Why do you believe that the rich deserve 90% +

[elektra]

I think what you really want to ask is: why do we all believe the rich deserve whatever it is they're getting? Because that's who is making the call. Everyone who participates in the market. Everyone who buys an Apple product is saying that they think Steve Jobs should have a lot of money.

And, to be fair to the title of this OP, Apple is a democrat company.

 

[Concerned American]

And, to be fair to the title of this OP, Apple is a democrat company.

Using what amounts to slave labor. Democrats love slavery.

 

[dblack]

And, to be fair to the title of this OP, Apple is a democrat company.

Well, that was just an example. The point is, in a free market, we all, collectively, distribute wealth and resources to the people who are doing with it what we want. Socialists like to pretend that capitalists are predatious, taking what they want from hapless victims. Unless they are stealing (in which case they are thieves, not capitalists) they accrued wealth because we gave it to them.

 

[OKTexas]

The US citizen helps to pay for corporate freebies through a trillion in tax write offs and tax deception methods.

Is that a crime?

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[Moonglow]

Is that a crime?

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No, it's legal theft.

 

[fncceo]

Why do you republicans believe that the rich deserve 90% + the wealth

Doesn't matter if they deserve it or not.

They earned it.

 

[OKTexas]

They do, but most students don't think it applies to them. And, I said economics in the real world.

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Kids learn that the future of the middle class lies in the manufacturing sector, so upon graduation they all apply for college to avoid working in those blue-collar manufacturing jobs.

And a tradesman will make a better living than the average college graduate. There will always be a demand for highly skilled workers. Just think how many skilled tradesmen that are required to build a single home. How many to build the systems that go into the home. And all those systems will need to be maintained, repaired or replaced. That's job security.

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[OKTexas]

No, it's legal theft.

You must be guilty of it as well. How many deductions do you take. Personally, I only take one, the standard deduction for a married couple. Is that legal theft?

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[Moonglow]

You must be guilty of it as well. How many deductions do you take. Personally, I only take one, the standard deduction for a married couple. Is that legal theft?

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That is not on yer schedule C.

 

[Man With A Plan]

Why do you republicans believe that the rich deserve 90% + the wealth, huge tax breaks for anyone making more then one million per year and everyone else should just go fuck themselves? I am serious, why do you believe these people should be able to mistreat their workers, unregulate industiries to mistreat their workers, child labor and to pollute to their hearts intent. Your party is now literally allowing companies to work their workers to death in high heat, decreasing the age bringing back child labor and fighting like hell not to pay the workers right. You seem to enjoy the fact that the ceo makes 1,000 times more then his workers?

Why do you push a form of religion that forces these same little people to live a certain way when they're not breaking their backs for their betters? You must enjoy torturing the hell out of your follow man....Why do you think going back to the 18th century is even a good idea? It isn't but you seem to be utterly stone aged in your mindset.

I don't even know what that rant was about, Jessica. Seriously...what are you babbling about? Do really believe that is the GOP agenda? What kind of crap source are you getting your news from?

 

[OKTexas]

That is not on yer schedule C.

No shit captain obvious, it's on the 1040, taken from the tax tables.

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[fncceo]

There will always be a demand for highly skilled workers.

Are you saying there might some day be less of a demand for Lesbian Puppetry or LGBTQQIP2SAA Literature degrees?

 

[OKTexas]

Are you saying there might some day be less of a demand for Lesbian Puppetry or LGBTQQIP2SAA Literature degrees?

They're about as useful as a psychology under grad degree.

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[JWBooth]

 

[struth]

That is not on yer schedule C.

why is it legal theft to report loses, or income from your own business?

 

[Moonglow]

why is it legal theft to report loses, or income from your own business?

The citizens pay to help businesses to survive which takes the meaning of capitalism away

 

[struth]

The citizens pay to help businesses to survive which takes the meaning of capitalism away

huh? How is reporting your loses and income to the Federal Govt on your Sch C do that?

I mean, I am all for not having to report anything, but then you wouldn't get your entitlements.

 

[Rumpole]

Maybe if you spent less time asking false, unsubstantiated questions and spent more time working and improving your lot, you would understand more. Do you think Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Buffett and more than I can count started out as millionaires? Nope. They persevered and worked hard to get to where they are. Don't covet someone else's fortunes--make your own.

I commend Bezos, Gates, et al, for starting small and building something big. No one hates productive people who contribute to society. The problem begins when they acquire the kind of wealth common to small nations and start abusing their power.

But the problem is, the internet allows for the cornering the market if you get in and move quickly into a new area. once these guys got a monopoly, or something very close to it, they started abusing their power, and that's where they violate antitrust laws, and should be held accountable. It's easy for these guys, given the laws, to avoid paying taxes, and on that point, I agree the OP. The OP isn't articulated very well, which could have been written better, and substantiation would be very easy. All of these guys have been subject to congressional scrutiny, etc., etc., etc., regarding these issues.

The fact of the matter is that the upper 50% own 97% of the nation's wealth (proof provided on request, the Fed Reserve wealth distribution tables) and given that fact, they should pay, a progressive tax that rises to 97% of the nation's tax burden. Currently, they pay less than that. The lower 50% own 3% of the nation's wealth but pay more than that percentage in taxes. For poor whom many claim to not pay taxes, not true. For those who cannot hedge, the poor, they pay it in inflation. Inflation is a transfer of wealth from those who cannot hedge (the poor) to those who can hedge (the rich). If you don't grasp this, I will detail it more, but it's a fact. Wealth isn't created out of thin air, though it might seem like it, someone pays the piper somewhere, at some point. The ultimate source of wealth is labor. And the less you work for it, the more others do, for you. If you inherit wealth, that means many others donated their labor for your benefit. That's what it actually means, and if economists started treating money as labor, instead of some bullshit abstraction, we'd come up with better monetary policy.

 

[DGS49]

What is it about Leftists that none of them has a CLUE about economics?

 

[Libby von H]

Why do you republicans believe that the rich deserve 90% + the wealth, huge tax breaks for anyone making more then one million per year and everyone else should just go fuck themselves? I am serious, why do you believe these people should be able to mistreat their workers, unregulate industiries to mistreat their workers, child labor and to pollute to their hearts intent. Your party is now literally allowing companies to work their workers to death in high heat, decreasing the age bringing back child labor and fighting like hell not to pay the workers right. You seem to enjoy the fact that the ceo makes 1,000 times more then his workers?

Why do you push a form of religion that forces these same little people to live a certain way when they're not breaking their backs for their betters? You must enjoy torturing the hell out of your follow man....Why do you think going back to the 18th century is even a good idea? It isn't but you seem to be utterly stone aged in your mindset.

YOU and your type did this. Did you say a peep when the failure of DC schools was in the news , Obama was fighting school reform AND
sending his two Black kids to SIDWELL

"They've paid hefty tuition bills for the past seven years to send Malia, and her younger sister, Sasha, 14, to the exclusive Sidwell Friends School. Tuition at the private school in Washington is $37,750 per student this year. "