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Didn't most of them work hard to achieve their success?
Why do you despise them so?
Did your mommy tell you that you are special, and only later did you find out you are only special to her?
So you've never heard of social responsibility. It's not personal. Not individual to individual. It's not personal responsibility. It's social responsibility. Rich and poor have social responsibilities.
Yes, that does make you a socialist..!
The wealthy by far pay the most taxes. If you want money, go earn it, don't stick your hands in someone else's pocket...
They pay the most in absolute terms, but they don't pay the most in proportion to their income. The upper middle class generally gets burdened the heaviest.
And "socialist" is a heavily overused pejorative such that it has lost all meaning by now.
The "wealthy and successful" (whatever that means) do not owe me anything.
Also, I do not owe them anything, not my mind, nor my health, nor the health of the environment, nor the health of the wildlife.
If they believe it is their right to pollute the air and water for their profits, and if they believe I should shut up or look the other way, they can go eff themselves. For pollution "wealthy and successful" should be investigated by independents.
If they think I (or any other citizen) should obediently go to war for their profits, they can go eff themselves.
I don't believe in the bs from the "wealthy and successful" that they call 'news'.
I do not owe the "wealthy and successful" any of my loyalty, obedience, or personal sacrifice, for that we have conservatives.
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I don't owe the wealthy anymore fealty than I owe the government. Unfortunately there are too many that carried away with their anti-government rhetoric that they too easily slip into the shackles of rich dirtbags that will make their lives even more miserable. In this case the enemy of your enemy is NOT your friend.
I see a lot of right wing BS defending the wealthy and deploring taxes as "theft"
I also see overvaluation of goods based on "market demand" as theft. Think about it, you are taking more than what something is actualy worth.
The same can be said of undervaluation of services so the profits can be transferred to people who did nothing useful (basically underpaying employees so bosses and stockholders can get profits).
I'm against that kind of theft too. I call double standard on the part of the righties.
I offer a compromise. I want to see living wages paid. Appropriate pricing of gas and rent. The more we can see that, the more I'm willing to cut social programs (and the taxes that fund them)
uhoh, I said the C word. Guess we can forget about that...
They don't owe me anything in principle. But I also think that I shouldn't proportionally owe the state more than most of them do - and yet I do.
And also, I shouldn't have to owe any of them MY money when the F up and crash the financial system with their greedy tricks - and yet, clearly, I do.
No you don't.
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No you don't.
Our goofy leftie "fairness" home ownership programs caused the housing problem, just as they caused college tuition rates to increase by 300% over the lest decade.
Businessmen WILL find a way to beat and take advantage of ANY government mandate.
Government needs to stop trying to make things "fair".
Leftie politicians need to stop creating policy based on emotion and instead use rational thought.
Yes, that does make you a socialist..!
The wealthy by far pay the most taxes. If you want money, go earn it, don't stick your hands in someone else's pocket...
You should repeat that to the CEOs of various well known retail companies that are benefiting from having the wages of their lower end employees subsidised by government programs.
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