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Traders at Chicago’s Board of Trade Building scrawled a missive directed at the Occupy Chicago protestors with signs taped on their eighth floor windows declaring “We Are The 1%”. Chicago’s branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement are calling this response, “Wall Street’s 1st Large Scale Response in Chicago.”
This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, talk about Marie Antoinette's last words on a banner at the Chicago Board of Trade,
OMG, I saw that the other day and thought it was AWESOME, haha.
It's not the Chicago Board of Trade, it's some small <10 person company that does work associated with the Board.
The Board is a huge company, and the powers that be wouldn't let anyone get away with putting that up in the window. They'd see it as extremely class-less.
The top 10% pays 70% of the taxes. The bottom 90% need to pay their fair share IMO. Also we need to be strict about the social programs and how long they may be accessed.
I doubt somebody in the mailroom would have the cojones to put that up on the window of an office building...
Unlike the protesters they do appear to know how to spell. At least we know they got the better education and that would be why they are among the 1%. Good for them.
Traders at Chicago’s Board of Trade Building scrawled a missive directed at the Occupy Chicago protestors with signs taped on their eighth floor windows declaring “We Are The 1%”. Chicago’s branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement are calling this response, “Wall Street’s 1st Large Scale Response in Chicago.”
This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, talk about Marie Antoinette's last words on a banner at the Chicago Board of Trade,
Someone in the building was just being a smartass, but those two are advocating/suggesting violence without saying it outright (cowards... say what you REALLY want to say.)
The top 10% pays 70% of the taxes. The bottom 90% need to pay their fair share IMO. Also we need to be strict about the social programs and how long they may be accessed.
Oh what garbage. Do you spew this crap in public among intelligent informed fellow Americans? Who pays what taxes is a moot point when 20% of the population owns 97% of all private wealth in this country.
The top 10% pays 70% of the taxes. The bottom 90% need to pay their fair share IMO. Also we need to be strict about the social programs and how long they may be accessed.
Oh poor you.
I feel so sorry for you that you feel you're paying to many taxes on your $1,000,000 + pay check every year.
I'm so sorry that you actually only get to make $950,000 instead of $1,000,000. Let's start a fundraiser to get you your $50,000 back!
*If you're going to make stupid claims, at least cite a source.
This is what's wrong with the kids these days. They have the most amazing tools available to them, but they're too lazy to spend a sixth of a minute to use them.
The top 1% pay 38.02% of the income tax collected.
The top 10% pay 69.94% of the income tax collected.
The top 25% pay 86.34% of the income tax collected.
The top 50% pay 97.3% of the income tax collected. 97.3% The bottom 50% pay 2.7% of the income tax collected.
That 1% sure is evil! Blast them and their piddly 38%!
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