Wealth Redistribution

[DamnYankee]

i was not advocating a return, just an example of the fact that it has been worse

Do you think 90% is fair? Or wise policy?

 

[Sammy Jankis]

The pinheads only need to learn one simple thing....very simple....

What other people earn is none of your freakin' business....as long as the earnings were lawful .....it is just simply none of your business.....

Your focus should be on what you earn....and what you can do to legally earn more....how you can become more successful....

Its strange your parents didn't teach you that basic rule of life, mind your own business....

This isnt really true, considering all of our public policy is made to facilitate the preferences of rich people, making government basically a tool of the elite.

 

[Sammy Jankis]

The contempt conservatives show toward regular people is exemplified in the consumption tax concept that is now all the sudden a "conservative" idea.

Why don't they just admit they hate people?

 

[Sammy Jankis]

How do we know both parties are tool of the elite?

Even democrats pretend that "rich" starts at 250K. If you want a progressive and popular tax policy start the break off at an easy 3 million. That will get massive support.

 

[Phantasmal]

I'd be a lot more sympathetic to class warfare had I not read $90,000 in NY and $58,000 in Hawaii will get you food stamps. WTF

Very high costs of living! My daughter when she lived in New York paid $3,000 for a one room apartment and that was cheap! A beer costs $9-11 dollars, my sons were sticker shocked when they went, they thought Alaska was high! The same for Hawaii, the last time I was there, milk was $6 a gallon!

 

[Phantasmal]

fool
- a gratuitous fool from hitting the return key by mistake, see my next post

His next life will be as a cockroach, he has learned nothing on this journey!

 

[Phantasmal]

during the eisenhower years, the upper tax rate was 90%

oh well

They were economic Patriots! They really loved American then, nowadays, business loves where ever they can make money! And people like Dixie and Bravo don't hate them or call them anti American, but 4200 factories have closed over the last ten years! They take the money and run!

 

[Sammy Jankis]

The moneyed elite laugh at the middle class republicans who think laissez faire attitudes have something to with "raising all ships".

The society reagan pointed to as an example of "laissez-fair economics" only came to be after a couple generation of labor reforms and POPULIST sentiment.