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Originally Posted by Robbie
You maybe never heard of the Jews being in slavery to the Egyptians?
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Stop believing everything you read in the Bible. They have proof it was built by Egyptians who were well cared for and worked in between farming. Wheat was the source of their wealth.
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The Roman coliseum was built by 20,000 Jewish slaves that Roman emperor Titus purchased.
Also if you google up ancient Greece and slaves...you will see that most work was done by slaves in Greece.
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Slaves provide the sweat and toil. Paid craftsman produce the beauty.
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I thought that everyone knew that ancient wonders of the world were built by slave labor? Slavery didn't get started with black people being slaves. There were thousands of years of slavery before that.
Anyway Paul...you're wrong. The wonderful governments just taxing people didn't build that stuff (though they probably did buy the slaves with the taxes they put on occupied countries_.
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We know. But the craftsmen were educated people and not slaves.
You have a very blinkered and even that's wrong about economics. So a little refresher.
95% of the money the Government spends goes into America. It doesn't disappear. You might argue with the % figure, but that doesn't change much.
Government Spending = $6.3 trillion
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/
Annully borrowed. = $1 trillion and rising
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2018906819.html
US GDP = $15.09
http://www.google.com/publicdata/exp...hl=en&q=us+gdp
Taxes don't raise enough, so Governments borrow more to make up the gap.
So cut taxes. Does that mean a cut in spending? If it does, it will take money out of someone's pocket. To transfer it to yours.
Over 1/3 of the US GDP is now flowing from tax or borrowed dollars. Every cut = someone losing money. Who gets fired or what doesn't get paid for to put some money into your pockets and takes food off the table of someone else. You seem to think $6.3 trillion goes up in smoke, it doesn't. It goes to fund 1/3 of the US GDP.
You see for every action, their are consequences. As for fuelling more spending (by you). It means someone else spends less. Just Multiply it by all the people getting some of the $6.3 trillion in their wage check. It hasn't created any demand. It's only changed the people buying. It will actually lead to less demand. Those getting the tax cuts will just buy the same amount of goods, or similar. Just better quality. How many Fridges, TVs, Cars, etc can you own?