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Originally Posted by fire121
You can come up with every graph in the world and it will not disprove the fact that taxing the wealthy is not a method to grow the economy and lift more people out of poverty. I could not imagine spending my life despising a group people or group of corporations because they have worked hard, made good business decisions, and have been successful?? So anyone who has taken a risk, put everything they own on the line and make a profit, should be punished by the gov't. Socialist economies do not feed the world, protect the world, and bail them out every time a disaster comes along. Capitalism does. Socialism is a direct attack on personal freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Class warfare sounds appealing, it is easy to hate the successful of our society but really what does it get you? If someone succeeds and becomes wealthy does that directly cause another to become poor or live in poverty? Excessive taxation is a disincentive to produce. Why make more if the government is just going to confiscate it? Obama's desire to redistribute wealth will cripple our economy.
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"You can come up with every graph in the world..."
In other words, ignore the facts.
Taxing the ultra-rich is not about "lifting people out of poverty." It's about the middle-class squeeze and the concentration of wealth.
It's not about "despising" anybody because people have worked hard. It's despising a system where people who don't do a
damn thing get wealthier by accountants shuffling paper while the workers get less and less.
It's not about making a profit. It's about making
obscene profits while offering the workers less and less, cutting benefits to allow for greater compensation to the suits at the top.
Class warfare? The warfare is being conducted on the working class (not just blue-collar either - that's you too if you work in an office and receive a salary).
They are waging the war - don't kill the messenger.
Nobody said when a person becomes wealthy, another becomes poor. However, when the wealthy get greedy and tens of millions isn't enough and they want hundreds of millions - and they get it by paying workers less and cutting benefits, yes, that's wrong. It's hardly what this country is about.
It's not about "making more." The ultra-wealthy, the top 1%, are not "making" anything -- except more money. When is enough enough? Unearned concentration of wealth brings down countries.
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
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Former Justice of the Supreme Court, Louis Brandeis
Feel free to ignore the facts and the graphs that clearly show a new gilded age is upon us. But the silly 3rd grade propaganda about "freedom" and "socialism" and trying to wrap huge gaps in wealth inequality in the American flag is embarrassing. That's not what our democracy is all about. Political democracy and economic democracy cannot be separated in any country - and expect it to survive.