A Self-Made Man Looks At How He Made It

Re:A Self-Made Man Looks At How He Made It by jacoblyles on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @04:07AM (#4965553)

Elon invested all his money from the Paypal sale to make Tesla, Space X, and Solar City at the same time. He had to borrow money from friends to make rent. Take away an additional 30% from his Paypal money and either Tesla or Space X would have never been born.

And that's only one entrepreneur's story. That same scenario is repeated thousands of times around the country. Taxes are sand in the gears of an entrepreneurial economy.

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Re:A Self-Made Man Looks At How He Made It by Confusion on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @08:05AM (#4965902)

No entrepreneurial economy would exist if there wasn't a government to streamline the organisation of many mundane things such that the entrepreneurs aren't bothered by them. No entrepreneurial economy exists without a police force, a fire department and an influx of capable employees.

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Re:A Self-Made Man Looks At How He Made It by jacoblyles on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @03:03PM (#4966943)

You are right! And it is perfectly possible to provide those public goods without European levels of taxation (or hell, Californian levels of taxation!). Hong Kong manages to do it with an 18% flat tax.

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Re:A Self-Made Man Looks At How He Made It by MordinSolus on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @11:13AM (#4966282)

True, but those things are quite inexpensive compared to all of the other stuff that governments spend taxpayer money on, at least in the United States.

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Re:A Self-Made Man Looks At How He Made It by adrianscott on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @12:34PM (#4970023)

upon what data do you base this assertion? you can have entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial activities in anarchy. you can definitely do so without a police force, a fire department and employees.

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