I vote for the revolution. It’s time to cull the herd anyway, and get rid of the freeloading class that we taxpayers have been supporting for decades.
“I vote for the revolution. It’s time to cull the herd anyway, and get rid of the freeloading class that we taxpayers have been supporting for decades.”
I’m not far from you. For the people who work for companies we bailed out, like Goldman Sachs, GM, AIG, Fannie, etc., I think that we should simply take everything that everyone makes over $250k per year. If they cannot live on that, then they can go to another company that hasn’t added to the debt that my kids (and future grand kids) will be stuck with.
And once we do that, we need to dig into their assets. I would say that $2 million should be enough for them to live comfortably through retirement (although maybe I could be pushed up a million more).
And I feel the same way about welfare...if you take government money, then you SURE AS HELL should be poor - which means no plasmas, no Nike’s, no I-Pads, etc. If you really need the government to extort other people’s money, then PROVE IT and LIVE IT.
I vote for a revolution too! However, not the one you’re advocating. I believe the revolution that is needed is one which gets the heavy hand of government off of all of our necks. The super rich hide much of their money because of what the government has created in this country with thousands upon thousands of government pages of regulations and laws which only serve to give the politicians power over the governed - that is not the intent of our founding fathers.
The herd has already been culled through abortion. As the Baby Boom Generation moves into the here-after, Mother Nature will cull more of the herd. I would not take joy in any culling. Abortion is on top of my list. And it is #6 in God's list that says, "Thou shalt not kill." Such is a myopic fantasy which thinks that less people makes more unicorns to ride. However, there is the problem of less wealth to feed the unicorns.
One needs to think in terms of the value of the individual human being and not live in the fantasy world of the unicorn farm. Our Christian heritage puts value on each human being. And in step with Christian thinking, each human being also has value in the Capitalist system. Each participates in the generation of new wealth which builds the technology for a better life.
In the real world, there are no unicorns, but real humans dependent upon a system that delivers all the needs of their mortal existence. The Capitalist free market system is the only system that can do it.
When government takes away wealth that has been generated by human innovation, it is another type of culling. Done in a proper way--by the Constitution--this culling can be a necessary sacrifice. Done excessively, this type of culling kills the economic benefits of innovation, it discourages human ingenuity and it encourages the nonproductive dependence on the wealth it takes. In a myopic way it kills the human spirit to create a better life for human beings. And the genie of Capitalism is culled from the herd.
The commies will be in for a shock here when the revolution starts. We’re not England and we’re not Greece. We shoot commies dead.
“I vote for the revolution. It’s time to cull the herd anyway, and get rid of the freeloading class that we taxpayers have been supporting for decades.”
Agree. The problem is not with the top 1% who pay 50% of taxes. It’s with the bottom 50% who pay 1% taxes.