Santorum Drops Out

HalfManHalfGod · 2012-04-17, 02:37 PM

Here's a brilliant idea, why not let the people who EARNED that money keep it!?

Federal Government is spending 2.5 billion hourly!

**Malorn** · 2012-04-17, 02:55 PM

Meh.

ItsTheSheppy · 2012-04-17, 02:56 PM

Originally Posted by HalfManHalfGod

Here's a brilliant idea, why not let the people who EARNED that money keep it!?

Federal Government is spending 2.5 billion hourly!

What if you're born into money? Can you keep that? Are you just not allowed to say you earned it? Does, like, the government slap you with a gag order?

I've always really liked the idea of the supremely rich paying supreme amounts of tax. If it bothers them, they can come split a 2-bedroom apartment with me and make $45k a year and enjoy nice low tax bracket.

HalfManHalfGod · 2012-04-17, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by ItsTheSheppy

What if you're born into money? Can you keep that? Are you just not allowed to say you earned it? Does, like, the government slap you with a gag order?

I've always really liked the idea of the supremely rich paying supreme amounts of tax. If it bothers them, they can come split a 2-bedroom apartment with me and make $45k a year and enjoy nice low tax bracket.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation.

And why does this imaginary rich person have any bearing on your life and the amount of taxes they owe? Why do you like the idea of of government collecting taxes more on the rich? Do you feel that they need to be punished? Do you feel that the rich person has more money because he is taking it from someone else?

We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one.

**Malorn** · 2012-04-17, 04:13 PM

Meh.

TheSHiFT · 2012-04-17, 04:18 PM

I dont, but people richer than me are not cutting me a check. They cut one to the government, who in turn uses it to maintain the society that allowed the rich person to accumulate the wealth in the first place.

**Malorn** · 2012-04-17, 04:46 PM

Meh.

Red Beard · 2012-04-17, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by elfailo

The strong must live and the weak must die. That's how nature intended it.

So why does compassion exist? Maybe we should ask Jesus.

um; yeah...Pretty sure Hitler said that too.

Red Beard · 2012-04-17, 06:44 PM

The rich continually get richer because the central bank is at the moment for the benefit of the Banking cartel that runs it. Then those who are closest to this oligarchy benefit progressively less until you're at the bottom of the food chain.

If congress printed money on behalf of all the people equally again (as it did prior to 1913), then the natural tendency of the monetary system would be to naturally settle back at an equallibrium of equality, where people's willingness (and effectiveness) of work would allow them to maintain their wealth.

Taxation simply goes to paying the interest congress owes to the banking cartel, before they re-borrow a new round of money for social programs.

Yes, I am saying that congress used to issue the currency interest free on behalf of all the people and then 'decided' to let the privately owned Fed do it and borrow it from them instead.