Posted on 03/16/2011 8:16:24 PM PDT by neverdem
What about the Billionaires like Oprah?
Oh wait, she doesn’t build schools here...
Michael Moore said there are trillions of dollars out there, which are in the wrong hands, he says.
Michael Moore declared that all of this money should be part of our natural resources, to be used to build the economy, etc. etc.
Would Michael Moore lie or distort the truth??????
That is what marxism is......destroy the vast middle class of a society——its where enough money and networth meet with enough numbers of population to obtain real wealth.
didnt K.Marx desire to destroy the middle class with vast waves of inflation, interest and taxation.......
deja vu all over again.
everyone should pay taxes. when I made minimum wage I paid my fair share, everyone needs to help out. The govt needs to cut spending toooooooo! The poor are a sad excuse for not paying taxes..
Could Michael Moore cause a tsunami?
In real world goods and service have to be produced and, if there not enough economic activity, there will be nothing to distribute “justly” or otherwise! Also, if you increase tax rate, you just might shrink the taxpayer base and get less tax revenue!
Silly, the whole thing is a scam. The Democrats use ‘taxing the rich’ as a scam for getting us to accept regressive taxes on ourselves, which is the real revenue. Liberal Maryland is a great example raising the sales tax with two taxes ‘on the rich’. Clinton raised the gas tax and taxes on SS benefits. Obama wanted cap and trade.
If Obama really believed taxes on the rich fixed anything he would have pushed them when he had complete control of congress. It’s all a scam, you know the ‘fairness’ scam to make you think you got a good deal???
I don’t think there is enough dough in the world to fund our deficits.
The middle class and user fees is where the real money is, income taxes is a leverage. A dollar per month per phone is how much money, a nickel on each email is how much money, etc,etc.
No, it means they have to cut spending, period. Government is not a perpetual motion machine that can go on and on putting out more than there is to put in. It simply collapses under its own spiral of debt and spending.
Government deficit spending has become the heroin of politicians of all stripes. The addiction is strong. Every injection causes more addiction and more damage to the body. But the pain of stopping is far worse. So the injections continue until death.
And then the addiction is done.
Does any politician have the courage to lead the way off our current death spiral before death? Or even more importantly, is the electorate have the courage to elect a politician that is willing to stop the injections and suffer the pain of stopping the addiction?
Our deficits are high treason.
The best response to the problem of the poor and poverty-stricken - make access to the system of income distribution known as “capitalism” available to one and all.
And to do that, make a bigger pie. The wealth of the planet is there for conversion to useful things for the population, and in doing so, fund the continued growth and expansion of that magic source that feeds so many, and moves people up the hierarchy of needs, beyond the most basic of food, shelter and human contact, to the more creative levels and refinement of thinking.
What we have as common and everyday things in terms of being far beyond the fulfillment of the more basic needs, would be envied by kings of old. But it was precisely the sense of entitlement that those kings of old exulted in, that prevented the sharing of growth and improvements in the standards of the day for ALL people, that kept the kings themselves in a relative state of impoverishment.
We have in this world a new set of the elite, who think nothing of dissing their fellow man once they have achieved a level of superiority in terms of wealth and influence, that they should always maintain the elevated position, and block anyone else from sharing, no matter how much talent the less favored may exhibit. These are as despicable as the despots and tyrants of the past, the more so because the lessons of history have been somehow escaped them, and they are terrified of the consequences of the application of these lessons.
Somewhere between a totally self-absorbed hedonism, and the most saintly (but ultimately self-defeating) altruism, there is something that may be called enlightened self-interest, in that by allowing fellow human beings to do well, the benefactor himself also does well - even better than he had been.
The rich: Anyone who is not a member of a labor union.
But Michael Moore says the 400 richest Americans own half of everything. Lefties are repeating it over and over, claiming it’s been proven. What if we just killed them all and took their money and things? Then we’d fix everything.
Here is an idea I thought of over the weekend. If the Libs/Progressives/Socialist want the top tax bracket back to what it was in the 1950-1960, then we roll back government to those levels also. Any agency that has been founded and all welfare programs will need to be rolled back.
I would love to hear them scream about that.
Then there are groups like NPR that tax the middle class to support wealthy liberal elite entertainment...
What we know for sure is they have their hands in our pockets...
[[the problem isn’t that they’re not rich enough,]]
The problem IS that the whining left are consumed with jealousy- they see people richer than themselves, and imediately boil with envy- Most Americans are sick and tired of the left’s whining on this issue- Jealousy is an ugly ugly trait- the rich ALREADY pay nearly 75% in taxes- LEAVE THEM ALONE! STOP WHINING! AND MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS LEFT!!! IF YOU HAVEN’T GOT ENOUGH $$ STROP PISSING AND MOANING AND GO EARN IT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD- AND STOP TRYIGN TO TAKE IT AWAY FROM EVERYONE ELSE!!!!!!!!!!
And YES I’m yelling! Sick and tired of the jealousy of the left and their constant whining about rich folks
right nowe as we speak, congressman anthony wiener is on screaming about the rich and looking to take away even more from them- I wish he and his ILK qwould just shut the hell up- He’s dominated the conversation- cutting off backman and shawn- Cant stand listenign to mindless screamers liek that
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