Gun Clingin'
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That was my first attack. And right now, I'm new here... so there will be more. Next, I'm a libertarian more so than conservative.The concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a small minority is demonstrated throughout history to lead to plutocracy and the diminishment of democracy. In most cases, they led to failed nation states.
This is historical fact.
This is something the revolutionary founders were well aware of, and they found concentrations of wealth in the hands of a few to be abhorrant to the ideals of a republican democracy.
Hardly anyone begrudes someone working hard and becoming rich. That's not the issue. The issue is a system that is gamed to allow the concentration of wealth in an increasingly tiny portion of the population. That's antithetic to a healthy democracy. That's what Russia is: a plutocracy. That's the model, among many others, of a nation state where wealth has been overwhelminnly and disporportionately concentrated in the hands of a few thousand people.
Take a gander at Warren Buffet's article on wealth. He says he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary or cleaning lady. The tax code is set up to protect weatlh, and investment wealth is increasingly, since the Reagan years, taxed at lower rates than income generated from actually working and making a wage.
I find it heartening to see that despite all the rabid insulting crap thrown toward liberals, you are still able to come in and post something NOT in kind.
Look at these folks attacking and attacking, posting nothing but drivel post after post they prove to be as empty of content and thinking as the POTUS they do adored.
Thank GOD there are at least a few conservatives on this board willing to discuss issues.
By the way, the post you responded to is in the wrong thread.