The thing is, lowering taxes and being corrupt is the normal thing to do as a conservative. People should know this, yet they keep voting for these parties.
The most outrageous thing about this is that we still call those grifters “conservatives”. The adjective “conservative” comes from “to conserve”. Those so-called “conservatives”, though, do conserve nothing. In the contrary, they actually do destroy society and its infrastructure in order to increase their personal wealth and power.
I just want to change the lens those people view lowering company taxes with. Why lower company taxes? What’s the goal? I’d argue the common answer is to grow “the economy” which sounds like it means “make more jobs and pay people more.” But the question then becomes if the goal is to pay people more why are we taxing companies less? Why not tax people less? That’s a more direct line to “growing the economy” except instead of giving more money to companies which is a theoretical proxy for giving money to people, we just give people more money directly.
I wish well meaning conservatives would think about it like that. I don’t think Merz is a well meaning conservative, in fact I don’t know if most conservatives in power are well meaning. But that’s what I’d hope the working class conservatives, who are wittingly or unwittingly betraying their own self interests, would think. Why give money to companies in the hopes they give more money to the people. Why not give money to the people and let them spend it on companies.
The thing is, lowering taxes and being corrupt is the normal thing to do as a conservative. People should know this, yet they keep voting for these parties.
The most outrageous thing about this is that we still call those grifters “conservatives”. The adjective “conservative” comes from “to conserve”. Those so-called “conservatives”, though, do conserve nothing. In the contrary, they actually do destroy society and its infrastructure in order to increase their personal wealth and power.
Exactly. If „conservatives“ were really conservative, fighting climate change would be their main topic.
I just want to change the lens those people view lowering company taxes with. Why lower company taxes? What’s the goal? I’d argue the common answer is to grow “the economy” which sounds like it means “make more jobs and pay people more.” But the question then becomes if the goal is to pay people more why are we taxing companies less? Why not tax people less? That’s a more direct line to “growing the economy” except instead of giving more money to companies which is a theoretical proxy for giving money to people, we just give people more money directly.
I wish well meaning conservatives would think about it like that. I don’t think Merz is a well meaning conservative, in fact I don’t know if most conservatives in power are well meaning. But that’s what I’d hope the working class conservatives, who are wittingly or unwittingly betraying their own self interests, would think. Why give money to companies in the hopes they give more money to the people. Why not give money to the people and let them spend it on companies.
Because our own consumers don’t matter. Germany is export champion. What matters is that other countries buy our stuff.
I think that is a stupid argument but I suspect it is how people like Merz think.