How George Soros Became The Subject Of So Many Far-Right Conspiracies

[sealybobo]

American billionaires’ political spending overwhelmingly leans Republican

A record-breaking $881 million were donated by the country’s 465 richest people

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Soros may be the biggest donor but

American billionaires’ political spending overwhelmingly leans Republican​

A record-breaking $881 million were donated by the country’s 465 richest people​

 

[bripat9643]

Nonsense. I'm going to get $400,000 someday. Now you're going too far. And if we did this, my dad would just slowly give me money while he's alive. Tax free.

I only want to impose a death tax on extreme wealth because

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Because you're a covetous bloodsucking parasite.

 

[bripat9643]

American billionaires’ political spending overwhelmingly leans Republican

A record-breaking $881 million were donated by the country’s 465 richest people

qz.com

Soros may be the biggest donor but

American billionaires’ political spending overwhelmingly leans Republican​

A record-breaking $881 million were donated by the country’s 465 richest people​

You didn't prove the majority donated to Republicans. You just assumed it.

 

[Dante Reawakened]

Isn't that why you want to take 90% of his estate when he dies?

Yem Trump pays taxes. One year he didn't pay taxes because his losses were greater than what he earned. Prog idiots like you pretend that happens every year.

100%

 

[Dante Reawakened]

Okay. The FOX Fetus Four.

 

[bripat9643]

100%

You admit that you're a blood sucker

 

[Dante Reawakened]

You admit that you're a blood sucker

I eat them and drink their blood. Okay?

 

[sealybobo]

You didn't prove the majority donated to Republicans. You just assumed it.

You didn't click on my link. It shows you the top 20 donors. Soros at the top yes but add up all the millions going to Republicans from 14 of the 20 who give to Republicans and the rich give more to Republicans.

So either way you slice it.

14 billionaires give to Republicans
6 Give to Democrats

Republicans also get more money from billionaires when you add up all the money. So it really doesn't matter that the top donor is Soros. The rich still give way more to Republicans. So it's funny for Republicans to demonize Soros. Right? Seems hypocritical.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Nonsense. I'm going to get $400,000 someday. Now you're going too far.

I only want to impose a death tax on extreme wealth because

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Extreme Inequality Is Dragging Down Our Economy, and More

In today’s On the News segment: According to a new paper from the International Monetary Fund, countries with a large wealth divide have less economic growth than nations with more evenly distributed…

truthout.org

Inheritance Destroys Merit

The destruction of earned opportunities is right out in the open. It is hidden in plain sight because people rely on fake dissidents to expose it. So we never hear what is most wrong about a situation, because we are deafened by the noisemakers hired to distract us with irrelevant criticisms.

The ticket to success is primarily college education. But it is work without pay, which is a demoralizing disincentive to the people the country needs for economic progress. So $100,000 inheritance won't be enough to buy a ticket; anyone who only has the tuition money is so inferior that he's willing to live in emasculating and childish student poverty just to steal a job from those who deserve to be paid to go college, the only ones the country needs to get educated.

What do you thing of unpaid internships? Even worse, ones that require an intern to pay a firm for letting him work there? If you don't see that college today is the same thing and should be equally resented, then you're displaying the cognitive dissonance that, ironically, is taught to college students under this humiliating and dumbing-down system.

Someone who wrote about that and also didn't see its equivalence to college "education" used as the clincher in her criticism that it was suggested that those who wanted those internships should get the money to pay for it from their trust funds! More proof that college, too, is designed for HeirHeads. For others, the reward is not worth the sacrifice, not even if they are no-talents who can't get a white-collar job any other way. What is worse is that neither group belongs in the responsible positions unpaid education rewards these no-talent generics with.

Likewise with starting a business with an inheritance. Those businesses are bound to fail, which creates misery for their employees, their consumers, and the economy in general. Any country that pays students for their grades will lead this century's world economy.

 

[sealybobo]

Inheritance Destroys Merit

The destruction of earned opportunities is right out in the open. It is hidden in plain sight because people rely on fake dissidents to expose it. So we never hear what is most wrong about a situation, because we are deafened by the noisemakers hired to distract us with irrelevant criticisms.

The ticket to success is primarily college education. But it is work without pay, which is a demoralizing disincentive to the people the country needs for economic progress. So $100,000 inheritance won't be enough to buy a ticket; anyone who only has the tuition money is so inferior that he's willing to live in emasculating and childish student poverty just to steal a job from those who deserve to be paid to go college, the only ones the country needs to get educated.

What do you thing of unpaid internships? Even worse, ones that require an intern to pay a firm for letting him work there? If you don't see that college today is the same thing and should be equally resented, then you're displaying the cognitive dissonance that, ironically, is taught to college students under this humiliating and dumbing-down system.

Someone who wrote about that and also didn't see its equivalence to college "education" used as the clincher in her criticism that it was suggested that those who wanted those internships should get the money to pay for it from their trust funds! More proof that college, too, is designed for HeirHeads. For others, the reward is not worth the sacrifice, not even if they are no-talents who can't get a white-collar job any other way. What is worse is that neither group belongs in the responsible positions unpaid education rewards these no-talent generics with.

Likewise with starting a business with an inheritance. Those businesses are bound to fail, which creates misery for their employees, their consumers, and the economy in general. Any country that pays students for their grades will lead this century's world economy.

I dig the vibe but can't say I agree. You seem a bit out there. Jealous of people who have success.

My brother went to Michigan State University. Decided to get a Masters in a sort of HR program. I think it's called Labor and Industrial something? Anyways, those masters students graduate and get put into mid management positions at our fortune 500 companies. Many of them rise to the VP/executive level. You know, the type that make $500-$1 million dollars a year?

Anyways, I think you Americans are falling for it when they suggest you should no longer get a college degree. Without one, what do expect to become?

And it's nonsense to say starting a business with inheritance is doomed to fail. It takes money to start a business. Most business owners had help in the beginning. Republicans like to talk about self made men but there is no such thing. They had parents right? They used roads we paved or libraries to learn right?

Anyways, it's wrong to make a person who's parents were successful feel bad about themselves for getting an inheritance. They worked hard for that money and one thing they want to do with their money is send their kids to the best schools and leave them money when they die. It's part of the American dream.

Also, it's how soooo many baby boomers were able to retire in comfort. That and they got pensions. Are you a baby boomer? You guys got pensions and inheritances. With the costs of everything going up, fewer and fewer middle class Americans are leaving anything. In fact they have to move in with their kids in order to be able to afford to retire. Or reverse mortgages.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

I dig the vibe but can't say I agree. You seem a bit out there. Jealous of people who have success.

Sperm Bingo

How do heirs have "success"? Quit making this about their fathers. What gives the father the right to set his sons up halfway to the finish line anyway? That is as much an excessive reward as sex-on-demand from his employees. That is no different from bribing the referees "with his own money." And it's illogical to call someone who got cheated because of this Right-Wing affirmative action "jealous" of those who cheated the next generation out of a level playing field.

 

[sealybobo]

"Trickle down" is just an insulting label some left-winger invented to refer to it. There's no such economic policy. Allowing people to keep their money rather than the government taking it always benefits taxpayers.

Republicans hate when we call what Reagan did trickle down because the last time it was tried was before the Great Recession. That’s what they called it back then.

 

[bripat9643]

Republicans hate when we call what Reagan did trickle down because the last time it was tried was before the Great Recession. That’s what they called it back then.

Free market economic has been the rule sine shortly before the Great Depression. Abandoning it is what caused the Great Depression

 

[sealybobo]

Free market economic has been the rule sine shortly before the Great Depression. Abandoning it is what caused the Great Depression

I thought tariffs caused the Great Depression. That's what you cons have said in the past. Now you're saying it was getting away from free market capitalism? Make up your minds.

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Hint. There's no such thing as unregulated free market capitalism.


The causes of the Great Depression included the stock market crash of 1929, bank failures, and a drought that lasted throughout the 1930s. During this time, the nation faced high unemployment, people lost their homes and possessions, and nearly half of American banks closed.

What were the major causes of the Great Depression? Among the suggested causes of the Great Depression are: the stock market crash of 1929; the collapse of world trade due to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff; government policies; bank failures and panics; and the collapse of the money supply.

 

[Dragonlady]

During the Bush years, for us liberals it was the Koch brothers.

There is so much dark money in politics now. Today rich people, for their image, donate publicly to Democrats. Secretly they give 10 x as much to Republicans.

But the Koch Brothers were using direct donations from their PAC to Republican Senate candidates - $50 million in 2016, but only for those candidates who "earned" their support. There were always strings.

Then there's the Federalist Society's corruption of the Supreme Court.

To say that both parties are the same in this regard, simply isn't true.

 

[Dragonlady]

Free market economic has been the rule sine shortly before the Great Depression. Abandoning it is what caused the Great Depression

False. Completely false. Loose credit and lax banking regulations lead to the Depression. Unfettered free market capitalism CAUSED the Depression. It wasn't "abandoned" until the passage of the New Deal under Roosevelt, starting in 1933. The Great Depression began in 1929.

 

[sartre play]

ALL the billionaires use their money to enhance their agenda,
Mostly to make more money or reduce regulations that will make them more money
Soros is just a billionaire like the rest.
Do a large number of people think he promotes a number of projects that are helpful to average citizens.
Always keep in mind that Nothing is ever exactly as it looks from the out side, trying too look in.

 

[bripat9643]

False. Completely false. Loose credit and lax banking regulations lead to the Depression. Unfettered free market capitalism CAUSED the Depression. It wasn't "abandoned" until the passage of the New Deal under Roosevelt, starting in 1933. The Great Depression began in 1929.

There were more regulations in place in 1929 than we had in the preceding 50 years. Why didn't we have a depression then? How was credit any looser in 1929 than it was in 1909?

 

[Dragonlady]

There were more regulations in place in 1929 than we had in the preceding 50 years. Why didn't we have a depression then? How was credit any looser in 1929 than it was in 1909?

Because you didn't have easy credit and buying "on margin" prior to 1920. The problems created didn't collapse the economy overnight. The crash occurred when banks and brokerages were overextended and started making "margin calls" to shore up their portfolios.

Borrowers had to sell off their stocks to pay their loans, and the stock prices cratered. Borrowers were ruined and banks failed. Add in a drought and crop failures throughout the midwest. The Crash is all on the capitalists and the Republican policies.

 

[bripat9643]

Because you didn't have easy credit and buying "on margin" prior to 1920.

Wrong.

The problems created didn't collapse the economy overnight. The crash occurred when banks and brokerages were overextended and started making "margin calls" to shore up their portfolios.

That's one theory. That's all it is.

Borrowers had to sell off their stocks to pay their loans, and the stock prices cratered. Borrowers were ruined and banks failed. Add in a drought and crop failures throughout the midwest. The Crash is all on the capitalists and the Republican policies.

The drought didn't occur until years later. Margin accounts have existed since the stock market was created, nimrod.