Terra Alta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal 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 Sat Apr-23-11 05:52 PM
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it's time for the rich to make some sacrifices for their country. Updated at 5:53 PM
There are millions of Americans who are suffering today -- people in poverty, over a million homeless and most don't know where their next meal is coming from. This includes many, many children, who go to bed hungry, not knowing where their next meal will come from. And those are the ones who have a bed to go to.
There is a solution for this, and that is for the wealthiest people in this country to start paying more taxes. They can afford it; they are multi-millionaires and billionaires who will never have to want for anything. Tax the richest 10% at 50%, and the richest 1% at 75%. They would hardly notice it. Of course, they may not be able to buy that second yacht they've been wanting, or their seventh mansion -- but what's more important, having yet another mansion or having a roof over the head of every man, woman and child, and three meals a day for every family? Paying taxes is patriotic. The rich need to start being more patriotic.
This goes for corporations, too. Companies like Wal-mart, Target, McDonald's, etc. need to start paying their employees a living wage. I work for Wal-mart, and have been for six years now. I get a raise every year but still make below $10 an hour. While Rob Walton, Lee Scott, Mike Duke, et al, make billions. Yet many of their employees struggle to make ends meet.
Jesus Christ told the rich to sell their possessions and give to the poor. Many Christians talk about Jesus coming back and setting up his earthly kingdom, well if that's true then he will rule as a socialist.
Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal 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 Sat Apr-23-11 05:55 PM
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1. TAX AT 90%!!!!
This is what we did in World War 2, and the rich happily obliged
Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal 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 Sat Apr-23-11 06:04 PM
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12. Then take it
And if they don't want to pay, take everything they own
Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal 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 Sat Apr-23-11 06:14 PM
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16. I think bonuses and luxury goods over $150,000 should be taxed 100%.
Certainly not houses but their second and third homes, boats, Bentleys, etc.
Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal 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 Sat Apr-23-11 06:00 PM
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6. They used to
Granted, they don't anymore
So **** 'em - take all their shit
And if they complain, take more of their shit until they shut up
Thunderstruck Donating Member (972 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 Sat Apr-23-11 06:02 PM
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10. 1000% agree. And if that doesn't work, storm the ****ing gates!
panader0 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 Sat Apr-23-11 06:13 PM
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15. I saw a show on TV last week (CBS Sunday Morning maybe)
where three very wealthy guys were interviewed and siad they wanted to pay higher taxes. They have on organization of many wealthy people, I forget the name. They said they wanted to do it for the good of the nation. Strange but true.
How about we make a sacrifice of the looters, such that the moochers like you filthy cockroaches are required to make a sacrifice by getting off the drugs , getting off your asses and becoming producers ?
How about we make a sacrifice of the looters, such that the moochers like you filthy cockroaches are required to make a sacrifice by getting off the drugs , getting off your asses and becoming producers ?
It's time for the welfare parasites to make some sacrifices, get a damned job and become productive members of society. I guarantee there are a whole hell of a lot more of them than there are the rich.
While he was being held, his vehicle was searched, and a long-handled wood-axe was found in the trunk, along with lots and lots of empty Tupperware containers.
One wonders what that was all about.
Its way past time that the 50% of the people that don't pay taxes and get a check from the US Government started to pay their fair share . No more free rides and don't tell me they can't afford it because what they do get is an income and they can pay their share at the rate of 10% of what they are given or they get a JOB.
Start with the leftist land of la-la, then hit the music industry. Once they have lightened the burden of poor Americans you have precedence to hit the fat cat CEOs of other companies.Let's not forget other rich...Mike Moore, Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid...
Streisand, Spielberg, Hanks.... come on, they will give up 90% willingly, so definitely start a grass roots campaign with them to lead this good will charge to take their money (which come on, is rightfully yours am I right?).
We'll just wait here and watch how that goes for you. :popcorn:
Let's not forget other rich...Mike Moore, Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid...
If we're gonna "eat the rich," let's start with the morons that run the place.
Let's not forget other rich...Mike Moore, Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid...
If we're gonna "eat the rich," let's start with the morons that run the place.
The poor of America could dine off of Michael Moore for at least a month. It'd cut down on food stamps.Do you mean figuratively, as in Moore foots the bill or do you mean literally, as in carve him up and serve him?
Do you mean figuratively, as in Moore foots the bill or do you mean literally, as in carve him up and serve him?
With Moore footing the bill, fat cat that he is, he could rival McDonald's "Millions served" tally.
With Moore himself actually served up on the buffet, fat cat that he is, I'll wager he could be kept alive with a Krispy Kreme puree feeding tube and treated as a renewable resource likely last indefinitely.
Maybe we could offer him to UNICEF and ship him off to one of those famine plagued countries?
Do you mean figuratively, as in Moore foots the bill or do you mean literally, as in carve him up and serve him?
I can get into this while "sacrifice" thing. I say we start with the DUmbshits, and see if Kali is still hungry after we're done with 'em. :II:Yeah, but you got to wear HazMat suits when you disembowel them.
Yeah, but you got to wear HazMat suits when you disembowel them.
It's just not worth the hassle.
Who said anything about disemboweling them? We just dump 'em into the magma pools at the temple of Mt. Doom, and let Kali sort 'em out...
Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-23-11 06:04 PMWith quotes like this above, the DUchebag is polling for DUmbass/primitive of the year in my book.
Response to Reply #8
12. Then take it And if they don't want to pay, take everything they own
Or cremate 'em alive, like the Soviets used to do with GRU traitors.