Do you think you would benefit from taking the wealth of the Billionaires?

[Markle]

Socialists ?
You mean all the Walmart employees who helped build that fortune, making $20,000 a year relying on medicaid and food stamps ?

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc pays its employees an average of $12.34 an hour. Hourly pay at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc ranges from an average of $9.89 to $18.76 an hour.
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc Hourly Pay | PayScale

That comes to over $25,000.00 a year.

Here are the poverty levels in 2020
Federal Poverty Level Guidelines and Chart

Are You Eligible for Federal Benefits in 2020?

Please explain to us all how it is our fault that an individual is married with two kids and is earning only $25,000. a year for the household.

 

[Markle]

Agree, but to be clear all the Billionaire wealth in the US is about 40T so it would pay off the debt. Of course, the economy would tank and we would head directly toward the same demise as Venezuela.

Wow, there are few threads here with more misinformation than this one.

FORTY TRILLION? Not even close.

The minimum net worth to make The Forbes 400 list of richest Americans is now a record $2 billion, up from $1.7 billion a year ago. The group’s total net worth climbed to $2.7 trillion, up from $2.4 trillion, and the average net worth rose to $6.7 billion, up from $6 billion.
www.forbes.com/sites/luisakroll/2017/10/17/forbes-400-2017-americas-richest-people-bill-gate…

So illegally confiscating all the wealth of the 400 wealthiest Americans wouldn't even finance our spending for one year. What do we do then?

 

[Blues Man]

You wrote:

"Exploiting Cheap Chinese Labor"

I don't see how that equates to

"American Workers"

How exactly did I misconstrue that? I must be losing it.

Never mind. Read the context of what I said ...I was referring to Walmart profits -exploiting the American workers obviously
played a large role in that.

And how many small businesses did they trample on the way up ?
Fuck the Walton's.

I'm not in disagreement about Walmart's monopolistic behavior. Them, like many, many other retailers are gentrifying the products American's buy. They close down small businesses where the service is much, much better and sell us shit. As far as pay goes, they are better than most retailers in my estimation.

I love a good unique tasty pizza. I fucking hate Domino's, Papa Johns etc... The restaurant business is loaded with gentrification. It truly sucks.

They call it gentrification but that implies they provide better product and service which is horseshit.

No retailer has a monopoly

The fact that millions of people don't shop at Walmart proves they do not have a monopoly

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Did I say they have a monopoly?

Learn to read and comprehend.

No you used monopolistic as in like a monopoly

That is wrong too

Walmart is in no way like a monopoly for the same reason posted earlier

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[Yarddog]

Billionaires buy things your average person doesn't and even many millionaires , like private jets and super sized yachts, or custom cars, super homes using state of the art infrastructure inside. A Sanders type would look at this and fume inside, seeing the unfairness and excess of it all. the same exact feelings that drove the Communist Revolution.

What he cant do, and is unable to do is see that each of those things as limited examples.. creates many many jobs.. even creating entire businesses to cater to them. People with billions of dollars also do other things, often times very charitable things. Things different from the way the federal government does them... without the red tape.

What sanders and his ilk really hate is the competition. Billionaires NEED to be eliminated by these people in order to bring about the power structure they are trying to acheive in the U.S. these people are extremely dangerous and what they are propagating in our schools is a cancer that will someday bring death if not removed.

 

[Ken Mac]

Agree, but to be clear all the Billionaire wealth in the US is about 40T so it would pay off the debt. Of course, the economy would tank and we would head directly toward the same demise as Venezuela.

Wow, there are few threads here with more misinformation than this one.

FORTY TRILLION? Not even close.

The minimum net worth to make The Forbes 400 list of richest Americans is now a record $2 billion, up from $1.7 billion a year ago. The group’s total net worth climbed to $2.7 trillion, up from $2.4 trillion, and the average net worth rose to $6.7 billion, up from $6 billion.
www.forbes.com/sites/luisakroll/2017/10/17/forbes-400-2017-americas-richest-people-bill-gate…

So illegally confiscating all the wealth of the 400 wealthiest Americans wouldn't even finance our spending for one year. What do we do then?

Thanks for the clarification. You're right. I added it up yesterday but I used the wealth of a certain percentage of American's of the nation or something like that. Fucked that up.

American wealth grew to around 96T last year.

Anyways, it doesn't matter if you take it away, the economy would go into a free fall.

AND more importantly even 40T wouldn't fund the programs the socialist dems want to implement and then everyone would be broke in ten years. The math is basic enough to gain an understanding that we just don't have that kind of wealth. The dem's (especially Warren and Bernie) don't know how to add.

 

[rightwinger]

Our country gains very little from the wealth of Billionaires

No reason to protect them

 

[Thinker101]

Our country gains very little from the wealth of Billionaires

No reason to protect them

Yep, that's right, who the heck needs a job....dumbass.

 

[rightwinger]

Simple Question but to clarify:

Do you think you would benefit from the government taking all of the money from the Billionaire class so that there were no Billionaires (reduce their wealth to $999M) and using it in programs (which include free health care, free college tuition, paying of student debt, universal income for all, etc..,

Keep in mind that all of the Billionaires in the US amount to 40% of the country's wealth.

Do you believe that all men are created equal? If you do, why would you care to look up somebody's butt, find out a billion dollars was in there, then penalize the hell out of their profits?

Maybe you think you know more than the Constitution's founders about treating everyone the same under the law.

Have you read any of the fucking thread. I"m very fiscally conservative and I think that taxing wealth is robbery. You haven't read anything I've written. Next time, take some time to understand one's position before spouting off.

Taxes are the price we pay to live in a civilized society

 

[Brain357]

Our country gains very little from the wealth of Billionaires

No reason to protect them

Yep, that's right, who the heck needs a job....dumbass.

How many jobs are they creating here? Ever try to talk to google or facebook? You won't be talking to a US citizen. How about Microsoft tech support? Nope, not them either.

 

[Thinker101]

Our country gains very little from the wealth of Billionaires

No reason to protect them

Yep, that's right, who the heck needs a job....dumbass.

How many jobs are they creating here? Ever try to talk to google or facebook? You won't be talking to a US citizen. How about Microsoft tech support? Nope, not them either.

If you're at that level where you need to work at a call center you've got bigger problems.

 

[Markle]

Our country gains very little from the wealth of Billionaires

No reason to protect them

 

[Brain357]

Our country gains very little from the wealth of Billionaires

No reason to protect them

Yep, that's right, who the heck needs a job....dumbass.

How many jobs are they creating here? Ever try to talk to google or facebook? You won't be talking to a US citizen. How about Microsoft tech support? Nope, not them either.

If you're at that level where you need to work at a call center you've got bigger problems.

Does it help us to create so many jobs everywhere else? IT jobs are pretty good, and would be better if your billionaires weren't sending jobs everywhere.

 

[Thinker101]

Our country gains very little from the wealth of Billionaires

No reason to protect them

Yep, that's right, who the heck needs a job....dumbass.

How many jobs are they creating here? Ever try to talk to google or facebook? You won't be talking to a US citizen. How about Microsoft tech support? Nope, not them either.

If you're at that level where you need to work at a call center you've got bigger problems.

Does it help us to create so many jobs everywhere else? IT jobs are pretty good, and would be better if your billionaires weren't sending jobs everywhere.

I wouldn't really consider a call center an IT job. Other than that, if folks are gonna whine about $15/hour I sure wouldn't be bringing those jobs back.

 

[Brain357]

Our country gains very little from the wealth of Billionaires

No reason to protect them

Yep, that's right, who the heck needs a job....dumbass.

How many jobs are they creating here? Ever try to talk to google or facebook? You won't be talking to a US citizen. How about Microsoft tech support? Nope, not them either.

If you're at that level where you need to work at a call center you've got bigger problems.

Does it help us to create so many jobs everywhere else? IT jobs are pretty good, and would be better if your billionaires weren't sending jobs everywhere.

I wouldn't really consider a call center an IT job. Other than that, if folks are gonna whine about $15/hour I sure wouldn't be bringing those jobs back.

You seem to be dodging the question. Is there some reason a call center job shouldn't be a higher paying job? It's probably harder than most manufacturing jobs. Certainly you need a lot of knowledge to help people with their IT problems.

 

[Thinker101]

Yep, that's right, who the heck needs a job....dumbass.

How many jobs are they creating here? Ever try to talk to google or facebook? You won't be talking to a US citizen. How about Microsoft tech support? Nope, not them either.

If you're at that level where you need to work at a call center you've got bigger problems.

Does it help us to create so many jobs everywhere else? IT jobs are pretty good, and would be better if your billionaires weren't sending jobs everywhere.

I wouldn't really consider a call center an IT job. Other than that, if folks are gonna whine about $15/hour I sure wouldn't be bringing those jobs back.

You seem to be dodging the question. Is there some reason a call center job shouldn't be a higher paying job? It's probably harder than most manufacturing jobs. Certainly you need a lot of knowledge to help people with their IT problems.

Seems to me I did address your question. Regarding call center jobs, reading the screen and talking on the phone doesn't sound that complicated.

 

[Brain357]

How many jobs are they creating here? Ever try to talk to google or facebook? You won't be talking to a US citizen. How about Microsoft tech support? Nope, not them either.

If you're at that level where you need to work at a call center you've got bigger problems.

Does it help us to create so many jobs everywhere else? IT jobs are pretty good, and would be better if your billionaires weren't sending jobs everywhere.

I wouldn't really consider a call center an IT job. Other than that, if folks are gonna whine about $15/hour I sure wouldn't be bringing those jobs back.

You seem to be dodging the question. Is there some reason a call center job shouldn't be a higher paying job? It's probably harder than most manufacturing jobs. Certainly you need a lot of knowledge to help people with their IT problems.

Seems to me I did address your question. Regarding call center jobs, reading the screen and talking on the phone doesn't sound that complicated.

So you think it benefits us for billionaires to create most their jobs in other countries, interesting.

 

[Thinker101]

If you're at that level where you need to work at a call center you've got bigger problems.

Does it help us to create so many jobs everywhere else? IT jobs are pretty good, and would be better if your billionaires weren't sending jobs everywhere.

I wouldn't really consider a call center an IT job. Other than that, if folks are gonna whine about $15/hour I sure wouldn't be bringing those jobs back.

You seem to be dodging the question. Is there some reason a call center job shouldn't be a higher paying job? It's probably harder than most manufacturing jobs. Certainly you need a lot of knowledge to help people with their IT problems.

Seems to me I did address your question. Regarding call center jobs, reading the screen and talking on the phone doesn't sound that complicated.

So you think it benefits us for billionaires to create most their jobs in other countries, interesting.

Kinda missed where I said that.

 

[beautress]

Simple Question but to clarify:

Do you think you would benefit from the government taking all of the money from the Billionaire class so that there were no Billionaires (reduce their wealth to $999M) and using it in programs (which include free health care, free college tuition, paying of student debt, universal income for all, etc..,

Keep in mind that all of the Billionaires in the US amount to 40% of the country's wealth.

Do you believe that all men are created equal? If you do, why would you care to look up somebody's butt, find out a billion dollars was in there, then penalize the hell out of their profits?

Maybe you think you know more than the Constitution's founders about treating everyone the same under the law.

Have you read any of the fucking thread. I"m very fiscally conservative and I think that taxing wealth is robbery. You haven't read anything I've written. Next time, take some time to understand one's position before spouting off.

Please reread your post #1. I always go to Post #1 when I start participating in a thread, and I had no idea of your conservative views, and you may notice that if post #1 gets responded to the most times, other people do to. I am sorry I offended you, but when People use the "F" word, I put them on ignore for 3 days, and you are no different. You really need to read your "OP" post for comprehension that you did not make your views clear there. But since you expect other people to read your mind and spend 4 hours reading a thread that has gone on and on and on, you're asking too much. I'm barely here because a family member died while I was holding his hand in an operating room at a hospital I had to drive for hours to get to after he was airlifted from my town. I only had a minute to be here because I had to help other friends and family today, and here it is nine o'clock already, and I just got back to have someone rub the "F" word in my face. That is still taboo speech in the mind of a person my age, and I hope you omit that word from your vocabulary and explore the dictionary a little more in the future if you must be insulting.

 

[Brain357]

Does it help us to create so many jobs everywhere else? IT jobs are pretty good, and would be better if your billionaires weren't sending jobs everywhere.

I wouldn't really consider a call center an IT job. Other than that, if folks are gonna whine about $15/hour I sure wouldn't be bringing those jobs back.

You seem to be dodging the question. Is there some reason a call center job shouldn't be a higher paying job? It's probably harder than most manufacturing jobs. Certainly you need a lot of knowledge to help people with their IT problems.

Seems to me I did address your question. Regarding call center jobs, reading the screen and talking on the phone doesn't sound that complicated.

So you think it benefits us for billionaires to create most their jobs in other countries, interesting.

Kinda missed where I said that.

Well you sure haven't explained how it benefits us to have billionaires creating jobs everywhere else. Why do you worship the job creators when they are creating jobs everywhere else?

 

[rightwinger]

Do you believe that all men are created equal? If you do, why would you care to look up somebody's butt, find out a billion dollars was in there, then penalize the hell out of their profits?

Maybe you think you know more than the Constitution's founders about treating everyone the same under the law.

So if I'm Sam Walton's grandson, according to the Constitution, I'm entitled to be born with $18 billion in the bank ?

Where in the Constitution say inventors, entrepreneurs, and people who work hard and earn the big bucks should have that money they built a hospital taken away since it costs at least several billion dollars to build a unique hospital with adjacent cancer research wing, coronary center, and physician training college all rolled into one? And the reason being because that multi-billionaire's mother died at the age of 47 with cancer issues and father died at the age of 62 with medication issues related to his coronary event which most people recover from if the heart attack doesn't kill them before they hit the ground.

Should we expropriate some American's fortune to let Nancy Pelosi use it to destroy another conservative man who wins the electoral college vote using every fake charge in the book?

And guess who control's the nation's purse right now. Do you remember an incident of a Congresswoman who not only sent out those who attended her rally speech to harass his presidential staff, but her next speech about President Trump was that she was going to take out President Trump?

He's a multi-billionaire, but why should we pick his pockets to remove him from the serious job of talking authoritatively to an oil baron who offered him a bribe of one trillion dollars in an offshore bank account to let us stop defending Israel, that he would immediately nuke from its north to south and east to west, assuring his minions that Allah would double their paychecks for life if they would assassinate our president and nuke Israel at the same moment on the same day.

His family and sons would be unable to get even if he had them hunted down, murdered, and posted their bodies on the fences around their homes in the manner of Saddam Hussein.

No, I think it unwise to take a citizen's assets away from him, even if he were a wealthy child once upon a time in America.

Communists in Russia destroyed the wealthy in Russia. Now their leader is at war with Ukraine, where an earlier Russian leader murdered several million farmers in that bread basket area.

No, at least when people are made wealthy by either hard work, inheritance or fluke of inventing something like the paper clip that people bought by the droves in years past, why would we have a government so egotistical its leaders would dream up a false narrative to take away the incentive from all men to do better than they do with freebies all around them. Before their last killing spree a present-day communist nation had waiting lines for food, and people would stand in line from sunup to sundown for a small bag of oranges to take home to keep their family from getting scurvy.

Not good!!!

Nobody is taking it away

They are saying they must contribute to the society from which they benefit so much