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so you think he is a capitalist lol ahh wow did you flunk economics 101
Originally posted by Kali74
reply to post by blackz28
Obama is a capitalist so your post makes no sense.
Originally posted by conspiracy nut
reply to post by DZAG Wright
;ll tell you who has been paid by a poor person, walmart, exxon, mobil, shell, target, coca cola, mcdonalds etc etc etc etc
Originally posted by Gridrebel
Originally posted by conspiracy nut
reply to post by DZAG Wright
;ll tell you who has been paid by a poor person, walmart, exxon, mobil, shell, target, coca cola, mcdonalds etc etc etc etc
And they are all owned by shareholders. And, they don't hold a gun to your head, forcing you to buy their products. Unlike Obama forcing people to purchase health insurance at unaffordable rates.edit on 3-3-2013 by Gridrebel because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Gridrebel
Originally posted by conspiracy nut
reply to post by DZAG Wright
;ll tell you who has been paid by a poor person, walmart, exxon, mobil, shell, target, coca cola, mcdonalds etc etc etc etc
And they are all owned by shareholders with the exception of McDonalds which is a franchise and owned by individuals. And, they don't hold a gun to your head, forcing you to buy their products. Unlike Obama forcing people to purchase health insurance at unaffordable rates.edit on 3-3-2013 by Gridrebel because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by TheWrightWing
reply to post by conspiracy nut
It couldn't be that the "1%" pay well over 40% of all Federal Taxes, could it?
Do you also go around bathrooms to examine the size of other mens penises? Do you get outraged when some has a bigger one? Do you also believe that since they have more in the meat department they should have more sex than you? No, of course you don't.
Originally posted by conspiracy nut
Poiliticans are part of the 1 percent the link is from forbes magazine, last i checked it was not a COMMUNIST magazine.
so this is why Boehner and the republicans refuse to budge on raising taxes on the wealthy, because they are amongst the wealthiest in america!!!!! kind of makes me give a little respect to Obama and the democrats, they are actually willing to take one for the team, unllike the republicans who would rather have the rest of us eat cake than god forbid pay more taxes.
read the article, i am not being a COMMUNIST, i am not lazy, i am not on welfare, i provide and struggle for my family like millions of other americans! i am part of the american workers whose "productivity has raised 80 percent since 1979" "If the average person’s wages had kept pace with the economy since the 70s, most people would be making $92,000 per year." (facts taken from the article)
edit on 2-3-2013 by conspiracy nut because: (no reason given)edit on 2-3-2013 by conspiracy nut because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by conspiracy nut
hopefully since you havent replied yet you are reading the article. the politicians are part of the 1 percent, so if they arent closer to the super wealthy than you or i, i don't know what t tell ya.
here is an idea for a budget cut, how about we lower politicans pay? get them out of the 1 percent and then figure out how we can get the rest of our pay to keep up w inflation. in my opinion politicians should be in it to help the people and their country, not to become part of the 1 percent and take advantage of the same disparity and wealth that has seen the average americans wealth remain stagnant since the 70's.
Obama, our Cobra commander is not going to fix anything, he is breaking it.
Originally posted by justwokeup
There should be a flat tax on income. All income. However it is sourced (payroll, pension, benefits, share dividends). Nobody should pay a larger or smaller % yearly income to the government than anybody else.
Originally posted by justwokeup
I respectfully disagree.
Once you legitimise that the government can arbitrarily force some people to lose more of their income than other people you have legitimised cronyism and theft. You cannot complain about bias in one direction while demanding bias in another.