Posted on 12/09/2010 7:34:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I hope FReepers will see Hanson is being rhetorical.
A genie went to the Middle East, where he saw a sad looking Arab. He asked the Arab what he wanted most in life. The Arab answerd, “My cousin Abdul has the most beautiful flock of goats you ever saw, while I don’t have any goats at all. It’s not fair! I’m just as good as he is. Why should HE have such beautiful goats and not me?”
The genie smiled and said, “So, you want a beautiful flock of your own?”
The Arab snarled, “Of course not, you idiot! I want you to kill all of Abdul’s goats!”
This is why I get so angry when I hear stupid people say the rich aren't paying their fair share. How 'bout a true minimum tax that says the 50% who pay nothing must at least cough up $1000 to be a US citizen and have the right to vote. If you don't pay any taxes, you can't vote. At least that might make them have a vested interest in the US.
What I make, how I make it (as long as its honest), and what I do with it is nobody’s damn business.
They also shelter their money from taxes and play games so as to avoid paying taxes. (Remember John Kerry's yacht?)
When taxes are raised on the "wealthy", it's the two income couple who makes just over the "wealthy" line or the small business who end up actually paying more in taxes.
Even more important is not giving the politicians one more cent because giving them more money is like giving gasoline to an arsonst.
If you read comments on YouTube or Yahoo News, pretty much all the libs who advocate taking from the "rich" use the argument that everyone else is hurting, the "rich" should hurt as much or more than everyone else.
The left is all about revenge. If there’s no harm done, their politicians create a false crime and unleash their useful idiots.
It never ceases to amaze me how sure the left is that “the rich” have stolen something from them. The problem is that they don’t even have a clear explanation of what they had that the rich have taken.
Anthony Weiner is playing this game with the tax non increase. He’s portraying it as money taken from the poor and given to the rich when the poor never had it in the first place.
Its all about taking revenge for an imagined crime. Its no more than a tool used by progressives as a means of siezing and clinging to power.
Goose. Golden Egg. Discuss.
Leftists/liberals believe that economics/business/trade is a zero-sum game - that in order for someone to become rich, others must be impoverished. Therefore the rich must have stolen from the poor.
I should know, I used to be one when I was growing up in Los Angeles. I got better. :P
The fact that trade is not a zero sum game but actually generates wealth or value for both parties in a trade in all cases is a surprisingly difficult idea to wrap your head around for a lot of people.
The vast majority of the wealth of people like Gates or Buffett is held in the biggest tax shelter of them all- unrealized capital gains on stock. Someone should propose a tax on wealth rather than on income which is counterproductive. I don’t really believe this should be done. I just want to watch the Dems squeal.
I have an even better idea to make them scream - 90% tax on any annual income over 100K coming from performances in concert, theater, or in a movie or other electronic media.
Listen to the screams become a shriek.
That 50 percent is the problem, making us so close to the tipping point where 51% can just keep voting themselves our money.
Just think what the DREAM Act would do to that!
Too bad it can’t just be property owners and/or tax payers who vote, and specifically exclude those who get the bogus earned income credits (welfare)!
Liberals view the “rich” as “everyone” else. If you live in a 3 bedroom home then the “rich” live in a 4 bedroom home. If you drive a Ford then the “rich” drive a Lexus. The liberals want everyone living in the same shack, with the same amount of food, same amount of everything and that will make us “equal”. (except them... they are just more equal) Just a thought.
Bread and wine and reality shows for the MOB!
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