twoblink
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Here in Taiwan, I teach English, and my morning class is filled with housewives..
So we were talking about the ethics of hunting, and the effects on your pocketbook.
So the mothers all said, they were against hunting, especially "cute" things like rabbits or bambi...
Soooo... I give them what I call my PETA vs. Pocketbook speel..
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#1) So you don't want to kill Peter Rabbit? That's ok. Let's see what happens:
The Rabbits become 100 rabbits and eat half the farm.
The Farmer is forced to raise the price because he only has half the crops.
The people anger in protest to the government about rising crop prices.
The government mandates that the farmers lower their price.
The farmers say they will die unless there are subsidies...
The government then, gives farm subsidies.
But the government has no money, so they raise taxes.
You complain to the employer to give you more money because everything is more expensive because the tax is so high.
So your employer gives you a raise, but raises the price of their goods and services to compensate.
Now the farmer has to pay more to buy stuff from your company.
So the farmer raises the price of the crops to reflect his higher overhead.
So...
By not killing Peter Rabbit, what do we get?
High wages as a result of artificial inflation due to government taxation, by a government who WANTS you to have a higher salary because the tax is a percentage based on the gross salary. A heavier tax burden on the common man, less bountiful crops, and the price is STILL high, so you are overpaying for crops.
By the end of my little speech, I had all the house wives going "Kill the rabbits!! Eat Bambi!!"
My entire class is now pro-hunting.
So we were talking about the ethics of hunting, and the effects on your pocketbook.
So the mothers all said, they were against hunting, especially "cute" things like rabbits or bambi...
Soooo... I give them what I call my PETA vs. Pocketbook speel..
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#1) So you don't want to kill Peter Rabbit? That's ok. Let's see what happens:
The Rabbits become 100 rabbits and eat half the farm.
The Farmer is forced to raise the price because he only has half the crops.
The people anger in protest to the government about rising crop prices.
The government mandates that the farmers lower their price.
The farmers say they will die unless there are subsidies...
The government then, gives farm subsidies.
But the government has no money, so they raise taxes.
You complain to the employer to give you more money because everything is more expensive because the tax is so high.
So your employer gives you a raise, but raises the price of their goods and services to compensate.
Now the farmer has to pay more to buy stuff from your company.
So the farmer raises the price of the crops to reflect his higher overhead.
So...
By not killing Peter Rabbit, what do we get?
High wages as a result of artificial inflation due to government taxation, by a government who WANTS you to have a higher salary because the tax is a percentage based on the gross salary. A heavier tax burden on the common man, less bountiful crops, and the price is STILL high, so you are overpaying for crops.
By the end of my little speech, I had all the house wives going "Kill the rabbits!! Eat Bambi!!"
My entire class is now pro-hunting.