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originally posted by: BlueMule
Income inequality would almost certainly be worse today if we had a Republican president, according to an “exclusive analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, conducted at the request of The Washington Post” in July 2014, “that compared today’s income distribution with what it would look like if President George W. Bush’s tax policies were still in place.”
www.politicususa.com...
I can't believe people are falling for republican b.s.. they are a party of deception, obstruction, and greed.
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All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. If it be aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect the man who is superior only in law against the man who is superior in fact; if it be democratic, then it seeks to protect the man who is inferior in every way against both. One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them. All it can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.
originally posted by: BlueMule
a reply to: neo96
Right, because obviously the over privileged would be 'crippled' by equality. How will they afford different ivory backscratchers for every day of the week? Oh, the pain of it all!
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Amendment IV The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment IX The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment V No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
originally posted by: Jamie1
originally posted by: butcherguy
a reply to: CB328
Hi.
Republicans are talking about income inequality that Democrats have recognized as an important issue for years.
If the Democrats gave such a crap about it, why didn't they do something about it when they controlled the House, Senate and the White House?
Yeah, they really care.
They had two years and didn't do squat.
Correction.
They had 2 years and didn't even try to do squat.
originally posted by: neo96
Income inequality eh.
I wonder what Voltaire has to say on this.
After all he was one of the founders of 'liberalism'.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. Voltaire
Voltaire
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Aristotle
Aristotle
Funny thing there.
There has always been 'inequality' between jobs. Thus income will always be different.
Different work. Different pay.
Throw in fiat currency for the fait du accompli
Which brings us back to Voltaire.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire
There is no greater absurdity than American politics.
originally posted by: debonkers
originally posted by: Jamie1
originally posted by: butcherguy
a reply to: CB328
Hi.
Republicans are talking about income inequality that Democrats have recognized as an important issue for years.
If the Democrats gave such a crap about it, why didn't they do something about it when they controlled the House, Senate and the White House?
Yeah, they really care.
They had two years and didn't do squat.
Correction.
They had 2 years and didn't even try to do squat.
Your lack of memory is troubling.
In those two years, republicans blocked almost all legislation by filibuster.
How many times did the republicans block legislation in just those first two years, you ask?
Once? Twice? Five times? Nope. Not even close.
One hundred and sixteen times. In two years, the republicans prevented the President from enacting legislation 116 times by filibuster alone.
Who didn't do squat? The republicans.
In fact the TOTAL NUMBER OF REPUBLICAN FILIBUSTERS UNDER OBAMA?
Nearly 500. That's right, 500! Republicans are clearly the party of not doing squat.
originally posted by: neo96
I will say this.
The people who are pushing 'income inequality' need to wake up, and smell what they are shoveling.
And are WILLFULLY violating the US constitution.
Being rich is not a crime.
So stop violating their constitutional rights:
Amendment IV The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Money is an EFFECT.
The state, and the mob has no 'supreme' authority to take what the wish from any group of people.
Amendment IX The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
So the evil rich's right to keep possession of their property is contingent on the mob ?
Hell no doesn't work that way.
And the 5th.
Amendment V No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Being rich is not a crime.
Shame so many are trying to make it so.
www.law.cornell.edu...
200 people with more money than 3 BILLION people. And you dare to pretend their constitutional rights are being violated? How stupid do you imagine us to be?
Why, they have it so rough! Did you know that only 200 rich people have as much wealth as 3,000,000,000 of the rest of us?
200 people with more money than 3 BILLION people. And you dare to pretend their constitutional rights are being violated? How stupid do you imagine us to be?
originally posted by: neo96
originally posted by: debonkers
originally posted by: Jamie1
originally posted by: butcherguy
a reply to: CB328
Hi.
Republicans are talking about income inequality that Democrats have recognized as an important issue for years.
If the Democrats gave such a crap about it, why didn't they do something about it when they controlled the House, Senate and the White House?
Yeah, they really care.
They had two years and didn't do squat.
Correction.
They had 2 years and didn't even try to do squat.
Your lack of memory is troubling.
In those two years, republicans blocked almost all legislation by filibuster.
How many times did the republicans block legislation in just those first two years, you ask?
Once? Twice? Five times? Nope. Not even close.
One hundred and sixteen times. In two years, the republicans prevented the President from enacting legislation 116 times by filibuster alone.
Who didn't do squat? The republicans.
In fact the TOTAL NUMBER OF REPUBLICAN FILIBUSTERS UNDER OBAMA?
Nearly 500. That's right, 500! Republicans are clearly the party of not doing squat.
Seriously ?
How can a minority block ANYTHING ?
Answer THEY CAN'T.
The Republicans WERE THE MINORITY.
originally posted by: neo96
Seriously ?
How can a minority block ANYTHING ?
Answer THEY CAN'T.