Posted on 01/12/2015 7:55:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Envy.
Understand that if your household income is greater than $100,000, they’re targeting you. My wife and I both work, have no kids, no debt, and we are certain they are targeting us because we’re “rich.”
Democrats need to understand Robin Hood was a work of fiction.
Heckuva job, Barky!
“Perhaps I missed part of the story, but exactly how does this work out as a stark shift in Democrat messaging?”
Good point. It’s exactly the same package with a different colored ribbon. Raise taxes. Keep a bunch of the increased taxes for the government. Pay what is left to some favored interest groups.
It would work a lot better if they just ended the cronyism that created the problem in the first place.
And a pass for their rich liberal donors.
Perhaps someone should ‘splain to the the meaning of the word: ‘minority’.....................
All your money are belong to us.
You are on the way to destruction.
You have no chance to survive make your time.
Ha ha ha ha
For Great (social) Justice!
If the Dems are looking to tax the “wealthy”, I suggest they start with their donor list, starting at the top of it, those people on that list seem to have so much money to fritter away that they can blow it on checks to the DNC.
We have a spending problem and not a taxation problem.
Taxation is theft. More of it is more theft.
And even at that, IIRC. He did not rob the rich to give to the poor. He targeted the tax collector to return the unjustly confiscated money to the people.
Maybe they should start with hat in hand by visiting their proliffic donors, but we all know they won;t.
You have the story wrong. Robin Hood stole from the government that had taxed the people into poverty, not the rich.
This has Liz Warren’s fingerprints all over it.
While many FReepers scoff, I believe she will be a formidable candidate in 2016.
“new fee on financial transactions”
I wonder if this includes a fee for us peons putting money in our local banks. You have to use circular logic when dealing with this bunch.
The thing that really bothers me about these ‘tax the rich’ b.s. schemes is that in actuality they are targeting the upper middle class, not the rich. The true ‘rich’, like Gates, Soros, Bloomberg, etc. don't even have to have an ‘income’ in the way that the average person does. They are generally impervious to what comes out of Congress and the Administration.
On the other hand, if an industrious hard-working carpenter and a dentist, or a successful IT person, etc. get married, they can easily make over $200,000/year family income - depending on what part of the country they live in and how many hours they put in. Are they ‘rich’? Are they the ‘problem’?
If you're going to add taxes to target the rich, there are much better ways to do this (not that I'm in favor of it). If you want to cut the influence of the truly rich, heavily tax their political activities. Arguably anyone who has enough money, like Soros, to fund multiple political agendas, should have to pay a dollar to the US treasury for every dollar spent on political causes. The democrats would never support this, as it would put a big dent in their $20,000/plate ‘dinners’, and their Hollywood gravy train.
They want to tax people who've worked very hard for years to get to the point at which they start to make good money, but they maintain tax exempt status for private universities like Harvard, which has an endowment of ~$36 billion. You want to start redistributing wealth, have the universities with big endowments pay an ‘educational’ tax equal to 2-5% of their endowment/year to the treasury. I'm not advocating for this, but it makes more sense from a ‘fairness’ perspective than targeting couples who make more than $200,000/year (an arbitrary figure that can easily be adjusted downward, at the whim of the politicians).
I believe she will be the nominee because even the Democrats understand how unlikable Hillary is, that's why they want with Obama in 2008.
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