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We live in a nation where suggesting increasing taxes on the rich at a moment when the gap between the rich and the poor is rapidly widening and social mobility is decreasing has folks calling you a communist, yet during the Cold War, when we were even more blindly and stupidly terrified of the left than we are now, our tax structure was far more progressive than it is now.
We live in a nation where suggesting increasing taxes on the rich at a moment when the gap between the rich and the poor is rapidly widening and social mobility is decreasing has folks calling you a communist, yet during the Cold War, when we were even more blindly and stupidly terrified of the left than we are now, our tax structure was far more progressive than it is now.
Taking more from one group will not change the income gap.
As far as the "income gap", it's a myth.
How can you add Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in with dish washers and floor sweepers?
When Rockefeller and the "robber barons" were millionaires, the average wage in America was about $1,500. annually.
Taking more from one group will not change the income gap.
As far as the "income gap", it's a myth.
How can you add Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in with dish washers and floor sweepers?
When Rockefeller and the "robber barons" were millionaires, the average wage in America was about $1,500. annually.
There was no income tax. How did things get done?
I really don't know how to respond to nonsense. There is not only an income gap - income being all forms of income and not just payroll income, and of course there is a gap in wealth.
I have no idea as to whether increasing taxes on the wealthy will actually change the gaps. The increase being proposed is only modest. I don't believe Warren is advocating making the wealthy into middle class citizens. She is advocating for the wealthy to pay more of the burden of operating our government which is running a deficit. However, if you increase the estate tax and took away all loop holes, that certainly would decrease the wealth gap, as generation upon generation are not allowed to continue their complete fortune forward.
I really don't know how to respond to nonsense. There is not only an income gap - income being all forms of income and not just payroll income, and of course there is a gap in wealth.
I have no idea as to whether increasing taxes on the wealthy will actually change the gaps. The increase being proposed is only modest. I don't believe Warren is advocating making the wealthy into middle class citizens. She is advocating for the wealthy to pay more of the burden of operating our government which is running a deficit. However, if you increase the estate tax and took away all loop holes, that certainly would decrease the wealth gap, as generation upon generation are not allowed to continue their complete fortune forward.
So, you feel that giving the federal government more money to spend (waste) is a good use of funds?
It's funny that the exact people who espouse giving more to the government fail to do so.
How much of my wealth would you say is fair to leave to my children?
Seriously, thats the best you could do against that incredibly "right on the money" video. What in the world would be sick-ass about it? Other than she's right!
Let me be clear....NOBODY starts a business with the focus on creating jobs.
Jobs are a side effect of a creative, willing, intelligent, brave person with an idea.
People start businesses with the dream of becoming wealthy and successful.
The left are delusional in thinking that it should be anything more.
You are compensated for your value to that business....nothing more, nothing less.
"But yet again, you ingnore Elizabeths basic truth...that the wealthy got wealthy on the backs of the rest of the Americans ensuring that they got wealthy. In a socialist, marxist, communist, dictatorial or any other kind of society....that can't happen. So what are you griping about.
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