Friday, August 12, 2016

Hot And Cold Shower Faucet

How is this one for a title?  It is about how your faucet works in your shower and what it has to do with our next President.

I like to keep things simple.  You know that!  when you take a shower, it is important that the temperature of the water is just right.  Not too hot and not too cold.  Most of us know how to operate the shower faucet.  Turn it one way for hotter and the other way for colder.  Simple, right?  When you boil it down, most of economics and politics re simple too. Now, armed with this new knowledge, you should be able to make the right decision when it comes to choosing between Clinton and Trump when comes to dealing with the economy.  I think that we all know that if we have a bad economy that all the liberal and conservative options are dead.  If we are broke, we don't have very many options.  Arguing about how to spend the tax money is mute if we don't have any tax money.  Starting to see the point?

First, look at what Clinton is promising.  She is going to get rich people to pay their fair share by increasing the tax on businesses and corporation.  She is going to give that tax money to people who will vote for her.  We know who those people are.  They are Jews at 91%, Blacks at 88%, Latinos at 70%, school teachers and union members at 65% and women at 60%.  These are the voters who want to get their fair share of tax money from someone else.  Most of these voters work for someone else, like a business or corporation.  It is kind of like the goose that laid golden eggs.  When the people tried to get more eggs from the goose than it could lay, they ended up killing the goose and no one had any more golden eggs.  Raising the tax on the people who are providing the jobs is not going to make them hire more workers or pay their workers more.  It is going to have the opposite affect.  It is the same as turning the faucet in the wrong direction as Clinton wants to do.

Next, look at what Trump is promising.  He wants to turn the faucet in the opposite direction where the company pays less tax and has an incentive to higher more workers.  If you increase the tax on a business, it is an incentive to find a cheaper way to do business and most of the time that means getting their goods made in China or some place else.  The very people who Clinton claims that she is going to help are going to be much worse off in the end.  She might be able to give them a sweet  lollypop to get their vote, but they are going to be poorer in the end.  Why is it so clear?

You could make about the same argument about government regulations.  The fact that we have gotten by without these new regulations for over 200 years should be some evidence that we just might not need these new regulations.  More regulations make the economy worse and thus, fewer  regulations make it better.  It is just like the shower faucet deal.