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Assuming that the gazillion posts on the web by screen name moionfire are you, what do you do & how do you have so much free time? Also, given the lack of a profile, it is hard to tell why you have this obsession with how much people make.
Fear-mongering has taken on a new shape. The government redistributes money everyday. Where do you think the $700B bailout come from? Bush just gave your tax money to crooked bankers.
Fear-mongering has taken on a new shape. The government redistributes money everyday. Where do you think the $700B bailout come from? Bush just gave your tax money to crooked bankers.
Fear mongering? Nice try...
Actually the Democratic Congress gave your money away & wanted even more before Bush said NO.
Assuming that the gazillion posts on the web by screen name moionfire are you, what do you do & how do you have so much free time? Also, given the lack of a profile, it is hard to tell why you have this obsession with how much people make.
Er, I don't write that much on this forum- especially when compared to others on the site.
Keep in mind that it is the weekend- So I don't have to work today...
Fear mongering? Nice try...
Actually the Democratic Congress gave your money away & wanted even more before Bush said NO.
Change your handle back to sickmarine, smddumb or whatever it is you really are because you are anything but an independent thinker. Henry Paulson, a Bush employee, came up with the bailout and wanted absolutely authority over the bill. It was the democrats who tried to prevent unchecked compensations for the crooked bankers.
Virtually all governance involves redistribution of wealth, and you should be damn happy about it too. In the US, the government provides us with infrastructure, police, military, firefighters, social security, medicare, medicaid, public education, unemployment benefits, etc. Thus, the question is not whether the government should redistribute wealth but how much should be redistributed. Many of us, though by no means all, believe that the government should be involved in assuring that all have access to affordable healthcare, equal opportunity in education, assistance if laid off, etc. This requires that people are taxed in order to aid the disadvantaged. If you are in favor of these types of policies, then greater redistribution may be necessary. I, personally, believe that those of us who make $250,000 can afford small tax increases so that those of us who haven't been as fortunate, or lucky, in life can see some improvement in living standards. Some will argue that those earning that much have worked hard to get where they are. Yet, this ignores the fact that many, many (far more, likely) others have worked just as hard and gotten nowhere. We are not all subject to the same opportunities. A little redistribution may be necessary to ensure that those disadvantaged by birth, or location, or circumstance, may see modest increases in their lot in life. I recognize that this is a controversial opinion, but I do believe it. I personally find it morally reprehensible that there are multi-millionaires and billionaires who can have anything they could ever need and then some while, at the same time, there is widespread and pervasive poverty.
Taxes paid for infrastructure are fine as they should be maintained , but redistributing the wealth..medicare and social security where 80% is spent on administrative costs is not. Charities can't do this as they have strict laws to adhere to about what percentage need to go to those they are helping (98%, I think).
Redistributing the wealth is Socialism, plain and simple.
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Er, I don't write that much on this forum- especially when compared to others on the site. 
