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Why Do America's Poor Oppose a Redistribution of Wealth?
The Atlantic ^ | September 11, 2015 | GILLIAN B. WHITE

Posted on 09/11/2015 11:50:17 AM PDT by reaganaut1

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To: tophat9000

This is so true. Did you come up with this on your own or did you read it somewhere? I actually never quite thought it out in so concise a way of expression.

Now if the candidates can just keep it this simple, they might actually gain a lot more votes.


21 posted on 09/11/2015 12:53:25 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Le//t Freedom Ring.)
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To: greeneyes

No just my own wealth redistribution systems explanation that came up with right now


22 posted on 09/11/2015 1:05:02 PM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans Patriots are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: greeneyes

Bottom like..... cut out the middleman... that leftist “distributor”....... that is taking such a large bite out of that cash flow from rich to poor

always go directly to the source the rich ... work with directly with them.....if you want to get the best deal

beware that left “middle man” trying to control the whole thing and take his cut.. normally the biggest cut for the least effort


23 posted on 09/11/2015 1:10:48 PM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans Patriots are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: reaganaut1

Because the poor hope to become less poor.


24 posted on 09/11/2015 1:12:19 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: reaganaut1

If you gave all the money from the rich to the poor, the rich would have it all back in short order.


25 posted on 09/11/2015 1:16:00 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: reaganaut1

Maybe because the poor don’t believe in theft, knowing that the wealthy did not steal anything from them and do not monopolize their purchases or employment. Wake up socialists — America isn’t feudal Europe or Dikensian England, and slavery ended long ago.


26 posted on 09/11/2015 1:41:17 PM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: reaganaut1

Darn that whole morality thing! It’s still holding on and keeping people from being complete thieves!


27 posted on 09/11/2015 2:04:02 PM PDT by vpintheak (Man up and bring it politicians!)
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To: tophat9000

Very good. I hope you don’t mind if I use it. I think it’s great.


28 posted on 09/11/2015 2:10:16 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Le//t Freedom Ring.)
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To: reaganaut1

Because they ARENT communists and understand that wealth isn’t ‘distributed’ because the government does NOT own it...

-rather, wealth is WORKED FOR and EARNED in a free society.


29 posted on 09/11/2015 2:11:42 PM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: tophat9000

That middle man thing is so true for many things - not just wealth, but all sorts of products.


30 posted on 09/11/2015 2:15:58 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Le//t Freedom Ring.)
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To: fungoking

good point..


31 posted on 09/11/2015 2:16:35 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: reaganaut1
Trickle down entitlements do not work because the power to confiscate earnings is the ultimate power.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke
32 posted on 09/11/2015 3:42:36 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: greeneyes

No go for it...

by the way.. in either system..the poor man still works....he just has work be a servent for the left middleman in the 2nt system....


33 posted on 09/11/2015 3:48:58 PM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans Patriots are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: RedStateRocker

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires” Often attributed to John Steinbeck


America has been a SOCIALIST NATION since before the federal reserve in 1913 passed by an almost empty Congress AND NEVER abrogated..


34 posted on 09/11/2015 4:32:08 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: hosepipe

What “ IS “ wealth?..

I have little money but am not POOR..
So wealth is not money?

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I’m wealthy because God gives me all I need, some people with lots of money are poor because they will never have enough.

I have food in my belly, clothes on my back, a roof over my head and a nice bed to sleep in. Everything else is extra bonus.


35 posted on 09/11/2015 9:13:18 PM PDT by Graybeard58 ( Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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