You are making me very frustrated. I have attempted to explain this to you at great length, and you continue to miss the point. I have listened to four different Liberal Arts majors attempt to tell me how wonderful it is to spend money. None of that matters! Let me try this one more time. We can come back to the subject of Germany later, but you should note that quite a lot of what you said about the German economic system is incorrect. Put that aside for the moment, please.
I must be saying this poorly, because I'm not getting through to you. ...Let's try it this way:
Suppose you have a dollar.
Every month, for twenty years, you have received your dollar and put it to work this way: Food = 20¢. Rent = 40¢. Clothing = 10¢. Utilities = 10¢. Taxes = 10¢....Kids lunches, doctor bills, movies, gas for car, everything else = 8¢...Savings = 2¢.Total monthly spending = $1.00.
OK. Now suppose government expenses rise. It doesn't matter what expenses, just any old expenses. The mayor comes on TV and announces that he must raise taxes to 15¢ to cover expenses. But you still only make a dollar a month. So, OK, you're short a nickel. The first thing you do is cut savings to 0. Now you're three cents short. OK, pick something else to cut..you can't cut rent or food, so you cut clothing. No more designer jeans for the kids. They'll have to make do with hand-me-downs. Great! Ok, now you can still get through the month with your dollar and the government has its tax money. A couple of months go by.
Here comes the mayor. Raises taxes again. Again you make adjustments and life goes on. Now you have decided that you need to do some advance planning in preparation for the next tax increase. But you don't know how much it's going to be. Uh oh. What do we do now?....Oh, ok, let's cut a nickle out of our food budget, switch to powdered milk, and put the money into the piggy bank to save for the next tax increase. You're OK, you're still covering your bills. Time passes.
Oh shit! Another tax increase! It's more than I planned for! Oh god, I don't have enough money. The grocery store where you shop goes out of business so now you have to drive an extra ten miles for food. The extra miles puts a strain on your old beater of a car, and it breaks down. You can't afford to replace the car, but you have a credit card. Good deal! You just go down and buy a new car! Now you've got car and credit card payments and you still only get a buck a month.
Here comes the mayor. The grocer lost his store and has to go on welfare to feed his 8 kids. The town has to pay for it. Oh goody, tax increase time. But that's OK....I'm a truly caring person and it's for a good cause, and it's good for the economy, right? It's important for the state to take care of it's residents, right?
Yo go to the piggy bank. Oh shit! I don't have enough to make the mortgage payment! The evil banker needs to feed HIS 8 kids, so you lose the house. Now you're homeless. But that's OK...the city will pay for it...right? All they have to do is raise taxes, right?
Are you beginning to see it now? I certainly hope so. If you haven't seen it yet, I'm not sure there's hope for you. Notwithstanding all of the above, there are two governments whose leaders have taxed themselves to prosperity. Saddam Hussein and Muhamar Khadaffi. I don't know of any others.
"If wishes were horses, beggars could ride" - Old English Proverb
And that, my dear, is why Barrack OBlahBlah is an Ignoranus.
