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You shouldn't call them evil, but they aren't normal. They have a different personality-profile than the rest of us, and they are trying to recreate the world in their image.
Well then take all the money from the rich and give it to the poor.
Now everyone is poor so what do you plan to do next month for money ?
If you were to divide up every penny in the wold and distribute it equally so that everyone has the exact same amount, before very long the former rich would once again be wealth, and the former poor would once again be poor.
The poor are poor by their own choice, they have the work ethic and the desire that place them at the level they achieved, as did the wealth, and all of those in between.
LOL. Everybody in US is filthy rich in the eyes of the rest of the world.
All of us must have personality disorder.
That's true, but some people are worse than others.
I lived in Shirgah for a month, it is a small village in northern Iran.
Most people didn't care if you used their hill, or ate food at there house, or whatever.
But Americans are financially insecure, so any stranger using their property is a threat to their income, so they see others as obstacles that must be worked around.
That all being said, the richer you are, the worse it gets.
When you have capital, financial assets, and mansions, you don't even wish to consume your own wealth. Houses lay untouched because they need them to keep a market sale value, and all personal relationships are heavily faked.
So disorder get's worse once you pass a certain wealth limit.
edit: look how deranged Warren Buffet is, he clings to his wealth yet lives in a $700,000 home, no serious person is this desperate to keep their wealth.
That's true, but some people are worse than others.
I lived in Shirgah for a month, it is a small village in northern Iran.
Most people didn't care if you used their hill, or ate food at there house, or whatever.
But Americans are financially insecure, so any stranger using their property is a threat to their income, so they see others as obstacles that must be worked around.
That all being said, the richer you are, the worse it gets.
When you have capital, financial assets, and mansions, you don't even wish to consume your own wealth. Houses lay untouched because they need them to keep a market sale value, and all personal relationships are heavily faked.
So disorder get's worse once you pass a certain wealth limit.
edit: look how deranged Warren Buffet is, he clings to his wealth yet lives in a $700,000 home, no serious person is this desperate to keep their wealth.
Worse in what way? Having money is a crime now?
The poor as a group commit almost all the violent crimes including murders and don’t give a crap about their children and don’t pay their fair share into the society.
The poor as a group commit almost all the violent crimes including murders and don’t give a crap about their children and don’t pay their fair share into the society.
Where’s the moral high ground?
Most average people aren't criminals. Nor are most rich people criminals.
I don't care about the rich. They make more than the poor and the middle class because they exploit their labor. In the 1950's under Ike, the millionaires paid 90% income tax and the economy was booming. Let them pay 90% again. In countries like Japan, CEO's used to have a cap on their wages based on a multiple of the salary of the lowest paid worker. When I worked we were given a 2-1/2% average raise one year while the CEO awarded himself a $60 million dollar bonus for the year, accumulated from the savings from the low raises given to 15,000 workers. You just don't get it. If incomes are unfair, then taxes should be unfair too. If the millionaires pay 90% that is fair, because they make hundreds of times more than we do for the same 40 hours or 60 hours of work. They are only successful because they keep the lions share for themselves.
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Originally Posted by InformedConsent
Here's why...
Given: a 15% flat income tax rate that applies to everyone.
Person A earns $50,000 and pays $7,500
Person B earns $5 million and pays $750,000
See the HUGE difference in what each is paying for access to the exact same Fed Gov services and benefits? Why isn't the HUGE difference in what each one pays enough for the incessant 'I'm obsessively jealous of the rich' whiners?
And before any idiot chimes in with, "But the rich use all kinds of tax deductions to lower their income." Stop and think about the veracity of what you're saying. If reducing one's income so much were so easy when filing with the IRS, no one would ever report an income of several millions of dollars to the IRS. Everyone would just magically be earning only $50,000, like Person A.
The truth? Person B and others like that are having to WAY overpay for the exact same thing that the whiners get for a LOT less.
Poor people suck too, but the rich have so much that they fear losing it.
So their life becomes related to clinging on to what wealth they have, creating abnormal personality disorders.
are these poor that suck more than 1%?
What is your experience with the 1%? You're a psychiatrist and have diagnosed a lot of them?
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