RR & JS You two guys think you are know it all. Where are they getting all that money to loan us $1.2 trillion, buy AMC movie chain, oil, mines, raw material for their manufacturing, etc, etc world wide? Also the many auto manufacturers joint venturing their plants there to supply the hotest auto buying public in the world? Comrade B In a message dated 3/3/2013 11:00:40 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: JS, China was very poor before they switched to capitalism. Capitalism created the economic boom. Now China is slowly being taken over by communism again which is unsustainable. The 50% of the Chinese economy that is still privately owned is paying 100% of the taxes. Because the SOE's pay no taxes they have an unfair advantage over private enterprise and will eventually crowd them out. The less private enterprise remains, the more the government must tax in order to keep running, which will further drive out private enterprise. Who will the government get money from then? The problem with socialism in China is that the SOE's (state owned enterprises) are all run by a handful of politically connected people. It's a "worker's paradise" for the elite who are connected to the government. They make fabulous amounts of money and take no risk. If they lose money the government bails them out. The problem is that it all hinges on robbing other people. People with new ideas such as hippie Steve Jobs have no chance to ever get started because they are not politically connected. China must rob intellectual property and ideas from other countries. They must rob private enterprises in their own country in the form of taxes to pay for their SOE's. Yes in some respects Stan is correct that the Capitalists will sell the communists the rope with which they will hang them, but what he fails to mention is that they also hang themselves. The worker's paradise does provide jobs for a short time, during which the political elite become fabulously wealthy without having to take any risk but when the scheme inevitably fails the workers end up with nothing while the political elite end up owning everything. This is what has happened in every country that has ever tried the socialist experiment. -RR -----Original Message----- >From: "schalestock@xxxxxxxx" <schalestock@xxxxxxxx> >Sent: Mar 3, 2013 9:14 AM >To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: By request > > >RR > >You hit the nail on the head when you said that "the reason why they are "successful" is because they pay no taxes." China is owned by a communist oligarchy. A point Stan seems to ignore. > >JS >____________________________________________________________ >Woman is 53 But Looks 25 >Mom reveals 1 simple wrinkle trick that has angered doctors... >http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/513369175c5db69175a23st02vuc > "Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one." - Chinese Proverb