Striking It Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States

[Melvin01]

Nearly 93% of the economic gains made from 2009 to 2010 went to the wealthiest 1% of Americans. "Top 1% incomes grew by 11.6% while bottom 99% incomes grew only by 0.2%. Hence, the top 1% captured 93% of the income gains in the first year of recovery.

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/06-5

And the Republicans are still squeeling like a pig if anybody suggest that the rich pay a higher rate of income tax.

Ordinary working Americans are being used by the wealthy in this country and it's as obvious as them never having to worry about their kids being inconvenienced to serve in their chickenhawk wars. Medieval Serfs and Peasants had it made compared to about half the population of this country. Look at the first chart and notice the last time they were this well off:

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/06-5

Just so I understand your message here. We should tax the rich more just because they made more?

Just so I understand your message here. We in the middle class should bend over and take it in the ass, again, so that the ultra rich can get even more ultra rich.

In other words, the ultra rich are the smartest, bestest, most wonderful people. And the fact they made all that money while the rest of us sucked hind tit, is their just do.

Is that what you're saying?


While the people called dom't taze me, and sj and darkwind all worship the ultra wealthy, I don't. And I am not the least interested in having less for people like me so that the ultra wealthy can have more. Fuk that. Been there done that.

If you all wanna suck ultra wealthy cock, have at it. Not me. Tax them even more. They (ultra wealthy) are the ones made all the damn money.

And if you ultra wealthy lovers feel so bad for the ultra wealthy, send them a check drawn on YOUR bank account. That will make you feel so good.

That's the problem. Bible thumpin, gun totin, tobacco chewing folks who earn $20,000 a year go and vote for them.

 

[DiamondDave]

Just so I understand your message here. We should tax the rich more just because they made more?

Just so I understand your message here. We in the middle class should bend over and take it in the ass, again, so that the ultra rich can get even more ultra rich.

In other words, the ultra rich are the smartest, bestest, most wonderful people. And the fact they made all that money while the rest of us sucked hind tit, is their just do.

Is that what you're saying?


While the people called dom't taze me, and sj and darkwind all worship the ultra wealthy, I don't. And I am not the least interested in having less for people like me so that the ultra wealthy can have more. Fuk that. Been there done that.

If you all wanna suck ultra wealthy cock, have at it. Not me. Tax them even more. They (ultra wealthy) are the ones made all the damn money.

And if you ultra wealthy lovers feel so bad for the ultra wealthy, send them a check drawn on YOUR bank account. That will make you feel so good.

That's the problem. Bible thumpin, gun totin, tobacco chewing folks who earn $20,000 a year go and vote for them.

Whereas you have the welfare lovin', joint tokin', race card usin', vitriol spewing folks taking 20K a year in entitlements voting for yours??

 

[Melvin01]

Just so I understand your message here. We in the middle class should bend over and take it in the ass, again, so that the ultra rich can get even more ultra rich.

In other words, the ultra rich are the smartest, bestest, most wonderful people. And the fact they made all that money while the rest of us sucked hind tit, is their just do.

Is that what you're saying?


While the people called dom't taze me, and sj and darkwind all worship the ultra wealthy, I don't. And I am not the least interested in having less for people like me so that the ultra wealthy can have more. Fuk that. Been there done that.

If you all wanna suck ultra wealthy cock, have at it. Not me. Tax them even more. They (ultra wealthy) are the ones made all the damn money.

And if you ultra wealthy lovers feel so bad for the ultra wealthy, send them a check drawn on YOUR bank account. That will make you feel so good.

That's the problem. Bible thumpin, gun totin, tobacco chewing folks who earn $20,000 a year go and vote for them.

Whereas you have the welfare lovin', joint tokin', race card usin', vitriol spewing folks taking 20K a year in entitlements voting for yours??

.....and we're kickin' the pee wadlin' dorg shit out of the thumpers. Grab your knees and brace for another.

 

[DiamondDave]

That's the problem. Bible thumpin, gun totin, tobacco chewing folks who earn $20,000 a year go and vote for them.

Whereas you have the welfare lovin', joint tokin', race card usin', vitriol spewing folks taking 20K a year in entitlements voting for yours??

.....and we're kickin' the pee wadlin' dorg shit out of the thumpers. Grab your knees and brace for another.

Yep.. recently you guys have done a good job pandering and buying votes with handouts.. the problem is you have to keep paying for them somehow.. and soon as you have to start digging into more pockets further down the income chain.. you will start to lose your way... as when people are actually hit for the bill of your crap, instead of just watching the rest of us pay for it, then it hits home and hits the pocketbook.. and then they really start getting fed up... then the tide turns away from the entitlement big spending big taxation mantra

 

[Mr. H.]

Booming Market Adds 300,000 New US Millionaires - Yahoo! Finance

The rising stock market has pushed America's millionaire population close to its all-time highs before the recession.

 

[tjvh]

Melvin01 doesn't believe in the American dream. He believes that people however exceptional, and successful ultimately reach a point where they should only be allowed a certain amount of income from their successes. Melvin01 thinks that people who succeed too much should be punished by having the Government step in and redistribute their wealth as Melvin01 sees fit. No... Melvin01 isn't a commie bastard, Melvin01 is just a nitwit who sadly will never be financially successful through his own hard work so he believes YOU must be made to supplement his income with your hard work, and your earnings. Melvin01 is nothing more than an entitlement driven loser with no ambition to do better for himself, so you must do it for him.

 

[Againsheila]

Just so I understand your message here. We should tax the rich more just because they made more?

Just so I understand your message here. We in the middle class should bend over and take it in the ass, again, so that the ultra rich can get even more ultra rich.

In other words, the ultra rich are the smartest, bestest, most wonderful people. And the fact they made all that money while the rest of us sucked hind tit, is their just do.

Is that what you're saying?


While the people called dom't taze me, and sj and darkwind all worship the ultra wealthy, I don't. And I am not the least interested in having less for people like me so that the ultra wealthy can have more. Fuk that. Been there done that.

If you all wanna suck ultra wealthy cock, have at it. Not me. Tax them even more. They (ultra wealthy) are the ones made all the damn money.

And if you ultra wealthy lovers feel so bad for the ultra wealthy, send them a check drawn on YOUR bank account. That will make you feel so good.

No... Everyone should be on their own... not having the government play Robin Hood, no matter how good it makes some feel

I think personally that if the rich earn 50% of the income, they pay 50% oft the taxes.. if the poorest earn 10% of the income, they pay 10% of the taxes... equality in treatment

Your outcome is on you.. nobody else.. not society.. not government.. not the rich.. not anyone

If they own 90% of the wealth, they should pay 90% of the taxes, if they own nothing, they shouldn't have to pay any taxes?

 

[Melvin01]

Whereas you have the welfare lovin', joint tokin', race card usin', vitriol spewing folks taking 20K a year in entitlements voting for yours??

.....and we're kickin' the pee wadlin' dorg shit out of the thumpers. Grab your knees and brace for another.

Yep.. recently you guys have done a good job pandering and buying votes with handouts.. the problem is you have to keep paying for them somehow.. and soon as you have to start digging into more pockets further down the income chain.. you will start to lose your way... as when people are actually hit for the bill of your crap, instead of just watching the rest of us pay for it, then it hits home and hits the pocketbook.. and then they really start getting fed up... then the tide turns away from the entitlement big spending big taxation mantra

Yeah.....recently my ass........we've won the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. I Love It! You folks don't realize that the American electorate has become wise to your trick of cutting tax rates, borrowing to cover the shortfall and making every millionaire and billionaire in the country richer by the day. The working class today has stayed even (barely) and if adjusted for inflation lost ground while the uppercrust has increased their wealth by 200%-300%. That's really fair isn't it?

It's not rocket science....it started when Reagan slashed rates to the lowest they had been in over forty years, didn't cut spending a dime and borrowed trillions to cover the shortfall.

 

[tjvh]

.....and we're kickin' the pee wadlin' dorg shit out of the thumpers. Grab your knees and brace for another.

Yep.. recently you guys have done a good job pandering and buying votes with handouts.. the problem is you have to keep paying for them somehow.. and soon as you have to start digging into more pockets further down the income chain.. you will start to lose your way... as when people are actually hit for the bill of your crap, instead of just watching the rest of us pay for it, then it hits home and hits the pocketbook.. and then they really start getting fed up... then the tide turns away from the entitlement big spending big taxation mantra

Yeah.....recently my ass........we've won the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. I Love It! You folks don't realize that the American electorate has become wise to your trick of cutting tax rates, borrowing to cover the shortfall and making every millionaire and billionaire in the country richer by the day. The working class today has stayed even (barely) and if adjusted for inflation lost ground while the uppercrust has increased their wealth by 200%-300%. That's really fair isn't it?

It's not rocket science....it started when Reagan slashed rates to the lowest they had been in over forty years, didn't cut spending a dime and borrowed trillions to cover the shortfall.

More nonsensical talking points. Were this country run by mob rules (which it is not) Bush still beat Kerry by popular vote: Bush received 62,040,610 popular votes compared to Kerry's 59,028,444. All that aside, thankfully we have the Electoral college system which ensures that population centers like NYC, Chicago, and San Francisco do not have the final say on who becomes our President. The Founders did indeed get that one right. You did get one thing right... It isn't rocket science. We've already hit the point where Obama's lie that he was only going to Tax the rich making over $250K has been exposed. I see you have made no effort to respond to my previous post where I exposed you for the entitlement loser that you are. I await your response.

 

[g5000]

Nearly 93% of the economic gains made from 2009 to 2010 went to the wealthiest 1% of Americans. "Top 1% incomes grew by 11.6% while bottom 99% incomes grew only by 0.2%. Hence, the top 1% captured 93% of the income gains in the first year of recovery.

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/06-5

And the Republicans are still squeeling like a pig if anybody suggest that the rich pay a higher rate of income tax.

Rich people already pay the highest rates. So if they are getting most of the money, and that money is being taxed at the highest rate, that means the government is getting the maximum revenues. So what the **** are you whining about?

 

[Claudette]

He thinks if your rich you should pay for all and those that aren't rich shouldn't pay at all.

He thinks the middle class is getting the axe because the rich are getting richer and they are getting richer at the expense of the middle class. Kinda sorta don't know how he makes that case but hey, he's obviously not to bright.

He obviously doesn't know that folks who know how to make money continue to make money and will always continue to make money. Thats why they are rich.

The fact that they already pay upward of 60% of all Fed taxes doesn't resonate with Melass. He figures they should pay it all. What a guy.

 

[KnobbyWalsh]

Forget looking like the Eurpoean Union in a few years, we'll be a Third World Nation. The 1% will be like the .25%. You can NOT have a vibrant economy without a solid middle class which they're trying to eliminate, and almost have. We'll be like the "Mother Country" our ancestors fled from, except this time it will be a Monied Oligarchy - a Corporate Oligarchy if you will.

 

[Melvin01]

Yep.. recently you guys have done a good job pandering and buying votes with handouts.. the problem is you have to keep paying for them somehow.. and soon as you have to start digging into more pockets further down the income chain.. you will start to lose your way... as when people are actually hit for the bill of your crap, instead of just watching the rest of us pay for it, then it hits home and hits the pocketbook.. and then they really start getting fed up... then the tide turns away from the entitlement big spending big taxation mantra

Yeah.....recently my ass........we've won the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. I Love It! You folks don't realize that the American electorate has become wise to your trick of cutting tax rates, borrowing to cover the shortfall and making every millionaire and billionaire in the country richer by the day. The working class today has stayed even (barely) and if adjusted for inflation lost ground while the uppercrust has increased their wealth by 200%-300%. That's really fair isn't it?

It's not rocket science....it started when Reagan slashed rates to the lowest they had been in over forty years, didn't cut spending a dime and borrowed trillions to cover the shortfall.

More nonsensical talking points. Were this country run by mob rules (which it is not) Bush still beat Kerry by popular vote: Bush received 62,040,610 popular votes compared to Kerry's 59,028,444. All that aside, thankfully we have the Electoral college system which ensures that population centers like NYC, Chicago, and San Francisco do not have the final say on who becomes our President. The Founders did indeed get that one right. You did get one thing right... It isn't rocket science. We've already hit the point where Obama's lie that he was only going to Tax the rich making over $250K has been exposed. I see you have made no effort to respond to my previous post where I exposed you for the entitlement loser that you are. I await your response.

LOL....Kerry is the only time we've lost the popular vote in the last six elections. In 2000 Al Gore got five million more votes than George Bush.

 

[tjvh]

Nearly 93% of the economic gains made from 2009 to 2010 went to the wealthiest 1% of Americans. "Top 1% incomes grew by 11.6% while bottom 99% incomes grew only by 0.2%. Hence, the top 1% captured 93% of the income gains in the first year of recovery.

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/06-5

And the Republicans are still squeeling like a pig if anybody suggest that the rich pay a higher rate of income tax.

Rich people already pay the highest rates. So if they are getting most of the money, and that money is being taxed at the highest rate, that means the government is getting the maximum revenues. So what the **** are you whining about?

He wants his fair share of the successes of someone else.

 

[tjvh]

Yeah.....recently my ass........we've won the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. I Love It! You folks don't realize that the American electorate has become wise to your trick of cutting tax rates, borrowing to cover the shortfall and making every millionaire and billionaire in the country richer by the day. The working class today has stayed even (barely) and if adjusted for inflation lost ground while the uppercrust has increased their wealth by 200%-300%. That's really fair isn't it?

It's not rocket science....it started when Reagan slashed rates to the lowest they had been in over forty years, didn't cut spending a dime and borrowed trillions to cover the shortfall.

More nonsensical talking points. Were this country run by mob rules (which it is not) Bush still beat Kerry by popular vote: Bush received 62,040,610 popular votes compared to Kerry's 59,028,444. All that aside, thankfully we have the Electoral college system which ensures that population centers like NYC, Chicago, and San Francisco do not have the final say on who becomes our President. The Founders did indeed get that one right. You did get one thing right... It isn't rocket science. We've already hit the point where Obama's lie that he was only going to Tax the rich making over $250K has been exposed. I see you have made no effort to respond to my previous post where I exposed you for the entitlement loser that you are. I await your response.

LOL....Kerry is the only time we've lost the popular vote in the last six elections. Al Gore got five million more votes than George Bush in 2000.

Yeah numbskull, and we don't elect Presidents by popular vote. You do understand that right? The entitlement gravy train is coming to an end, and Democrats are the ones who have made all the promises that they cannot keep.

 

[Melvin01]

Nearly 93% of the economic gains made from 2009 to 2010 went to the wealthiest 1% of Americans. "Top 1% incomes grew by 11.6% while bottom 99% incomes grew only by 0.2%. Hence, the top 1% captured 93% of the income gains in the first year of recovery.

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/06-5

And the Republicans are still squeeling like a pig if anybody suggest that the rich pay a higher rate of income tax.

Rich people already pay the highest rates. So if they are getting most of the money, and that money is being taxed at the highest rate, that means the government is getting the maximum revenues. So what the **** are you whining about?

He wants his fair share of the successes of someone else.

Listen goddammit......this country was built with a progressive tax system. Back before Ronald Reagan slashed rates to the lowest they had been since the great depression and borrowed trillions to cover the shortfall there was no problem. One thing I know. People have wised up and the Republican party is history if they don't come up with some way of settling the debt without loading it onto the backs of seniors, the disabled, single mothers, the poor etc. They have been found out and the likes of Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney and their rich man's schemes won't hack it any more. You people live in a world of your own and as long as some entertainer of Fox News says something you talk about it as if it were gospel........another fairy tale I don't believe.

 

[KnobbyWalsh]

Rich people already pay the highest rates. So if they are getting most of the money, and that money is being taxed at the highest rate, that means the government is getting the maximum revenues. So what the **** are you whining about?

He wants his fair share of the successes of someone else.

Listen goddammit......this country was built with a progressive tax system. Back before Ronald Reagan slashed rates to the lowest they had been since the great depression and borrowed trillions to cover the shortfall there was no problem. One thing I know. People have wised up and the Republican party is history if they don't come up with some way of settling the debt without loading it onto the backs of seniors, the disabled, single mothers, the poor etc. They have been found out and the likes of Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney and their rich man's schemes won't hack it any more. You people live in a world of your own and as long as some entertainer of Fox News says something you talk about it as if it were gospel........another fairy tale I don't believe.

Don't forget that ********** Kasich too, Mr."Work For Nothing"

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

You know Melvin (aptly named, by the way) perhaps if you put as much time and effort into improving your own lot in life as you do stewing in seething hatred and jealousy that other people have more than you do, you might actually do more with your life and be a more satisfied individual rather than the bitter loser you are.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Rich people already pay the highest rates. So if they are getting most of the money, and that money is being taxed at the highest rate, that means the government is getting the maximum revenues. So what the **** are you whining about?

He wants his fair share of the successes of someone else.

Listen goddammit......this country was built with a progressive tax system. Back before Ronald Reagan slashed rates to the lowest they had been since the great depression and borrowed trillions to cover the shortfall there was no problem. One thing I know. People have wised up and the Republican party is history if they don't come up with some way of settling the debt without loading it onto the backs of seniors, the disabled, single mothers, the poor etc. They have been found out and the likes of Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney and their rich man's schemes won't hack it any more. You people live in a world of your own and as long as some entertainer of Fox News says something you talk about it as if it were gospel........another fairy tale I don't believe.

How utterly stupid.... the federal income tax didn't come into play until the twentieth century you goofball. We got along quite nicely for well over a century without directly taxing labor.

 

[KnobbyWalsh]

You know Melvin (aptly named, by the way) perhaps if you put as much time and effort into improving your own lot in life as you do stewing in seething hatred and jealousy that other people have more than you do, you might actually do more with your life and be a more satisfied individual rather than the bitter loser you are.

Oh geez, the "hard work you can accomplish anything" line out of the GOP playbook. That became obsolete at least 30 years ago.