liberalnarb (854 posts)
"You Just Want Free Stuff."
159 DU Wrecs, so far.
Here's a clue-by-4 Proglodytes...
...that pile of money was earned through voluntary transactions.
Taxes are involuntary.
That means you do not have a default right to take whatever you want.
HughBeaumont (21,952 posts)
2. "Pull yerselves up by the Bootstraps!!" - anyone who never had to.
You have to wonder about the arrogance of people who presume to know everyone else's life circumstances and feel entitled enough to legislate upon that interpretation.
Proserpina (1,495 posts)
4. We want what we worked for and you stole
You 1%ers have very convenient memories, morals, and tax avoidance attorneys...
Stole how?
If you think Billionaire X has too much money stop buying his products.
Marty McGraw (643 posts)
16. It's tragically comical
how life situates itself to reward such a small minority so lavishly who have this brain disorder. As if anyother profession out in the world means piss to the daily workings of ordinary life. Really makes one look around their entire life and feel ashamed. Sad
So, all the rich, well-off think one way and all you scraping, scrapping slugs think another way...
...but it's the rich who have the problem.
On the Road (20,654 posts)
6. It's Interesting to Note
that the cartoonist pretty much admitted Sanders's campaign is a money grab.
Saying Republicans want tax cuts doesn't really affect that point.
You notice.
How gauche.
Akamai (81 posts)
9. Bernie believes, I think, that if society as a whole wants to help
all of its members, even if it requires higher taxes-- especially on the richest, who will suffer significant pain by paying more -- then it is moral and right to do so.
This is not being given "free stuff" but a realization that we are all in this together.
Mob "morality" is one of the many evils the founders guarded against when they formed the republic.
And we're not all in this together because this is a very lopsided transaction being proposed.
You idiots want all the freebies and have said exactly NOTHING for the last century about what you will give in return except more shitty poetry.
noiretextatique (25,601 posts)
18. The "point" is an idiotic rw non-sequitur
And clearly, you missed THAT point
But you do want free stuff.
Go ahead, tell us you reject taxpayer funded healthcare, housing, food, education etc. that allows you to pay little or no money from your own pocket.
I dare you.
On the Road (20,654 posts)
20. Rhetorically,
arguing tu quoque or "you too" is considered an admission. I know that's not what the cartoonist intended, but what he wrote suggests that both sides valid arguments.
You noticed.
How gauche.
tecelote (2,779 posts)
8. Republicans love socialism as it stands today.
They bitch about food stamps but really food stamps are a gift to Walmart stockholders. Every dollar paid in food stamps is a dollar Walmart does not need to pay it's employees. The poor do not benefit, they work to sustain themselves. Stockholders benefit.
Endless war means endless profits. Our tax dollars are making war mongers rich while we are just creating more threats that demand more war.
Conversely...
You bitch about Walmart stockholders but you insist on feeding them with food stamps.
And I'm not sure how this MIC perpetual money machine idea will ever leave their heads. They seem to think FDR's spending in WW2 was funded by money shitting unicorns.
Bernardo de La Paz (9,915 posts)
17. That pile of cash is funded in part by government subsidies, infrastructure spending, ...
by government subsidies, infrastructure spending, gas taxes, defense spending on over-valued gold plated hammers, paying landowners not to grow crops, bank bailouts, ...., and trillions of dollars the government can't account for.
The poor don't pay taxes (a big part of the problem, especially when they're still allowed to vote).
But if a rich person does receive tax subsidies it is money they themselves have paid into the fund.
So when a poor person in the lowest quintile receives a subsidy what did they do to be entitled to it? Are they working on community projects? Did they surrender their voter registration card?
Shandris (2,658 posts)
19. I..I wouldn't mind a free relocation to a country of my choice. Can I have that Free Stuff?
Please? I promise I'll never vote against Republicans again if I can! ...granted, it's because I won't be here to do so, but still!
Looking to grope some German girls?
Dr. Xavier (187 posts)
23. CLASS WARFARE, CLASS WARFARE, CLASS WARFARE,
CLASS WARFARE, CLASS WARFARE, CLASS WARFARE, CLASS WARFARe, CLASS WARFAre, CLASS WARFare, CLASS WARfare, CLASS WArfare, CLASS Warfare, CLASS warfare, CLASs warfare, CLAss warfare, CLass warfare, Class warfare, ... class ... oh, never mind...
You have no class and you aren't fit for warfare so why don't you sit down and be quiet before you get yourself into more trouble than you can handle.
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