[Vince Ferrer]

This economic crisis was caused by people willing to lie on mortgage applications, or make loans they knew could not be paid back. We have practically destroyed the black family, and the rest of us are not far behind. Fatherless children grow up into gang members like in Chicago. Mothers are dependent on a bankrupt government to replace fathers. The AIDS rate in DC approaches African rates. Schools all over fail to teach.

Yet somehow we are asked to think that a bit of twiddling with tax rates is the only thing required to fix all this.

[Tublecane]

But all the things you mention are the consequences of adverse economic policy. If the nation coincidentally suddenly declined morally at the same time as these perverse regulations popped up, okay. But you can’t fix that through politics. What you can do is curtail the bad behavior underwritten by the state.