{"id":14584,"date":"2012-07-08T15:13:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T19:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14584"},"modified":"2012-07-08T15:13:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T19:13:43","slug":"exactly-the-wrong-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14584","title":{"rendered":"Exactly The Wrong Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been proven that when you tax an activity you get less of it. When you provide a tax break for an activity, you get more of it. We have seen over the past thirty years that when <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tax\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tax\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">taxes<\/a> on businesses are lowered the economy grows. When taxes and regulations are increased, the economy shrinks. Well, not everyone got the message.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/07\/05\/global-tax-un-idINL2E8I56BW20120705\">Reuters<\/a>\u00a0reported on Wednesday that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United Nations\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">United Nations<\/a> has suggested a global tax on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Developed country\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Developed_country\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">developed countries<\/a> to help <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Developing country\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Developing_country\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">underdeveloped countries<\/a>. The taxes would include a carbon tax, currency taxes, and taxes on billionaires. What the article fails to mention is that in many countries\u00a0(if not all) <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Poverty\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poverty\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">poverty<\/a> is political&#8211;not economic. In countries that are free with freely elected governments and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Property rights (economics)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Property_rights_%28economics%29\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">private property rights<\/a>, there is generally prosperity. In countries with dictators (who generally live rather well) and no private property rights, there is generally massive poverty. If the UN truly wanted to fight poverty, they would encourage democracy and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Private property\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Private_property\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">private property<\/a> rights in countries that have neither. All they really want to do is take money from countries that have earned it and give it to dictators in countries where it will never reach those who desperately need it!<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=1c9fa65f-6299-4841-b375-368fa351244f\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been proven that when you tax an activity you get less of it. When you provide a tax break for an activity, you get more of it. 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