Quality is on par with, or above, the Japanese now. The problem is that perceptions are about 10 years behind reality in the auto world. Their problems do come from low quality and stagnant mindset, though.
I get the impression that you are a lawyer. Did you not learn how to assume for the sake of argument? I know that 40% and 20% are not the tax rates for anyone. You are saying that the top 1% pays the vast majority of taxes, and implying that they should have a lower rate. I am using examples and...
If we lower our tax rate to 10%, what stops a place like Ireland from dropping to 9%? It puts us in a race to the bottom. We can either hit 0 first, or we can engage in protectionism. We could also provide incentives, but that would be socialist.
We should abolish the system because some people abuse the system? Isn't that how the English lost the right to own guns? It is the biggest argument against guns here in the US.
No, give them something they haven't had the ability to earn through no fault of their own. Slaves were freed with nothing. They couldn't get anything, as a whole, because no one would hire them. They couldn't start their own businesses and hire other blacks because they didn't have anything to...
Irrelevant. What is the rate at which the two groups are taxed. You could tax the bottom 25% at 100% and still not reach the top 1% at 1%. Should we tax everyone different, based on how much they make? Isn't it more fair to tax everyone at some set, equal rate? This country is set up so that...
Taxing one group at one rate and another at a different rate doesn't redistribute wealth? You pay 80% taxes and I will pay 20%. Let's see what that does to our comparative wealth.
Were you screaming socialism when our economic stimulus checks were mailed this spring? Were you screaming socialism when the government effectively socialized major banks and the mortgage industry within the last month?
Capitalism is a redistribution of wealth. Taxes, all of them, are redistributions of wealth. Tax breaks for oil companies are redistributions of wealth. Tax breaks for pharmaceutical companies are redistributions of wealth. The current system redistributes our collective wealth up. Our $600 per...
The fundamental flaw in this country, and in the Constitution, according to Obama, is racism. The failing of the civil rights movement was not fighting in the courts to get wealth to the lowest classes. It is hard to be equal when you are starting with huge disparities. Freed slaves had nothing...
like the 4th amendment/Terry Stop thread from a couple of weeks ago, the answer is "it depends." Probably not, but it depends. The 4th amendment is very very fact specific.