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The Bottom 80% Is Significantly Poorer Since The Pandemic, And This Is Creating A 'Robin Hood Mentality' All Over America
The Economic Collapse Blog ^ | 11/22/2023 | Michael Snyder

Posted on 11/22/2023 8:00:51 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

Inflation punishes the working poor the most.


21 posted on 11/22/2023 9:06:39 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Large groups of people have decided that it is okay to take from the rich and the corporations that they control and give to the poor (themselves) because the rich probably exploited the poor to get their wealth in the first place.

Except when they think of rich, they don't mean Bezos and Gates - they mean you.

22 posted on 11/22/2023 9:07:50 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: SeekAndFind
Tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations to “grow the economy” is seen by many as Robin Hood in reverse, just sayin.

(Note: not my own perspective, although tax cuts when deficits are high is a real stupid act).

23 posted on 11/22/2023 9:11:28 AM PST by Clemenza
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To: Mr. Jeeves

The people one town to the east of me see us as being “rich” even though I am far from it.


24 posted on 11/22/2023 9:12:05 AM PST by Clemenza
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To: Sirius Lee

It’s very common for people in the wealthier towns around me to put their best cars out front instead of garaging it. Even dumber those who do this and leave the keys in as they live in a “safe neighborhood.” Hence the auto thefts I hear reported in my area.


25 posted on 11/22/2023 9:13:42 AM PST by Clemenza
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To: SeekAndFind

“The Bottom 80% Is Significantly Poorer Since The Pandemic..”

Democrats hit hardest.


26 posted on 11/22/2023 9:14:26 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: SeekAndFind

What gets me is people who are living on minimum wage protesting that minimum wage needs to be increased. That just causes inflation. If you are living on minimum wage, take a look at the decisions you made in life. None of the people I know who made good life choices, and worked hard to obtain the credentials for their career are in the same position as the minimum wage worker. I see that with the younger generation of my family. Don’t work hard in college, don’t bother to learn a trade, drop out, take a minimum wage job and then bitch about their wages and blame the rich. All the while voting for Biden.


27 posted on 11/22/2023 9:15:56 AM PST by kaila
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To: Boogieman

“Well, there’s no car on the road that can actually stop a truck if the driver is not in a mood to be stopped.”

That is a true statement.

I have 750hp (to the ground) and 2200+ ft/lbs of torque under my right foot. I can put a four wheeler anywhere I dang well please.


28 posted on 11/22/2023 9:22:05 AM PST by big truck ("This space intentionally left blank.")
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To: SeekAndFind
This sort of “Robin Hood mentality” is extremely dangerous, and it is rapidly spreading.

Gives you a desire to rob tax collectors?

Is there a down side?

Or did someone, once again, not read the < bleep> ing STORY!?!

(Not yelling at you Seeks. Just annoys me. If you are going to use a literary allusion read the work first. It is a book for children. Should be well within an adult's ability.)

29 posted on 11/22/2023 9:28:58 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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To: Clemenza
(Note: not my own perspective, although tax cuts when deficits are high is a real stupid act).

Only if you lower it to under 10%.

Ten percent is the sweet spot where economic growth and government income revenue meet.

30 posted on 11/22/2023 9:33:00 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Do incomes as measured in that statistic given include the various welfare payments that the government hands out?


31 posted on 11/22/2023 9:34:00 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: SeekAndFind
Isn't there a cliche saying that money given to the poor will eventually flow back to the rich?

I don't recall the exact saying, but this article seems to prove the premise that if the poor get money, they tend to spend it all instead of use it to improve their situation.

-PJ

32 posted on 11/22/2023 9:44:01 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too

That’s exactly how it would work if there are reparations for slavery.

The money will all be back in the hands of the white people within a few years. There’s a great Chappelle sketch about it.


33 posted on 11/22/2023 9:45:41 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The so called “wealthy” who flaunt crap they have are an overdrawn credit buying bunch of frauds. The real wealthy, that is people who have substantial working assets, are hard working busting tail people who still WORK, and invest conservatively. At least in this FReeper’s experience. Decent folks.

It’s the youtub flaunting a-holes who like to put down decent people of lower income, who are still proud to work and earn their keep as they can. The damned liberals put them in this condition (if no other decisions, like drug or alcohol abuse were a factor) by importing ILLEGAL labor who suck the blood of the money for re-distribution- not to US citizens but to absolute NOBODIES. Lord DAMN these lying Marxists- joebama obamaumao and all of their a@@clowns embedded at 100k a year and gubment bennies. Clean these out- stop the Fed Reserve borrowing by UNIPARTY hacks. Erase the trillions the next two generations will not be able to clear. Save our Country. And Thank You God for this Country like no other in the world, ever.


34 posted on 11/22/2023 9:56:55 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: SeekAndFind

The MSM and Hollywood, along with people like Gavin Newsom, are fanning lawlessness and encouraging robin- hoods.
There’s a television series just wrapping up its finale in which the hero is a female named Robin and she leads a group of thugs stealin’ from ‘the man’. It was stupid and unethical to its core - justifying crime as if criminals are heroes. And now the MSM is blaming...wut...the pandemic? “Hard times’?


35 posted on 11/22/2023 10:22:38 AM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUSTPING)
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To: SeekAndFind

Has anyone discussed the need for new prisons, to get the bad guys off the streets?


36 posted on 11/22/2023 10:48:36 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Robin Hood stole from the tax collector / king / THE GOVERNMENT to give the poor their own money. These ferals are stealing for the sake of stealing because they know they will never be held to account with Soros DAs. They are stealing bread and vegetables.


37 posted on 11/22/2023 11:28:05 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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