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Time To Make Life Hard For The Rich
Splinter ^ | December 18, 2017 | Hamilton Nolan

Posted on 12/26/2017 9:02:01 PM PST by hiho hiho

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1 posted on 12/26/2017 9:02:02 PM PST by hiho hiho
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Leftist crony-capitalism, regulation and government control is what creates this kind of divide. less government, and the more “equal” as the left claims to care about, is better for everyone.


2 posted on 12/26/2017 9:06:06 PM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: hiho hiho

What a whiny little shit.


3 posted on 12/26/2017 9:06:54 PM PST by bar sin·is·ter (Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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Scary fascist with a pen...


4 posted on 12/26/2017 9:07:04 PM PST by Professional
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Pure unadulterated class envy.

Monkeying with taxes will never be a “solution” to disparate levels of wealth.

I’ve read (and believe) that if we evenly split all the money in the world, over time, the distribution would simply go back to the way it was.

Monetary wealth is more about who you are than what you have.


5 posted on 12/26/2017 9:12:42 PM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: hiho hiho

Remember this name. He’s extremely dangerous and when the time comes he should be dealt with early.

L


6 posted on 12/26/2017 9:15:05 PM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: hiho hiho

BWAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH....(big breath in)....BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

7 posted on 12/26/2017 9:15:27 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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The influence of Marxism cannot be exaggerated. Screeds like this demonstrate the collapse of reason and truth into a blather of corrupt, evil demagoguery.
For the first time in many decades this nation stands on the brink of achieving genuine opportunity for its citizenry. Evil people with evil agendas are at war against us. They lie and deceive with a frenzy of hatred. Their absolute rejection of all that is holy and sacred in this nation, their strangle hold on us is about to be broken.
These are the squealing of pigs who have been ravaging our land as they are led to slaughtert. Listen to their cries of horror and pain and rejoice in their end.


8 posted on 12/26/2017 9:15:44 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (Islam is Satans finest work.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Funny. Perhaps, but it’s people like him that would gladly murder people by the millions.


9 posted on 12/26/2017 9:17:00 PM PST by Professional
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To: Professional
to embrace a system that favors capital over labor.

***BASIC PREMISE ALERT***

This communist, like all communists, does not understand that capital is the fruit of labor. That without labor, there is no capital. Labor is, in effect, capital. One cannot separate labor from capital, as this clownish fraud seeks to do.

The fact that they have this basic misunderstanding of reality makes all their subsequent arguments moot.

Their words are wind.

10 posted on 12/26/2017 9:17:12 PM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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Jealous much, Hamilton?

Get a job.

11 posted on 12/26/2017 9:21:31 PM PST by BlessedBeGod (To restore all things in Christ~~Appeasing evil is cowardice~~Francis is temporary. Hell is forever.)
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He thinks the answer to inequity is confiscation or even worse, to remove the role of production from society. He doesn’t seem to understand that much of what the rich do, is to create goods and services that people need or want.

This dolt, as a last measure to have his way, should he have the power... would be to pry gold teeth from the skulls of his victim in order to pay his mass murdering henchmen


12 posted on 12/26/2017 9:22:04 PM PST by Professional
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
This being's head is much larger at the top than at the bottom. It is very alien-like.

It puts me in mind of the being that took over my television set some time ago and urged me to explore the Outer Limits.

I believe he may be a scout from another galaxy, far far away and that may explain why he seeks to undermine our way of life.

13 posted on 12/26/2017 9:23:48 PM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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That face is custom made for a PR-24


14 posted on 12/26/2017 9:27:39 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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Ha,Ha, yea, I was also thinking he looked like a Grey with that noggin.


15 posted on 12/26/2017 9:27:56 PM PST by crosdaddy
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To: hiho hiho
Splinter is a news and opinion website owned by Univision Communications and was launched in July 2017.

Hamilton Nolan worked at Gawker until he helped unionize...then Gawker went out of business.

16 posted on 12/26/2017 9:31:23 PM PST by DoodleBob
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He thinks the answer to inequity is confiscation or even worse, to remove the role of production from society

Precisely. It all stems from the false premise that capital is separate from labor, rather than the result of it.

What is fair or just about rewarding sloth with the fruits of another's labor.

Communists believe that their system is fair, when it is exactly the opposite of fair.

This is the line of argument that free men should take.

17 posted on 12/26/2017 9:31:49 PM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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Hamilton Nolan decided to write his very own communist manifesto. Yeah!


18 posted on 12/26/2017 9:35:13 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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The author is an obvious communist. Advocating for a failed political and economic system. What a joke.


19 posted on 12/26/2017 9:56:01 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Doing my part to help make America great again!)
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To: bagster
That's a big part of marxist, and thereby communist, theory. The use dialectal materialism to divide up and examine all items in a system individually, but that leads to static systems, while most systems in the world, including (maybe even especially economic systems,) are dynamic.

You're absolutely right, that labor creates capital, through the addition of value. For instance, a painting by Picasso might have cost $200 for the canvas and paints. That same Picasso sells for hundreds of thousands of dollars, due to the value added by the artist, compounded by the value added due to scarcity. All of these things add up.

An artisanal loaf of bread might contain $1 worth of ingredients, but sell for 5x that cost, again due to the value added by the skills of the baker, combined with scarcity (you might not be able to buy a loaf of bread that great at Walmart.)

Marxist theory purports to claim that work is the driving factor of economics, while capital is static, but nothing could be farther from the truth. Value i.e. capital, is CREATED by work. Capital is created. Money is "made." There isn't a limited amount of capital. Capital isn't a big pie that everyone has to share, and if one person gets a slice, that leaves less for everyone else. Capital is created by increasing value through work, effectively creating more and more pies.

More than anything else, this shows that the leftist hatred for success that began back before the 1960s here in the USA is still gaining momentum. A perfect example of that line of thought was expressed in the song by "Ten Years After," "I'd Love to Change the World." "Tax the rich, feed the poor, till there are no rich no more." In other words, It's better to destroy the rich than to raise up the poor.

Mark

20 posted on 12/26/2017 10:02:58 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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