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In Health Care Bill, Obama Attacks Wealth Inequality
The New York Times ^ | March 23, 2010 | DAVID LEONHARDT

Posted on 03/24/2010 12:41:45 AM PDT by Cincinna

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To: Cincinna

Absurdity Alert!

21 posted on 03/24/2010 1:46:15 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: OrangeHoof

You owe more because the withholding was reduced in 2009. Be sure to take your Making Work Credit; should be $400.


22 posted on 03/24/2010 2:28:33 AM PDT by Bernard (One if by Land, Two if by Sea, Three if by Government)
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To: Tzimisce
What is like to live in la-la land where the NYT journalists reside?

You repress the fact that the only reason you even have a job is that a billionaire from a country with real income inequality injected millions into your failing enterprise.

23 posted on 03/24/2010 3:10:00 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: Cincinna

How do I know this wasn’t plagiarized?


24 posted on 03/24/2010 3:13:32 AM PDT by central_va ( http://www.15thvirginia.org)
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To: Cincinna

I’d like to redistribute some of the work that I’ve done, and do, to those who have done much less. I’d like to drag their a** out of bed early in the morning, and keep them working until late at night, even on the weekends, so that everything can be even. It’s only fair.


25 posted on 03/24/2010 3:25:34 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Chet 99

I am going to guess that there is no record of his being “married”.


26 posted on 03/24/2010 3:28:39 AM PDT by raybbr
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To: Cincinna
Most of the “poor” are actually just effort-challenged slugs who need a firm boot in the ass.
27 posted on 03/24/2010 3:31:23 AM PDT by Niteranger68 (Barack Obama is Osama bin Laden's relief pitcher.)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

As long as we’re on the topic, what about ‘regional’ wealth inequality? It’s not fair that people in New York and other large city democrat strongholds make more money on average than those living in rural Oklahoma etc. Let’s redistribute the money made in the cities to the rural south, and other lower wage areas.

Also, what about the inequality across different ‘professions’? Why should an actor or actress in Hollywood make and have more money than a plumber from Iowa? Let’s fix that too. It’s only fair.


28 posted on 03/24/2010 3:32:52 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Cincinna

bump


29 posted on 03/24/2010 3:34:14 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Cincinna
wishes to install Marxist wealth redistribution

This is well beyond wealth redistribution: they are redistributing your health. And in schools they are redistributing your education. Next they will redistribute your family.

30 posted on 03/24/2010 3:40:15 AM PDT by Reeses (All is vanity)
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To: Cincinna

Why Isnt Obama or his staff on Obamacare? Why just the Unwashed Masses,Sounds Like inequality to me


31 posted on 03/24/2010 4:08:44 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: Cincinna
Once again, note that "income", especially if it consists of little green slips of paper, and "wealth" are not the same.

The little green slips of paper are debt instruments, and, through frugality and clever exchanges CAN be turned into wealth, but they are not wealth in themselves.

Obama and his friends are redistributing income, not wealth.

If they were redistributing wealth, then Steven Spielberg, George Clooney, Sean Penn , Bruce Springsteen, and Steve Jobs wouldn't be on board anymore.

By redistributing income, the Democrats are actually protecting their nouveaux riches friends from competition from below.

32 posted on 03/24/2010 4:14:39 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Let tyrants shake their iron rod, and slavery clank her galling chains)
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To: OrangeHoof
Where in the Constitution does it say that the role of government is to address wealth inequality?

Look hard


33 posted on 03/24/2010 4:56:53 AM PDT by GUNGAGALUNGA (Democratus Suckus Teatus is the Latin root for Democrat and it means to tax)
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To: Cincinna

When government decides who is allowed to make what income, it is government that we have to go to for a raise...we are subjected to their will, not our own in determining our financial well being.

It will be very important to work in an underground economy. It has been estimated that the underground economy in the Soviet Union was about as large as the government approved economy.

Bartering is the most basic way to trade but not all that efficient, cash makes conducting transactions a lot easier. That means less credit card purchases and more cash purchases that are below the radar screen of the official economy.

You can buy gold and silver in transaction handy sizes. 1/10 of an ounce for instance. These items can be handy if the governments currency takes a nose dive.

Grow your own food, throw away hobbies that you pay to do, get hobbies that can earn you value.

And most importantly, RESIST...active resistance to disrupt the democrats, their unions, their offices, their media.


34 posted on 03/24/2010 5:02:22 AM PDT by Wpin (I Choose Liberty)
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To: VeniVidiVici

So said Andy Stern. Its not just a slogan any more.


35 posted on 03/24/2010 5:07:19 AM PDT by ex 98C MI Dude (Alea Iacta Est)
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To: Jim Noble
Obama and his friends are redistributing income, not wealth.

The common Democrat is okay with this. Rich people are supposed to be rich so it does not stir as much envy as a middle class person getting ahead. Envy is strongest towards people who have similar backgrounds. It's not the old rich keeping down the new rich as much as it is the old middle class keeping down the new rich.

36 posted on 03/24/2010 5:59:03 AM PDT by Reeses (All is vanity)
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To: Wpin
It will be very important to work in an underground economy.

The internet with stronger encryption and anonymous relay servers could be used to create a virtual economy that would be untaxable and untraceable by the socialists. Start-up software and engineering companies could flourish without being held down by government taxes and restrictions. The internet game Second Life almost started a real economy with virtual gambling businesses, but governments around the world soon forced them to quit or be destroyed.

37 posted on 03/24/2010 6:12:23 AM PDT by Reeses (All is vanity)
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To: Cincinna

Everyone shall be in equal poverty says dear leader.


38 posted on 03/24/2010 12:50:53 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Reeses

I would be interested in learning more about this...are you a techy?


39 posted on 03/24/2010 4:28:08 PM PDT by Wpin (I Choose Liberty)
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To: Chet 99

Thanks so much Chet.

A picture is worth a thousand words.


40 posted on 03/24/2010 10:04:11 PM PDT by Cincinna (TIME TO REBUILD * DANIELS * RYAN * 2012)
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