They are just showing their true colors. And they are not red, white, and blue.
They are just showing their true colors. And they are not red, white, and blue.
We start life as pure consumers, transition to being producers, and then transition to being investors.
Income Inequality is a fine issue to tackle once they've tackled Effort Inequality, Education Inequality, Delayed Gratification Inequality, Ambition Inequality, Leisure time Inequality, and the many other tradeoffs one makes in life. Sure some people have bad situations not of their making, but by and large people can control these choices.
If they really feel guilty, let these dems start with giving their OWN cash away (and not to worthless foundations and other tax dodges)
Personal initiative and ambition provides the motivation to develop marketable skills.
Education is available to provide instruction which will help individuals with the ambition develop marketable skills.
Marketable skills in conjunction with personal ambition creates the opportunity for the individual to earn higher levels of income.
Income inequality is caused by a lack of personal ambition, IMO. Personal ambition is destroyed by the socialist programs, e.g. welfare, that give people something for nothing.
Putting the poorest Americans out of a job with a 40% minimum wage increase is not going to narrow income inequality.
I make way less money than a Democrat Congressman I wonder if any of them want to share with me?
Someone wrote a letter to the editor this week, that said, "he works hard for his money and it is taxed and part of that tax helps poor people that may not be able to work. Then he says, "In order for me to keep my job though, I must submit to a random urine test on occasion, if I do not pass the test I loose my job. The people who benefit from my hard work drug free with the taxes I pay, should get their welfare check if they pass a urine test and are drug free!!!!
Let's look at a set of individuals:
I knew this guy who lived with three other people in a boiling apartment while working on a loading dock making five bucks an hour.
I knew this guy who was unemployed and had so little to eat he lost 15 pounds of weight, and he wasn't overweight to begin with.
I knew this guy who put all his possessions in his friend's subcompact to drive to a new city to start a job making $19,500 a year.
I knew this guy who worked in an entry-level professional job, but money was tight, so he brought in his lunch every day while others could eat out every day.
I knew this guy who worked a journey-level professional job who could only afford a one room apartment, but had enough to do what he wanted, as long as he wasn't extravagent.
I knew this guy who worked a pretty decent professional job and has the resources to live in a good neighborhood and take vacations to Europe occasionally.
You can see these people have wildly unequal incomes. Does Barney Frank think it's a bad thing that all these people exist?
(One other minor fact: all those people are me, at different stages of my life.)
Doesn't have to.....BUT....
each according to their needs each according to their ability.
Demercats continue to be THE problem.
Isn't this a true sliding tax scale????
If you're "poor", you get taxed NEGATIVE (i.e., you get money).
If you're "rich" - or just middle class (and I mean TRUE middle class, not the ever-creeping dumbing-down version the PC crowd is trying to push on us) - you're taxed POSITIVE (you lose your money).
"Frank and Gephardt consider the old hard-work formula dated and dysfunctional."
LOL and it's TRUE - EXACTLY BECAUSE you commie !$#!@#$ nullify hard work!!!!!
"Arise, ye prisonsers of starvation...."
I'd like to see someone do a study on the pay disparity between so called movie "stars" and entry level actors.
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.