From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. -Democratic Party
Posted on 01/11/2007 6:22:55 AM PST by Quilla
Isn't this a true sliding tax scale????
If you're "poor", you get taxed NEGATIVE (i.e., you get money).
If you're "rich" - or just middle class (and I mean TRUE middle class, not the ever-creeping dumbing-down version the PC crowd is trying to push on us) - you're taxed POSITIVE (you lose your money).
"Frank and Gephardt consider the old hard-work formula dated and dysfunctional."
LOL and it's TRUE - EXACTLY BECAUSE you commie !$#!@#$ nullify hard work!!!!!
Hey Barney, how about medical insurance inequality. It seems that our elected officals are provided with the very best medical insurance that the voters are burdened to provide them with.
Don't talk about inequality when you along with other elected officals provide youselves with benifits that the voters can only dream about but in no way afford.
Barney, you and the rest of the elected officals are all smoke and mirrors.Don't feed us sh*t and tell us it's ice cream.
WOW!!!!
What an excellent illustration of what these people just don't seem to get.
Kudos to you.
"Arise, ye prisonsers of starvation...."
Barney knows all about "Buts."
I'd like to see someone do a study on the pay disparity between so called movie "stars" and entry level actors.
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". Believe that's how it goes, right out of the Manifesto.
However, let's get the Democrat demagogues out of the picture for a moment and examine the issue of CEO pay.
Bob Nardelli essentially got FIRED as Chairman of the Board for doing a poor job at Home Depot. In spite of that, the Board of Directors voted him a $210 million Golden Parachute at the expense of share holders (that would be the rest of us with mutual funds with Home Depot in our portfolios).
Bob Nardelli is was replaced by Frank Blake, the company's vice-chairman, who will now be the next in line at Home Depot to get a similar massive Golden Parachute, whether he does a good job or a terrible job, at stockholder expense.
Some corporations are "public" companies but are run as the personal enrichment piggy banks for the Board of Directors. That hurts the company, the stockholders, the employees and the consumer.
It's an issue that should be examined.
Too bad that the Democrats are using it to target everybody with a high income that actually earns it.
Go see your Hitch, ms pelosi. I seem to remember hearing she is the RICHEST house speaker ever.
How the 'Rats tell if you're rich: If you get a paycheck.
People should read "The Millionaire Next Door" by two authors whose names I can't remember. At any rate the authors show with a lot of stats that most present millionaires made their money not inherited it. And most of them never earned one hundred thousands dollars in a single year. They earned less than that, but by judicious saving and investing, they eventually reached millionaire status in total worth. The authors also show that many people who inherited money enver learned to manage it, and eventually squandered it. They prove that it is far better to be savvy money-wise and start out non-rich than to inherit a bundle when young and never learn to be smart with money.
Scares me more than anything OBL, Kim Jong Whack Job, or Ahmednutjob ever said, and sounds alot like an excerpt from a Chavez speech.
Liberals, nothing more then Americanized Communism. They prove it every day.
Why hasn't anyone said... "it's none of their damn business" ?
This is what happens in China, not the US.
Equality can never be achieved because no two humans are alike, nor do they want to be. Their answer is to destroy the successful in the name of those who are not. Someone tell me what happens to entrepreneurial motivation at that point?
We don't need to say it.
This kind of thinking pushes us closer and closer to being a second rate economy and a communist state. And for you libs reading, that is a BAD thing, really... it is. Yea, I get irritated when I see the Exxon CEO's salary postings, but I'm mad because I didn't make it, not because he DID. Hey, I can always protest and stop buying gasoline, that's my choice. I don't like working for a meager salary, but that is also my choice. I can do better if I wanted to work for it, and there are very few people for whom this is not true. We choose our own threshold and I don't think money is important enough to waste most of my life trying to collect more. The last thing I want is someone burning my house down because it's nicer than theirs, and that is EXACTLY what Barney Frank is suggesting we do.
I was going to post a long reply, but your post says it all.
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