(07-29-2012 05:22 AM)Vewb1 Wrote: 1) Who built the roads your goods are traveling to market on? That's right, the American public.
The taxes I pay paid for the roads my goods travel on. You and Obama saying the government deserves credit for my business is as stupid someone saying the a paper company deserves credit for my book being a success because it's printed on paper. I bought that paper with my money. I pay for those roads via my taxes.
Quote:2) Who established the internet,
This is one of the more stupid arguments you idiot libs come up with. The internet wasn't invented because the DoD had some grand vision of economic use for it. It was invented so government scientists could share information more easily. Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau created the World Wide Web. Then visionaries and entrepreneurs created the prosperity that we now find on it. Oh, and the original internet the DoD created was paid for with tax dollars.
Quote:electrical lines, sewers and other public works such as lighting and crime fighting to protect and run your business that make and assist your business every single day? That's right the American public.
Again you miss the entire point. Everyone benefits from those and those are paid for by taxes. I gain no unique advantage over anyone else by the existence of those. They aren't
why my business succeeds. My business succeeds because I took the risk. I worked my a$$ off and I made it happen. The government doesn't get credit for my business because it built something that is there for EVERYONE because EVERYONE hasn't made the success I have. You and Obama would have us believe small business owners are nothing special. They didn't do anything special. They got where they were because of government, not because they worked hard and took the risk. It shows your contempt for free markets and fervent belief in the greatness of government, not of the individual.
Quote:3) Who comes to the rescue when your business is disrupted by fire, wind, natural disaster? That's right the American public in the form of the fire department.
Once again, EVERYONE gets that benefit. But not everyone makes a success of themselves. A road doesn't give me the vision for my business.
Infrastructure is what the government is supposed to provide. But they don't provide it alone because without my tax dollars they couldn't do jack sh!t. This is all rooted in the stupidity all you liberals have in that you believe if government didn't do it it wouldn't get done. You believe that it's government that inspires entrepreneurship and innovation by virtue of the fact it exists and does what it's supposed to.
Government gets no more credit for me building my business because it built a road than mother earth does because I breathed oxygen while I did it. Roads are there for everyone, but not everyone is successful. That should tell you it takes more, a hell of a lot more, than the simple fact that it's there.