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Old 09-29-2014, 06:55 AM
 
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I'm not a liberal because I seriously have no idea what you or the other people on this board think that is (I'm guessing the American left), but since I don't even know what the money is going to be used for, I'd have to say no.

It could be used to build bombs or something.
So if it's used for a purpose you like, then you're okay with taxing away 90+ percent of someone's earnings? You see no moral problem with someone working a lifetime to build up their wealth in a legal manner and then having the government come in and take it all away?

 
Old 09-29-2014, 07:18 AM
 
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If you could vote to confiscate everything and all the money that the top 1% (in terms of being rich) have, would you? And why or why not?

Think about this carefully before you answer, please.
No, why the hell would I do that?

/fail thread.

Yet another giant conservative strawman.
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