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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: GOBUCKS on September 02, 2014, 12:54:36 PM
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DUmmies are always entertaining when they discuss wealthy people.
To a deadbeat democrat, blindly jealous of anyone enjoying success, a million dollars is an enormous, unfathomable, inexhaustible amount.
In their teensy little brains, any amount of money is translated into an equivalent stash of weed, and a million bucks would buy decades of sweet, sweet bud.
Anyway, it's nice to see a thread that isn't overrun with Ku Klux Klams preparing for the Hildebeast campaign.
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 11:33 AM
Star Member Recursion (33,716 posts)
Let's go there: a Federal Maximum Wage: what would it look like?
I like the idea. What's a presentable bill?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025477944
Response to Recursion (Original post)
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 11:58 AM
Star Member JustAnotherGen (12,071 posts)
1. I don't know
Not familiar with the concept.
Does this mean for example - a recording artist would not be able to get paid for a song after a certain amount earned?
What about a painter/sculptor?
Response to JustAnotherGen (Reply #1)
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 11:59 AM
Lee-Lee (1,390 posts)
2. Sure, it has merits
If limits were placed on artists as well I am sure it would provide opportunities for a whole lot more struggling artists of all types to get a piece of the pie.
Response to Recursion (Original post)
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 12:01 PM
Cleita (70,194 posts)
3. Thom Hartmann has suggested taxing 100% of income after reaching
a ceiling of one billion. When you make a billion in one year, you pretty much can buy whatever you want several times over so you don't need any more money. I once read that Ghaddafi at the height of his power made a billion dollars an hour. I don't know if our homegrown billionaires get that much, but I'm sure there are many who are getting way too much and should pay the 100 percent income tax over one billion.
Response to Cleita (Reply #3)
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 12:03 PM
Lee-Lee (1,390 posts)
4. A billion is way too high
More like $1,000,000 per year, or anything at all once a person has $10,000,000 or more in assets.
A person could live 3 lifetimes comfortably on $10,000,000 and there is really no legitimate reason for a person with that much to keep hoarding even more.
More DUmmy finance. If you ask DUmmy stewert, he'd say you could live three lifetimes on ten thousand dollars.
Response to Lee-Lee (Reply #4)
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 12:06 PM
Cleita (70,194 posts)
5. I agree and I'm sure Thom does too, but he set the bar high because he knows
it will be easier to get Congress agree to the higher figure and yet accomplish the goal of redistributing wealth.
A lot of DUmmies fall back on their belief that there's just a finite number of dollars in the world, and if one guy has more then someone else must have less.
Actually that's true, but only if you're a purse snatcher or a pickpocket.
Response to Recursion (Original post)
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 12:33 PM
moondust (9,258 posts)
6. One option:
The Swiss 1:12 initiative that failed to pass in Switzerland last November. I think it caps top pay in a company at 12 times bottom pay.
Swiss Activists: Let’s Cap CEO Pay
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Response to Recursion (Original post)
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 12:33 PM
moondust (9,258 posts)
6. One option:
The Swiss 1:12 initiative that failed to pass in Switzerland last November. I think it caps top pay in a company at 12 times bottom pay.
Swiss Activists: Let’s Cap CEO Pay
Let's put that into all businesses.
Movie actors, producers and directors can only make 12X what the lowest paid person on the crew makes.
Singers and songwriters are compared to the lowly janitors at the studios and arenas they play at.
Same for athletes, their pay is limited to 12X for the lowest paid member of their organization.
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Let's put that into all businesses.
Movie actors, producers and directors can only make 12X what the lowest paid person on the crew makes.
Singers and songwriters are compared to the lowly janitors at the studios and arenas they play at.
Same for athletes, their pay is limited to 12X for the lowest paid member of their organization.
How about the DUmp?
Skippy and kpete and cbayer would be limited to twelve times what stewert and UGP and Amber make.
How about limiting Skimmer to twelve times what he pays Lord Marblehead and the elusive, enigmatic Elad.
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How about the DUmp?
Skippy and kpete and cbayer would be limited to twelve times what stewert and UGP and Amber make.
How about limiting Skimmer to twelve times what he pays Lord Marblehead and the elusive, enigmatic Elad.
Well 12 times zero is still zero.
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While we're setting wages, what about setting welfare and disability at 1/12 th of the lowest wages paid. That ought to get the DUmmie democrat voters off their fat asses......or least their asses won't be fat.
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Typical jealousy and deep-seeded envy from the critical thinking insects who could not possibly tell you the difference between money and wealth.
Even with a book on the subject, annotated and highlighted in front of them, and someone whispering the answers in their ears. One could simply say: "Look at France".
Blank stares.
Response to Recursion (Original post)
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 12:33 PM
moondust (9,258 posts)
6. One option:
The Swiss 1:12 initiative that failed to pass in Switzerland last November. I think it caps top pay in a company at 12 times bottom pay.
Swiss Activists: Let’s Cap CEO Pay
...and the Swiss have repeatedly voted down every one of those Romper Room Utopia initiatives. Most, overwhelmingly.
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DUmmies proceed from the false assumption that everything belongs to them, and thus, that others were given something that belongs to them, means in their broken backwards little minds, that they are genuinely generous.
And since they feel everything belongs to them, they also feel that they and only they should be able to decide when someone else has too much of it.
They talk in analogies about how when people go camping together they split the expense, and that sometimes some campers with the ability cover for those campers who have a need (marxism).
Hidden in the fine print, is that they believe everyone outside the mandarin class should (using their analogy) be forced to camp with them, on pain of application of governmental compulsion.
Collectivist evil, the sort that makes the framers roll over in their graves, is what it is.
CMD
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So, lets see, cap everyone's income, check. Stupid idea, check. Reduce the entire monetary wealth of the US. Hummm, what could go wrong?
Will the DUmmies cry foul when the soon-to-be-non-rich can't pay for all their freebies?
:thatsright:
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Will the DUmmies cry foul when the soon-to-be-non-rich can't pay for all their freebies?
:thatsright:
Of course not. They'll just point at the opposition and claim that they "have too much". Kind of like they're doing now.
Anytime DUmmies fail, they double down, rinse and repeat, and blame someone else - the opposition, almost exclusively.
CMD
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If there is a cap on pay then there would need to be a cap on government benefits such as, food stamps, welfare checks, etc..
In 2012, the federal government spent $668 billion to fund 126 separate anti-poverty programs. State and local governments kicked in another $284 billion
We lost the war on poverty, Obama should declare that war over and refund the money as a "peace dividend". :fuelfire:
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Here's what I believe to be the truth.
Any one of these DUmmies is only 1 lottery ticket
away from supporting a tax break for the rich.
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Here's what I believe to be the truth.
Any one of these DUmmies is only 1 lottery ticket
away from supporting a tax break for the rich.
Dummies could win $100,000,000 and in two years they would flat broke again or dead from an overdose.
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Dummies could win $100,000,000 and in two years they would flat broke again or dead from an overdose.
I'd tend towards the latter.
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It is no surprise that they are all failures.
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To see how 0bamaites handle money check out the bigger, faster, taller, multimillionaire 0bamaites of the NBA and NFL.
Within five years of leaving the league, 60% of NBA 0bamaites and an incredible 78% of NFL 0bamaites have declared bankruptcy.
Dope, deadbeat relatives, and bastard kids scattered all over the country can soak up any amount of money.
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KittyWampus (47,029 posts)
11. Tie highest wage at top to lowest wage at the bottom. CEO's get 20% more than lowest wage
employees on payroll.
That would include contracted workers.
yeah, I see NO problem there. Pay burger flippers 100K and pay the CEO 120K. That's a #5 with cheese, supersized? That'll be $102.39 at the first drive up window. What a f'n idiot.
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To see how 0bamaites handle money check out the bigger, faster, taller, multimillionaire 0bamaites of the NBA and NFL.
Within five years of leaving the league, 60% of NBA 0bamaites and an incredible 78% of NFL 0bamaites have declared bankruptcy.
Dope, deadbeat relatives, and bastard kids scattered all over the country can soak up any amount of money.
They work one hour a week, five months out of a year, earn millions and retire young.....It's a DUmmie's wet dream socialist utopia....and now you tell me it doesn't work.
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To see how 0bamaites handle money check out the bigger, faster, taller, multimillionaire 0bamaites of the NBA and NFL.
Within five years of leaving the league, 60% of NBA 0bamaites and an incredible 78% of NFL 0bamaites have declared bankruptcy.
Dope, deadbeat relatives, and bastard kids scattered all over the country can soak up any amount of money.
Be Liv'in large, yo.
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Be Liv'in large, yo.
Keepin' it real.
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yeah, I see NO problem there. Pay burger flippers 100K and pay the CEO 120K. That's a #5 with cheese, supersized? That'll be $102.39 at the first drive up window. What a f'n idiot.
More like $10,239.57! :rotf: God what morons they are. Every now and then they start a thread just like this and have a nice circle jerk. ****ing communists.
Oh, and Cleita said
I once read that Ghaddafi at the height of his power made a billion dollars an hour.
An hour??? :lmao:
They're over there talking like this is going to happen. Your politicians are even more filthy rich than ours, DUmbasses.