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Correct.

 

Again wealth is a life time achievement award. What we tax is income. The average billionaire may actually earn under a million a year but has investments worth far more than that which he has accumulated over a lengthy period of time. What you pay in taxes is wholly unrelated to your wealth.

 

there are those of us white collar workers who work overtime endlessly without extra pay. But yet you defend the corporations? Hilarious.

 

Some are some aren't. The dude that runs the award winning narrative television net work is himself blind. Helen Keller was deaf and Blind and an award winning actress. People with frequency turn what seems to be insurmountable obstacles into inspirations for success. Yes it is much much easier to surrender and complain about life having dealt you a bad hand but it is also a hell of a lot less fun.

 

You don't like it go somewhere else. And yes I agree middle management suck brass balls. But just think you could be the CEO on call 24/7 whoxe vacations are always subject to an early ending because of almost anything. You could be the owner of small business who's working 16 hour days seven days a week often for not much more than a vision of where he will be in the future.

 

Except CEO's makes millions in compensation and have a real share in the company. The workers do make the same compensation.

 

That's one of the things I dislike most about Progressive 'Socialists'. They behave as though only the rich First World exists.

 

HAVE to? You're saying Americans are forced (at gunpoint, perhaps?) to live in the most expensive cities?

 

Why would you be 'on your own' unless you can afford to be (IOW, unless you're wealthy)?

 

help them with what? escape poverty? or stay poor?

 

Please say you're not attributing careful money management to 'brain capacity'.

 

If you claim to care about the poor, then the rest of the world matters VERY MUCH. That's where most of the world's poor reside.

 

Nonsense. No one (who is cognitively normal - please don't invoke exceptions) is prevented from achieving financial security. And those who choose not to educate themselves out of minimum wage jobs, can opt for the alternative path. Pooling resources with family to increase holdings and reduce costs.

 

O.M.G

 

Great post!

 

Like all those Really Smart sociology graduates waiting tables and manning drive-thru windows?

 

exactly! if you can't afford life on your own, don't be on your own. unbelievable that this needs saying.

 

What if we then just tax them 95% of everything that they own. If they are willing to starve me out, I am willing to act out in kind.

 

Clinton was no liberal. For what, national health insurance? Nixon wanted that too. He cut welfare severely, he instituted mandatory sentencing. He instituted treating crack as worse than coke, just because blacks did it. He did not allow gays to serve openly.
You got a warped view on being a progressive.

 

I didn't say anything about progressive i said liberal and no matter how much you want to coopt the term liberal to mean whatever you want that's not the truth.

Liberal and progressive are two vastly different things.

 

Oh yeah, that'll fix everything. Matter of fact, that's the common thinking of the majority of Democratic Socialists. Just go ahead and do it so half this country is starved off.

For those of you bitching about CEOs, go get yourself some. Quit the job you're bitching about and start your own business. You'll work like 10 hours a week and make millions. Like all CEOs do. In fantasy world.

 

But you just did!

 

You obviously have not read the Republican Manifesto...,er Platform in a long while. It has MORPHED into a Libertarian dirge that is DESTROYING We the People by enriching the GREED OBSESSED Wall Street Casino Bosses and the elite 1%.

That is their stipulated IDEOLOGY and they living DOWN to every aspect of it while ignoring the HARM they are causing to We the People.

 

Which will just RAISE the National Debt even FURTHER and IMPOVERISH We the People.

 

Libertarianism has ALWAYS been an ABJECT FAILURE on EVERY occasion that it has been attempted.