Comments on: Capitalism: A Love Story http://www.happycapitalism.com/2009/09/capitalism-a-love-story/ A true believer in the happiness-inspiring powers of capitalism. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:32:33 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Veronika http://www.happycapitalism.com/2009/09/capitalism-a-love-story/comment-page-1/#comment-611 Veronika Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:06:57 +0000 http://www.happycapitalism.com/?p=1867#comment-611 Lou. Amen to your review of Moore's film. My parents grew up in Communist eastern-Europe and know the evils of that system. Any of these smug whiners like Moore who bitch about capitalism should be shipped off to the likes of any remaining Communist country and live there for one year. I dare 'em. They wouldn't last a month. Best. Veronika Lou.
Amen to your review of Moore’s film. My parents grew up in Communist eastern-Europe and know the evils of that system. Any of these smug whiners like Moore who bitch about capitalism should be shipped off to the likes of any remaining Communist country and live there for one year. I dare ‘em.
They wouldn’t last a month.
Best.
Veronika

]]> By: george sawision http://www.happycapitalism.com/2009/09/capitalism-a-love-story/comment-page-1/#comment-496 george sawision Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:43:39 +0000 http://www.happycapitalism.com/?p=1867#comment-496 Lou, I think the problem we face in our democracy is not the idea of capitalism but the intrusion by others to degrade our system.My family are refugees from a communist state (USSR), we learned frist hand what a communist system is.But one thing that has never been made clear to students of socialism is that capitalism was never banned under the communist system.You could still run a business,sell and buy openly and even manufacture your own goods to sell.In fact the "black market" in the soviet system is the lifeblood of each family.However what the communist system introduced was HIGH TAXES.Business is taxed at a rate close to 90% at times.Tax on the successful businessperson is so high that you would have to be insane to pay them. It is no surprise that our city council is following the rules of Karl Marx who himself was a capitalist but was pissed off that he didn't get paid for his work.I guess that corruption bugged him and his solution was to ruin the world for his petty problems.But this city now is taxing us into a socialist system.I am constntly being told by small business owners that they can't survive in this city because of taxes and fees.Go figure! Lou, I think the problem we face in our democracy is not the idea of capitalism but the intrusion by others to degrade our system.My family are refugees from a communist state (USSR), we learned frist hand what a communist system is.But one thing that has never been made clear to students of socialism is that capitalism was never banned under the communist system.You could still run a business,sell and buy openly and even manufacture your own goods to sell.In fact the “black market” in the soviet system is the lifeblood of each family.However what the communist system introduced was HIGH TAXES.Business is taxed at a rate close to 90% at times.Tax on the successful businessperson is so high that you would have to be insane to pay them.

It is no surprise that our city council is following the rules of Karl Marx who himself was a capitalist but was pissed off that he didn’t get paid for his work.I guess that corruption bugged him and his solution was to ruin the world for his petty problems.But this city now is taxing us into a socialist system.I am constntly being told by small business owners that they can’t survive in this city because of taxes and fees.Go figure!

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