Posted on 05/15/2015 3:14:47 AM PDT by bob_denard
Resurrecting his “You didn’t build that; somebody else made that happen” theme, Barack Obama called for higher taxes on people whom he characterized as “society’s lottery winners.”
The comments were made Tuesday at a poverty summit at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where, alluding to his longstanding proposal to raise taxes on “carried interest,” Obama said, “If we were able to close that loophole, I can now invest in early childhood education that will make a difference. That’s…where the question of compassion and ‘I’m my brother’s keeper’ comes into play. And if we can’t ask from society’s lottery winners to just make that modest investment, then, really, this conversation is for show.”
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No one who’s broke ever gave me a job
Amen to that. Just watched Part III of Atlas Shrugged (good message, but terrible movie) and it bore out what you wrote.
John Galt said, “I will stop the motor of the world.” When the thinkers and doers go on strike, it’s all over.
“Hard work” on its own won’t make you really rich. Working your ass off for someone else or running a business with lots of competition does not wealth make.
It’s all about chance connections and/or thinking of an idea before anyone else.
I’m a self-made 1%-er and could have done it several times. I was just born with a knack for ideas and don’t feel I (and all my descendants) deserve to live like kings just because I thought of a few things.
So I definitely do feel like a lottery winner and give away each time I see a good cause. But I don’t advocate theft by government
Well stated and amen!
So can we begin to call his children lottery winners and guilt trip them into shaming their parents?
Gee, how about OJ? That’s the only reason why he was able to get his Dream Team of Bailey, Dershowitz, Scheck, Shapiro, Kardashian, and Cochran.
I think you will find most trust-fund babies (and adults)
are left-leaning liberals. In Maine the SEIU supports Congresswoman Pingree for re-election all the time. Her husband is worth hundreds of millions of dollars and is a hedge fund operator.
I wonder if this includes Teresa Heinz-Kerry or George Soros or Bill and Hitlery? (oops, I forgot that they told us about how dirt poor they were).
If the wealthy are the winners of life’s lottery then most of the tickets must be bought through education and hard work with a few bought through crony political connections.
Yeah, the schools where I won the lottery are still open.
11, my winning lottery number, is years of post grad training and study I achieved all by myself.
Still cashing in on that training after 28 years.
The other winning lottery number was 2, my parents who instilled the work ethic in my otherwise slovenly soul.
He implies hard workers are just lucky. When I was a kid, I said out loud to my father when we passed a large estate of a rich man, “He sure is lucky”. My father replied, “If you work 20 hours a day for 20 years, you can be lucky, too.”
African Americans are in the top 5% of blacks in the world if you compare their incomes to blacks in Africa or elsewhere in the diaspora (Haiti, etc.). Does Obama consider them “lottery winners”? All they did was be born in the right country.
Hussein is just quoting a similarly detestable leftist, Dick Gephardt, who said in 1995 as an introduction to his own plan for raising taxes:
"Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune."
He’s lower than whale s^%@
Would yins consider people from Mt. Lebanon as "society's lottery winners?"
I love it when liberals use this Biblical phrase. 'Keeper' in that story in Hebrew means prison warden, slave master, or nanny to a small child.
It perfectly sums up the liberal mindset.
So 0 what you’re tellingus is thatou wonthe socal lottery in spades, eh?
Liberals are spoiled (I mistyped “soiled” but that works too) children who whine and stomp their feet when someone has something they don’t have.
Poor people are poor because they do poor things.
Rich save and invest. Then pay cash for what they NEED.
Poor buy lotto tickets and go into debt to buy things they WANT.
> When Obama leaves office,he will be rich so hows that play out......
I don’t get the reasoning of him and his ilk ,all rich,bemoaning the rich.
Are people that F’en stupid?
I predict he will move out of the U.S. to a another liberal country after he leaves office to evade the payback the Amercan people are going to give him and to evade taxes. I also predict there will be a divorce to dissolve the sham mirage marriage and that he will announce he is fully gay and Muslim and go Bruce Jenner.
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