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Originally Posted by Raharu Haruha
Actually, that sounds a lot like the stock market. 1/3 of Americans own stocks, and that statistic should be doubled in my opinion. The stock market (as I'm sure you all know) is a way for common people to invest money into corporations. There may still be the extremely rich, but they're working with you - not against you. In other words, if they buy the same stock as you, you profit along side him. So anyone could be rich.
What I so commonly see socialist do is take money from the rich and give it to the poor. What I also commonly see is that the number of businesses they have compared to America is pathetic. America's GDP is far greater than any other nation, but socialists have the audacity to claim to be better. In America we have a lot of poor, it's true, but if you knew about our poverty line, you would realize that our poor are the envy of the world. Not only that, but we put more money into social programs than practically any other nation, and we can do this with out taxing insane amounts because our base amount is insanely high.
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I think it's funny that we see socialists as taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor. Obama has pledged to raise the capital gains tax. While he knows that this will hurt the economy to the point where the government makes
less money with a
higher tax, he supports it in the interest of fairness. In a way, Obama, the most socialist candidate for the presidency we've seen since LBJ does not propose to take money from the rich and give it to the poor, he proposes we take money from everybody; the government, the poor, and the rich, just so we can take
more money for the rich so that the gap in wealth will decrease. This isn't even true socialism, its suicidal socialism that hurts everybody, especially when the government loses money so it has less to give to the poor in the socialist system that they supported in the first place. Capital drives the economy, accept it!