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If the democrats were serious, people like The Clinton's, the Kennedy's, Oprah wpuld be more socialist and less capitalist. Oprah is probably the most successful and manages to accumulate vast amounts riches. Why does her entire check not go straight to Chicago politicians to be redistributed to the more unfortunate.
Better yet let's get congress to pass a 90% tax on the entertainment business.
At issue is not what defines "rich". I don't care how much someone has in their bank account. But when CEO's are giving themselves multi-million $ bonuses and salary increases, regardless of performance and the average workers salaries have stagnated for a decade, that is an abuse of power.
At issue is not what defines "rich". I don't care how much someone has in their bank account. But when CEO's are giving themselves multi-million $ bonuses and salary increases, regardless of performance and the average workers salaries have stagnated for a decade, that is an abuse of power.
It's hard to understand the "thinking" of those (repubs) who hate paying taxes yet worship the wealthy and think that the executives who got huge bonuses (our taxes) for their attack on the U.S. economy EARNED it!
It's hard to understand the "thinking" of those (repubs) who hate paying taxes yet worship the wealthy and think that the executives who got huge bonuses (our taxes) for their attack on the U.S. economy EARNED it!
First off - who says Republicans are the only ones who "hate paying taxes"? And, your post implies that only Republicans are the wealthy - which of course is not true.
Also, and this is purely a guess but, I would bet that there were more than a few Democrats who recieved bonus's from AIG
At issue is not what defines "rich". I don't care how much someone has in their bank account. But when CEO's are giving themselves multi-million $ bonuses and salary increases, regardless of performance and the average workers salaries have stagnated for a decade, that is an abuse of power.
Well of course they would...if the business was deemed to big to fail no reason to worry. Only in America will private enterprises be broken up for being monopolies and then the government that broke the private ones up then create their own monopoly. 100% governments fault for using tax payer dollars to run a enterprise in the free market and when it fails, as it surely would at some point, government then acts like they don't know how it happened. No kidding? Oh the sheeple... The last section of the fence is being built and they're literally handing them the materials. You know what happens when the sheep are fully surrounded by fences..
It's hard to understand the "thinking" of those (repubs) who hate paying taxes yet worship the wealthy and think that the executives who got huge bonuses (our taxes) for their attack on the U.S. economy EARNED it!
Silly rabbit tricks are for kids. It was Obama, Dodd and Geithner went with that not republicans. Or is the democratic majority in every branch being filibustered by the republicans still? 06-08 Democrats have had power for a while now when the hell do they start being held accountable by you folks? Would a dictatorship finally wake you up?
"""Now let's get to work. Everyone who got up early, went to school, played by the rules, make good choices - let's make sure they don;t make too much money - it is only fair because they made good decisions and thus we don't want them to get too far ahead of everyone else- it is only FAIR."""
YUP, last 8 years we did EXACTLY that! In case you hadn't noticed THOSE people are also OUT OF A JOB!
And ONLY morons think all the wealthy worked their way out of a ghetto and struggled to the top.
" [the] last eight years...", blah, blah blah. Blame the rest of your entire sorry life on "the last eight years then". See if anyone cares. You ought to be more concerned with the next four years (and hope it won't be eight).
Only morons think that a poor person can't work their way out of a ghetto. But when you keep telling a person that they can't, and that they have no chance, they are less likely to try.
No one here ever said all the wealthy started out poor (or middle class). But it is certainly safe to say that most did (may depend on your definition of "wealthy").
A child growing up in a wealthy home still has to make his or her own way. Even if a parent can afford the best schools for a child, it is no guarantee that child will be "successful" (whatever your definition of "success" is). It is certainly no guarantee that they will be rich. There is an old saying that "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink".
By the same token, many poorer children have grown to be quite successful, and even wealthy.
Why do leftists always assume that the poor are destined to remain poor, and that it is the rich that are putting them in that position? That is utter nonsense, and just plain garbage!
The leftists continue to foment this class envy. Yet children who are raised in homes of lower income people have the same wherewithal as anybody else to get ahead in life. No one is holding them back.
There is no country in the world that offers more opportunity to improve ones standard of living than the U.S. There is no other country in the world where it is easier to become wealthy (if that is a desired goal), if one strives for it, and has the ambition, skill, and is of at least average intelligence. If there is such a country, name it.
If the democrats were serious, people like The Clinton's, the Kennedy's, Oprah wpuld be more socialist and less capitalist. Oprah is probably the most successful and manages to accumulate vast amounts riches. Why does her entire check not go straight to Chicago politicians to be redistributed to the more unfortunate.
Better yet let's get congress to pass a 90% tax on the entertainment business.
Never happen. The Hollywood crowd gives a lot of campaign money to the Left.
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