WalMart (walton) family are too rich, we must confiscate their money

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  1. iJoeTime

    iJoeTime Banned

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    My Bullsh!t meter just pinged hard. The idea that the wealthy should just have the bank accounts wiped by the Gov is not a mainstream idea. Stop promoting it. You are just trying to incite more division, no one is buying your crap.
     
  2. Sadistic-Savior

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    Tell me, how exactly do you determine how much wealth an individual is allowed to have? $100,000? 1 million? 10 million?

    How do you objectively determine that figure? Does Obama have too much money as well?
     
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    Sadistic-Savior New Member Past Donor

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    Who is "we" paleface?

    I dont recall electing you to speak for me.
     
  4. Mac-7

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    I know.

    Maybe they'll become more serious after they start shaving.
     
  5. Talon

    Talon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    *GASP* :omfg:

    Subversive, counter-revolutionary Capitalist running dog!!!

    The 99% denounces you, Sec !!!


    /Comrade Gorby Obamachev out
     
  6. Hard-Driver

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    Considering you have complained about the poor not paying enough taxes and only have commented on welfare cuts, I assume you believe that the government should take money from the poor and use it for corporate welfare and spending on the military industrial complex.

    Yes, the government is allowed to tax, and the wealthy should pay a tax rate higher than the middle class. Yes, the government is allowed to spend our tax dollars as our elected officials see fit. I Personally would rather the government give my money to a hungry child or to put a roof over a mentally retarded persons head than give it to Exxon Mobil or Halliburton.

    Considering the spending orgy that the last republican congress went on, I really have no idea how anyone thinks republicans are any better than democrats.
     
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    I think the poor should pay their fair share to support the government.

    After all they get equal protection from the government and the same right to vote as everyone else so they should help pay for it too.
     
  8. Hard-Driver

    Hard-Driver Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It is because sec can't argue against what liberal are actually saying, so he has to make up strawman arguments. What is funny, is he actually believes his own garbage.
     
  9. sec

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    you seem to be confusing me with someone else young grasshopper. You have this viewpoint that all rational Americans hate the poor and don't support welfare. You are sadly mistaken

    to the topic

    this is about how wealthy the Walton family is and, in keeping with Obama's class warfare and the people who occupy everything but a job, it is very current. Here is an example of a family who should be targeted not only by Obama and his class warfare but the occupy anything but a job people should be demanding the govt cease the assets of the Waltons. They got their wealth the old fashioned way vs getting it from the govt. That should not be tolerated
     
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    ...and there are plenty of new articles being written about the moon landing, the JFK assassination, and 911, but they are properly placed in the basement, and not taken seriously either.
     
     
     
     
    If legislation needs to be made it should address the cronyism capitalism that exists that allows mega corporations to accumulate such wealth by having the best government corporate money can buy, over regulating these corporate sleaze balls, competition, and providing them with exclusive contracts, grants, exemptions, and loopholes, that the average business owner is completely devastated before they even have the opportunity to be a contender.
     
     
    If white collar criminals were pursued the way a pot smoker (more corporate terrorism that is allowed to exist) is, the economy of this nation wouldn't be in the crapper and about 90% of the main street ghost towns that are deteriorating as we speak, would most likely still be self sustaining communities.
     
     
    We the people allowed it to happen because the rich/elites promised so much with their trickle down this, and free trade that, that we can no longer make a difference even at the ballot box. Those are controlled by the rich/elites two party scam as well. No matter how you slice it these days, we the people lose.
     
    The wallyworld’s are a perfect example of how and why the government is broken, for sale to the highest bidder, and to a point that it can only get worse to make it better.
     
  11. Landru Guide Us

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    The Walton family of leeches are posterboys for what is wrong with conservative America. Billionaire trust fund babies who never worked a day in their lives squeezing out pennies of profit from sweatshops around the world.

    Sick.
     
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    You my friend are delusional.
     
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    It would be relevent if Obama or the democrats were saying anything like what you say, but they are not. You are making ficticious statements. No one is saying to seize their wealth. The only argument is to raise their tax rate to something other than historical lows, say like to the level when Reagan was President.

    So I am sorry if I confused you with someone else. How about you correct your delusional claims.
     
  14. sec

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    so your assertion is that only children of conservatives get handed down family money or family businesses?

    And, even if that were true (k-e-n-n-e-d-y comes to mind) in your opinion they should not get it.
     
  15. sec

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    have you not had access to news over the past couple years?

    What do you call it when the POTUS refers to "spreading it around" or that a person "makes enough" or what do you call it when those who occupy everything but a job want free stuff and their student loans paid off. Or, those who occupy everything but a job move into private property as trespassers because they need a meeting place and state they should be allowed the use of the building


    nah.....none of that is redistribution is it???

    too much kool aid can be harmful to ones self so you may want to slow down your intake.
     
  16. Landru Guide Us

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    So there is some disbute as to whether the billionaire Walton trust fund leeches are rich?

    Only in ********** world.
     
  17. Landru Guide Us

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    What?

    The issue is taxing the superwealthy, which is the sine qua non for correcting the misallocation of capital that occurs when too much wealth is accumulated by too few people, especially trust fund (*)(*)(*)(*) heads like the Walmart kids.

    You seem to be struggling for a theme in this thread. It's pretty funny to watch.
     
  18. sec

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    not at all.

    it is the off the wall comments from you and the other liberals which make my point. Your envy blinds you. Since you don't have what they have then nobody should
     
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    You mean the "off the wall" comment that the superwealthy are undertaxed and their capital misallocated to speculative markets?

    It's not off the wall at all. It's an economic fact.

    And you're point is . . . that the Walmart billionaire brats are put upon?
     
  20. sec

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    undertaxed and the very cute word misallocated are merely your opinion and the opinion of other liberals who believe you are entitled to the fruits of the labor of others.

    I am not bothered in any way shape or form that the Walton family has that much wealth. I applaud them and their foundation and the billions they have donated. I appreciate the foresight of Sam Walton and the creation of WalMart
     
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    The fact that you're not bothered shows you completely misunderstand what's wrong with our economy and how accumulation of wealth into the hands of a few on a level that is now happening, leds to misallocation of vast amounts of capital into unproductive speculative markets.

    Which is of course exactly what caused the Bush meltdown.

    But if you don't care about real problems and instead just want to parrot ********** memes about how income disparity doesn't matter, be my guest. It's what conservatives do -- deny real problems and talk about "in God we trust " on coins.

    It is amusing, however, to see the pretense of stiff upper lip libertarian rugged pseudoindividualism as the answer to complex macroeconomic problems. So proceed.
     
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    The land of opportunity does not mean take from people that were motivated enough to succees.

    You might as well be the leader of the "New Bolshevic Revolution" with your attitude.

    Personally I just think your nothing but a jealous, unmotivated prick that never took advantage of socialized schooling and didn't have the brains or the intelligence to do nothing other than sit at home on your mommy and daddy's internet and whine about other people's success.
     
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    So when does being related to someone now mean that you are the creator of wealth? Inheritance law has been a drag on the USA society since it's inception. This has nothing to do with taxes and everything to do with "why does someone get to keep their parent's fortune even if that person can not count to 10"?
     
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    walton is an example of a corporate parasite, like the home depot founder.

    they build cuthroat businesses that pay people slave wages, export slave labor, and make the moral businesses close down

    also the founder came from the south, that kind of business is tradition there
     
  25. GiveUsLibertyin2012

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