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When 0bama says the tax rates are unfair, it's intentionally vague.
Unfair means that something is unjust, that someone is getting preferential treatment at your expense, that somehow other people are getting an unfair and unethical advantage over you, and for some nefarious reason, the poor are getting screwed, and evil is afoot.
It does not matter that when a low income person files their income taxes they usually get back everything they paid in, and even get more back then they paid in, all that matters is that 0bama said it was "unfair".
As you are blind to see that we are also currently experiencing a period of rapid DOWNWARD wealth redistribution. For that, you can put the blame squarely on Democrats. Where else would they get their votes and power?
If you want to discuss things more analytically, you must see things as they are, not at media matters tells you to see them.
I don't read media matters, and we are not experiencing a period of downward wealth redistribution.
You are literally making things up.
The wealthy own a greater share of society's wealth than previously before. Don't try to crib my comments when you just regurgitate nonsense with no substance behind your comments.
Sure, I see opportunity all over the place, but I lack the capital and the right connections and right skills to take advantage of them.
There is an emerging body of literature on networks. It appears what the poor really need are better networks.
Yeah, because all of that will fall right in your lap. Go out and GET the capital, connections and skills.
I just moved to a different state where I know nobody. But I have a plan to start investing. I've got the beginnings of knowledge, and am working on the capital and connections. But I'm NOT sitting around whining about how someone needs to leave those things on my front steps.
Gawd, I am so sick of people that think everything will be handed to them. The poor don't need better networks, they need to get OUT AND FIND THEM.
Does this look like downward redistribution than you? Why is the bottom 80% in possession of smaller and smaller percentages of the financial wealth in the U.S.?
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Table 1: Distribution of net worth and financial wealth in the United States, 1983-2007
Total Net Worth
Top 1 percent Next 19 percent Bottom 80 percent
1983 33.8% 47.5% 18.7%
1989 37.4% 46.2% 16.5%
1992 37.2% 46.6% 16.2%
1995 38.5% 45.4% 16.1%
1998 38.1% 45.3% 16.6%
2001 33.4% 51.0% 15.6%
2004 34.3% 50.3% 15.3%
2007 34.6% 50.5% 15.0%
I don't read media matters, and we are not experiencing a period of downward wealth redistribution.
You are literally making things up.
The wealthy own a greater share of society's wealth than previously before. Don't try to crib my comments when you just regurgitate nonsense with no substance behind your comments.
How many middle and lower class people put themselves too far in debt to even make headway ?
Living above your means is no way to improve your financial status.
Debt is not wealth and debt will not make you wealthy..especially 40 year mortgages and 5-6 year car loans.
Owning the doorknob while the bank owns the rest of the house is not moving forward.
The Right complains about fairness because they have no ethics, morals, or principles. Everything they do is just when it's to their own advantage.
More reasons not to trust the Right.
Nice civility there. Have you heard nothing from Obama about keeping it civil?
Funny, I say the exact same thing about the Left. And I don't trust the Left, either.
I don't read media matters, and we are not experiencing a period of downward wealth redistribution.
You are literally making things up.
The wealthy own a greater share of society's wealth than previously before. Don't try to crib my comments when you just regurgitate nonsense with no substance behind your comments.
Please find a source to support this claim. I've worked in programs based on increasing access to higher education for the poor, and this absolutely flies in the face of reality.
So Harvard does get about $400,000,000 a year, and the poor do not get grants and tuition assistance, and the university did not raise its tuition by almost 4% during a time when we see inflation and a stagnant economy? Senior citizens have not seen a increase to their SS checks in two years, but Harvard raised its tuition 8% during those same two years?
Does this look like downward redistribution than you? Why is the bottom 80% in possession of smaller and smaller percentages of the financial wealth in the U.S.?
I guess we're discussing apples and oranges. What you call wealth redistribution, I call the fruits of capitalism.
What about the person that wants to live peacefull with a decent income and as little strife as possible? Why are these people never considered in your discussions? Why is everything about competition and continous "striving" to "get ahead"?
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