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No one should feel they have the right to confiscate anyone's income. The Socialists/Progressives are simply misguided and wrong. You don't have the right to steal from fellow Citizens just because you're a miserable loser. Their whole philosophy is just so warped. I think more & more people are catching onto the Socialist/Progressive lunacy though. Their days are numbered.
Precisely. The Founders dared not to tax income directly. They rather taxed Commerce to pay for government functions that were Constitutionally mandated.
So why not promote Commerce? It was in the best interest of the citizens and Government. Somewhere along the line? Certain elements got greedy for money and Control.
This is the fight the people face against their own Government in the name of Real Liberty.
Opinion
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
In my reporting, I regularly travel to banana republics notorious for their inequality. In some of these plutocracies, the richest 1 percent of the population gobbles up 20 percent of the national pie.
But guess what? You no longer need to travel to distant and dangerous countries to observe such rapacious inequality. We now have it right here at home and in the aftermath of Tuesdays election, it may get worse.
The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost 9 percent in 1976. As Timothy Noah of Slate noted in an excellent series on inequality, the United States now arguably has a more unequal distribution of wealth than traditional banana republics like Nicaragua, Venezuela and Guyana.
C.E.O.s of the largest American companies earned an average of 42 times as much as the average worker in 1980, but 531 times as much in 2001. Perhaps the most astounding statistic is this: From 1980 to 2005, more than four-fifths of the total increase in American incomes went to the richest 1 percent.
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Don't forget the collapse of human civilization, and Al Gore's house using up the world's last remaining reserves of electricity.Opinion
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
In my reporting, I regularly travel to banana republics notorious for their inequality. In some of these plutocracies, the richest 1 percent of the population gobbles up 20 percent of the national pie.
But guess what? You no longer need to travel to distant and dangerous countries to observe such rapacious inequality. We now have it right here at home — and in the aftermath of Tuesday’s election, it may get worse.
The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost 9 percent in 1976. As Timothy Noah of Slate noted in an excellent series on inequality, the United States now arguably has a more unequal distribution of wealth than traditional banana republics like Nicaragua, Venezuela and Guyana.
C.E.O.’s of the largest American companies earned an average of 42 times as much as the average worker in 1980, but 531 times as much in 2001. Perhaps the most astounding statistic is this: From 1980 to 2005, more than four-fifths of the total increase in American incomes went to the richest 1 percent.
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AW!!! Liberals are spewing sour grapes.
I mean now that conservatives have taken over the House, the Governorships and the legislatures, the sea levels won't rise or fall or something, the air will become polluted, and little baby seals will all die too!
Why ponies and fluffy puppies will all be sad now, and single mothers and children will be hardest hit!
Was this just not expected?
Expect more of this as the next two years roll on!
Sour grapes is an expression originating from the Aesop Fable The Fox and the Grapes. It refers to envious behaviour, especially pretending to not care for something one does not or cannot have, called cognitive dissonance.
You may not give a shit whether Gunny gets into shit for breach of copyright, but I do. It's not a complicated law. Don't paste an entire piece - surely, even you can understand that?
The rest of your drivel is dismissed as just that.... drivel. I don't reply to drivel, I wipe it up and put it in the trash.... where it belongs.
Yea, the truth always stick in the craw of right wing females, the most obtuse creeps on the planet...surely
So, Cali girl, what are your favorite female conservative idioms and words? Barefoot & pregnant, a woman's place is in the home, submissive, domesticated, docile, obedient, servile...
See, this is why I dismiss you as a fucking moron, unworthy of any real response. I am a conservative. I work for myself. I'm pretty damned successful - I own my own home, pay my own way, and do it because I choose to. No submission, no domestication.... I'm not docile, obedient or subservient to anyone.
Why is it that left wing males find it so incredibly difficult to deal with strong, independent, right wing women? I think, going on the evidence provided by left wing 'men' on this board, it is because we scare the bejeeezus out of you.
No one should feel they have the right to confiscate anyone's income. The Socialists/Progressives are simply misguided and wrong. You don't have the right to steal from fellow Citizens just because you're a miserable loser. Their whole philosophy is just so warped. I think more & more people are catching onto the Socialist/Progressive lunacy though. Their days are numbered.
Precisely. The Founders dared not to tax income directly. They rather taxed Commerce to pay for government functions that were Constitutionally mandated.
So why not promote Commerce? It was in the best interest of the citizens and Government. Somewhere along the line? Certain elements got greedy for money and Control.
This is the fight the people face against their own Government in the name of Real Liberty.
The founding fathers and for about the next ten generations policies were written that promoted industry, not commerce.
How did they do that?
By erecting high tariffs to promote INDUSTRY in AMERICA, mostly. And those tariffs were the primary source of revenue for the FEDERAL government, too.
So, if you're one of those who wants to go back to doing what the founding fathers did, then you have to be opposed to FREE TRADE as currently practiced.
don't pay your taxes if you don't agree with how they are spent. evade the law, go to jail or leave the country. no big deal. nobody is stealing from anyone. the government is spending tax and other revenues the way policy dictates.
^OH MY GOD. I love how you keep 1-upping yourself with even more completely idiotic posts. sad, but entertaining. Duh, parents help when someone is an infant. Thank you captain obvious. Or should I say...captain dumbshit?
Why do you put people down who work and achieve?
Why do you want everyone to be as miserable as your pathetic existence? Maybe because you are an envious, jealous prick? Most likely.
Granted, if you ever accomplished ANYTHING in your life, you would probably pat yourself on the back.
But, you haven't. So here we are. Your logic is absolutely asinine. I love it when my peers at school bring up a "point" related to the ideology that they share with you. It is so easy to destroy them... "So if you got an A and Timmy got a C, should you both get Bs?" The answer is no. You fucking failure.
You get what you earn. That is the truth. Go attempt the real world for once, try to develop your own talents instead of trying to bring others with talent down. And just so you know, it is people with talent that wipe your envious figurative ass. You should thank them. You just seem like a lazy douche, to be honest. So many people in this country bust their ass for what they have, and then there are sniveling weasels like you that go around touting that they are greedy and you should get free shit and everyone should be subscribed to equality as defined by socialism. Wrong. Just because you are miserable, doesn't mean you have the right to bring misery onto others. That is not equal. That is just you being a baby and a loser.
Progressives have done nothing in this country but embrace and promote failure. They say they want to enhance lives but the end result is them just wanting power over peoples lives. That is the truth. The federal government's job is only what is in Article 1 Section 8 (unless amended)That's it. To deny this is to deny liberty. And to deny liberty is to embrace slavery. Fuck that. I'll choose liberty.
And I will fight (at the ballot box) morons like you until the day I die. I will not roll over and allow you and your ilk to attempt to destroy my own, and my future children's lives by limiting their opportunities to pave their own way and accomplish their own dreams. Not gonna happen while I am breathing. So get ready, assclown. The patriots are not dead.
You have a right in this country to be a complete fool, (which is your chosen career apparently) not because of leftist pigs who "fought" for it, but because of liberty loving patriots who DIED for it.
Get a life and grow up.
The deliberate equalization of standards is all but impossible....tell me where it has ever really worked...
But hey gotta give your boy his props....he's doing his darndest to wipe out the rich...and the middle class.....so most everybody is equally wretched....here comes the "Banana Republic"....
Boy?
I figured a lib would zero in on that....typical...but it's fun to irritate you...
rdean said:Honestly, you right wingers, you amaze me. Seriously.
This is why being against education and common sense is what will bring this country down.
For the right, everything is "either/or". There is no common ground. This is why Obama should give up trying to compromise with them. They are simply not capable of seeing beyond black and white.
Either all of the wealth of the nation should reside in the hands of the top 2% or we are all doomed to attempt to divide every copper penny 320 million ways. They are simply not capable of seeing beyond the "either/or" "black/white" scenario. This is why they have no suggestions or policies. Because, in their tiny minds, there is no choice. It's either "this" or "that".
I imagine most of us are products of the public education system.....
Obama is not going to compromise anything....unless he is dragged kicking and screaming...
The only reason Obama is now asking for "compromise" is because he wants the opposition to give in to HIM...
Redistribution of wealth is almost impossible to be fair about.....please describe how you think it can be done fairly so that everyone gets an equal share....? Because everyone has their own idea as to what is "fair" it can't be done unless there is force...that is why socialism/communism always boils down to force...
We have plenty of suggestions and policies.....beginning with adherence to the Constitution and the belief that individuals are entitled to persue their own happiness and wealth and are entitled to keeping what they make....not being forced to shell it out to others....
These principles have created the richest, most prosperous nation in the history of the world. The "poor" of our country are rich compared to the well-off in other countries. This is because America is free and not limited and stifled....Americans increase the size of the pie so everybody gets bigger pieces...
don't pay your taxes if you don't agree with how they are spent. evade the law, go to jail or leave the country. no big deal. nobody is stealing from anyone. the government is spending tax and other revenues the way policy dictates.
Socialists/Progressives can spin all they like but stealing is stealing. Redistribution is theft. That's not what our Founding Fathers wanted.
don't pay your taxes if you don't agree with how they are spent. evade the law, go to jail or leave the country. no big deal. nobody is stealing from anyone. the government is spending tax and other revenues the way policy dictates.
Socialists/Progressives can spin all they like but stealing is stealing. Redistribution is theft. That's not what our Founding Fathers wanted.
You are so right. Moving money from the Middle Class and concentrating it in the hands of a few is stealing. Especially since that few, for the most part, doesn't join the military or put their lives on the line for a country where they could concentrate that money.
No bid contracts in Iraq. 2.4 trillion dollar tax cut with 52% going to the top 1%. The most massive redistribution of wealth in history.
the framers were wiser than to presume that their grip on economics would stand for the posterity they referred to in the opening words of the constitution itself. that wisdom escapes you.don't pay your taxes if you don't agree with how they are spent. evade the law, go to jail or leave the country. no big deal. nobody is stealing from anyone. the government is spending tax and other revenues the way policy dictates.
Socialists/Progressives can spin all they like but stealing is stealing. Redistribution is theft. That's not what our Founding Fathers wanted.
