| BlueKite,
Do know that taxation is involuntary. No one freely pays their taxes. Governments threaten their citizens with imprisonment and, if they physically resist, even death if they refuse to pay their taxes. So do not put taxation and free markets in the same equation. Free markets don't put guns to people's heads to force them to buy their products and services. Free market succeed on win-win transactions. As for the UN's lending to small businesses in improvished countries, do some research on it. I have. Governments abuse these programs like crazy. And don't hold up the UN as some model of purity either. It's a very corrupt bearucracy. Read up on the Oil 4 Food scandal for just the tip of the iceberg on that organization. As for Europe, I've been there too and was speaking not only from first-hand knowledge but being a consultant to European businesses and an advisor to several European politicians. That you found some people living there that are better off than in the States is meaningless. I could do likewise with any country in the world ... even those during in the turmoil of a civil war. I was talking about their societies as a whole. |
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