I've found it helps people understand economics when you use situations that do not involve politics to explain it. Can you imagine if the only people we had available as lovers were people that required lots of money and attention? People would date less often. Imagine if singers had to pay a ridiculous amount of money whenever they got on stage. We would fail to have the music that we listen to. The Capitalist way is to create opportunity, create fortune, create optimism, and to create your own success. When taxes are raised, such things are squashed. Then everyone suffers.
Capitalism isn't the reason a coke bottle costs $3 today. Capitalism is the reason a coke bottle cost only 5 cents in the old days. G...