JOPLIN, Mo. —
Moderate Republicans are socially moderate deficit hawks. You don’t pay down debts with military pork, welfare and tax cuts for tycoons. You do it by making workers more efficient, paying enough that they can afford to buy your product and selling to other countries because you are efficient.
If the workers have to ask for food stamps so the executives can get bonuses, they won’t be able to afford your product.
When Andrew Carnegie sold his steel mills to J.P. Morgan, he was many times wealthier than Mitt Romney, not including his personal fortune. He had nothing to spend this gargantuan fortune on because he was already living in splendor while his workers were living in squalor. Tycoons have an ethical bypass; they are anti-capitalist capitalists who use their fortunes to drive others out of business so they can raise prices and to ship jobs to China so they can reduce wages.
In 1900, one dollar out of every 74 belonged to John D. Rockefeller. He got that rich by driving the other oil companies out of business and laying off their workers so he could raise his prices. To polish his image, Rockefeller became famous by giving dimes to strangers.
The Chinese have gotten rid of their bikes and own more cars than we do. So we are building oil pipelines to the Gulf Coast to ship oil to China. Maybe you don’t have a job, but at least the oil companies are doing OK, thanks to George Bush’s foresight giving companies tax credits for the Chinese factories.
Tycoons need tax cuts to speed up the process of driving capitalists out of business. Donald Trump and I have one thing in common — we pay capital gains tax at the same rate. I just don’t have offshore banks and loopholes and tax attorneys.
Steve Goebel
Joplin
Opinion
Your View: No loopholes or attorneys
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Other Views: Still inspiring
Cutbacks in the military budget and the still-recovering economy mean this Memorial Day weekend will go down as a relatively subdued affair — relative, that is, to our usual end-of-school, official-start-of-summer blowout.
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Our View: Setting standard
The sight of hundreds of young student volunteers walking across Moore’s Fourth Street interstate overpass had to be uplifting to the city’s tornado victims.
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Our View: Safer schools
Being able to see for ourselves what would have happened to our children had they been standing in the main hall of their schools during the May 22, 2011, tornado had a profound effect on our understanding of safe schools.
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Marilyn Beasley, guest columnist: Claiming responsibility for abuse of power
Over the past few months we’ve witnessed the abuse of power by President Barack Obama and his administration.
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Our View: ‘Why?’ has no answer
Just hours before, there was breakfast and laughter. There were pictures on the walls and memories in every room.
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Our View: Absent from House
We can’t figure out why two Missouri legislators think they should be elected to the U.S. House when it appears they can’t seem to show up to take care of business in the Missouri House.
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Your View: Terrible injustice
I see this Jasper County nuisance law as a terrible injustice on the rights of the residents of Jasper County.
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Your View: Should we be outraged?
Were there effusive apologies following the lockdown of Boston as most of the continent indulged vicariously in the ongoing manhunt?
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Your View: Terrorism is terrorism
In the May 13 issue of The Joplin Globe there was an Associated Press article concerning the New Orleans shooting.
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Phill Brooks, columnist: Missouri Senate did what Founding Fathers had in mind
George Washington once described the Senate as being like a saucer in which you pour coffee or tea.
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