The Left's Latest Mantra: Income Inequality

Townhall.com ^ | January 7, 2014 | David Limbaugh

[A_Former_Democrat]

Yep, sure as the sun rising . . out come the talking points, and notice who always run with them . .same ol, same ol tired hypocritical idiots

[Jim Robinson]

Obama should be first in line to take equal pay. Bet he’s not spreading HIS wealth around.

[Steve_Seattle]

Ok, Judy, you wanna pay cut, you can have it. Does $15 an hour sound about right?

[Steve_Seattle]

These people actually think that cutting the pay of CEOs will magically transform every job into a $40 an hour job. Drastic cuts in the pay of CEOs would have a minimal impact on the wages of everyone else.

[Dutch Boy]

Just remind the dems, if they cut CEO pay that their donations to the DNC get cut too.

[Sooth2222]

Obama should be first in line to take equal pay.

I'd like to see him volunteer for equal benefits. Few CEOs travel with a matched set of Boeing 747s.

[3catsanadog]

I say make a law that everyone earns $50,000.00 a year. No more, no less. The janitor makes as much as a Brian Williams or a Brad Pitt or a Michal Jordan.

Then we will start hearing a bunch of "But, but, but . . . " from the liberals. And our side replies "Well, didn't you want income equality? Isn't this fair now????"

[nascarnation]

Folks who never seem to get hammered by the MSM for making too much money:

Blowprah
Tiger Woods
Chelsea Clinton-Mezvinsky’s husband
Elliot Spitzer’s father
Mark Zuckerberg
George Soros
Irwin Jacobs
Kobe Bryant

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Income inequality is a false metric.

Let’s assume:
1. The poverty level for a family of four is $38,000.00 a year.
2. All families of four earn at least $40,000.00 a year.
3. The highest salaried person earn $40,000,000.00 a year.

The inequality gap between the lowest family of four and the highest family of four is $39,999,960.00.

Let’s also assume:
1. No one gets any promotions. (The left always assumes this even if they won’t admit it.)
2. No one changes jobs. (This is what leftists actually want. Firemen on diesel locomotives!)
3. No one gets a pay raise above the inflation rate.
4. No one gets a pay raise below the inflation rate.
5. The inflation rate stays constant at 3.50% for twenty years.

All the above numbers in the first set of assumptions are doubled. The poverty level is at $76,000.00. The lowest earning family of four makes $80,000.00. The highest earner makes $80,000,000.00.

No one is any better off than he was 20 years earlier. No one is any worse off than he was 20 years earlier. But the leftists will note that the inequality gap is $79,999,920.00! That is too much by their method of emoting.

They apparently ignore the fact that no one is living below the poverty level. No one is better off and no one is worse off. They also ignore the fact that the poverty gap expended from $2,000.00 to $4,000.00 (even though the poverty gap is as meaningless and the income inequality measure.)

In short, leftists are mathematically challenged if not entirely innumerate.

[Balata]

Some liberals probably don't even believe their own propaganda that redistribution stimulates economic growth. In 2008, Obama told ABC's Charlie Gibson he favors increasing capital gains tax rates despite the fact that such increases had resulted in less revenue for the government. "It's a matter of fairness, Charlie."

Those on this side of the isle, RHINO or conservative, need to grab the montra of fairness. Anytime the Dems or Media talk about income inequality the response needs to be "It's not FAIR to tax those who work for their income and give it to those who don't."

IOW's they need to be able to put something out there that the Low Info Voters can hang onto and repeat. They will understand the word Fairness

[Terry L Smith]

My idea of income inequality is this:
Sit on your fat butt for free, no money from me;
OR,
Get up off it, get some pride back inside you, go to work, AND MAKE SOME MONEY!

“Entry-level jobs” are just that!
Pay the flaming idiot that has to read the computer press board to find what you ordered, the same price as someone in the electronics field???

“GO FISH!”

[Sergio]

I like the way you think.

[Vince Ferrer]

Vote for thieves 2014

[moovova]

“We need to get the economy moving again and get people back to work.”

No worries Judy...Obama has set his sights on fixing unemployment with a laser-like focus...

Why, Debbie Whatshername Schultz explained that way back on November of 2011...

“Well, we’re not focused on poll. I mean, we’re a year away from an election. The president is focused like a laser on passing the American Jobs Act, on making sure we put people back to work.”

[GodAndCountryFirst]

Here is what few people have the guts to say: For a while, the rich need to get get richer, the poor need to get poorer and the middle class (which us artificially large due to union and government interference) needs to shrink. This need to continue until the economic natural balance is restored and wealth can be rebuilt on that basis.

We’ve spent 100 years moving in the “progressive,” theft-based direction. It will take a while to unwind all of it. But, if we get on the right course again, being poor will once again become intolerable. Once that happens, few people will choose it as an easy lifestyle alternative.

[Blackirish]

Class warfare card is pretty worn out.....I smell desperation.

[dhs12345]

When all else fails and you are losing the PR battle, get the people fighting amongst each other.... race, class, etc.

[Gay State Conservative]

The new mayor of Boston,who,IIRC,makes something like $150K/yr,made “income inequality” the keynote of his inaugural address,as did Comrade De Blasio in NYC.

[Susquehanna Patriot]

“I say make a law that everyone earns $50,000.00 a year...”

College professors ... union leaders...Hollywood will most expectedly sign up.