[ConservativeMan55]

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[Thane_Banquo]

He then asked me if I knew which country was taxed the most in the history of countries, and then he told me America was.

Either the professor was ignorant or a stone-faced liar. America has much less taxation than a lot of other countries today.

[Green Knight]

Isn't this a Business Law course? Are you paying to take a Business Law course? I'm just wondering, because if he isn't actually teaching Business Law, then why're you still in the class? Personally, if it was Business Law that I wanted to learn and I wasn't learning it, then I'd ask for my money back.

This man's a flat out nut. I can't imagine debating with him, as he doesn't have 2 brain cells to rub together. Only female cops? The hell?

[dead]

He then asked me if I knew which country was taxed the most in the history of countries, and then he told me America was.

What exactly were the tax rates in all the failed communist states that killed millions of their citizens and impoverished those that survived?

Oh wait, there aren't any taxes in utopia. The glorious leftist government owns everything.

[Samwise]

Isn't it amazing how people without brains can walk and talk?

[longshadow]

He made a comment about taxing the rich because they have all the money, [snip]

The appropriate rebuttal to this is that his premise is false, therefore his conclusion (that we should tax the rich) cannot be logically reasoned from it.

The truth is that the overwhelming majority of the income generated in America is in the middle class, not the rich. If you were to impose 100% tax rates on everyone who makes over a million dollars per year, it would generate enough money to fund the Federal Government for no more than 30 days. It is also true that something like the top 20% of taxpayers are already paying something like 80% of the entire tax burden borne by individual taxpayers. So, your professor doesn't know what he's talking about.

As for his argument regarding the video store slashing prices, his analysis ignores the benefit accruing to the customers who can then spend the money they save at his store on OTHER goods and services ELSEWHERE, stimulating the economy. Additionally, his implicit assumption is that a free market economy is subject to what is called "market failure." This concept, popular back when the Keynsian economists held sway, has pretty much been debunked by modern economists of the Austrian School, for example.

Sooner or later, the video store owner has to sell his product at a rate at which he gets a reasonable return of his investment, or else he'd dump it and invest his money in something else that had a better return. If he continues to sell at a loss, he's losing money. If he drives you out of business, and raises his rates to 10 times what you were charging, 10 more video stores will pop up to compete with him. If he continues to sell at a loss (for reasons that I can't imagine) he is effectively subsidizing his customers so they can spend the money they save elsewhere.

This, by the way, is identical to Japan subsidizing it's auto industry and selling low priced cars in America. The protectionists howl about this, but Milton Friedman points out that in effect, the Japanese taxpayers are enabling Americans to drive Japanese cars at a lower price, so that Americans can use the money they save to buy OTHER goods and services (or even SAVE for the future!) In short, it is GOOD for our economy, not bad.

[Dionysius]

This self-proclaimed j*ck-off couldn't give you an intelligent argument if his tenured *ss depended on it. I'm sure we'd all be interested in knowing his background in a quest to determine how such a light-weight ever became a college professor.

[WOSG]

First I said that I am personally not in favor of taxing the rich because when you tax wealthy people (Whatever you definition of wealthy may be) Whenever you tax something you get less of it. So if you tax the wealthy, they are going to put off spending.

One point to make is that it is not 'the wealthy' that are taxed at all!!! This is Liberal terminology, it is an easy way to wage class warfare .... what is really taxed is ECONOMIC ACTIVITY - IE WORK, INCOME, INVESTMENT, AND PROFIT.

As you say, if you tax something you get less of it. And a country with less work, investment, income, and profit is a poorer nation indeed.

BTW, your professor sounds like a rather rash and ill-informed person indeed. too bad you are paying money for his uninformed opinions ... you can get that cr*p for free on the internet!! :-)

[Rollee]

What an utter loon. I have learned (the hard way) that whenever I have the misfortune to encounter someone whacked like your professor, I just think to myself "gee, it must really, really suck to be you". That usually gives me a laugh. Just think, soon you will be finished with your education and on to a bright, shiny capitalist enterprise and he will still be a bitter, narrow, shriveled up old lefty that gets no respect.

[potlatch]

Here's the post about taxes, interesting, but I don't know it's exactly accurate;http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/828380/posts

[xm177e2]

He believes that conservatives love to see people suffer.

But it's mostly left-wingers now who want to cut off access to "polluting" industries and return poor people to sustinence farming (which is a pretty insufferable way of life). Left-wingers spread misery in the world; they are the ones who like suffering. Of course, Mother Teresa was pretty hot for suffering, too (she thought it was "Christlike," so she encouraged it).

[yevgenie]

According to his website he is doing "Current research in the areas of antitrust law and international law." . . . and somehow he doesn't understand anti-trust issues surrounding selling below cost to elimate competition? Furthermore, look up his salary. (I assume this is a public institution and therefore salaries of all employees/professors should be public record.) Then ask him how wealthy a person has to be to be REQUIRED to pay taxes. Then ask him why he should or should not because after all he makes $xx,xxx.xx a year from the university.

Go ahead, be a jerk =) (you have my blessing) =)

[TennesseeProfessor]

Since I work in an academic environment, I will be happy to answer your questions via freep or email. But you do seem to be getting great advice on this thread. To recap:

• The issue is not that you disagree with the professor's political view; the issue is that the professor has not taught you business law. Depending on how cordial the dean is, ask him if he thinks the professor's political views are relevant to the topic.
• Don't threaten to report this to the accrediting agency unless you are prepared to follow through. This makes the problem not a lousy professor but rather a complaining student.
• Bring the syllabus with you, and any exams or homeworks if you have them already. Depending on what the syllabus says, you can either complain that the syllabus does not match the calalog description of the class [bring that too if you need it], or that the professor is not covering the material listed.
• What rank is this guy? Full professor? Assistant? Associate? Senior Lecturer? If he is a full professor, you are very unlikely to change anything, but talking to the dean may help you survive the semester, especially if the guy tries to retaliate.
• Speaking from personal experience, you're wasting your breath arguing with the guy. Perhaps you could set up a lunch club, where you and your students debate "the ideas presented in class" when he's not around to obfusticate.
• "The ideas presented in class" reminds me. When the dean asks "Well, what does he cover, then" try to be as dispassionate as you can. For example, you might describe the current discussion as "Initially, we talked about the societal benefits of high taxes, and we had a breif discussion on abortion."
• Something to consider, drop the class and retake it under a different professor. Perhaps the dean will allow you to add another course late.
• It always helps to prepare. Are there any topics you learned from the book that you wish had been covered in class? Any material on the syllabus that looks relevant to what you have been doing / would like to do? What do you hope to get out of the class?
• Do you have no interest in the topic anway, or were you looking forward to the class? [be honest. But if you dreaded the class, also point out that it must be important to be a required class.]

[OBone]

It seems to me that tenure is the worst thing to happen to colleges and universities. On what basis does a person assume that he should be guaranteed the same job for life? I don't suppose unions had anything to do with it.

OB

[Blood of Tyrants]

Just how much tax is enough?

Is it okay for someone to take your money at the point of a gun? If it is not then why is it okay for the government to use the implied threat of imprisonment and force to collect taxes?

Abortion is the murder on the unborn. Don't fall for the "blob of tissue" argument. As for his stupid masterbation argument, simply respond that by not impregnating anyone, he was improving the gene pool. A half cell, as in unfertilized egg and spermatazoa, is NOT a life.

Activist judges are bad. They destroy the Constitution through their desires to be politically active. All activists judges ought to be impeached and then imprisoned.

The Constitution is NOT a "living document", and the meaning of the words DO NOT change from when they were written. If it doesn't mean the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, then why even bother to write them down?

[krb]

He made a comment about taxing the rich because they have all the money, and him and I started debating.

Please, please use good grammar with these things. You really do us no favors if you can't write.

[krb]

He talked about how conservative judges will use judical restraint while liberal judges will use judical activism.

He said that Roe vs Wade was a result of judicial review.

Well, he is correct on those two points. What's your beef with those statements?

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Greetings ConservativeMan55, FReepers, et al:

Excellent advise from academia FReepers with appropriate responses for action. Advance your token to the Dean‘s Office.

Simple possession of a degree doesn't mean you're intelligent. Too often a degree indicates somebody had plenty of free time, and someone else's money.

Humor is nice, perhaps this business law course syllabus is on-line?

[FourtySeven]

As fascinating as I've found your "Left Wing College Entry"'s, (and please do keep them coming) I am curious, can't you drop this class? When I was in college, I was quite the little flaming (liberal) idiot myself, so I probably wouldn't have minded then, but now, I couldn't stand one CLASS with this guy, much less a whole semester!

So, how do you stay with it man? Is this a prerequisite, or is it to late to drop, what?

[axel f]

I always dreamed of taping my professors as they spewed their drivel and then playing it for the higher ups. Maybe if the top people in the college heard this "professor" say he won't teach the course he's supposed to, they might pressure him to do his job.