Those Darned Rich Folks

[jc456]

What kind of an idiot thinks he has a chance of winning by promising a 97.5% tax rate on billionaires?

Besides some crotchety old curmudgeon socialist, I mean.

Hmm, every time one of you Rumpsters throw out a number it grows and grows each time. The real number is 70% on anything earned in a fiscal year above X million dollars after adjustment. That is the figure that was suggested. Of course, you don't remember when the real figure was 90% for anything over $250,000 do you? It paid for frivolous things like Water Works (dams, city water works, canals, etc.), Interstates, Bridges, Put Men on the Moon, paid for at least 3 wars, and much much more. Today, we can't even afford to fix our bridges or replace the pipes that are eaten up with rust and lead. In order to get an Astronaut onto the Space Station we have to thumb a ride with the Russians. We can't afford to effectively help in major emergencies anymore.

Although this was done by the entertainment world, it hits the nail right on the head.



Can you imagine if any Politician were to say this today? As true as this is, just how long would they exist in the political world if they did. Yes, the Rich paid for most of the really great programs that was created with a little help from everyone else. America WAS the greatest Country in the world. We aren't anymore. We could be again but not by following the losers we see attempting to be leaders today. And this includes Rump.

Another thief brought up to believe that stealing someone else's earnings is a reasonable way to run a nation.

How about gulags for the wealthy, you Bolshevik?

1. Who is to decide what is fair, and what is too much? Some religions suggest tithing, and government demands taxes.
   1. Joseph gathered very much grain: It seems it was customary for Pharaoh to take 10% of the grain in Egypt as a tax. Essentially, Joseph doubled the taxes over the next seven years (Genesis 41:34 mentions one-fifth, that is, 20%).
   2. That 20% figure appears again in the relationship of colonists to North America, and the English crown "....colonists were free to retain all the profits and fruits of their labor save for the crown's 20 percent share of any gold and silver discovered." "Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828," by Walter A. McDougall, p.33

1. Yet our Liberal accepts doctrines, policies, programs, that make no sense, or are actually destructive, for the offer of acceptance of the herd…or the opposite, expulsion if one doesn’t support same.
   1. It is not that our Liberals do not care about rectitude, but he cannot afford to notice the insanity. The size and power of the group allows the individual to submerge his doubts…but at the cost of obedience and the surrender his individuality.

Funny you bring this up. It was the Conservatives that did the original tax we are talking about. And are you aware, the average top 1% tax rate during the highest period (1945 to 1960) averaged out to 42% as compared to today's 36%? During the golden years, that added tax only affected about 100,000 tax payers. MOST Citizens made less after adjustments than the 250,000 bucks therefore, they paid the lower tax rate. Just how many, today, would make more than say, 2 million after adjusted net income?

Yes, America is NOT the greatest country in the world. It sure as hell used to be. But due to people buying into your nonsense, it sure as hell isn't. But it could be if we learned from people one generation older than I am. Yes, in my lifetime, America WAS the Greatest Country in the World. It isn't anymore. And Rump isn't going to make it Great again. And neither are any of the Democratic Candidates either.

Lol
A country is not worth a shit if it has to take from the successful, to be successful

And these fks sponsor that kind of stupid. Literally no brain function in these fks. None. They think that taking money from the successful means they get it. hahahahahah

Nope, the elites get it. they want it all and are going after it all. It's called socialism.

It's like, come here and sit, I'll give you this thousand, but you must vote for me, you must kiss my ass whenever I say so, if you don't, you won't just lose your thousand, I will make life difficult. That's a leftist. PERIOD!!!! It is every union leader as well.

 

[Rustic]

What kind of an idiot thinks he has a chance of winning by promising a 97.5% tax rate on billionaires?

Besides some crotchety old curmudgeon socialist, I mean.

Hmm, every time one of you Rumpsters throw out a number it grows and grows each time. The real number is 70% on anything earned in a fiscal year above X million dollars after adjustment. That is the figure that was suggested. Of course, you don't remember when the real figure was 90% for anything over $250,000 do you? It paid for frivolous things like Water Works (dams, city water works, canals, etc.), Interstates, Bridges, Put Men on the Moon, paid for at least 3 wars, and much much more. Today, we can't even afford to fix our bridges or replace the pipes that are eaten up with rust and lead. In order to get an Astronaut onto the Space Station we have to thumb a ride with the Russians. We can't afford to effectively help in major emergencies anymore.

Although this was done by the entertainment world, it hits the nail right on the head.



Can you imagine if any Politician were to say this today? As true as this is, just how long would they exist in the political world if they did. Yes, the Rich paid for most of the really great programs that was created with a little help from everyone else. America WAS the greatest Country in the world. We aren't anymore. We could be again but not by following the losers we see attempting to be leaders today. And this includes Rump.

Oh boy, you Libs are so incredibly dim witted. Screaming that the problem of wealth inequality can be fixed via a new tax schedule is completely inane. Furthermore, Our debt is not a product of waterworks, bridge construction, wars or space travel, or anything YOU mentioned. The debt is a product of the biggest group of spending that you never even mentioned- ENTITLEMENTS, welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, social security, food stamps, etc.

MOST of the kids parents on the school lunch assist program have jobs. MOST of the people using various welfare programs have jobs. MOST...... Almost ALL have jobs. The problem isn't with the welfare of the workers, it's the welfare of the employers. If the Employer can't afford to pay the worker enough so the worker can afford to live on maybe that business shouldn't be in business in the first place. So the Government subsidizes the Employer by giving the worker subsidized income. Meanwhile, the employer buys another home in Malibu, a new Yacht in Florida, a Chalet in Aspen, goes to a nice South Sea Vacation for the 4th time this year. When they raised the minimum wage here a few years ago, they interviewed a person that owned a chain of McDonalds who said it would make it hard to stay in business. He would have to cut costs in his business by laying off people and raising prices. He was at the Air Port headed for his 6th vacation to Hawaii with his Family for the year. Not once did he bring up about cutting back on his luxuries. What's funny now, McDonalds has become a higher than the minimum wage job today due to competition for workers.

You want to slow down on the Entitlements? End Corporate Welfare. But you don't want to talk about that part do you.

Lol
Only the weak minded fools like yourself think taking from the successful is legitimate, This is not a fucking village and no we are not all supposed to get along. So shut the fuck up dinosaur

 

[The Original Tree]

1.The bête noire of the Left…the ‘rich’….

Actually, the ‘curse’ they use is a left-over from the aristocracy characterized by the Marie Antoinette quote "Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly spoken by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread. Since brioche was a luxury bread enriched with butter and eggs, the quotation would reflect the princess's disregard for the peasants, or her poor understanding of their situation.” Let them eat cake - Wikipedia

Therein lies the power that the Left wields by controlling the language. The use it not just to point out the imaginary ‘rich,’ but also for the imaginary ‘poor.’

There is no poverty in America like that pictured in Dickens, no home, no heat, no food, but that’s what the Democrats want one to imagine when they embezzle taxpayer funds to ‘fight poverty,’ meaning ‘buy votes.’


And that Marie Antoinette slander of the rich?

Once, the rich rode in carriages, the rest of the people walked. Today both ride in cars, whether or not they are all the same model.

“Nobody, not even Bill Gates, lives like Marie Antoinette. And nobody in the US lives like her peasants. “ Cochrane's Questions About Inequality - Econlib




2. Today’s poor are the richest poor in history, and the real meaning of poverty, no home, no heat, no food, doesn’t exist as any more than a rounding error.

Thanks to control of government schools, many are manipulated to believe the hype. Bet most don’t even know that Republicans freed the slaves and gave women the vote. And Democrat tax policy is the greatest bar to economic success.



3. Based on life choices, and personal responsibility everyone in America has the opportunity to improve their lot.

"...economic mobility. About 60 percent of the households that were in the lowest income quintile in 1999 were in a higher quintile ten years later. During the same decade, almost 40 percent of the richest households fell to a lower quintile. This is a nation where you can rise or fall. It is a nation where you can climb the economic ladder based not on who you are born to, or what class you are born into, but based on your talents, your passion, your perseverance, and the content of your character." https://imprimisarchives.hillsdale.edu/file/archives/pdf/2013_05_Imprimis.pdf



But the Democrats, the Liberals, Progressives have found a way to weaponize language for their own power....

Tell the less well-brought up that there are rich people living off their sweat....."...they'll put y'all back in chains..."




....with the sort of empty promise to steal from those 'darned rich folks, and, voila!....elected office.

$23 Trillion wasted on a Fake Leftist-Marxist War on Poverty that only enriched The Marxists putting America $22 Trillion in debt.

How on earth do you think losers like Schiff, Nadler, The Clintons, Bidens, Obamas and Nancy Pelosi got rich?

 

[jc456]

1.The bête noire of the Left…the ‘rich’….

Actually, the ‘curse’ they use is a left-over from the aristocracy characterized by the Marie Antoinette quote "Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly spoken by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread. Since brioche was a luxury bread enriched with butter and eggs, the quotation would reflect the princess's disregard for the peasants, or her poor understanding of their situation.” Let them eat cake - Wikipedia

Therein lies the power that the Left wields by controlling the language. The use it not just to point out the imaginary ‘rich,’ but also for the imaginary ‘poor.’

There is no poverty in America like that pictured in Dickens, no home, no heat, no food, but that’s what the Democrats want one to imagine when they embezzle taxpayer funds to ‘fight poverty,’ meaning ‘buy votes.’


And that Marie Antoinette slander of the rich?

Once, the rich rode in carriages, the rest of the people walked. Today both ride in cars, whether or not they are all the same model.

“Nobody, not even Bill Gates, lives like Marie Antoinette. And nobody in the US lives like her peasants. “ Cochrane's Questions About Inequality - Econlib




2. Today’s poor are the richest poor in history, and the real meaning of poverty, no home, no heat, no food, doesn’t exist as any more than a rounding error.

Thanks to control of government schools, many are manipulated to believe the hype. Bet most don’t even know that Republicans freed the slaves and gave women the vote. And Democrat tax policy is the greatest bar to economic success.



3. Based on life choices, and personal responsibility everyone in America has the opportunity to improve their lot.

"...economic mobility. About 60 percent of the households that were in the lowest income quintile in 1999 were in a higher quintile ten years later. During the same decade, almost 40 percent of the richest households fell to a lower quintile. This is a nation where you can rise or fall. It is a nation where you can climb the economic ladder based not on who you are born to, or what class you are born into, but based on your talents, your passion, your perseverance, and the content of your character." https://imprimisarchives.hillsdale.edu/file/archives/pdf/2013_05_Imprimis.pdf



But the Democrats, the Liberals, Progressives have found a way to weaponize language for their own power....

Tell the less well-brought up that there are rich people living off their sweat....."...they'll put y'all back in chains..."




....with the sort of empty promise to steal from those 'darned rich folks, and, voila!....elected office.

$23 Trillion wasted on a Fake Leftist-Marxist War on Poverty that only enriched The Marxists putting America $22 Trillion in debt.

why does every politician have millions? I don't care the party. that's all anyone need ask. Trump came in with his.

 

[BuckToothMoron]

What kind of an idiot thinks he has a chance of winning by promising a 97.5% tax rate on billionaires?

Besides some crotchety old curmudgeon socialist, I mean.

Hmm, every time one of you Rumpsters throw out a number it grows and grows each time. The real number is 70% on anything earned in a fiscal year above X million dollars after adjustment. That is the figure that was suggested. Of course, you don't remember when the real figure was 90% for anything over $250,000 do you? It paid for frivolous things like Water Works (dams, city water works, canals, etc.), Interstates, Bridges, Put Men on the Moon, paid for at least 3 wars, and much much more. Today, we can't even afford to fix our bridges or replace the pipes that are eaten up with rust and lead. In order to get an Astronaut onto the Space Station we have to thumb a ride with the Russians. We can't afford to effectively help in major emergencies anymore.

Although this was done by the entertainment world, it hits the nail right on the head.



Can you imagine if any Politician were to say this today? As true as this is, just how long would they exist in the political world if they did. Yes, the Rich paid for most of the really great programs that was created with a little help from everyone else. America WAS the greatest Country in the world. We aren't anymore. We could be again but not by following the losers we see attempting to be leaders today. And this includes Rump.

Oh boy, you Libs are so incredibly dim witted. Screaming that the problem of wealth inequality can be fixed via a new tax schedule is completely inane. Furthermore, Our debt is not a product of waterworks, bridge construction, wars or space travel, or anything YOU mentioned. The debt is a product of the biggest group of spending that you never even mentioned- ENTITLEMENTS, welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, social security, food stamps, etc.

I'd like to see a comparison of the military budget VS welfare programs. We do spend an awful lot on the military.

Since you were to lazy to google it, I will provide it for you. We spend at least 3 times more on mandatory entitlements than we do on military. The military budget is part of the discretionary spending, and is about 15% of the total budget. Mandatory entitlement spending is Near 60% of the total spending, and it will continue to rise. Don’t let anyone tell you the military budget is the cause of the deficit.

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You can take out the 38% for SSI and Medicare. I paid for those for over 50 years and I still pay into it even after I receive the benefits. Those aren't "Benefits". That's my money. I paid for it. That's not the Governments money. It's not Tax Money. It's supposed to be like a trust fund. Now, redo your figures using real data instead of the baked figures.

Again no link to support your misguided assertions. If SSI and Medicare recipients only received what they paid in, why is SS due to run out of money in 2034. The reality is most people receive more from SS than they contribute. I know you want to believe you’re getting back what you paid, but the reality is most people will receive much more than they paid into SS. Educate yourself with the info I have provided below.

Medicare and Social Security: What you paid compared with what you get
According to the institute’s data, a two-earner couple receiving an average wage — $44,600 per spouse in 2012 dollars — and turning 65 in 2010 would have paid $722,000 into Social Security and Medicare and can be expected to take out $966,000 in benefits. So, this couple will be paid about one-third more in benefits than they paid in taxes.

According to this calculation, past and current generations will pay $71.3 trillion in payroll taxes but will receive $93.4 trillion in benefits. Adjusting for past and future transfers from the federal Treasury, the difference between "paid-in" and "paid-out" works out to $21.6 trillion.

But until that happens, the exhortation that today’s generations are just getting what they are due based on their forced past tax payments is incorrect. ‘We’ are to get much more under current Social Security laws — to the tune of $21.6 trillion — than we’ll pay into the system. The excess benefits are a ‘return’ on past and current generations’ taxes of $71.3 trillion — and quite a handsome return it is!"

 

[PoliticalChic]

6. Kay Hymowitz uses the term ‘rich’ as the Left might, but reminds of a more contemporary definition.


“The rich used to be indolent, he reminds us. The whole point of wealth was to be freed from toil, while peasants sweated in fields and manor kitchens to serve their betters and eke out a living for their undernourished families.


These days, by contrast, the rich work 16-hour days and weekends under immense competitive pressure to close the deal, make partner, and take a conference call with Japanese businessmen. “No prior elite has ever been as capable or as industrious as the meritocratic elite that such training produces. None comes close,” Markovits asserts.


 Yes, a few actresses and real estate barons try to bribe and cheat their children into the palaces of learning, but most Ivy Leaguers have used their privileged upbringing to make their way into these bastions according to the rules of achievement. Given the expensive grooming required to make it to the top campuses, he implies, a squeaky-clean meritocracy would still favor the rich.”
Meritocrats v. Meritocracy





7. Hussein felt it necessary to make an argument for the theft that socialism is based on:




“You didn’t build that: somebody else made that happen.”


Yeah…..they did build that success.

If the Left stopped lying, they’d be mute.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Yang and Gabbard seem like reasonable people. To some extent Klobuchar does too. The rest are loons.

Yeah, he wants to give every american $1,000 a month for life, yeah, reasonable.

It’s not everyone but a lot of people. That plan is insanely odd.

 

[jc456]

Yang and Gabbard seem like reasonable people. To some extent Klobuchar does too. The rest are loons.

Yeah, he wants to give every american $1,000 a month for life, yeah, reasonable.

It’s not everyone but a lot of people. That plan is insanely odd.

the clip I heard from his own mouth, he said every person. CBS Morning show this past Sunday.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Yang and Gabbard seem like reasonable people. To some extent Klobuchar does too. The rest are loons.

Yeah, he wants to give every american $1,000 a month for life, yeah, reasonable.

It’s not everyone but a lot of people. That plan is insanely odd.

the clip I heard from his own mouth, he said every person. CBS Morning show this past Sunday.

If you have a full time job with a certain income I do not believe you would qualify. I could be wrong. Also if you collect unemployment or welfare you would not qualify.

 

[Daryl Hunt]

It's time to make America Great Again. By cleaning out the Whitehouse of Rump and his merry band of criminals and getting rid of each and every congress critter taking up space in congress. Term limit Congress should do the trick with Congress and a good old fashioned Impeachment conviction for Rump and his band of criminals along with perp walks.

Thank you for showing that's it's way past that time.

 

[PoliticalChic]

It's time to make America Great Again. By cleaning out the Whitehouse of Rump and his merry band of criminals and getting rid of each and every congress critter taking up space in congress. Term limit Congress should do the trick with Congress and a good old fashioned Impeachment conviction for Rump and his band of criminals along with perp walks.

Thank you for showing that's it's way past that time.

So you contend that this is the prescription for making America great again????


1. America would fall back to this:
“Team Obama: Sorry, America, the ‘new normal’ may be here to stay

The good times may be over for good. In a speech to the Economic Club of New York yesterday, US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said the US GDP growth rate, adjusted for inflation, is now projected to run a little above 2% a year.”
Team Obama: Sorry, America, the 'new normal' may be here to stay - AEI


2. The hard working American taxpayer would pay for illegal alien's healthcare

3. There'd be no penalty for sneaking over the border.....no sovereignty.

4. The world's worst state sponsor of terrorism would have nuclear weapons.

5. Infanticide, post-birth abortion, would be legalized

6. Taxes would be increased and tax cuts reversed

7. Sharia would become de rigueur

8. Free speech would be outlawed as 'hate speech.

9. Jewish persons would have to find shelter elsewhere

10. We could look forward to the end of private health insurance, reparations for slavery and drug dealers, financial security for those who ‘don’t care to work,’ abortion rights for 'transwomen (men), and packing the Supreme Court.

11. The abolition of prisons so that convicted criminals would be free to prey on innocent citizens.

Oh....and this....

12. Abortion rights for men.


All promises by Democrat candidates for President.




Seems you really can be this stupid.

 

[PoliticalChic]

8. Whether stated or not, the term ‘poor’ is in political parlance, synonymous with ‘black.’ It is essential to Democrat success that the terms remained forever joined.


What follows is the narrative that there is some sort of conspiracy among white folks to keep blacks poor, ignorant and oppressed, and to that end the Left’s elites and media allies employ Pavlovian conditioning using terms like ‘racism,’ ‘white privilege,’ and ‘white nationalist.’
These are words sans any significant constituency: neither actually exist outside of the propaganda.




9. The Liberal/Democrat emphasis is that no efforts by minorities are effective....so, why implement any.
When asked to explain these glaring departures from personal responsibility, steps toward academic achievement…..no Democrat voters can provide cogent explanations.

Watch:

With respect to the education gap, how is it that 'racism' is responsible for these areas in which black students fall short when compared to white and Asian students:

The number of days absent from school

The number of hours spent watching TV

The number of pages read for homework

Quantity and quality of reading material in the home

The presence of two parents in the home.
How does 'racism' explain these ...deficiencies????

How are white folks responsible???


Clearly.....whites aren't the problem.....the Democrat party is.




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[JGalt]

1.The bête noire of the Left…the ‘rich’….

Actually, the ‘curse’ they use is a left-over from the aristocracy characterized by the Marie Antoinette quote "Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly spoken by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread. Since brioche was a luxury bread enriched with butter and eggs, the quotation would reflect the princess's disregard for the peasants, or her poor understanding of their situation.” Let them eat cake - Wikipedia

Therein lies the power that the Left wields by controlling the language. The use it not just to point out the imaginary ‘rich,’ but also for the imaginary ‘poor.’

There is no poverty in America like that pictured in Dickens, no home, no heat, no food, but that’s what the Democrats want one to imagine when they embezzle taxpayer funds to ‘fight poverty,’ meaning ‘buy votes.’


And that Marie Antoinette slander of the rich?

Once, the rich rode in carriages, the rest of the people walked. Today both ride in cars, whether or not they are all the same model.

“Nobody, not even Bill Gates, lives like Marie Antoinette. And nobody in the US lives like her peasants. “ Cochrane's Questions About Inequality - Econlib




2. Today’s poor are the richest poor in history, and the real meaning of poverty, no home, no heat, no food, doesn’t exist as any more than a rounding error.

Thanks to control of government schools, many are manipulated to believe the hype. Bet most don’t even know that Republicans freed the slaves and gave women the vote. And Democrat tax policy is the greatest bar to economic success.



3. Based on life choices, and personal responsibility everyone in America has the opportunity to improve their lot.

"...economic mobility. About 60 percent of the households that were in the lowest income quintile in 1999 were in a higher quintile ten years later. During the same decade, almost 40 percent of the richest households fell to a lower quintile. This is a nation where you can rise or fall. It is a nation where you can climb the economic ladder based not on who you are born to, or what class you are born into, but based on your talents, your passion, your perseverance, and the content of your character." https://imprimisarchives.hillsdale.edu/file/archives/pdf/2013_05_Imprimis.pdf



But the Democrats, the Liberals, Progressives have found a way to weaponize language for their own power....

Tell the less well-brought up that there are rich people living off their sweat....."...they'll put y'all back in chains..."




....with the sort of empty promise to steal from those 'darned rich folks, and, voila!....elected office.

$23 Trillion wasted on a Fake Leftist-Marxist War on Poverty that only enriched The Marxists putting America $22 Trillion in debt.

why does every politician have millions? I don't care the party. that's all anyone need ask. Trump came in with his.

Because most politicians are crooked pieces of crap. They use their office to enrich themselves, at the expense of the taxpayers, as did Joe Biden. Trump on the other hand, is not like them. He could give a rats ass whether he makes a dollar on his job or not. Hell, he's still donating his salary.

 

[francoHFW]

1.The bête noire of the Left…the ‘rich’….

Actually, the ‘curse’ they use is a left-over from the aristocracy characterized by the Marie Antoinette quote "Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly spoken by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread. Since brioche was a luxury bread enriched with butter and eggs, the quotation would reflect the princess's disregard for the peasants, or her poor understanding of their situation.” Let them eat cake - Wikipedia

Therein lies the power that the Left wields by controlling the language. The use it not just to point out the imaginary ‘rich,’ but also for the imaginary ‘poor.’

There is no poverty in America like that pictured in Dickens, no home, no heat, no food, but that’s what the Democrats want one to imagine when they embezzle taxpayer funds to ‘fight poverty,’ meaning ‘buy votes.’


And that Marie Antoinette slander of the rich?

Once, the rich rode in carriages, the rest of the people walked. Today both ride in cars, whether or not they are all the same model.

“Nobody, not even Bill Gates, lives like Marie Antoinette. And nobody in the US lives like her peasants. “ Cochrane's Questions About Inequality - Econlib




2. Today’s poor are the richest poor in history, and the real meaning of poverty, no home, no heat, no food, doesn’t exist as any more than a rounding error.

Thanks to control of government schools, many are manipulated to believe the hype. Bet most don’t even know that Republicans freed the slaves and gave women the vote. And Democrat tax policy is the greatest bar to economic success.



3. Based on life choices, and personal responsibility everyone in America has the opportunity to improve their lot.

"...economic mobility. About 60 percent of the households that were in the lowest income quintile in 1999 were in a higher quintile ten years later. During the same decade, almost 40 percent of the richest households fell to a lower quintile. This is a nation where you can rise or fall. It is a nation where you can climb the economic ladder based not on who you are born to, or what class you are born into, but based on your talents, your passion, your perseverance, and the content of your character." https://imprimisarchives.hillsdale.edu/file/archives/pdf/2013_05_Imprimis.pdf



But the Democrats, the Liberals, Progressives have found a way to weaponize language for their own power....

Tell the less well-brought up that there are rich people living off their sweat....."...they'll put y'all back in chains..."




....with the sort of empty promise to steal from those 'darned rich folks, and, voila!....elected office.

1.The bête noire of the Left…the ‘rich’….

Actually, the ‘curse’ they use is a left-over from the aristocracy characterized by the Marie Antoinette quote "Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly spoken by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread. Since brioche was a luxury bread enriched with butter and eggs, the quotation would reflect the princess's disregard for the peasants, or her poor understanding of their situation.” Let them eat cake - Wikipedia

Therein lies the power that the Left wields by controlling the language. The use it not just to point out the imaginary ‘rich,’ but also for the imaginary ‘poor.’

There is no poverty in America like that pictured in Dickens, no home, no heat, no food, but that’s what the Democrats want one to imagine when they embezzle taxpayer funds to ‘fight poverty,’ meaning ‘buy votes.’


And that Marie Antoinette slander of the rich?

Once, the rich rode in carriages, the rest of the people walked. Today both ride in cars, whether or not they are all the same model.

“Nobody, not even Bill Gates, lives like Marie Antoinette. And nobody in the US lives like her peasants. “ Cochrane's Questions About Inequality - Econlib




2. Today’s poor are the richest poor in history, and the real meaning of poverty, no home, no heat, no food, doesn’t exist as any more than a rounding error.

Thanks to control of government schools, many are manipulated to believe the hype. Bet most don’t even know that Republicans freed the slaves and gave women the vote. And Democrat tax policy is the greatest bar to economic success.



3. Based on life choices, and personal responsibility everyone in America has the opportunity to improve their lot.

"...economic mobility. About 60 percent of the households that were in the lowest income quintile in 1999 were in a higher quintile ten years later. During the same decade, almost 40 percent of the richest households fell to a lower quintile. This is a nation where you can rise or fall. It is a nation where you can climb the economic ladder based not on who you are born to, or what class you are born into, but based on your talents, your passion, your perseverance, and the content of your character." https://imprimisarchives.hillsdale.edu/file/archives/pdf/2013_05_Imprimis.pdf



But the Democrats, the Liberals, Progressives have found a way to weaponize language for their own power....

Tell the less well-brought up that there are rich people living off their sweat....."...they'll put y'all back in chains..."




....with the sort of empty promise to steal from those 'darned rich folks, and, voila!....elected office.

Thanks for the spam how is the weather in Russia? The problem is not the rich the problem is the GOP scumbag lying propagandizing rich. Democratic Rich want to raise their own taxes and invest in America, brain-washed functional moron.

 

[PoliticalChic]

10. Careful consideration should be given into how successful individuals became successful, or rich, or wealthy. In almost every case it was through dint of their own efforts.
According to a study by Prince & Associates, less than 10% of today’s multi-millionaires cited “inheritance” as their source of wealth.
The Decline of Inherited Money - The Wealth Report - WSJ
The Decline of Inherited Money

Most of America's millionaires are first-generation rich. How is it possible for people from modest backgrounds to become millionaires in one generation? Why is it that so many people with similar socioeconomic backgrounds never accumulate even modest amounts of wealth?
washingtonpost.com: The Millionaire Next Door




11 Carefully considered, it comes down to a choice between “diversity” and “merit.”
Skin color is not a determiner of ‘merit,’ it is not an achievement.
Aside from the bogus and meaningless ‘diversity is our strength,’ demanding the best is the strength of America, and its future.


“… no one has a real alternative to academic ability as a filtering device for finding talent in complex analytic jobs. For all his concern about the “near-universal harms” of meritocracy, it’s a safe guess that Markovits himself would seek out a highly ranked cardiologist if he were having chest pains, or the sharpest thinkers if he wanted to edit a collection of essays on, say, what should replace a meritocratic system.

Meritocracy critics are right about one thing: when we use “merit” in this context, we should not confuse it with virtue, wisdom, and common sense. Alas, the eminent professor’s jeremiad only proves the point.” Meritocrats v. Meritocracy


However the 'rich' became rich, it was always something that benefited the rest of us.

So, targeting those individuals is a detriment to the nation.

And, by extension, the socialists/Democrats are a detriment as well.

 

[PoliticalChic]

1.The bête noire of the Left…the ‘rich’….

Actually, the ‘curse’ they use is a left-over from the aristocracy characterized by the Marie Antoinette quote "Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly spoken by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread. Since brioche was a luxury bread enriched with butter and eggs, the quotation would reflect the princess's disregard for the peasants, or her poor understanding of their situation.” Let them eat cake - Wikipedia

Therein lies the power that the Left wields by controlling the language. The use it not just to point out the imaginary ‘rich,’ but also for the imaginary ‘poor.’

There is no poverty in America like that pictured in Dickens, no home, no heat, no food, but that’s what the Democrats want one to imagine when they embezzle taxpayer funds to ‘fight poverty,’ meaning ‘buy votes.’


And that Marie Antoinette slander of the rich?

Once, the rich rode in carriages, the rest of the people walked. Today both ride in cars, whether or not they are all the same model.

“Nobody, not even Bill Gates, lives like Marie Antoinette. And nobody in the US lives like her peasants. “ Cochrane's Questions About Inequality - Econlib




2. Today’s poor are the richest poor in history, and the real meaning of poverty, no home, no heat, no food, doesn’t exist as any more than a rounding error.

Thanks to control of government schools, many are manipulated to believe the hype. Bet most don’t even know that Republicans freed the slaves and gave women the vote. And Democrat tax policy is the greatest bar to economic success.



3. Based on life choices, and personal responsibility everyone in America has the opportunity to improve their lot.

"...economic mobility. About 60 percent of the households that were in the lowest income quintile in 1999 were in a higher quintile ten years later. During the same decade, almost 40 percent of the richest households fell to a lower quintile. This is a nation where you can rise or fall. It is a nation where you can climb the economic ladder based not on who you are born to, or what class you are born into, but based on your talents, your passion, your perseverance, and the content of your character." https://imprimisarchives.hillsdale.edu/file/archives/pdf/2013_05_Imprimis.pdf



But the Democrats, the Liberals, Progressives have found a way to weaponize language for their own power....

Tell the less well-brought up that there are rich people living off their sweat....."...they'll put y'all back in chains..."




....with the sort of empty promise to steal from those 'darned rich folks, and, voila!....elected office.

1.The bête noire of the Left…the ‘rich’….

Actually, the ‘curse’ they use is a left-over from the aristocracy characterized by the Marie Antoinette quote "Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly spoken by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread. Since brioche was a luxury bread enriched with butter and eggs, the quotation would reflect the princess's disregard for the peasants, or her poor understanding of their situation.” Let them eat cake - Wikipedia

Therein lies the power that the Left wields by controlling the language. The use it not just to point out the imaginary ‘rich,’ but also for the imaginary ‘poor.’

There is no poverty in America like that pictured in Dickens, no home, no heat, no food, but that’s what the Democrats want one to imagine when they embezzle taxpayer funds to ‘fight poverty,’ meaning ‘buy votes.’


And that Marie Antoinette slander of the rich?

Once, the rich rode in carriages, the rest of the people walked. Today both ride in cars, whether or not they are all the same model.

“Nobody, not even Bill Gates, lives like Marie Antoinette. And nobody in the US lives like her peasants. “ Cochrane's Questions About Inequality - Econlib




2. Today’s poor are the richest poor in history, and the real meaning of poverty, no home, no heat, no food, doesn’t exist as any more than a rounding error.

Thanks to control of government schools, many are manipulated to believe the hype. Bet most don’t even know that Republicans freed the slaves and gave women the vote. And Democrat tax policy is the greatest bar to economic success.



3. Based on life choices, and personal responsibility everyone in America has the opportunity to improve their lot.

"...economic mobility. About 60 percent of the households that were in the lowest income quintile in 1999 were in a higher quintile ten years later. During the same decade, almost 40 percent of the richest households fell to a lower quintile. This is a nation where you can rise or fall. It is a nation where you can climb the economic ladder based not on who you are born to, or what class you are born into, but based on your talents, your passion, your perseverance, and the content of your character." https://imprimisarchives.hillsdale.edu/file/archives/pdf/2013_05_Imprimis.pdf



But the Democrats, the Liberals, Progressives have found a way to weaponize language for their own power....

Tell the less well-brought up that there are rich people living off their sweat....."...they'll put y'all back in chains..."




....with the sort of empty promise to steal from those 'darned rich folks, and, voila!....elected office.

Thanks for the spam how is the weather in Russia? The problem is not the rich the problem is the GOP scumbag lying propagandizing rich. Democratic Rich want to raise their own taxes and invest in America, brain-washed functional moron.

Funny that the less intellectually endowed are still screaming "RUSSIA" with the stain of the Mueller fiasco still fresh in America's mind.

And the history-challenged Democrats.....raise your paw...aren't embarrassed that the Democrat Party stands for the very same things that Russia's Communist Party USA did......

These were listed as the aims of the communist party, (CPUSA) after the war, and, to an almost 100% extent, they the same as today's Liberals/Progressives/Democrats.



1. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.


2. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.


3. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.


4. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.


5. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.


6. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.


7. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.


8. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

9. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."


10. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.


11. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

12. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.


13. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce


Now....wouldn't an honest appraisal agree that all or almost all are clearly the aims and direction of Democrats/Liberals/Progressive leaders?



I got 'em from a website of declared communist goals...

The Communist Takeover Of America - 45 Declared Goals

The Communist Takeover Of America - 45 Declared Goals

 

[DOTR]

What kind of an idiot thinks he has a chance of winning by promising a 97.5% tax rate on billionaires?

Besides some crotchety old curmudgeon socialist, I mean.

Hmm, every time one of you Rumpsters throw out a number it grows and grows each time. The real number is 70% on anything earned in a fiscal year above X million dollars after adjustment. That is the figure that was suggested. Of course, you don't remember when the real figure was 90% for anything over $250,000 do you? It paid for frivolous things like Water Works (dams, city water works, canals, etc.), Interstates, Bridges, Put Men on the Moon, paid for at least 3 wars, and much much more. Today, we can't even afford to fix our bridges or replace the pipes that are eaten up with rust and lead. In order to get an Astronaut onto the Space Station we have to thumb a ride with the Russians. We can't afford to effectively help in major emergencies anymore.

Although this was done by the entertainment world, it hits the nail right on the head.



Can you imagine if any Politician were to say this today? As true as this is, just how long would they exist in the political world if they did. Yes, the Rich paid for most of the really great programs that was created with a little help from everyone else. America WAS the greatest Country in the world. We aren't anymore. We could be again but not by following the losers we see attempting to be leaders today. And this includes Rump.

Can’t afford it? By that you mean the Federal government? They don’t take in enough money? They need even more?

 

[DOTR]

1.The bête noire of the Left…the ‘rich’….

Actually, the ‘curse’ they use is a left-over from the aristocracy characterized by the Marie Antoinette quote "Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly spoken by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread. Since brioche was a luxury bread enriched with butter and eggs, the quotation would reflect the princess's disregard for the peasants, or her poor understanding of their situation.” Let them eat cake - Wikipedia

Therein lies the power that the Left wields by controlling the language. The use it not just to point out the imaginary ‘rich,’ but also for the imaginary ‘poor.’

There is no poverty in America like that pictured in Dickens, no home, no heat, no food, but that’s what the Democrats want one to imagine when they embezzle taxpayer funds to ‘fight poverty,’ meaning ‘buy votes.’


And that Marie Antoinette slander of the rich?

Once, the rich rode in carriages, the rest of the people walked. Today both ride in cars, whether or not they are all the same model.

“Nobody, not even Bill Gates, lives like Marie Antoinette. And nobody in the US lives like her peasants. “ Cochrane's Questions About Inequality - Econlib




2. Today’s poor are the richest poor in history, and the real meaning of poverty, no home, no heat, no food, doesn’t exist as any more than a rounding error.

Thanks to control of government schools, many are manipulated to believe the hype. Bet most don’t even know that Republicans freed the slaves and gave women the vote. And Democrat tax policy is the greatest bar to economic success.



3. Based on life choices, and personal responsibility everyone in America has the opportunity to improve their lot.

"...economic mobility. About 60 percent of the households that were in the lowest income quintile in 1999 were in a higher quintile ten years later. During the same decade, almost 40 percent of the richest households fell to a lower quintile. This is a nation where you can rise or fall. It is a nation where you can climb the economic ladder based not on who you are born to, or what class you are born into, but based on your talents, your passion, your perseverance, and the content of your character." https://imprimisarchives.hillsdale.edu/file/archives/pdf/2013_05_Imprimis.pdf



But the Democrats, the Liberals, Progressives have found a way to weaponize language for their own power....

Tell the less well-brought up that there are rich people living off their sweat....."...they'll put y'all back in chains..."




....with the sort of empty promise to steal from those 'darned rich folks, and, voila!....elected office.

Funny how Democrats always adopt a fake black accent when speaking to blacks. Truly soulless.

 

[PoliticalChic]

12. Just as we must demand the best students be produced by a real school system, and the ‘diversity’ excuse eliminated from education, so must the lie of ‘socialism’ be abjured in our economic system.
We need the folks who become 'rich,' 'wealthy,' as we all benefit from what they produce as the reason for their wealth.


“If the Leftist is interested in a more ‘fair’ redistribution of wealth, let him vote for lower taxes, and then he can distribute his now larger share of his wealth to the lesser compensated folks.
Illustrative of reality is the fact that the Leftist refrains from paying above the stated price for goods and services…he wants, as everyone else does, competition between said services. Only then does he stand a chance of getting a “fair” price. In his own enterprise, he strives to improve quality or lower price…’else his potential customers will take their business to others. Unless he has the power of government!”
David Mamet




13. And those professors teaching socialism to the captive audience?

“Just for fun, find a Marxist professor- who scoffs at the idea that people work less if they lose the incentive of money- how he would feel if his name were not put on the academic articles he published. Instead the articles would be published under the name of another academic who needed the recognition more than he did. After all…he would still have the satisfaction of having written the articles….His completely reasonable response would be that he earned’ the right to have his name on those articles, and denying him that measure of earned success is viciously unfair. Exactly.” Arthur Brooks, “The Road to Freedom,” p. 26.

 

[Toro]

Sure you do. It’s how the monied class you support kept beating Americans all these years. “I expect you to stand here...no no a little over...there that’s perfect...wham! you lose you right wing fanatic”

PoliticalChic