Red1966
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Nope, guess again. Bonus hint: Many, including me and you, would consider them both something of a loon.
American Dream!?
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abandonconflict
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Give me back my table. You didn't build that.
Red1966
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"I suppose you could start some sort of business, work hard and grow the business to where you can help others support their families, and then have those same employees complain about you having more than them.' People don't want a level playing field. They resent unequal outcome. The people I see complaining the most are the lazy fucks who think they're entitle to equal outcome.
Canna Sylvan
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Why do liberals not make their point very clearly? You want some of our rich to become Chinese?
abandonconflict
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Because the ancient Romans were libertarians dawg.
Red1966
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1% of 330,000,000 is 3,300,000. Now you are talking about billionaires. Different definitions. The 1% starts around $370,000 a year.
Dr Kynes
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thats "income" not wealth, and only "income" as defined by the IRS which is sweeping in it's scope for the little guy, but narrrowly tailored to dodge the types of "Net Positive In-Bound Currency Transactions Which Increase One's Net Worth" found among the actual wealthy.
mowed your elderly neighbor's lawn and she gave you $20 despite your attempts to decline it? That's Income! Taxable Income!
got $20 million in company stock and a gulfstream 5 for a successful IPO? Not Income! Not Taxable, carry on Old Bean!
Kid's Paper Route? poor lil johnny, lemme help you fill out your 1040 EZ.. sorry bro.
Paris Hilton's trust fund? "i dont pay taxes because im pretty right?" wrong dumbass. you dont pay taxes cuz the guys who make tax law dont wanna tax themselves, and they get their "Totally Not Income" money the same way you do , you dumb slut.
the tax laws are fucked up, and the truely rich dont pay taxes on most of their "Non-Income" income, but if they DID pay the tax assigned currently, they would be getting gouged the way the Occupy-Tards talk about in their most fevered proletarian fantasies.
the lefties always conflate Capital and Profit with WAGES because they dont know how money works or what a wage really represents.
abandonconflict
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Only labor creates wealth.
Dr Kynes
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ohh, you Marxists say the darndest things.
we get it, you HATE capitalism, and we should all be happy little bunnies gamboling about in green pastures sharing all the world equally among ourselves.
nothing is stopping you from joining a hippie commune.
nothing is stopping you from STARTING a hippie commune.
hell, why not go to cuba and enjoy their Socialist Workers Paradise?
because you want what capitalism provides, you just hate that you need capitalism to have it.
you want to kill the Golden Goose because you really love those golden eggs. very logical.
abandonconflict
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Wherefore art thou irate?
Rob Roy
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The playing field to me represents the opportunity to seek your own path absent unwanted intervention. Some would argue that the same entity that skews the playing field, coercion driven government, should also be the party to "fix" this. This is of course ludicrous, like asking fire to turn down the heat, it will never work and completely defies logic.
I agree that the "results" won't be equal, because the effort, the skill, the luck and the gifts that one person has aren't necessarily equal to what another has. However what "success" is can vary from person to person, so to peg "success" to a single standard fails to consider the variability of the individuals we all are.
You're on a fucking roll today.
Rob Roy
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Sort of. However many large corporations enjoy advantages that smaller more local companies do not and the advantages were created thru force. For instance a large company, say Walmart, uses the "economy of scale" to derive a profit. Yet, the roads they use are not funded by them, they are funded thru redistribution of the peasants earnings via taxation.
I have nothing against rich people, but we should recognize many became rich thru protectionism or a perverse application of involuntary collectivism. To say in a blanket statement that rich people are "giving back" might be innacurate in total, some do, many don't.
it's all about the pursuit of happiness. Some people believe that it exists in material wealth, those people almost never seem to find happiness.
Rob Roy
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Asking for a different way of lobbying fails to strike the root of the problem. Lobbying itself is a way of giving favors for favors. "Hey please pass a law, so I can steal shit easier" is not exactly the best way to achieve a peaceful and productive society is it?
Rob Roy
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The only thing that should be mandatory is do not initiate aggression against others or their justly acquired property. Okay, maybe it should be mandatory to light up at 4:20, but that's about it.
Rob Roy
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Perhaps you are not.
However there exists an undeniable acceptance that to take from one party and "give" to another is a role of government. This acceptance is of course, something many will deny or once pinned down will rationalize, but it only goes to perpetuate the never ending back and forth. Some never escape this paradigm and are doomed to their two dimensional life. This is because many people don't question the system itself, they think by replacing a "leader" or two the leaky boat will become a Yacht.
I say get out of the water and walk on solid ground. Proliferate ideas of peace and freedom and in the meantime, ignore bad laws, live an honest life and never shit on the floors at Wendy's.
Dr Kynes
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THAT'S COERCION!!
youre not the boss of me!
if i dont wanna get high i... wait...
never mind.
Dr Kynes
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at some point "taking" is needful.
if you only pay for roads YOU use, then the roads in urban centers will be flawless, but the roads in rural communities (where your food comes from) will be in disrepair.
rich communities will have lots and lots of well mannered cops with their minds on justice and justice on their minds, while poor communities will be lawless free fire zones.
rich kid's schools will be awesome, poor kid's schools will be dumps, worse than they are now (even without the graft and corruption that siphons off the federal cash for poor schools)
rich people will have well funded fire brigades, while poor folk's homes will burn.
society REQUIRES a little bit of sacrifice from those with much, to benefit those with far less, but it must be carefully controlled to ensure that those with much dont simply become an ATM machine for the populist demagogues and re-distributionists.
Rob Roy
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And with a flourish you dismiss logic. Hey I know I lost the keys in the dark cave, but can't we look for them in the living room because there's more light there?
To say a thing "can never happen" because it hasn't happened yet is a circular argument. Lots of things that were never going to change, did change.
Burn any witches lately? Fall off the edge of the earth? Has Zeus thrown any thunder bolts at you? Those things were all part of "common knowledge" and to deviate from them was "never going to happen" or just a fantasy. Take off your Leopard skin, put down your spear and think about the possibilities of the future. Continuing to feed the present paradigm will never find you your keys.