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Originally Posted by SlingShot
You guys crack me up ... If a car is out of your reach, who's fault is that ?
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If one's budget for a car is $30K, and a car that formerly cost $25K now costs $40K or more because of draconian taxes and regulations, I blame the taxes and regulations, without which, we would all be able to afford much more than what we have now.
I genuinely do not understand this idea that it is no big deal for the government to raise the costs of everything, because you could just go out and make more. The resources of any economy or society at large are finite. It is certainly always possible to grow more, but still, what is available will always be finite. The more that is taken up by regulation and taxes, the less there is left over for those who are responsible for the generation of said resources to begin with.
Regardless of how hard anyone works, and what his abilities and income are, all else being the same, when governments push expensive punitive regulations and taxes, what anyone is able to buy is always diminished. When the value of the fruit of one's labor is systematically diminished or effectively stolen, regardless of someone's ability to produce more fruit, it is a form of bondage, and at the very least, an affront to liberty.