NO Pity for the LAZY!!!
Posted on 01/04/2014 12:28:54 PM PST by Kaslin
(Zer0) >> (everyone else)
Socialism will make everyone equally poor. Except for the elite, of course.
NO Pity for the LAZY!!!
“Inequality is the defining challenge of our time,” according to President Obama.”
The defining challenge of our time is how to overcome the damage to our Nation that you have caused. Shut up and go away....
Excellent point and so true
What inequality?!
Everyone has the same 24 hours, EQUAL opportunity, it’s their choice what they do with it.
Of course different people have different talents, strengths and weaknesses — so I guess to achieve “equality”, we need to “manufacture” all humans to be exactly the same — but then how are you going to fill the various needs in society, that we need people who are neurosurgeons, but also need plumbers and electricians. And plumbers and electricians may make almost as much money as neurosurgeons — what more do they want?
The point is equal opportunity, which is what exist in the capitalist system — the late Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are just a couple of examples.
Some spend all and some save some. That makes everyone “unequal” after day one.
They are never going to earn as much as someone who is smart and works hard.
Now are the people that are smart and hard working obligated to give up the product of their smarts and work to people that didn't earn it?
Should the stupid and lazy be able to vote to extract the product of the smart and work through force?
Memo to Mayor DeBlasio (cc: President Obama):
Yes, we do have a lot of “income inequality”, as you noted in your speech. We are also a society with one of the highest standards of living and among the greatest economic mobility. That’s because we were decades late boarding your “progressive” train. Instead, we’ve always been a society in which people are freer to create and innovate — and thus improve the lives of others, as well as their own — than they have been in other societies. We are a society whose poor people, on average, have more living space than the average middle-class European — along with big TVs, Internet connections, cars, and other trappings of life.
In America, people are free to go as far as talent, skills, education, and effort will carry them. Your redistributionist schemes simply reduce, eventually to nothingness, the incentive to create, invent, and produce, to use that talent, skill, education, and effort to improve the lot of all of us.
When you take away that incentive, you take away the very thing that lifts the standard of living for the people. As a well-known member of your party once said, “A rising tide lifts all boats.” Are we better off with a higher, but unequal, standard of living, or with an equal, but lower, standard of living (and I’m not just talking financially)?
I’d rather not have trickle-up poverty, thank you. But that’s where redistribution leads us.
Irony 1
We are told NOT TO judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics.”
BUT on the other hand . “We are also encouraged TO judge ALL Gun Owners by the actions of a few lunatics.”
How is that supposed to work?
Irony 2
The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is proud to be distributing this year the greatest amount of free Meals and Food Stamps ever, to 47 million people as of the most recent figures available in 2013.
Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, asks us “Please Do Not Feed the Animals.”
Their stated reason for the policy is because:
“The animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves.”
People who believe government should remedy inequality always assume they’ll get to be among the people defining it and managing it.
They don’t realize, maybe some do, the evil ones do, but the dumb ones don’t realize that intervening to remedy inequality will establish a permanent class structure. But instead of being based on talent and hard work and luck, it will be based on fealty to the regime.
Inequality is here to stay.
As an example, half the population by definition is above average.
The Obama-dork-cretin is six sigma to the left.
He is screwed. Nothing will help.
Problem is, we’re screwed also.
Affirmative action a magnifying glass on inequality. It’s conception was and still is a big mistake. Everybody can’t be beautiful or there is no beauty. Affirmative action tries to fit square pegs into round holes. Thats how it doesn’t work. All government agencies are hamstrung by feel good laws, a road map to mediocrity at best. Small government is the solution. The private sector works if left alone and no not everyone will be beatyful but that’s how it works.
I once had a boss who said, "If you could collect all the money there is and pass it around evenly, the people who are rich today would have it all back in a few short years and the people who are poor today would be just as poor, but quicker."
Myth 6: Inequality is a moral crime.
I love inequality. I love the fact that there are people out there smarter and more skilled than I (doctors, scientists, farmers, etc) who can create the things I need to live my life. I couldn’t imagine nor stand everyone being a simple-minded guy like myself.
Dittos. If a billionaire wants to buy a tablet computer. To the best of my knowledge who can do no better than an iPad Air. I know people on SS disability and EBT who have one
Bill Gates works his ass off and is a genius. But all he did was close the the technology gap between rich and poor.
Bill got billions but if each consumer is a little richer because of him than as a whole society made more off of Bill than Bill did.
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Yes. The dollars he collects are markers. They are not the wealth; the company he built, the products he makes, and the changes to the world he has caused are the wealth. The wealth is already out there in everyone's hands.
And the markers he is collecting by the billions? He uses them to create more wealth which he then distributes to the world. He doesn't sit on any of it.
New report debunks narrative on income inequality
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2910934/posts
The Latest News on Tax Fairness [top 20%’s share up, everyone else’s share down over last 30 years]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2910624/posts
CBO: By the way, the rich already pay more than a fair share in taxes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2905255/posts
If fairness in paying taxes means the amount you pay is based on the amount you make, then the only group in America paying at least a “fair share” is the top 20%—people who make more than $74,000. For everyone else, the tax code is a bargain.
You wouldn’t know this from President Obama’s rhetoric, but our tax system, according to a recent report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), is incredibly progressive. Consider: The top 1% of income earners pay an average federal tax rate of 28.9%. (See the nearby table.) The average federal tax rate on the top 20% is 23.2%. The 20% of taxpayers earning between $50,100 and $73,999 pay an average 15.1%, and so on down the line. The CBO report includes payroll as well as income taxes paid.
There’s also another way of looking at fairness, and that’s the tax burden. Here, consider the top 20% of income earners (over $74,000). They make 50% of the nation’s income but pay nearly 70% of all federal taxes.
The remaining 30% of the tax burden is borne by 80% of the taxpayers, those who make less than $74,000. In short, this group’s share of taxes paid, 30%, is lower than the share of income they earn, 50%.
Yet President Obama says that “for some time now, when compared to the middle class,” the wealthy “haven’t been asked to do their fair share.”
He’s right that the system isn’t fair, but not because the top 1% pay too little. It is because they pay too much.
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