look at any of the communist countries will tell you what that does to
productivity.  In this country more and more of the capital is found in the
hands of people who have no incentive to use it to increase productivity
(government people).  Also, through the welfare system, more and more of
this money is being given to people who are not productive.  Sadly, this
is not how free enterprise is supposed to work.   I don't think that
people realize that the current policies of this country lead logically to
socialism (and decreased productivity).  That is, towards increasing control,
by the government, of the means of productivity, money.  This is why the
Libertarian Party is so important.  They see clearly how this country 
SHOULD be run.  It is clear to ME that neither the Democrats or the Republicans
are willing or able to cure the ills of this country.  Somebody needs to
give the people a big shove in the right direction, and soon.  We can't pay
the bill for Big Defense, Social Security, and the Welfare State forever.


						Russell Spence
						ihuxi!jaczak
						AT&T Technologies
						Naperville, IL
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