Debate: Should Rich People Have to Pay More Taxes?
Side: Yes

Yes democrats have incrementally increased and added mountains of regulations to our economy that is and countinues to suffocate entrepreneurs and continuously stifles job creation and will continue to drive innovation down. All these regulations do make it more difficult for consumers to afford to purchase goods and services. It doesn't stop me from setting my own prices in a free market, be it what is has become today. Our economy hasn't ceased being a free market system yet. It is burdened with regulations, and as you rightly pointed out it is under assault, especially under the current administration. I would hire more people if it weren't so expensive. So in this respect you are right and I agree is why Sanders ideology is a real threat to free markets systems. Contrary to your point that I don't have the liberty to set my own pricing, that is exactly what I do. While taxes and regulation put pressure on how I price my goods and services, I still ultimately decide. But this is also true in a regulation free economy as well, due to the pressure of competition in order to compete in a free market system.As an "actor", as you put it, I am indeed free to to set my own prices and just as in a pure free market system if I set my prices too high I won't be able to compete and I will be out of business. A pure free market system doesn't exempt me from the presures of competitively pricing my goods and services. So contrary to you claim, unless I am missunderstanding your point, your argument is simply misinformed. Free markets and their different forms have been around since the beginning of man, so Adam Smith has no claim as being the father of free markets. The misinformed use today of the word "fascism" is not the original definition of this term, but has been twisted to accuse the right of something they are ardently against, which is big government and the absolute rule of law. Which is in fact a misinterpretation of the term. The right wants limited government and its powers which is the antithesis of "fascism". "Lex Rex" the law is king, not "Rex Lex" the King is law. Facism is absolute power of government. The right abhors big government and the powers of force that federal government it deems fit to imposes on the liberty of its citizens through force."The Fascists came to associate the term with the ancient Roman fasces or fascio littorio — a bundle of rods tied around an axe, an ancient Roman symbol of the authority of the civic magistrate carried by his lictors, which could be used for corporal and capital punishment at his command."Democratic and National Socialists are similar in that both allow commerce but both seeking to restrict the level at which commerce can be used or employed through the force of some force of totalitarianism...“We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.” -Adolf Hitler, Quoted in John Toland, “Adolf Hitler”, p224."Bernie Sanders; “Do I consider myself part of the casino capitalist process by which so few have so much and so many have so little? By which Wall Street greed and recklessness wrecked this economy? No I don’t.” -Bernie Sanders during the first Democratic Presidential DebateSanders quote is a cleverly veiled comment that is saying the same thing as nationalistic socialists like Hitler. He knows better than the individual and that he will use the power of the federal government to seize the hard earned wealth of individuals through the power and force of the federal government. I really don't care what he believes he'll never be elected president because is indeed a socialist and wants to impose his will on the little liberty we have left. His views are not what America stands for and is in direct conflict with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.The socialism of the Soviet Union was indeed an engine of poverty and system of wealth for the elites in power. European socialism such as Sweden is often pointed to as a model of socialism. However, the average income of a 35 year old male Swede is 35K, the average income of a 35 year old male Swede in America is 56K. So even our crumbling free market system it is far better then Bernies idea of what America should be. History is absolutely clear, there has been no other system that has liftted people out of poverty than capitalism. Someone once said "Capitalism is the worst form of economics there is, except for all the rest"