1. Who are the rich?
2. How much do they have to make to be rich?
3. Does only income count?
4. What about money in the bank?
5. What if they had no income, no money in the bank, but had something that someone else would give money for?
6. Does that make them rich?
7. What if it could get a lot of money (like land, machinery, buildings, trucks, construction and other equipment) if sold?
8. How many successful business are started by poor people?
9. How many businesses owned by people, if successful and making money, would then have that person who owned it keep all the money and spend it on themselves?
10. In the above situation, should the government then take that money, so it could be more fairly spent?
11. In the above situation, should the government NOT take the money if the business owner promises to use it to pay the workers more, lower prices, and hire more workers?
a. If yes to above, how can that happen if the government raises that rich owners taxes?
b. If no to the same question, where does the government get money?
12. What if the government spent a little less money, so they wouldn't need to take as much--from ANYBODY?
13. If you took every person in the United States who had over $1,000,000, and took it all, even sold all their land, their houses, cars, clothes, everything, and put it in one big pile, how much would you have?
14. If you took all that the government owes, every last cent, and then added in how much the government spends in ONE year, how much would that be?
15. Would you call me a liar if I told you that the huge pile of rich people's money would only pay for SIX MONTHS of that goverment and its debt?
16. If Vice President Biden is right, and we take $1 Trillion form the rich, who's gonna pay and hire workers in all the thousands of businesses around the country that have more than $1,000,000 in assetts?
That's easy. people who make more money than you.
This is why the Democrats use the term constantly.
Problem is most people make more money than someone else and the Democrats always seem to keep their promise of raising taxes on "the rich".
Obama. He call us on the Obamaphone tellus to join SEIU..we get paid union scale...or disability...
Obama. He call us on the Obamaphone tellus to join SEIU..we get paid union scale...or disability...
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