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originally posted by: thisguyrighthere
So how does taking 80% of what some rich guy has help put money in my pocket?
Is it supposed to trickle down from the government to me? My taxes will go away? My mortgage will get paid? Cars will become more affordable? Food and gas won't be going up week after week?
Connect the dots for me. Don't use hypothetical or promises of government action because those are fairy tales.
Take a dollar from a rich man and increase my quality of life. Go through it from A to B to C so I can see how this action will directly benefit me.
originally posted by: AlaskanDad
You must have missed the memo; anyone that make under a million a year shall be housed by our private prison industry,
Oops looks like you missed the memo because your income is under the cut off line.
Better luck in your next life!
originally posted by: BlueMule
The rich are too Damn rich, and the poor are too Damn poor. What we need is an army of mutant Robin Hoods to track down the pricks that are hoarding all the power and wealth and make some heads roll.
originally posted by: BlueMule
Let's just round up all the hyper-rich fat cats and figure out which ones are sociopaths and psychopaths. The ones that are, will have their assets taken and put in the hands of responsible people with a heart.
No one earns a fortune in a vacuum. It takes a village to make a fortune, and so it should benefit the entire village, not a mere handful of greedy sociopaths.
originally posted by: jimmyx
originally posted by: thisguyrighthere
So how does taking 80% of what some rich guy has help put money in my pocket?
Is it supposed to trickle down from the government to me? My taxes will go away? My mortgage will get paid? Cars will become more affordable? Food and gas won't be going up week after week?
Connect the dots for me. Don't use hypothetical or promises of government action because those are fairy tales.
Take a dollar from a rich man and increase my quality of life. Go through it from A to B to C so I can see how this action will directly benefit me.
I can show you how it has hurt you....www.truth-out.org...
how much longer are you going to stay in the bent-over position for these people?.....how much income do Americans have to give up to satisfy these people?....how much more wealth from the middle class and poor, needs to be transferred up to these people before you can "connect the dots"?
originally posted by: SacredLore
- Untreated vegetables and fruit in open containers: 0% sales tax
- Processed food in plastic wrapping: 15% sales tax
originally posted by: Tarzan the apeman.
a reply to: grandmakdw I personally don't think the money is going to trickle down to any body Once Uncle Scam gets his greedy little fingers on it. It will be game over man. Hate to ask this ..............How does one do a post on here? Is there a post button?
originally posted by: BlueMule
The rich are too Damn rich, and the poor are too Damn poor. What we need is an army of mutant Robin Hoods to track down the pricks that are hoarding all the power and wealth and make some heads roll.
originally posted by: SacredLore
a reply to: grandmakdw
I find the only fair system is sales tax and abolish income tax. There is nothing wrong with people producing things that others like and receiving money in exchange.
originally posted by: BlueMule
Let's just round up all the hyper-rich fat cats and figure out which ones are sociopaths and psychopaths. The ones that are, will have their assets taken and put in the hands of responsible people with a heart.
No one earns a fortune in a vacuum. It takes a village to make a fortune, and so it should benefit the entire village, not a mere handful of greedy sociopaths.
originally posted by: BlueMule
Let's just round up all the hyper-rich fat cats and figure out which ones are sociopaths and psychopaths. The ones that are, will have their assets taken and put in the hands of responsible people with a heart.
No one earns a fortune in a vacuum. It takes a village to make a fortune, and so it should benefit the entire village, not a mere handful of greedy sociopaths.
originally posted by: GiulXainx
a reply to: Greven
You have to give something to get something..... you have to take something to replace something else. Think about it this way. Rich people get the flat tax rate. They suddenly have buying power. They invest in say.... Samsung. ... or toyota.... or king scoopers. That money they spend in investments helps a company to pay their bills and their people..... suddenly they can afford better health care options for employees. Give raises higher than a nickel. Let them explore different options with their R&D teams. And ultimately.... LOWER THE PRICES OF THEIR GOODS.
The rich the rich the rich the rich the rich the rich the rich the rich THE RICH. Is all I hear coming from you. It seems like Rich is the new bad word of the 21st century. The new insult is "the rich." The new scapegoat is "the rich." It is no longer gatecrashing... its The rich.
The stock market is nothing like 30 years ago because no one wants to make a bet anymore. The rich people are constantly paying special interest prices for a brighter future. Meanwhile the old me saw rich people as these stuck up individuals who laugh at us poor people. And dangle a little disco ball above our houses and say "dance suckah!"
But then.... I drove a cab for a few years. And finally spoke with the two a hokes behind the uber app 7 months before it went live on the app stores. Met with a producer for energy efficient "grow lights." Met 7 different investors who constantly went back and forth to western union in lone tree. And even met three heavt tippers who I never got to know. My tip was 2,000.
All of these people I talked to were very powerfull people. And I always wanted to punch them in the face.
I argued with these a h's while I drove them to their destination until finally.... like I said... came to a new conclusion. Each and every RICH person I met was interested in furthering their companies. But because of the whole circus show that we forced the irs yo impose on the rich they can't do ANYTHING.
Companies are dying. It is not just microsoft wanting to sell tge xbox division. It is not just Sony killing the vaio and reverting back to lcd zcreens. It is not just TESLA trying to fight new york and new jersy over some stupid dealership clause. It is not only amd struggling to keep up with demand for litecoin rigs. It isn't just wal mart that has suddenly started getting into organic products. It isn't just farmers growing nothing but corn anymore.
This enture Fn country is eating itself alive. And you think China's ghost cities isn't going to happen here.
Seriously I will uphold the flat tax rate argument because you only think they are about staying rich when it is so much more than that. Take the PS4 vs XB1 for example here. PS4 finally came to be due to the fact that 5 chairmen gave up their bonuses to make the ps4 happen. "The rich" is the ps4. Then you have the xb1 come out with the worst news for console gamers. A drm system that utilizes a camera to ensure copyright claims. The xb1 is me 3 years ago attacking tge rich people by arguing with them in my cabs. Which console is the popular choice?
originally posted by: beezzer
originally posted by: BlueMule
The rich are too Damn rich, and the poor are too Damn poor. What we need is an army of mutant Robin Hoods to track down the pricks that are hoarding all the power and wealth and make some heads roll.
You do realize that Robin Hood took from the government who was taxing the people too much and returned the money to the tax payers, don't you?
originally posted by: SacredLore
a reply to: grandmakdw
I find the only fair system is sales tax and abolish income tax. There is nothing wrong with people producing things that others like and receiving money in exchange.