Is the right envious of the poor when members of GOP talk about "broadening the taxbase" and making the 47% that are too poor to pay income taxes pay their fair share?
Or how about in places like Wisconsin where republicans tried to make private sector workers "envious" of public sector workers by talking about how those public sector workers have better benefits than private sector workers do so we need to take them away from them.
How is it that when the right engages in it they seem to have no problem with class warfare?
So if the top 53% do not fund all the government, they are not paying their fair share. But when the lower 47% do not pay anything and/or become a net drain on the economy they are innocents? NOT parasites?
Gov. Walker is making the private sector envious of unsustainable golden goose benefit packages public sector unions got by rigging the negotiation process by helping get their opposite member at the negotiation table elected and thereby should be recused due to conflict of influence??? Nope, sorry. They recognize that the public sector is pulling a fast one and trying to claim they're justified in being 'untouchable' by an economic downturn because they are too 'saintly and essential'. The rest of the state sees it and calls bullshit on WEAC and their out of state cronies attemting to influence WI policy because they're afraid the necessary steps will soon be at their very door.
The public sector should NEVER be superior in pay and benefit to the private sector employment. Ever. Lest it forget that they are public SERVANTS and the servant never makes more than it's master, the taxpayers... which in this case is only the upper 53% of wage earners in this nation.
If you would stick to judging my comments for what I ACTUALLY said instead of trying to put words into my mouth that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
BTW you do know that the number 47% refers to INCOME taxes only and not taxes as a whole don't you??
Oh and thanks for proving my point and engaging in class warfare which the right claims to be against. The mere fact that you consider public workers as less than private sector workers says it all. Master and servants?? Really?? WOW!
They have it, you don't and you believe that they shouldn't have it. Therefore you must be envious. LOL
Again I have to ask, How is it that when the right engages in it they seem to have no problem with class warfare?
BTW you do know that the number 47% refers to INCOME taxes only and not taxes as a whole don't you??
Of course I did. I just didn't want to **** up your chi by mentioning that the rich pay more in consumption taxes than the poor and that all taxation is retroactive. Making them progressive based on ability to pay only makes them more unfair. After all, progressive taxation is only something created based on the ideas of envy (no one should have more than x amount of money) and some lawmaker's interpretation of what 'enough' is. You know, this reminds me of when the computer industry said that the public's 'need' for computing power should never exceed 33mhz and 8mbs of hard drive space let alone RAM. So tell me, do you require more than that, or are you still somehow online with an old 8088 or Intel 286? Why isn't that enough computing power for you? The computer industry of the late 1980's thought it was.
Oh and thanks for proving my point and engaging in class warfare which the right claims to be against. The mere fact that you consider public workers as less than private sector workers says it all. Master and servants?? Really?? WOW!
LOL... tell me, sahib, if you are born into the upper class, as you see it, in this nation... what guarantees you stay there? Why is it that over half of the millionaires in this nation became so when they were poor? How did Jobs, Gates, Wozniak, Ray Krok, Hilton, Harlan "Colonel" Sanders, Sam Walton and so many other innovators industry rise up and become millionaires? Were they all handed their millions? No. They earned them by finding a need in the public and filling it. In the Gilded Age this was never more apparent. Carnegie, Westinghouse, Hormel, Birdseye, Rockafeller, Hill and more started poor too. It is called "Social Class Mobility". We are not a caste system. We do not have a noble peerdom and then the peasants. You are not guaranteed to stay anywhere, but must merit your status in any 'class'. If you are poor, what have you done to keep yourself poor? Why haven't you overcome it? Many have. If you are rich, why haven't you remained there? You are responsible for not screwing up the blessings you have been given and maintain and or grow what you have. Just as you have been alloted the same amount of time in a day that was given Leonardo DaVinci, Thomas Edison, Charles Dickens, Jonas Salk, Mother Theresa, or Horatio Nelson, it is how you choose to use your time and what you desire to become that matters. You choose.
If all you do is whine about your circumstances, you become a whiner. If you work to overcome it all, you become victorious. EVEN IF YOU FAIL, you have still worked to achieve something and you will still have knowledge of how to succeed or not. When you choose to stay down, is when you never overcome.
As for our public 'servants' in this nation... AS ONE MYSELF... I see how my fellow workers who are only as enlightened as you think, act and talk. They believe someone OWES them a job and living. They don't have to provide a service or skill or product... that is an inconvenient byproduct of the unfair world they live in. It's disgusting. They seem to think that because they are a government employee and their performance is not linked to their pay... that they are somehow immune and above economic forces. Someone will and must always pay for their share, but never them. Politicians and bureaucrats are so much worse than that. You piss and moan about the upper class or plutocrats and captains of industry, but you never cast an askance glance at the middle class mendacity of the government bureaucrat just because they are not so conspicuous in their greed and rapacious desires for what they will not work to achieve. I DO have what they have and at least I am ******* grateful for it. On the other hand when the union was ready to strike because they weren't getting a better plan than they deserved right before WI destroyed WEAC, I told people (who had the nerve to look shocked) that I would gladly take a paycut and decrease in benefits if it meant I kept working and prevented my fellow taxpayer's lives from getting worse. Why? Because I can see big picture and long game. I can see that the taxpayer's fortune meant my fortune was secure as well and over time, life can get better, more taxes roll in with increased prosperity and my life can grow bigger then too. But my life, as the servant of the public is never greater than the public's. They don't owe me a living, I owe it to myself to provide a service or product to them for the best profit available to me, for the best price for them. I don't begrudge any man what they make unless they prove to me they earn it illicitly. You make a billion dollars a year? Fine. Be nice if some of your largess fell my way. Do I have a right to have a piece of your pie? No. Theft is still theft, whether you do it with a pistol in an alley or from the desk of your congressional representative.
I don't engage in 'class warfare' as the left defines it. I engage in 'merit warfare'. What have YOU done to deserve the life you want, versus the life you have? I engage in a war on entitlement. I battle with envy and small minded hatred against the successful doing better than lazy, indigent and slothful. I begrudge no man his poverty either... only his attitude on why they are poor and how to escape it, if it comes at the expense of others.
We aren't even talking about the same things, and I doubt you could understand my philosophical basis. Most liberals cant, because honor, merit and achievement are beyond them in their envious entitlement scarred hate.
