freeandfun1
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- Feb 14, 2004
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Mariner said:evil. I have quite a few acquaintances who qualify as rich, and none of them is evil. Some of them are lazy, though--the conservative pitch that "we're just giving money to the people who create jobs for the rest of us" doesn't always apply. Many a rich person spends days by the pool at the health club and contributes zilch to society beyond buying luxury goods. Their lifestyle is only made possible by all the rest of us working, and if you look back in many of their histories just a generation or two, you'll often find that they wouldn't be where they are now if some kin hadn't benefited from a gov't social program, e.g. the G.I. bill, a depression-era anti-poverty program, an 18th century gov't land giveaway ("40 acres and a mule") or a mid-centure tariff (work for General Motors and make enough to support your family--but only because of unionization and tariffs that kept out cheaper cars from abroad).
Besides, you guys don't have good answers for a bunch of challenging questions. E.g. 1/6 of all American kids are growing up in poverty right now, or that if you earn minimum wage you can't actually feed and house yourself in many localities. What would you have such people do? If you enact a flatter tax or a consumption tax, you increase that number. You also ignore the fact that the economic booms of the 80s and 90s followed small tax increases, not cuts. The rich don't take care of the poor all by themselves. That's why gov't has to step in. I don't think Bush is going to have any luck making major changes in the tax code. I'd be happy with some simplification, but I don't think you can undo redistributive taxation.
Mariner.
See, you only know liberal rich people. and yes, they are lazy. most of us that own businesses and whom are the ones employing people, don't have time to lay by the pool all day, play golf etc. because we are working hard to KEEP our money. Your rich friends didn't work to get their money, most likely, they inherited it and they don't know what it is like to work to build something and then keep it.
I'm tired of your tired ass shit. why don't you just go fuck yourself you little twerp.