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Whenever I see people indicting "the rich" and then don't include all the rich Democrats, I know they haven't done their homework.
Wake up. The elite in this country make all the rules, and it doesn't matter which side of the aisle they're on.
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Originally Posted by Jimbo302
It doesn't even take homework, most know that; He Who Speaks In Absolutes Is Always Wrong.
the vast majority of people who excoriate the rich, especially just one side of the isle, are well known as useful idiots to the russians and other heavy handed left wing big government types.
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Originally Posted by whogo
We are a democracy. As you stated not a pure one. We are a democratic republic
no we are NOT a democracy, we are a constitutional representative republic.
Or, really, how Republicans are anti-democracy. By their greed. By their over-riding emphasis on avoiding taxes at all cost.
By Nikole Hannah-Jones
Even when they fail, the guiding values of public institutions, of the public good, are equality and justice. The guiding value of the free market is profit. The for-profit charters DeVos helped expand have not provided an appreciably better education for Detroit’s children, yet they’ve continued to expand because they are profitable — or as Tom Watkins, Michigan’s former education superintendent, said, “In a number of cases, people are making a boatload of money, and the kids aren’t getting educated.”
Democracy works only if those who have the money or the power to opt out of public things choose instead to opt in for the common good. It’s called a social contract, and we’ve seen what happens in cities where the social contract is broken: White residents vote against tax hikes to fund schools where they don’t send their children, parks go untended and libraries shutter because affluent people feel no obligation to help pay for things they don’t need. “The existence of public things — to meet each other, to fight about, to pay for together, to enjoy, to complain about — this is absolutely indispensable to democratic life,” Honig says.
Paying for other people’s stuff is not in my playbook. Nor most of those have money. You have issues with that? Use your money. Not mine and you do not have the right to demand other people to pay for your stuff.
I avoid paying taxes as much as possible. Why, it’s my money, not yours.
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