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Yes, tax the Super Rich. Tax them now. Before the other 99% rise up, trigger a new American Revolution, a meltdown and the Great Depression 2.
Revolutions build over long periods — to critical mass, a flash point. Then they ignite suddenly, unpredictably. Like Egypt, started on a young Google executive’s Facebook page. Then it goes viral, raging uncontrollably. Can’t be stopped. Here in America the set-up is our nation’s pervasive “Super-Rich Delusion.”
Yes, tax the Super Rich. Tax them now. Before the other 99% rise up, trigger a new American Revolution, a meltdown and the Great Depression 2.
Revolutions build over long periods — to critical mass, a flash point. Then they ignite suddenly, unpredictably. Like Egypt, started on a young Google executive’s Facebook page. Then it goes viral, raging uncontrollably. Can’t be stopped. Here in America the set-up is our nation’s pervasive “Super-Rich Delusion.”
plus this thread is out there a revoultion against rich people like say bill gates who made his money by creating something useful and from hardwork and by learning how things work and trying to make them better... now on the other hand paris hilton should pay more taxes because she does not contribute anything of value call it the "I am rich but never earned it stupid tax"
At 13 \ When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School's rummage sale to buy an ASR-33 teletype terminal and a block of computer time on a General Electric (GE) computer for the school's students.[17] Gates took an interest in programming the GE system in BASIC, and was excused from math classes to pursue his interest. He wrote his first computer program on this machine: an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer. Gates was fascinated by the machine and how it would always execute software code perfectly. When he reflected back on that moment, he said, "There was just something neat about the machine."
After the Mothers Club donation was exhausted, he and other students sought time on systems including DECPDP minicomputers. One of these systems was a PDP-10 belonging to Computer Center Corporation (CCC), which banned four Lakeside students—Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Kent Evans—for the summer after it caught them exploiting bugs in the operating system to obtain free computer time.
At the end of the ban, the four students offered to find bugs in CCC's software in exchange for computer time. Rather than use the system via teletype, Gates went to CCC's offices and studied source code for various programs that ran on the system, including programs in FORTRAN, LISP, and machine language. The arrangement with CCC continued until 1970, when the company went out of business.
OP what were you doing at 13? I bet it was not learning computer code over summer and helping to creating a better OS
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He says people are going to revolt because the rich are too rich. I don't buy that.
I think the people will revolt when they lose their entitlements.
He goes on to compare what America is experiencing to Egypt...which is insane.
Most jobs in Egypt pay too little, and most food costs too much.
You can look at America's obesity problem and see....we don't have that problem.
Still, if we suddenly cut out all the entitlements and Americans saw what they'd really have to spend to create the same Socialistic network of programs, I'm sure there would be some kind of mass mayhem where they demanded someone take care of them again.
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Originally Posted by my54ford
Someones been reading too much Marx and Lenin
Maybe you should study the history of that revoultion before you advocate another workers revolt
Yeah, dude's a total nutbag. That's pretty obvious.
He says people are going to revolt because the rich are too rich. I don't buy that. I think the people will revolt when they lose their entitlements.
He goes on to compare what America is experiencing to Egypt...which is insane.
Most jobs in Egypt pay too little, and most food costs too much.
You can look at America's obesity problem and see....we don't have that problem.
Still, if we suddenly cut out all the entitlements and Americans saw what they'd really have to spend to create the same Socialistic network of programs, I'm sure there would be some kind of mass mayhem where they demanded someone take care of them again.
Yeah, dude's a total nutbag. Glad you caught the sarcasm.
as long as we have cheap food, cable TV and a warm place to live we won't do anything since all our basic needs are met and we are too divided and well somewhat lazy to do anything
Yep, more tax for the top 1% - who already pay 38% of federal income tax - so that the bottom 50% - who pay just 2.7% - can keep their entitlements. Sounds fair to me
Yes, the middle class working people aren't going to revolt because they have bills to pay, children to raise, jobs they must go to.
The day the food stamp card isn't refilled on schedule, or the welfare check didn't arrive on time is the day there will be some revolting.
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