Posted on 01/30/2019 3:55:35 PM PST by Twotone
Leftist Democrats eyeing the White House in 2020 are plotting new ways to confiscate Americans’ hard-earned money and give it away. Claiming economic inequality is a national crisis, they want to take money from those they say have too much.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is pushing a first-ever wealth tax. Never mind that it’s unprecedented and unconstitutional.
Warren says it would target only the richest one-tenth of a percent of the country. Maybe at first. When the federal income tax was imposed in 1913, it initially hit less than one percent of the country. Now half the nation pays it. So when you hear the words “wealth” tax, watch your wallet.
Warren and like-minded leftists say it’s immoral to allow people to accumulate riches, when others are needy. But when Warren is asked how she would use the money raised by a wealth tax, she insists the point is “basic fairness.”
Translation: These Dems’ tax schemes are more about punishing the “rich” than helping the poor.
You could actually call Warren’s scheme a hate tax, because like a hate crime, it targets a specific segment of the population — people these Dems say should not be allowed to be so rich.
If these leftist politicians cared about the poor, they’d beef up educational opportunities and job training, and break the teachers’ unions corrupt protection of failing public schools. That’s wiser than confiscating and redistributing wealth. Knowledge doesn’t have to be taken from one person to be given to another.
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Democrats fight inequality because they are terminally unequal.
>> economic inequality <<
Mao achieved near perfect economic equality. 99.9% of his population literally ate dirt, 0.1% lived the life of luxury.
They never talk about aleviating the burden on citizens, the argument is always the catchy tax the rich... which is a lie of course. They want more money in their pockets, period, as equality is not their goal.
They never have to change, we have to change.
We also know that marriage equality brought up polygammy which means all the pretty women to the rich and powerful... and the rest gay! ... some equality... the cynicism reeks but idiots feel upset if you tell them they are gay or abort by default and not by choice...
Come and take it.
The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Equality of opportunity is (or used to be) America. Equality of result is socialism.
Here is how Social Security was first described.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/ssb36.html
Did it turn out that way?!
Moving closer to communism.
The USG has been lying for a long time about social security.
“.... It has long been law that there is no legal right to Social Security. In two important cases, Helvering v. Davis and Flemming v. Nestor, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Social Security taxes are simply taxes and convey no property or contractual rights to Social Security benefits. ….”
What do you suppose it means to “fight” inequality?
Inequality is one of the fundamental laws of nature, like gravity, or tides.
Sadly meaningless.
Tax the rich, hobble the athletic, and scar the beautiful!
End inequality!
Hammer down any who poke their heads above the average.
Redistribution, reparations, any kind of gratuituous confiscatory tax, is inherently pro-inequality. Doctors? They make a lot of money. That should be cut so they make the same as the unemployed -- see, that's a realistic example of institutional inequality. It's fascism. The rich a-holes who have grifted their way through their lives at our expense had better have their final arrangements in order, because they won't survive that storm.
Hey boys and girls, can you spell Venezuela?
Always beware of those who spout the word “fair.” It doesn’t mean what most people think.
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