Is old don trying to "out stooooopid", stooooopid Beth?

[thundley4]

NNN0LHI (65,902 posts)

 
Taxing wealth is the next logical step

That way the wealthy who are sitting on the sidelines with trillions of dollars will have two choices. Invest it in creating jobs themselves or give it to the government so they can invest it to hire new workers and retain the ones we already have and pay them a fair days pay for a fair days work.

Turns into use it or lose it.

There is how to get some investment going.

Don

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002927750


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Taverner (49,444 posts)
1. Yes, yes, yes and hells yes.

PufPuf23 (3,216 posts)
3. Extremely obvious. Shows how bought are government and institutions are as a society. nt

A small voice of reason from a troll.

TBMASE (740 posts)
4. You realize that most wealth isn't in the form of cash, right?

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when you have Capital Gains, it's usually on the sale of an asset that has appreciated from its original value, that money is usually invested somewhere else.
Unless we're going to take homes and other assets I wouldn't expect this to be a plan that's realistic

This troll is trying to hard.

Comrade_McKenzie (238 posts)
5. Then let's take homes and other assets...

There should never be 2 for 1, when there's even one instance of none for 1.

TBMASE (740 posts)
7. So you want to take cash from businesses

NNN0LHI (65,902 posts)
9. Businesses can either invest it themselves hiring workers or the government will tax them and do it

It is the businesses choice.

Don

Here is an idea.  The government confiscate's Don's pension fund, then only gives him back the exact amount he needs to subsist each month.

[USA4ME]

They're so stupid they don't realize if the gov't is given that much power then it won't be long until it starts confiscating their possessions under the guise of "use it or lose it."

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[thundley4]

They're so stupid they don't realize if the gov't is given that much power then it won't be long until it starts confiscating their possessions under the guise of "use it or lose it."

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The government would never tax people for not spending their money. (ObamaCare?)

[Duke Nukum]

If people like grouchy old Don got everything they wanted they would starve to death 10 times over.

Liberalism could be defeated once and for all but then so would life as we know it.

[Freeper]

Lord help us if 0bama gets another term, these are the kinds of things that could happen in our country with him in power.

[Karin]

Man, they're filled to the brim with communistic totalitarianism today, aren't they? 

Response to HangOnKids (Reply #11)
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 07:35 PM
TBMASE (752 posts)
12. Because I know why corporations keep cash?

and think when people start talking about the confiscation of legally owned and earned property by the government because they don't spend their money in a way that satisfies the government is wrong?

I'm pretty sure there's an amendment to the constitution that prevents this sort of thing

Response to TBMASE (Reply #28)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 07:35 AM
Blanks (165 posts)
51. Money is property

The supreme court allowed the taking of real property where it was for the good of the community. Real property has more intrinsic value than money.

The 'money' probably exists electronically anyway (I doubt that they have huge vaults holding all of it in cash). Wouldn't it be fun to just 'disappear' it. 

AnotherMcIntosh (2,269 posts)
15. Tax all inheritances above $5 million at 100%. Tax all transfers of money out of the country at 200%

If that is not enough, nationalize the banks and the energy companies.

cherokeeprogressive (12,805 posts)
55. Someone with more than me is wealthy.

Kill them, make sure their kids are strippped of all inheritance and make sure alll their property goes to the state.

All better.

A select two or three of them call out the insanity, but most are stark raving lunatics. 

[Bad Dog]

You have to keep in mind that it is for our own good.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Because the government does such a bang up job in deciding what to invest in (Solyndra), huh Don?  How about, instead of giving more power to government officials who have already proven that they don't know what the hell they're doing, we work on creating an environment where business leaders are more likely to feel comfortable in taking risks?

[67 Rover]

WOW. When someone as thick as Cherokeeprogressive hits one out of the park then the end times are truly near.

[Bad Dog]

WOW. When someone as thick as Cherokeeprogressive hits one out of the park then the end times are truly near.

Are you sure he/she/it isn't serious?

[Karin]

No, I don't think CP is serious.  He comes out with glimmer of sanity every now and then.

HEY DON!  How do you like your state taxing your wealth, in the form of crushing property taxes that have skyrocketed, and that you can't afford?  It's great, isn't it?  Really stick it to the fixed income retirees.  Life is good! 

[JohnnyReb]

The stupid in DUmmies is thicker and less fluid than cold molasses.

[thundley4]

AnotherMcIntosh (2,269 posts)
15. Tax all inheritances above $5 million at 100%. Tax all transfers of money out of the country at 200%

If that is not enough, nationalize the banks and the energy companies.

That would put a quick end to all that American money being sent to Mexico and would crash the Mexican economy even further. 

[Chris_]

That would put a quick end to all that American money being sent to Mexico and would crash the Mexican economy even further. 

Not to mention expats that live in Yurp and them other fancy places.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Jeebus...it isn't a shell game DUmmies. The wealthy pay more than their fair share on income. And they are usually intelligent enough to put their money in safe markets or shelter it via other means. Just common sense, which usually escapes the feeble DU brains.

[Paul Heinzman]

Real property has more intrinsic value than money.

Not once you start taking it away it doesn't. Who would spend money on something the government can just suddenly decide to take away on a whim?

Oh well, these were the same jackasses who thought that a negative return on France's bonds was a good thing for France because they could borrow more money than they would have to pay back.

[Karin]

Who would spend money on something the government can just suddenly decide to take away on a whim?

One DUmmie tried to raise that question, "who would you sell it to, after seizing?"  Sure, the govt would grab the huge tracts of land, but how do you turn that into cold hard cash?  The DUmbasses never think past square one.  Biggest idiots on earth. 

[thundley4]

One DUmmie tried to raise that question, "who would you sell it to, after seizing?"  Sure, the govt would grab the huge tracts of land, but how do you turn that into cold hard cash?  The DUmbasses never think past square one.  Biggest idiots on earth. 

The government could sell it to another rich person, then confiscate it from them several hours/days/weeks later and then resell it to another chump rich person.  It would be a never ending flow of cash for the government. /DU mode

[Karin]

Thundley, you've been spending far, far too much time playing at the DUmp.  It's like one of those language immersion courses. 

[thundley4]

Thundley, you've been spending far, far too much time playing at the DUmp.  It's like one of those language immersion courses. 

I've been trying to cover for Frank since he's been gone.

[Ogre]

Is it possible to out Eferrari (aka. stupidest person on the internet) Eferrari?

It's good that Don has set a goal, but shouldn't he try for something a little more attainable, say for instance out stupid Nad's first?