Reply to January 23 MN General Strike

Forum Index » Political Discussion

Reply to "January 23 MN General Strike"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because not going to work, which will cost you personally in either lost wages or in expended paid leave, or by reducing business income for a day, will actually lead to a change in government policy?  What a bizarre and irrational presumption.  Why does the government care if you go to work or not?  Nor does the government care if you spend money.  The linkage between employee/consumer behavior and government policy in this way is totally absent.  [/quote]

Then name some ways to draw attention to an overreaching federal government. If you had your way, we would all be speaking the King's english and enjoying kidney beans and yorkshire pie.[/quote]

DP. Yet at least some of us might have been better off today if the war of 1812 or the Revolutionary War had resulted in different outcomes.

As to the first comment though — The government is financed in large part by taxes of different sorts. Consumer behavior impacts several types of taxes and tax carve outs — linkages that are far from being “totally absent”. Consumer behavior and the productivity of businesses both directly impact tax revenue — something that the government “cares” about inasmuch as tax revenues impact the ability to implement policies.  [/quote]

true, but while "blue states" subsidize "red states" in most cases,[b] it isn't like there is a mechanis for blue taxpayers to withhold taxes and not draw the wrath of the remaining IRS agents out there[/b], so I agree that a general strike is a good move, but I wish it were national and not just in Minnesota. I also agree with a PP that there is no appetite or culture of this sort of form of protest in the US.[/quote]

Not yet anyway, but the blue states are working on it.[/quote]

This is a good idea. Escrow it all until Congress asserts its privileges and authority over the power of the purse. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics