Problem with the Poor Class

[The Sage of Main Street]

lol. we are talking about taxing the rich again... you people know nothing about that of course and I mean nothing.

Inherited Power Is the Cancer That Has Destroyed All Civilizations

Tax unearned wealth, which is economically destructive by empowering people who never would have gotten their high positions on their own. Confiscate inheritances over $100,000 and all the money in the head-start trust funds.

 

[sealybobo]

Inherited Power Is the Cancer That Has Destroyed All Civilizations

Tax unearned wealth, which is economically destructive by empowering people who never would have gotten their high positions on their own. Confiscate inheritances over $100,000 and all the money in the head-start trust funds.

Hard to feel sorry for someone who inherits $21 million dollars and only has to pay an inheritance tax on 1 million dollars. Boo hoo right?

Republicans love to argue that undoing the Reagan/Bush/Trump tax breaks wouldn't make a dent in the debt. Yea true. But it would go a long way at rebuilding infrastructure or strengthening social security.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Hard to feel sorry for someone who inherits $21 million dollars and only has to pay an inheritance tax on 1 million dollars. Boo hoo right?

Republicans love to argue that undoing the Reagan/Bush/Trump tax breaks wouldn't make a dent in the debt. But it would go a long way at rebuilding infrastructure or strengthening social security.

Birth Privileges Deserve Crib Death

Give much of it to the true heirs, people with natural talent, instead of to the birth heirs. The highest IQs would get the same allowance and paid-up tuition the useless HeirHeads get now.

Who inherited all the White money Larry Bird brought into the NBA? Not any son of Larry Bird. Michael Jordan and other stars inherited it.

 

[sealybobo]

Birth Privileges Deserve Crib Death

Give much of it to the true heirs, people with natural talent, instead of to the birth heirs. The highest IQs would get the same allowance and paid-up tuition the useless HeirHeads get now.

Who inherited all the White money Larry Bird brought into the NBA? Not any son of Larry Bird. Michael Jordan and other stars inherited it.

I'll say a couple things. Dr. Buss took all the risks when he purchased the Lakers so he deserves most of the money.

Are you saying that if we made college available to everyone we'd find more smart people than if we continue to only make college affordable for upper middle class people? That's a good point too.

It pisses blacks off that viewership goes up when us whites have a great white hope in the game. Right now the NBA is hoping Doncic or Jocic will win a championship like Dirk Nowitzki did.

Who inherited the money Larry Bird brought in to the NBA? The owners.

Michael Jordan did benefit from the Bad Boys, Lakers and Celtics but I believe he made the sport just as popular as they did.

And the vision behind the rivalry Lakers Celtics was all Dr. Buss' idea.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

I'll say a couple things. Dr. Buss took all the risks when he purchased the Lakers so he deserves most of the money.

Are you saying that if we made college available to everyone we'd find more smart people than if we continue to only make college affordable for upper middle class people? That's a good point too.

It pisses blacks off that viewership goes up when us whites have a great white hope in the game. Right now the NBA is hoping Doncic or Jocic will win a championship like Dirk Nowitzki did.

Who inherited the money Larry Bird brought in to the NBA? The owners.

Michael Jordan did benefit from the Bad Boys, Lakers and Celtics but I believe he made the sport just as popular as they did.

And the vision behind the rivalry Lakers Celtics was all Dr. Buss' idea.

Before Larry, Stars Were Hummingbirds

Pre-Bird greats like Julius Irving and Oscar Robertson didn't make anywhere near the salaries that post-Bird greats made. Michael Jordan would have had very little fame or fortune if he had played in an earlier era. In 1980, when Larry Bird was just starting to catch on and the Celtics weren't in the Finals yet, the NBA Championship Series wasn't even televised live. They might as well have been playing Midnight Basketball (Hoops for Hoods).

 

[sealybobo]

Before Larry, Stars Were Hummingbirds

Pre-Bird greats like Julius Irving and Oscar Robertson didn't make anywhere near the salaries that post-Bird greats made. Michael Jordan would have had very little fame or fortune if he had played in an earlier era. In 1980, when Larry Bird was just starting to catch on and the Celtics weren't in the Finals yet, the NBA Championship Series wasn't even televised live. They might as well have been playing Midnight Basketball (Hoops for Hoods).

The series does say ratings were in the tank.

They also point out how Larry made more than Magic. Even though Magic beat him for a national championship? Don't forget that. Great White Hope. Of course the white racist owners loved their golden child Larry. LOL. Larry. What a name.

 

[sealybobo]

Before Larry, Stars Were Hummingbirds

Pre-Bird greats like Julius Irving and Oscar Robertson didn't make anywhere near the salaries that post-Bird greats made. Michael Jordan would have had very little fame or fortune if he had played in an earlier era. In 1980, when Larry Bird was just starting to catch on and the Celtics weren't in the Finals yet, the NBA Championship Series wasn't even televised live. They might as well have been playing Midnight Basketball (Hoops for Hoods).

I didn't know this

His nemesis and friend off the court, Larry Bird, was a much better shooter and defender than Magic ever was. In addition, Bird bested Magic quite convincingly in almost every single major statistical category with the exception of assists.

 

[Ringo]

If a human's character is created by circumstances, then it is necessary, therefore, to make the circumstances human. - K.Marx, F.Engels

 

[Woodznutz]

If a human's character is created by circumstances, then it is necessary, therefore, to make the circumstances human. - K.Marx, F.Engels

One's character creates one's circumstances. -Woodznutz

 

[Ringo]

One's character creates one's circumstances. -Woodznutz

Oh yeah, right!

 

[Woodznutz]

Oh yeah, right!

She might have the best paying job in the village.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

If a human's character is created by circumstances, then it is necessary, therefore, to make the circumstances human. - K.Marx, F.Engels

"Kill the kulaks" - Lenin, Stalin

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Oh yeah, right!

"Capitalism is an exceptional belief that the activities of the most vile scum, driven by the most base motives, will somehow be for the benefit of everyone" (c) John Maynard Keynes

"That's why we need to kill the kulaks" - Lenin, Stalin

 

[Woodznutz]

"Capitalism is an exceptional belief that the activities of the most vile scum, driven by the most base motives, will somehow be for the benefit of everyone" (c) John Maynard Keynes

"That's why we need to kill the kulaks" - Lenin, Stalin

Keynes eventually saw capitalism as a useful bridge to socialism, and that it would fade away quietly when it's work was done. Of course what he meant was that when capitalism had produced enough wealth for the nation, that wealth could then be distributed equitably through socialism.

 

[Ringo]

"Kill the kulaks" - Lenin, Stalin

Are you still spreading rotten, lying anti-soviet crap?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Are you still spreading rotten, lying anti-soviet crap?

The kulaks killed themselves?

 

[Ringo]

The kulaks killed themselves?

You're confusing Soviet history with American history.
In american history, "Only a good Indian is a dead Indian," in soviet history, not racial, but class struggle one, a millionaire, a former tsarist general or minister, a kulak, anyone could become an ordinary citizen by simply ceasing to be a kulak or an exploiter.
You see, you can't stop being an indian or, for example, in nazi Germany a jew. For an american WASP or a german nazi you will still be an enemy to be destroyed. In the case of the german nazis, we have, of course, an extreme situation. Although the Anglo-Saxons also made a good mark in the field of genocide, for example, completely exterminating the population of the island of Tasmania. It was done exactly by exterminating them, killing them, during the organized round-up of the native inhabitants of the island.
In general, in the USSR it was possible to stop being an exploiter, but in the USA, indians preferred to be only dead.
The whole fault of Hitler in the eyes of respectable europeans is not that he staged a genocide.
For europeans this is a normal, ordinary thing. But Hitler staged a genocide of whites, which is a bit extremist for the 20th century in the eyes of good old colonialists. If he had killed indians or negroes, he would not have had any problems from the civilized european or american community.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

You're confusing Soviet history with American history.

No, I definitely remember the Russian commies wiping out the kulaks.

How'd that work out for your agricultural productivity? Durr

a kulak, anyone could become an ordinary citizen by simply ceasing to be a kulak or an exploiter.

The best way is to just be dead, eh comrade?

 

[Ringo]

No, I definitely remember the Russian commies wiping out the kulaks.
How'd that work out for your agricultural productivity? Durr
a kulak, anyone could become an ordinary citizen by simply ceasing to be a kulak or an exploiter.
The best way is to just be dead, eh comrade?

No, all you remember are propaganda slogans. By the way, most of them were conceived in the Goebbels Propaganda Ministry.
And once again, the USSR is not Hitler's Germany and not the USA, people were not destroyed for belonging to a race or class, only for this.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

No, all you remember are propaganda slogans. By the way, most of them were conceived in the Goebbels Propaganda Ministry.

Stalin didn't liquidate the kulaks, he was the innocent victim of Nazi propaganda.
Thanks for clearing that up, comrade.

people were not destroyed for belonging to a race or class, only for this.

Of course, if you're too good at producing food, you must be destroyed.
How'd that work out for your agricultural productivity? Durr