Elizabeth Warren Is Done Listening To GOP Talking Points On The Wealth Tax

[skews13]

Conservatives love to mythologize wealthy people as brave, resolute, patriotic captains of industry who won’t let anything get in the way of their success. At the same time, they also frequently portray the rich as timid little whelps who will instantly grab their balls and go home if anyone tries to pluck so much as a single guilder from their hulking dragon hoards.

And as wealth has been siphoned upward over the past several decades—with the help of a pro-plutocrat political system that continually rewards silver-spoon dipshits for their mediocrity—many in the media have bought into the notion that the wealthy are a special class of people who need to be handled with great care, like a vintage Porsche or a queen bee.

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Those poor souls. Pimping daddy’s inheritance ain’t easy you know.

 

[fncceo]

Of course, Theodore Roosevelt wasn't a Native American... like Ms Warren.

 

[SweetTea]

Envy is a terrible thing that consumes most Democrats.

Flat tax, no deductions, includes any capital gains and exceptions only for those making below a certain amount. Problem solved. Would rid of us most of the IRS and certainly a lot of headaches around this time of year. No reason to tax anyone a higher percentage just because they are successful. I am not much into the current progressive tax system either.

 

[Blues Man]

Conservatives love to mythologize wealthy people as brave, resolute, patriotic captains of industry who won’t let anything get in the way of their success. At the same time, they also frequently portray the rich as timid little whelps who will instantly grab their balls and go home if anyone tries to pluck so much as a single guilder from their hulking dragon hoards.

And as wealth has been siphoned upward over the past several decades—with the help of a pro-plutocrat political system that continually rewards silver-spoon dipshits for their mediocrity—many in the media have bought into the notion that the wealthy are a special class of people who need to be handled with great care, like a vintage Porsche or a queen bee.

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Those poor souls. Pimping daddy’s inheritance ain’t easy you know.

Democrats love to assume rich people are actively making it impossible for them to succeed in life

 

[SweetTea]

Conservatives love to mythologize wealthy people as brave, resolute, patriotic captains of industry who won’t let anything get in the way of their success. At the same time, they also frequently portray the rich as timid little whelps who will instantly grab their balls and go home if anyone tries to pluck so much as a single guilder from their hulking dragon hoards.

And as wealth has been siphoned upward over the past several decades—with the help of a pro-plutocrat political system that continually rewards silver-spoon dipshits for their mediocrity—many in the media have bought into the notion that the wealthy are a special class of people who need to be handled with great care, like a vintage Porsche or a queen bee.

Daily Kos

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Those poor souls. Pimping daddy’s inheritance ain’t easy you know.

Democrats love to assume rich people are actively making it impossible for them to succeed in life

True. They act as if there is a correlation.

 

[Blues Man]

Conservatives love to mythologize wealthy people as brave, resolute, patriotic captains of industry who won’t let anything get in the way of their success. At the same time, they also frequently portray the rich as timid little whelps who will instantly grab their balls and go home if anyone tries to pluck so much as a single guilder from their hulking dragon hoards.

And as wealth has been siphoned upward over the past several decades—with the help of a pro-plutocrat political system that continually rewards silver-spoon dipshits for their mediocrity—many in the media have bought into the notion that the wealthy are a special class of people who need to be handled with great care, like a vintage Porsche or a queen bee.

Daily Kos

Daily Kos is a progressive news site that fights for democracy by giving our audience information and resources to win elections and impact government. Our coverage is assiduously factual, ethical, and unapologetically liberal. We amplify what we think is important, with the proper context—not...

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Those poor souls. Pimping daddy’s inheritance ain’t easy you know.

Democrats love to assume rich people are actively making it impossible for them to succeed in life

True. They act as if there is a correlation.

They also forget that Warren is a 1% er

 

[CowboyTed]

Envy is a terrible thing that consumes most Democrats.

Flat tax, no deductions, includes any capital gains and exceptions only for those making below a certain amount. Problem solved. Would rid of us most of the IRS and certainly a lot of headaches around this time of year. No reason to tax anyone a higher percentage just because they are successful. I am not much into the current progressive tax system either.

Great, Show us a country of a reasonable size who implementing this tax policy...

By the way did you consider social implications to having huge income gap with small selection of massively rich people, an Uber class... So rich they would be effectively above the law...

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Conservatives love to mythologize wealthy people as brave, resolute, patriotic captains of industry who won’t let anything get in the way of their success. At the same time, they also frequently portray the rich as timid little whelps who will instantly grab their balls and go home if anyone tries to pluck so much as a single guilder from their hulking dragon hoards.

And as wealth has been siphoned upward over the past several decades—with the help of a pro-plutocrat political system that continually rewards silver-spoon dipshits for their mediocrity—many in the media have bought into the notion that the wealthy are a special class of people who need to be handled with great care, like a vintage Porsche or a queen bee.

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Those poor souls. Pimping daddy’s inheritance ain’t easy you know.

Hunter Biden

 

[CowboyTed]

Conservatives love to mythologize wealthy people as brave, resolute, patriotic captains of industry who won’t let anything get in the way of their success. At the same time, they also frequently portray the rich as timid little whelps who will instantly grab their balls and go home if anyone tries to pluck so much as a single guilder from their hulking dragon hoards.

And as wealth has been siphoned upward over the past several decades—with the help of a pro-plutocrat political system that continually rewards silver-spoon dipshits for their mediocrity—many in the media have bought into the notion that the wealthy are a special class of people who need to be handled with great care, like a vintage Porsche or a queen bee.

Daily Kos

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Those poor souls. Pimping daddy’s inheritance ain’t easy you know.

Democrats love to assume rich people are actively making it impossible for them to succeed in life

When you see the donations from rich people and corporations flooding into politics, you may say that is free speech but in a tin pot dictatorship in Africa it is called bribery...

When 1 in 14 people in the last administration were lobbyists, four time the previous one..Then in the last week of the administration they were allowed to go straight back to there . So the rich (people and corporations) have paid operators in government. If this was done companies it would be call corporate espionage...

And what is the outcome, increased wealth divide, harder access to education for middle class, lower environmental standards, lower worker protections,....

But look who at which party is the poster boy for all this... It is the GOP... Democrats aren't innocent but GOP are rampant... Trump was the worst infringer, he talked about swamp but his actions made him worse than anyone.

 

[j-mac]

Conservatives love to mythologize wealthy people as brave, resolute, patriotic captains of industry who won’t let anything get in the way of their success. At the same time, they also frequently portray the rich as timid little whelps who will instantly grab their balls and go home if anyone tries to pluck so much as a single guilder from their hulking dragon hoards.

And as wealth has been siphoned upward over the past several decades—with the help of a pro-plutocrat political system that continually rewards silver-spoon dipshits for their mediocrity—many in the media have bought into the notion that the wealthy are a special class of people who need to be handled with great care, like a vintage Porsche or a queen bee.

Daily Kos

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Those poor souls. Pimping daddy’s inheritance ain’t easy you know.

Democrats love to assume rich people are actively making it impossible for them to succeed in life

When you see the donations from rich people and corporations flooding into politics, you may say that is free speech but in a tin pot dictatorship in Africa it is called bribery...

When 1 in 14 people in the last administration were lobbyists, four time the previous one..Then in the last week of the administration they were allowed to go straight back to there . So the rich (people and corporations) have paid operators in government. If this was done companies it would be call corporate espionage...

And what is the outcome, increased wealth divide, harder access to education for middle class, lower environmental standards, lower worker protections,....

But look who at which party is the poster boy for all this... It is the GOP... Democrats aren't innocent but GOP are rampant... Trump was the worst infringer, he talked about swamp but his actions made him worse than anyone.

Maybe if you tell us what a perfect world looks like to you?

 

[j-mac]

Envy is a terrible thing that consumes most Democrats.

Flat tax, no deductions, includes any capital gains and exceptions only for those making below a certain amount. Problem solved. Would rid of us most of the IRS and certainly a lot of headaches around this time of year. No reason to tax anyone a higher percentage just because they are successful. I am not much into the current progressive tax system either.

The progressive tax system is a communist pillar.

 

[Mac-7]

When 1 in 14 people in the last administration were lobbyists, four time the previous one.

I dont know where you found that stat but I suspect its bogus

However, trump did err by lifting his own ban on lobbiests.

That a legitimate gripe by lefties in my opinion

 

[CrusaderFrank]

It's not the governments money

 

[martybegan]

Conservatives love to mythologize wealthy people as brave, resolute, patriotic captains of industry who won’t let anything get in the way of their success. At the same time, they also frequently portray the rich as timid little whelps who will instantly grab their balls and go home if anyone tries to pluck so much as a single guilder from their hulking dragon hoards.

And as wealth has been siphoned upward over the past several decades—with the help of a pro-plutocrat political system that continually rewards silver-spoon dipshits for their mediocrity—many in the media have bought into the notion that the wealthy are a special class of people who need to be handled with great care, like a vintage Porsche or a queen bee.

Daily Kos

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Those poor souls. Pimping daddy’s inheritance ain’t easy you know.

A wealth tax would be a disaster on the economy and would not get anything near the value the lefties are expecting. Most wealth is tied up in non-liquid assets, and many of these people taxed would have to try to liquify the assets to pay off their wealth tax. This would flood the market for these high end items and remove many buyers from the equation. You would end up with the assets being sold for far less than their value, forcing the people to sell of more assets, flooding the market with more unsellable items.

And we are not talking just real estate, cars and yachts, we are talking securities, bonds, other financial instruments. How would you feel about your 401k or pension fund dropping 30% or more because these people had to "Sell or else" large portions of their portfolio.

 

[CowboyTed]

Conservatives love to mythologize wealthy people as brave, resolute, patriotic captains of industry who won’t let anything get in the way of their success. At the same time, they also frequently portray the rich as timid little whelps who will instantly grab their balls and go home if anyone tries to pluck so much as a single guilder from their hulking dragon hoards.

And as wealth has been siphoned upward over the past several decades—with the help of a pro-plutocrat political system that continually rewards silver-spoon dipshits for their mediocrity—many in the media have bought into the notion that the wealthy are a special class of people who need to be handled with great care, like a vintage Porsche or a queen bee.

Daily Kos

Daily Kos is a progressive news site that fights for democracy by giving our audience information and resources to win elections and impact government. Our coverage is assiduously factual, ethical, and unapologetically liberal. We amplify what we think is important, with the proper context—not...

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Those poor souls. Pimping daddy’s inheritance ain’t easy you know.

Democrats love to assume rich people are actively making it impossible for them to succeed in life

When you see the donations from rich people and corporations flooding into politics, you may say that is free speech but in a tin pot dictatorship in Africa it is called bribery...

When 1 in 14 people in the last administration were lobbyists, four time the previous one..Then in the last week of the administration they were allowed to go straight back to there . So the rich (people and corporations) have paid operators in government. If this was done companies it would be call corporate espionage...

And what is the outcome, increased wealth divide, harder access to education for middle class, lower environmental standards, lower worker protections,....

But look who at which party is the poster boy for all this... It is the GOP... Democrats aren't innocent but GOP are rampant... Trump was the worst infringer, he talked about swamp but his actions made him worse than anyone.

Maybe if you tell us what a perfect world looks like to you?

Sorry but the proposal was for a Flat tax... I am just asking questions about it....

I want to know if Flat tax is a serious suggestion and what would be done to mitigate the pitfalls...

 

[CowboyTed]

Envy is a terrible thing that consumes most Democrats.

Flat tax, no deductions, includes any capital gains and exceptions only for those making below a certain amount. Problem solved. Would rid of us most of the IRS and certainly a lot of headaches around this time of year. No reason to tax anyone a higher percentage just because they are successful. I am not much into the current progressive tax system either.

The progressive tax system is a communist pillar.

That is used by the every major country in the first world...

By the way Communists don't have progressive tax system...

That comment just showed us your ignorance of the topic and pretty much nothing else...

 

[Rocko]

Envy is a terrible thing that consumes most Democrats.

Flat tax, no deductions, includes any capital gains and exceptions only for those making below a certain amount. Problem solved. Would rid of us most of the IRS and certainly a lot of headaches around this time of year. No reason to tax anyone a higher percentage just because they are successful. I am not much into the current progressive tax system either.

Great, Show us a country of a reasonable size who implementing this tax policy...

By the way did you consider social implications to having huge income gap with small selection of massively rich people, an Uber class... So rich they would be effectively above the law...

Who’s above the law besides the politicians you worship?

 

[Rocko]

A consumption tax and thats it.

 

[skews13]

Envy is a terrible thing that consumes most Democrats.

Flat tax, no deductions, includes any capital gains and exceptions only for those making below a certain amount. Problem solved. Would rid of us most of the IRS and certainly a lot of headaches around this time of year. No reason to tax anyone a higher percentage just because they are successful. I am not much into the current progressive tax system either.

The progressive tax system is a communist pillar.

That is used by the every major country in the first world...

By the way Communists don't have progressive tax system...

That comment just showed us your ignorance of the topic and pretty much nothing else...

When you use the word communist in any argument, you have already lost the argument.

 

[Aldo Raine]

A consumption tax and thats it.

Is that on everything that you would purchase or is it more targeted? I have heard and read it in several ways.