Excuse me, but when the hell are we going to tax some ****ing rich people!?!

[Chump]

I'm about half way through Atlas Shrugged, and their comments perfectly mirror those of the "looters" and "rotters" Ayn Rand describes.  And I do mean perfectly, down to the premise that wealth is only created by exploiting others and that the wealthy force people to work for them for low wages, and force people to buy their products at unfair prices.

These people actually think wealth is generated just by being in the right place at the right time, or by having the right parents.  It would never occur to them that they're poor because they're useless and have no purpose in life, other than to scream about "fairness" in their little echo chamber.

Go ahead people.  Tax the rich out of existence.  Impose astronomic tax rates on the wealthy and corporations alike.  Just don't sit around then and wonder why America has devolved into a cannibalistic, impoverished state.

That cell phone you gab on?  Your computer?  Your car?  Your house?  Your TV?  Your favorite programs?  Your refrigerator and the food in it?  Your bed?  Your camera?  Pretty much every luxury or necessity you can think of?  Someone got disgustingly ****ing rich by producing that product and offering it to the masses.  The inherent benefit to society was merely a side effect of creating a good product.

So go ahead.  Kill all initiative.  Demonize the producers and movers of the world.  Display your horrid envy and base perversion for all to see.  Hold your own, useless, leech**** self up as a model, and see what you produce.  In short, you will have nothing, which is exactly what you deserve.

[ScubaGuy]

I'm about half way through Atlas Shrugged, and their comments perfectly mirror those of the "looters" and "rotters" Ayn Rand describes.  And I do mean perfectly, down to the premise that wealth is only created by exploiting others and that the wealthy force people to work for them for low wages, and force people to buy their products at unfair prices.

These people actually think wealth is generated just by being in the right place at the right time, or by having the right parents.  It would never occur to them that they're poor because they're useless and have no purpose in life, other than to scream about "fairness" in their little echo chamber.

Go ahead people.  Tax the rich out of existence.  Impose astronomic tax rates on the wealthy and corporations alike.  Just don't sit around then and wonder why America has devolved into a cannibalistic, impoverished state.

That cell phone you gab on?  Your computer?  Your car?  Your house?  Your TV?  Your favorite programs?  Your refrigerator and the food in it?  Your bed?  Your camera?  Pretty much every luxury or necessity you can think of?  Someone got disgustingly ******* rich by producing that product and offering it to the masses.  The inherent benefit to society was merely a side effect of creating a good product.

So go ahead.  Kill all initiative.  Demonize the producers and movers of the world.  Display your horrid envy and base perversion for all to see.  Hold your own, useless, leech**** self up as a model, and see what you produce.  In short, you will have nothing, which is exactly what you deserve.

 

Actually I think the DUmmies don't understand that wealth is created.  They appear hold the belief that it's a zero sum game and the only way to get richer is to make someone poorer. 

I guess we'll always need burger flippers and septic tank cleaners so there will be always be a job for them to fill.

[Carl]

Exactly...no one would be in a sensitive position auditing tax returns and be paid minimum wage.

[ScubaGuy]

Leftist Agitator  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Sep-02-09 04:45 PM
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82. Tax them?
   
Edited on Wed Sep-02-09 04:49 PM by Leftist Agitator
**** that. We should nationalize 99% of the assets of anyone with more than 50 million dollars. They can live comfortably off of 500k, I'm certain. Anyone who is worth 10 mil - 50 mil can surrender 75% of their assets. 5 mil - 10 mil, 50%.

If they want to complain, put them in internment camps.

Problem solved.

Spoken like a true left wing loser who never will be anything but a loser.

[Freeper]

Leftist Agitator  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Sep-02-09 04:45 PM
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82. Tax them?
   
Edited on Wed Sep-02-09 04:49 PM by Leftist Agitator
**** that. We should nationalize 99% of the assets of anyone with more than 50 million dollars. They can live comfortably off of 500k, I'm certain. Anyone who is worth 10 mil - 50 mil can surrender 75% of their assets. 5 mil - 10 mil, 50%.

If they want to complain, put them in internment camps.

Problem solved.

Tell you what lets take 75% of your pot stash and divvy it up at DU. 
Liberals are generous with other people's money and assets. 

So lemme get this straight holding terrorists is bad, but you want to throw people who complain when the govt steals from them in camps?

[Chump]

I guess we'll always need burger flippers and septic tank cleaners so there will be always be a job for them to fill.

I get your gist but I think you give those idiots too much credit.  Flipping burgers or cleaning septic tanks is so far "beneath" those entitlement whores, and there's no way they could budget to live on the salary from either of those jobs.

No, there is honor in hard work.  DUmmies have no concept of honor.  Slogging through your responsibilities, day in and day out, to be able to say, "This house is mine.  This food is mine.  This computer I'm typing on is mine.  I earned it with my own sweat and blood."  The only higher honor is willing self-sacrifice.

The DUmmies are the antithesis of honor.  They expect, simply because they're alive, to be provided for.  There is no reasoning with leech****s like that, because reasoning requires a basic, agreeable premise.  Their worldview is entirely opposite of mine.  ENTIRELY.

 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Well said, Chump!

 

[diesel driver]

For the life of me, I can't figure out how raising Bill Gates' taxes makes my life any better....   

Is it me, or are the DUmmies just too damned stupid to be left alone with a computer and anything with a sharp, pointy end?   

[Rebel]

Lemme tell you guys about my wife's uncle. He was raised in a home, that wasn't anything special, in the country in a very poor family. He worked odd jobs from the time he could work odd jobs. When he saved up enough money from part time jobs, etc., he had enough money to buy his first vehicle. He bought a sewage pump truck. Can you imagine? This is the vehicle he took to high school. When he got out of class every day, he'd go and pump out sewage from septics after school. At about age 21, he was able to buy his first vehicle. A Corvette. 5 years of busting his ass had paid off. With only a high school diploma, he was well on his way to making it.

That man is now about 48, an ARDENT Conservative who voted for Mitt in the primary, lives in Thomson, Ga., and is a multimillionaire who's into property speculation and also builds homes, flats, and condos. All on his OWN blood, sweat, and tears. He didn't need the f'n government helping him. Now he lives on 10 acres, has an inground pool, and has about a 7000 sq' home with a couple of classic cars. ...and he's still country as hell. He has every toy you could ever need in the country.

I am not like him. I didn't take the initiative. I didn't risk my money like he did, other than the stock market. I just didn't take the risks. He did. It paid off. Gambling? HELL no. He had input into it. Again, it paid off for him. He's one of the hardest working men I've ever seen in my life. He still runs his septic business and this MILLIONAIRE still pumps septic tanks himself.


So **** you D-U-mbasses.

[The Village Idiot]

I wanna buy my brother a septic sucking truck now

[Rebel]

I wanna buy my brother a septic sucking truck now

It's a LOT of work. A LOT of work. He also cleans huge compartmented grease traps for restaurants. He's shown up late, at his own home, for family reunions because he's doing a job. I can PM you his name. I'm not putting it on here.  

[The Village Idiot]

It's a LOT of work. A LOT of work. He also cleans huge compartmented grease traps for restaurants. He's shown up late, at his own home, for family reunions because he's doing a job. I can PM you his name. I'm not putting it on here.  

I doubt my brother would want to anything but be a security guard

[GOBUCKS]

For the life of me, I can't figure out how raising Bill Gates' taxes makes my life any better....   

And right there is the difference between a democrat and a Republican.

[ScubaGuy]

I get your gist but I think you give those idiots too much credit.  Flipping burgers or cleaning septic tanks is so far "beneath" those entitlement whores, and there's no way they could budget to live on the salary from either of those jobs.

No, there is honor in hard work.  DUmmies have no concept of honor.  Slogging through your responsibilities, day in and day out, to be able to say, "This house is mine.  This food is mine.  This computer I'm typing on is mine.  I earned it with my own sweat and blood."  The only higher honor is willing self-sacrifice.

The DUmmies are the antithesis of honor.  They expect, simply because they're alive, to be provided for.  There is no reasoning with leech****s like that, because reasoning requires a basic, agreeable premise.  Their worldview is entirely opposite of mine.  ENTIRELY.

 

Good point.

[Chump]

Well said and excellent illustration Sarah.

[USA4ME]

I'll have to look for the link sometime today, but I read just recently that in England (or maybe it was just in London) 1/6th of all people didn't work and 1 out of every 5 children lives in a home where neither parent works.  It was a great illustration of just how the socialist "the world owes me a living" system puts people into a perpetual welfare state keeping them dependent.

.

[JohnnyReb]

Lemme tell you guys about my wife's uncle. He was raised in a home, that wasn't anything special, in the country in a very poor family. He worked odd jobs from the time he could work odd jobs. When he saved up enough money from part time jobs, etc., he had enough money to buy his first vehicle. He bought a sewage pump truck. Can you imagine? This is the vehicle he took to high school. When he got out of class every day, he'd go and pump out sewage from septics after school. At about age 21, he was able to buy his first vehicle. A Corvette. 5 years of busting his ass had paid off. With only a high school diploma, he was well on his way to making it.

That man is now about 48, an ARDENT Conservative who voted for Mitt in the primary, lives in Thomson, Ga., and is a multimillionaire who's into property speculation and also builds homes, flats, and condos. All on his OWN blood, sweat, and tears. He didn't need the f'n government helping him. Now he lives on 10 acres, has an inground pool, and has about a 7000 sq' home with a couple of classic cars. ...and he's still country as hell. He has every toy you could ever need in the country.

I am not like him. I didn't take the initiative. I didn't risk my money like he did, other than the stock market. I just didn't take the risks. He did. It paid off. Gambling? HELL no. He had input into it. Again, it paid off for him. He's one of the hardest working men I've ever seen in my life. He still runs his septic business and this MILLIONAIRE still pumps septic tanks himself.


So **** you D-U-mbasses.

There was an old man here that made millions. He was a home builder/realestate developer, etc.. He started a local bank and had interest in several others in other towns. He had many businesses outta town and outta state....a millionaire many times over.

I was coming home from work late one day. I drove right by his grandsons house. The old man was 88 at the time and he was up on top of the grandsons house putting on shingles.

Back in '72 or '73, I was grading around a house he had built. The brick masons had run out of morter sand and were loading up to leave when the old man came by in a brand stinking new Buick. He was checking on things. The brick masons lacked just enough sand to do the backdoor steps. The old man told them to unload their stuff, he'd be right back with the sand. It wasn't long he drove up in the brand stinking new Buick and raised the trunk lid....started shoveling out sand into the morter box...

[The Village Idiot]

Back in '72 or '73, I was grading around a house he had built. The brick masons had run out of morter sand and were loading up to leave when the old man came by in a brand stinking new Buick. He was checking on things. The brick masons lacked just enough sand to do the backdoor steps. The old man told them to unload their stuff, he'd be right back with the sand. It wasn't long he drove up in the brand stinking new Buick and raised the trunk lid....started shoveling out sand into the morter box...

for some people "get'er done" is a way of life

[The Village Idiot]

I'll have to look for the link sometime today, but I read just recently that in England (or maybe it was just in London) 1/6th of all people didn't work and 1 out of every 5 children lives in a home where neither parent works.  It was a great illustration of just how the socialist "the world owes me a living" system puts people into a perpetual welfare state keeping them dependent.

I think it said something like 5 million have never ever had a job!! ever?? Not even a summer sacking groceries?

[Karin]

Edited on Wed Sep-02-09 04:49 PM by Leftist Agitator
**** that. We should nationalize 99% of the assets of anyone with more than 50 million dollars. They can live comfortably off of 500k, I'm certain. Anyone who is worth 10 mil - 50 mil can surrender 75% of their assets. 5 mil - 10 mil, 50%.

If they want to complain, put them in internment camps.

Problem solved.

Does it occur to the agitator that anybody that rich can simply get up and leave the country?  At a moment's notice?   Why doesn't the obvious ever hit these imbeciles like a ton of bricks?  Why doesn't a real ton of bricks hit any of them? 

[Karin]

Subway Cat weighed in on that thread:

undergroundpanther  (1000+ posts)        Wed Sep-02-09 08:55 PM

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111. If they refuse to pay up..
Then can we put their heads on pikes?

Taxes are what people pay for a functioning civilized society.The rich have too much because the poor and too many go without for this to be anything but financial abuse on a national scale. The rich MUST be forced to SHARE what they hoard and wring from others that give them too much(working class,poor,anyone NOT rich). Because we all know we could go back to pillaging and taking it from the rich to survive when they make this country desperate and it's 'leaders' as corrupt as any tin pot tyranny..

We could "go back" to pillaging?  And we all know that?  I will give you the tin pot tyranny bit, though, kitty. 

Nobody picked up on the idea of a rich guy just picking up and leaving, buying his own island or something. 

[Carl]

Does it occur to the agitator that anybody that rich can simply get up and leave the country?  At a moment's notice?   Why doesn't the obvious ever hit these imbeciles like a ton of bricks?  Why doesn't a real ton of bricks hit any of them? 

Remember all the British tax exiles of the 70s...usually lib musicions that bailed on 90+ %tax rates in England?

There is a way and that is where socialism morphs ultimately to communisim.
Berlin wall and an iron curtain to prevent the masses from leaving the hell the promised utopia actually is.

[thundley4]

Subway Cat weighed in on that thread:

We could "go back" to pillaging?  And we all know that?  I will give you the tin pot tyranny bit, though, kitty. 

Nobody picked up on the idea of a rich guy just picking up and leaving, buying his own island or something. 

Private Islands for sale.

Some aren't that expensive.

[ScubaGuy]

Does it occur to the agitator that anybody that rich can simply get up and leave the country?  At a moment's notice?   Why doesn't the obvious ever hit these imbeciles like a ton of bricks?  Why doesn't a real ton of bricks hit any of them? 

Obamanaut  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Sep-02-09 06:54 PM
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96. Most people who have been beheaded have their incomes drastically
   
reduced, thus reducing the likelihood of being able to pay any income tax at all. That might make them eligible to benefit from this redistribution of income that so many seem to love.

If the entire upper 1% if earners is beheaded, thus eliminating the influx to the coffers of their 40% portion of the income tax they currently pay, and 47 million have no tax burden at all - won't this put the poor middle class further in debt?

Obamanut appears to get it.

[Chump]

Let's be honest for a second here.  These people want to tax the rich until they're the rich.  Then they'll stop, of course.

It has nothing to do with helping others and everything to do with helping themselves.  It's pure, spiteful envy through and through.