What I acknowledge is the influence that wealth and power have on our country. So no, wealth on it's own is not holding down the middle class, but...
Corruption is everywhere. The only thing "inherent" is that you can find human beings in all walks of life (public and private) who are corrupt....
No, it's that you are trying to ascribe your own meaning to my words. Inequality of opportunity is ALWAYS what my concern is when I talking about...
As for wage growth at the middle, I already stated that a robust middle class is not an inevitability of human society. It didn't exist before...
I think you are reading into that too much. I'm simply using a term, and you are trying to ascribe meaning to it that isn't there. My concern...
We have an economic system where the fruits of labor are not dispersed equality. Whether one can directly show middle class incomes shrinking (or...
I don't have to prove a correlation because I'm not concerned with whether a direct link exists or not. I stated that my concern is the growing...
Post war until roughly the 1970s, increases in income in all quintiles more or less moved together. The bottom quintile increased with the top...
I don't think your baseball analogy works, as runs are mostly a product of one team's output, whereas the wealth created in our economy is created...
I didn't say the wealthy are deliberately stealing wealth. People are doing what people do, looking out for their own interests. But there was a...
I believe Stephen Colbert said it best when he said, "reality has a well-known liberal bias." When I say partisan, I'm talking about taking jabs...
Yes, wealth is created. We can all agree on that. I don't need to be lectured. And I cannot speak for Democrats or even fellow liberals, but I...
Yep, because use of "OWEblamer" really kept you above the fray. :roll:
Facts can be used for partisan purposes if you remove context. The way you explain it, the president sets the agenda, and congress always falls in...
And here I thought the constitution charges congress (and specifically the House) with the budget. Silly me. But yes, this is typical of partisan...
This is a false equivalence argument, which is true on some fronts, but not others. For example, when it comes to economic issues, you are...
Hence why I said give deference (where due). And being skeptical of climate science is one thing, saying it's a hoax created by liberals (for god...
This is complete nonsense. Everything you just said is in total conflict to my own experience going from a center-right Republican to a very...
You are correct, but one key difference is that the NFL is not trying to raise capital through Vegas speculation. There might be some offshoot...
No, but college football players deserve to get in on some action. And yes, I know why you are asking me that question. But the NCAA is a perfect...
Well, you did make an analogy regarding complaining about wealth, and talked about the lack of justification for outlawing it. And you said it in...
I'm not complaining, I'm saying we could stand to tax that wealth at a higher rate. I'm not trying to abolish it. I'm not trying to fundamentally...
Nobody is talking about outlawing or inhibiting wealth. We are talking about, first, acknowledging that massive wealth inequality is a problem,...
As usual, a debate with someone on the Right is always accompanied by mocking, along with derogatory remarks about intelligence, as if anyone...
While not for the reason you state, which is biased at best, I'm no fan of the Affordable Care Act. I never said anything about the one...
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