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I do believe this is true and also what drives the NWO fear. People have to have that boogyman in the closet to blame things on and will not accept the fact that their problems may just be part of the cycle of life. They feel the need to have someone as the cause of their pain.
Certainly there is an endless amount of corruption and greed among the rich but their are also many self made people who achieved what they have. I would suggest if people are feeling so controlled that they join the wealthy and become one themselves.
It's not hard and if you are not rich or not in the process of becoming wealthy you lack one of three things:
The desire
The intelligence
The hard work
People need to ask themselves which of those areas they are failing in and address that instead of shifting blame to those that have already made it.
Yes that's fair! He has so much money sitting in a bank! SO MUCH MONEY!!!!!!! He should pay 50X more in taxes than what ordinary Americans do.
I'm sure Bill Gates pays more in taxes in one year than you will in your entire lifetime yet receives no more benefits from the State than you do.
Is that fair?
He should at least get a statue of him placed somewhere.
Originally posted by TupacShakur
reply to post by kro32
Yes that's fair! He has so much money sitting in a bank! SO MUCH MONEY!!!!!!! He should pay 50X more in taxes than what ordinary Americans do.
I'm sure Bill Gates pays more in taxes in one year than you will in your entire lifetime yet receives no more benefits from the State than you do.
Is that fair?
It's not unfair that people who have so much money that they can't even spend it all would have to pay more in taxes than those who can barely scrape by, it's unfair that those who can barely scrape by have to pay the same amount in taxes than those who have tons of money.
Tell me kro, what is fair about somebody who has money stacked up to the ceiling of a bank vault paying the same amount of money in taxes than somebody who is stressing about paying the bills in time? What, is that too hard on the rich? Does that hurt their feelings that the millions of dollars that they aren't using could be used to help this country out, especially in a time of need?
What is your logic in thinking that the rich should be taxed the same as the poor?
He should at least get a statue of him placed somewhere.
It's not hard and if you are not rich or not in the process of becoming wealthy you lack one of three things:
The desire
The intelligence
The hard work
I don't care if it's like communism, it's fair! What happened to that fairness that you were talking about in your last post kro?
So you want a society where everybody is exactly even? Like communism?
I believe the system you seek currently exists in China and you can probably get a flight there tonight if you hurry.
Because somebody, God forbid, earns more than you they shouldn't have to give their money away till you both are equal.
Originally posted by kro32
I believe that as long as their is one single millionaire in the world people like you would say they are the root of all evil because they simply have more than you.
Originally posted by soficrow
The so-called "Global Financial Crisis" simply redistributed and concentrated the world's wealth into very, very few hands. Lowly wage earners are carrying the nation's debt - now $14,588,853,570,235.83 - but the rich get to sock it away.
Originally posted by kro32
reply to post by haarvik
It's a very slippery slope to start dictating to people how successful they can be. Who will make that decision and what qualifies them to do so.
Originally posted by TupacShakur
reply to post by kro32
I don't care if it's like communism, it's fair! What happened to that fairness that you were talking about in your last post kro?
So you want a society where everybody is exactly even? Like communism?
I believe the system you seek currently exists in China and you can probably get a flight there tonight if you hurry.
Because somebody, God forbid, earns more than you they shouldn't have to give their money away till you both are equal.
It's unfair to you that Mr. Drives A Porche In A $4000 Tuxedo On The Way To His Yacht Club has to pay more in taxes than somebody who drives a car that badly needs maintenance on the way to their less than decent paying job? :bnghd:
If somebody has tons of money that they are not using, then some of that money should be used to help out the country, especially in a time of need like now. Making the argument that I think we should scrap out form of government and follow in Chinas footsteps is a huge leap, I'm just saying tax the people who have 500X more money that the average person more than the average person, how is that wrong?edit on 12-8-2011 by TupacShakur because: Toe dit my post