http://www.vox.com/2014/4/20/5629904/study-tax-hikes-could-grow-the-economy (http://www.vox.com/2014/4/20/5629904/study-tax-hikes-could-grow-the-economy)
This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've read all week. These people are essentially saying that if we jack up taxes then stock brokers will become teachers and make America better because... reasons.
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Oh wow. Sounds like the old, "Govco spends the money better than you!" mixed in with, "jobs that pay less are better for society/more noble than those that pay lots!" No doubt said from someone atop an ivory tower...
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Quote from: D on April 20, 2014, 08:29:04 PM
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even the king of the working man is horrified. a very bad sign indeed.
That's pretty bad, although the article itself wasn't as awful as I feared.