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Tax the Super Rich now or face a revolution
Market Watch ^ | March 29, 2011 | Paul B. Farrell

Posted on 03/29/2011 8:57:23 PM PDT by Christus_Rex

Yes, tax the Super Rich. Tax them now. Before the other 99% rise up, trigger a new American Revolution, a meltdown and the Great Depression 2.

We know the Super Rich don’t care. Not about you. Nor the American public. They can’t see. Can’t hear. Stay trapped in their Forbes-400 bubble. An echo chamber that isolates them. They see the public as faceless workers, customers, taxpayers. See GOP power on the ascent. Reaganomics is back. Unions on the run. Clueless masses are easily manipulated.

Even Obama is secretly working with the GOP, will never touch his Super Rich donors. Yes, the Super-Rich Delusion is that powerful, infecting all America.

Here’s how one savvy insider who knows described this Super-Rich Delusion: “The top 1% live privileged lives, aren’t worried about much. Families vacation at the best resorts. Their big concerns are finding the best Pilates teacher, best masseuse, best surgeons, best private schools. They aren’t concerned with the underlying deterioration of America or the world, except in the abstract, because they aren’t directly affected by it. That’s not to say they aren’t sympathetic, aware, or don’t talk about the issues you bring up. They are largely concerned with protecting and enhancing their socio-economic positions, ensuring their families live well. And nothing you write about will change things.”

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To: Tax-chick; ColdOne

Well, aren’t we the active bunch.

I know! Let’s go shopping!


1,221 posted on 04/29/2011 2:47:17 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I get my exercise. I take my vitamins. I tell pain it can come along, but it'll have to ride in back)
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To: NicknamedBob; Tax-chick; sionnsar; LibreOuMort; HKMk23; Darksheare; Dead Corpse; fanfan; FRiends; ..

The migraine is now just a numb, hangover-type feeling on the right side of my head and neck. No guarantees as to how “distant” it is.
The Royal Wedding didn’t help. It seems everywhere I turned on the channels, I was confronted with TALKING HEADS giving their opinions of the Royal Wedding.
*rowf*


1,222 posted on 04/29/2011 4:05:05 PM PDT by Monkey Face ("I regret I wasn't born with opposable toes." Calvin to Hobbes)
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To: NicknamedBob

You can take whomever you wish and go shopping without me. I prefer to do my shopping in the comfort of the Library, with furs, a fire, and a never-ending supply of Moselle.

(And a limitless credit card, thankyouverymuch!)


1,223 posted on 04/29/2011 4:07:29 PM PDT by Monkey Face ("I regret I wasn't born with opposable toes." Calvin to Hobbes)
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To: Monkey Face; NicknamedBob; Tax-chick; sionnsar; LibreOuMort; HKMk23; Darksheare; Dead Corpse; ...
Face, you need to get some Cobroxin.

I wonder if Sion found a place to eat today, with the celebrations going on..

1,224 posted on 04/29/2011 4:47:10 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: Monkey Face; NicknamedBob

I could join ‘Face in the library. Bring extra wine.

Back from Fuddruckers, where the Boy Scouts were fetching and carrying and whatall for a fundraiser. Tom was baking and selling cookies, a very suitable task. A high school girls’ softball team came in as we were getting ready to leave, prompting a sudden assembly of Boy Scouts in one place ...

I looked at the pictures on the royal wedding thread. The dress was very pretty.


1,225 posted on 04/29/2011 4:48:12 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Tornado relief: http://www.baptistsonmission.org/Projects/North-Carolina/Tornado)
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To: Monkey Face; Tax-chick; fanfan; sionnsar; Dead Corpse
"I prefer to do my shopping in the comfort of the Library, with furs, a fire, and a never-ending supply of Moselle."

Of course. Shopping in the connected habitats of the Flying Castle is not as satisfying as the adventures we once had.

It is, in a word, too utilitarian. Everything's just too easy.

You can shop "On-Line", or call on the phone, (respecting the time zone differences please!), or even pop over to examine the merchandise in person.

Then you don't even have to schlep it home! Just tell them where to deliver it.

All this convenience kinda takes the fun out of it.

Besides, when all the space around you is conditioned, and you don't have a car to support, about all you need to buy is food. And that's just for variety. Basic food is pretty cheap, because what else are they gonna do with it?

So we sample the exotic cheeses, and the specialty wines, and we go to the little boutique restaurants.

And there's music, and the arts, and especially reading.

So where are the big ticket items?

Well, to be honest, most of them we don't need any more than a Tilapia needs a tricycle.

1,226 posted on 04/29/2011 4:54:10 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I get my exercise. I take my vitamins. I tell pain it can come along, but it'll have to ride in back)
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To: NicknamedBob; Monkey Face; fanfan

Come on up to the library with tilapia, and I’ll read you some selections from Evelyn Waugh, one inspiration for Anoreth’s Patented Attitude: “Imagine how desperately unpleasant I would be if I *weren’t* a Catholic!”


1,227 posted on 04/29/2011 4:59:16 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Tornado relief: http://www.baptistsonmission.org/Projects/North-Carolina/Tornado)
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To: Tax-chick; Anoreth; Monkey Face; NicknamedBob
“Imagine how desperately unpleasant I would be if I *weren’t* a Catholic!”

LOL! Exactly!

1,228 posted on 04/29/2011 5:04:39 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: Tax-chick; Monkey Face
Come on up to the library with tilapia, and I’ll read you some selections from Evelyn Waugh, one inspiration for Anoreth’s Patented Attitude: “Imagine how desperately unpleasant I would be if I *weren’t* a Catholic!”

With a name like Evelyn, one tends to develop an acerbic wit.


1,229 posted on 04/29/2011 5:15:11 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I get my exercise. I take my vitamins. I tell pain it can come along, but it'll have to ride in back)
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To: Monkey Face

I’ve rarely had a hangover, but “numb” wasn’t involved. More like a coliseum filled with death-metal bands — each not quite playing in a different key — competing for sonic dominance with assorted heavy artillery and military aircraft, whilst three platoons of highland dancers abuse the tin roof of my skull with their all-metal platform shoes.


1,230 posted on 04/29/2011 5:17:49 PM PDT by HKMk23 (A free man unarmed is just a slave on borrowed time.)
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To: HKMk23

Ouzo?


1,231 posted on 04/29/2011 5:26:35 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I get my exercise. I take my vitamins. I tell pain it can come along, but it'll have to ride in back)
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To: NicknamedBob

The inordinate wrath of the grapes, IIRC.


1,232 posted on 04/29/2011 5:32:36 PM PDT by HKMk23 (A free man unarmed is just a slave on borrowed time.)
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To: HKMk23

And they are still “stomping out the vintage” in your head.


1,233 posted on 04/29/2011 5:38:21 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I get my exercise. I take my vitamins. I tell pain it can come along, but it'll have to ride in back)
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To: fanfan

What is Cobroxin?


1,234 posted on 04/29/2011 5:42:43 PM PDT by Monkey Face ("I regret I wasn't born with opposable toes." Calvin to Hobbes)
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To: Tax-chick

I watched some of the footage, and what I saw was awesome. Every time Prince William’s right hand went up in salute, his Bride’s head went down. She was every bit the Princess.

I was impressed.

She IS a Future Queen.

(The migraine is back...)

(Hilfe!)


1,235 posted on 04/29/2011 5:47:59 PM PDT by Monkey Face ("I regret I wasn't born with opposable toes." Calvin to Hobbes)
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To: NicknamedBob
Correction: ...“stomping out the vintage” in on your head.

The metal band lyrics may have been from Steinbeck.

1,236 posted on 04/29/2011 5:53:03 PM PDT by HKMk23 (A free man unarmed is just a slave on borrowed time.)
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To: NicknamedBob

*ahem*

I had an UNCLE “Vivien.” We called him, “Uncle Viv.” I have NO CLUE which part of the “family he was from!” LOL!


1,237 posted on 04/29/2011 5:58:46 PM PDT by Monkey Face ("I regret I wasn't born with opposable toes." Calvin to Hobbes)
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To: Monkey Face

Sounds French.

My Uncle Theophilus could probably sympathize.


1,238 posted on 04/29/2011 6:08:38 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I get my exercise. I take my vitamins. I tell pain it can come along, but it'll have to ride in back)
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To: NicknamedBob

Somwhow, my “committee” tells me to research this...


1,239 posted on 04/29/2011 6:31:17 PM PDT by Monkey Face ("I regret I wasn't born with opposable toes." Calvin to Hobbes)
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To: fanfan
I wonder if Sion found a place to eat today, with the celebrations going on..

That I did. The famous (or not) Redmond "El Toreador." Popular with Microsoft and other techie crowds -- maybe not as much as the Indian restaurants (of which we have many), but plenty busy.

Didn't really see anything in the way of celebrations here in the Seattle area, but I don't get around much. Spent the last few days in conference rooms, but maybe cold, cloudy and wet put a damper on things.

If they're still celebrating in San Frisky on Sunday, I'll let you know.

1,240 posted on 04/29/2011 7:43:52 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|http://pure-gas.org|Must be a day for changing taglines)
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