The Political Cartoon Thread

[Ratt Mhule]

14 minutes ago, ActualCornHusker said:

 

Nobody with any sense makes that claim... the difference is, if you don't like how a business operates, you can choose not to do business with them. That choice does not exist with government. 

 

And to turn your statement back to you:

 

Gotta love this Pollyanna fantasy where governments work to the benefit of the people and not the politicians that accept bribes and funnel taxpayer money to themselves. 

Youre operating under the assumption that small business would be able to compete with corporations in this fantasy world. Corporations would stomp out small business in a heartbeat. 

[FrankWheeler]

5 minutes ago, ActualCornHusker said:

 

Is that a serious question? 

 

[ActualCornHusker]

1 minute ago, Frott Scost said:

Youre operating under the assumption that small business would be able to compete with corporations in this fantasy world. Corporations would stomp out small business in a heartbeat. 

 

Complete fallacy...

 

First of all, I'll clarify that I'm absolutely NOT anarchist. That ideology is as utopian as communism/socialism. However, as the founders in their incredible historical wisdom intended, the federal government is a necessary evil and therefore should be limited to the absolute minimal scope necessary. One of those ACTUAL legitimate responsibilities of the federal government should be to break up monopolies. So that's point #1.

 

Point #2: small business would be able to compete MUCH easier than it currently can with all the burdensome regulations & barriers to entry that exist in most industries. Higher minimum wage, regulations, licenses, and higher corporate taxes disproportionately harm small businesses exponentially more than large corporations. 

[FrankWheeler]

This is a good read on the subject of Private Roads.

 

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Auto manufacturers would build pollution control equipment into cars, and advertise how cleanly they run.  Automakers do this already, but under the gun of a government that mandates pollution levels and what kind of pollution controls manufacturers use. Without government interference, engineers would be free to compete to provide different technologies to reduce costs and improve horsepower while providing cleaner burning engines.

 

Glad Trump got rid of those emissions standards so the auto industry can start making progress again.

 

[Ratt Mhule]

15 minutes ago, ActualCornHusker said:

 

Complete fallacy...

 

First of all, I'll clarify that I'm absolutely NOT anarchist. That ideology is as utopian as communism/socialism. However, as the founders in their incredible historical wisdom intended, the federal government is a necessary evil and therefore should be limited to the absolute minimal scope necessary. One of those ACTUAL legitimate responsibilities of the federal government should be to break up monopolies. So that's point #1.

 

Point #2: small business would be able to compete MUCH easier than it currently can with all the burdensome regulations & barriers to entry that exist in most industries. Higher minimum wage, regulations, licenses, and higher corporate taxes disproportionately harm small businesses exponentially more than large corporations. 

This is the kind of BS that happens when you loosen or get rid of the rules.

 

 

[FrankWheeler]

I can just dream of how joyful it would be to have to pay a corporation to have driveway access off of their private road and how much that would cost or how their terms of service contracts would be.  Can only imagine all of the barricaded driveways due to missing a monthly payment.  Want your kids to be able to access the gated sidewalks to walk or ride their bike to school?  There's a daily usage fee for that. 

 

You know a corporation would never buy up all of the roads around schools and go crazy with the congestion pricing fees to get to and from schools every morning. I mean they don't do that now with prescription medications or anything.

[FrankWheeler]

[DevoHusker]

2 hours ago, deedsker said:

You should check out the pharmacist on Netflix then. 

a great watch 

[Guy Chamberlin]

On 2/15/2020 at 3:19 AM, ActualCornHusker said:

 

The post below was removed from this thread and banished into the Offending Posts Thread. Since this post did not violate P&R terms, certainly not more than posts allowed to remain in this thread and thousands of others still standing on HuskerBoard, I am returning it to its rightful place.  

 

Libertarians aren't supposed to be this stupid.

 

In 1965, the ratio between CEO and the average worker was 20:1

In 2018 it was 376:1

 

In 2007/8, the best and brightest of the executive class crashed the world economy. Trillions of dollars of other people's money vanished overnight. And these fukkers walked away with bonuses. 

 

Every time a billionaire convinces a working class American that billionaires are being unfairly victimized, an angel gets its wings ripped off. 

[knapplc]

1 hour ago, ActualCornHusker said:

 

Nobody with any sense makes that claim... the difference is, if you don't like how a business operates, you can choose not to do business with them. That choice does not exist with government. 

 

And to turn your statement back to you:

 

Gotta love this Pollyanna fantasy where governments work to the benefit of the people and not the politicians that accept bribes and funnel taxpayer money to themselves. 

 

Business owners accept bribes and funnel money to themselves. Difference is, I can vote a politician out of office. I can't vote the guy who owns the street outside my house out of office, nor do I have any other option than to use that street. So I'm at the mercy of a monopoly if I don't have publicly-funded streets.

 

It's fun to pretend business would run the world better than properly-elected officials. But it's pure fantasy. No society has ever functioned that way.  That's not an accident.

[ActualCornHusker]

1 hour ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

The post below was removed from this thread and banished into the Offending Posts Thread. Since this post did not violate P&R terms, certainly not more than posts allowed to remain in this thread and thousands of others still standing on HuskerBoard, I am returning it to its rightful place.  

 

Libertarians aren't supposed to be this stupid.

 

In 1965, the ratio between CEO and the average worker was 20:1

In 2018 it was 376:1

 

In 2007/8, the best and brightest of the executive class crashed the world economy. Trillions of dollars of other people's money vanished overnight. And these fukkers walked away with bonuses. 

 

Every time a billionaire convinces a working class American that billionaires are being unfairly victimized, an angel gets its wings ripped off. 

 

I support anti-censorship, no matter how silly what you wrote may be

[ActualCornHusker]

54 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

Business owners accept bribes and funnel money to themselves. Difference is, I can vote a politician out of office. I can't vote the guy who owns the street outside my house out of office, nor do I have any other option than to use that street. So I'm at the mercy of a monopoly if I don't have publicly-funded streets.

 

It's fun to pretend business would run the world better than properly-elected officials. But it's pure fantasy. No society has ever functioned that way.  That's not an accident.

 

LOL mkay... back to our regularly scheduled program..

 

 

[FrankWheeler]

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[ActualCornHusker]