How do you not see the stupidity in saying raising taxes is communism? Revenue is what pays the nation's bills. Revenue as a percentage of GDP is at 16%. In 2000 it was at 20%. That means we are BORROWING MONEY when it comes to government expenses. Tax cuts for the wealthy don't do shit to stimulate substantial economic growth. If they did, Bush's ridiculous cuts would have helped the recession in his early presidency and prevented the Great Recession. Instead, we lost 8 million jobs while the revenue as percentage of GDP was at an historic low (15%). Tell me. Why was job growth under Bush so pathetic?Well what other conclusion when you want 'The wealthy could afford it too I promise. See the wealthy these days are investing less and less. Some investments that essentially becomes their personal wealth. They are keeping much of this money. 1% of the top earners own 40% of the nation's wealth." That's pure and simple communism. Share the wealth as the wealthy have too much!You people automatically jump to this retarded conclusion that I hate the wealthy or I hate capitalism. Everything is so black and white with you people. I am against privatizing SS therefore I must be against the free market. It's such childlike thinking. In reality I am perfectly okay with the free market and CEO's being well paid. What I do have a problem with is the average CEO making 350x more than the average worker. I just want to close the gap. I want people to be paid a wage they can live off of and one that keeps up with inflation. The last time a person making $10 an hour and could easily live of of it was in the 60's. That is how behind wages are. Does that seem fair to you considering how wealthy these job creators are in this day and age?So why don't YOU become wealthy?Actually if the wealthy were as taxed as they should be, we could better afford it. The wealthy could afford it too I promise. See the wealthy these days are investing less and less. Some investments that essentially becomes their personal wealth. They are keeping much of this money. 1% of the top earners own 40% of the nation's wealth.Explain why it would be a nightmare? Instead of costing the government in debt there would be a profit.What is to stop social security to become a for profit nightmare? That's the real issue.
See the problem with people like you is you take the exceptional and make it the rule!
YES there is no question there have been Enrons in the world as well as Solyndras!
They are the exceptions!
Most "for profit" organizations are made up of people unlike you who are normal. Go to work. Do their job. Get their paycheck.
What is wrong with that? Frankly I have a whole lot more respect for the "for profits" because they contribute to the betterment of society versus the "non-profits" which are a DRAG!
Non profits constantly looking for hand outs ...from the for profits!
We have a President that has NEVER worked for a for profit organization and thus he detests as obviously you do "for profits".
How stupid. Obama was paid by the Annenberg Foundation that was formed by
Walter Hubert Annenberg (March 13, 1908 – October 1, 2002) was an American publisher, philanthropist, and diplomat most
of his wealth coming from TV Guide!
Think of it! You bought TV Guides. The evil profits paid Obama's salary. And forever the idiot Obama wants to do away with for profits!
And you again with your "evil for profit nightmare" are just as ignorant as Obama!
God it gets so old when you brain dead right tards automatically jump to the conclusion that I am some unemployed deadbeat. I'm sure the accusation makes you think "boy I sure showed him!" but in reality it just makes you look like a moron for making such a baseless and laughable claim.
I work 40 hours a week. Don't believe me? I don't care.
How do you not understand the nature of a business? They want to maximize profit as much as they can. That means the poor would soon not be able to afford it.
Obama is worth 9 million. He obviously finds wealthy people important.
Did you know that in 1850, the US was home to 19 millionaires.
But the years following the Civil War had seen a considerable increase in membership of that exclusive club.
By the end of the 1890's the number of millionaires in the US had swelled to more than 4,000.
A quarterly report prepared by the Economist Intelligence Unit on behalf of Barclays Wealth in 2007 estimated that there were 16,600,000 millionaires in the USA
Millionaire - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
4,000 millionaires in 1890 40 times that ..16.6 million millionaires in 2007!
Population in 1890 there were 62,947,714 or a ratio of 1 million for every 15,736 people.
Population in 2014 317,297,938 number of millionaires: 4,000,000 or a ratio of 1 millionaire for every 793 people!
U.S. Population 2014 317 Million and 7.1 Billion in the World - US News
Now of course idiots will say a million dollars isn't the same in 1890 as it is in 2014.
So what? My point is there is a greater opportunity to be a millionaire today then anytime before and all idiots like you want to do
is steal from those that have it!
You rob the rich idiots are like a pack of wild dogs. You see someone who has more then you and you like a wild dog tear at it!
How gauche. How uncivilized.
People like me (and I'm no millionaire!!!) laugh though at people like you because instead of doing something you bitch and moan
about the WEALTHY! Geez work at something other then a 40 hour job for someone else. Build your own fortune and today there
is more opportunities for it then ever! In fact IF YOU BILLY want an idea and a domain name I've registered that will if you want to work at it make you and me a millionaire I'll be happy to share! I'm just getting too old and lack the energy... but if you are still putting in 40 hours I'd be happy to share with you how we both could become millionaires from this idea.
You want to partner and become a millionaire???
Become a creator not a destroyer. Grow the pie bigger don't be like a dog and simply try to take away from someone else.
That's what animals do!
My goodness why do YOU think it is right to take from someone and give it someone else? That's theft!
Tax the wealthy...
Do you know that MOST wealthy people that have stocks are double taxed? Is that a new concept to you??
Is that fair? They get taxed on the Ordinary dividends as ordinary income which means they are taxed twice BECAUSE
when the corporation pays out in dividends it is AFTER the corporation has paid taxes.
So any shareholder in a corporation gets less of a dividend BECAUSE of corporate taxes and then when they get the dividend
they have to pay taxes as ordinary income....
But this goes way over your head I'm sure.
YOU are so uninformed about Americans income.
The AVERAGE hourly wage American makes $24.06 per hour !
FACT:
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http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2013.pdf
See the below to see fewer and fewer people working at or below minimum wage..
In 1979 6,912,000 or 13.4% of all hourly workers or total hourly workers of 51,582,090
In 1989 3,162,000 or 50% LESS working at minimum wage of the 62,000,000 people working at hourly wage
In 2009 there were 3,572,000 people working at minimum wage of 72,897,959 at hourly wage or 4.9%
Finally in 2013 there were 3,300,000 working at minimum or 4.3% of 76,744,186 that work at hourly or 4.3%
I know these FACTS really send your little brain in a tizzy but this crap about poor Americans!
GEEZ look around you at you and your neighbors!
You are living the life KINGS 100s of years ago could NEVER imagine... reading right now words generated by someone else instantly!
When will you people quit bitching about issues of CHOICE for example:
I would have loved at age 25 to have the choice of putting the nearly $300,000 I've paid in to SS/Medicare into the market when I was 25 up to age 45... moved it to more secure and then at 65 at retirement... ...
Here is what would have happened IF I HAD HAD the choices which YOU want to deny people the right to choose!
Obviously I can't do it now BUT why are people like you thwarting my granddaughter from have a choice?
From her accumulating by forced savings over her future career millions of dollars for HER to have... and not have it going
to the Federal government that spends it on
My point is people should have the CHOICE and forcing them to pump money back into the Federal government for some cubicle dweller amidst the Ebola crisis, the government’s premier health agencies are burning their taxpayer funded budgets on wasteful programs faster than drunken monkeys. Based on a recent $3.2 million NIH study focused exclusively on getting monkeys drunk, that’s an analogy researchers should readily understand. -
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God I already fucking explained to you before about your stupidity on the stats on the minimum wage. Yes assclown a small percentage of the population make the federal wage. However MILLIONS of Americans make less than 10 an hour. According to the CBO, raising the minimum wage would lift 16 million people out of poverty. Read this slowly will you? If you raised the minimum wage to $10 an hour, all of the wages below that would go up. Good god. Your scope is as small as your brain power dude. Pay attention.
The Effects of a Minimum-Wage Increase on Employment and Family Income Congressional Budget Office
Can you live on less than 10 an hour if you supported yourself entirely or you had kids? NO YOU CANT.
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