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

[BuckToothMoron]

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.

If you took all the money from all the billionaires in the US, it still wouldn’t payoff the ever increasing national debt. And once you take the money, who are you going to tax to pay for all the entitlements. Government spending is the problem.

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.

can you post the link for that? 40 T wealth of billionaires.

 

[BuckToothMoron]

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

Actually, Bernie is saying exactly that.

 

[Blues Man]

Our country gains very little from the wealth of Billionaires

No reason to protect them

Our country is not getting much from you either

Maybe you should be eliminated

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[Blues Man]

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.

Since when does anyone have an obligation to create jobs?

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[Blues Man]

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.

Why do you think everyone has to do things that benefit you?



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[Blues Man]

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

They pay more in taxes than you

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[Ken Mac]

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.

1. My condolences to your family

2. I posted a Poll. The question should be asked and described as neutrally as possible to get the best results and participation. It's a horrible idea to do otherwise. When you respond to a neutral post (as you, yourself are admitting to), you ought to address the concepts and ideas - not the "Neutral Person". It's uncivilized. This is the crux of the matter. If you don't have the time to read a little of the thread or even go look at more other posts to find out the gist of my position then use the aforementioned advice and address by stating your position and speaking to the topic.

3. I don't care what your thoughts are on my vocabulary. I used the "F" word as an adjective describing "post". It was used in a non-offensive manner. It's a vey useful word to describe one's "voice" or "emotional state" when conveying a message. In this case, I used it to share my ire and disappointment with your post. I think it was used in a manner which was very colorful and accurate to my disposition at the time. I reread it and I'm still very pleased with my use of the term.

 

[rightwinger]

Our country gains very little from the wealth of Billionaires

No reason to protect them

Let’s see....

What do we gain from Jeff Bezos immense wealth?

Amazon is a separate entity. The hundred billion Bezos has is only helping himself.

 

[Blues Man]

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

So by your reasoning the more taxes we impose the more civilized we will be?

Tell me are the people who pay more in taxes than you more civilized than you?

The fact that you want to take what belongs to other people makes you uncivilized

 

[Blues Man]

Our country gains very little from the wealth of Billionaires

No reason to protect them

Let’s see....

What do we gain from Jeff Bezos immense wealth?

Amazon is a separate entity. The hundred billion Bezos has is only helping himself.

No it's the hundreds of millions of people who use his service that makes Bezos his money

So why don't you get all those hundreds of millions of people to stop using Amazon?

I love Amazon and quite frankly I get all of my nonperishable groceries through Amazon not to mention clothes, guitar strings etc etc, I save a ton of dough using their subscribe and save and I get a 5% cash back bonus for using the Prime credit card.

I get to pick from thousands of books to read for free too

What mom and pop store would do that for me?

 

[Ken Mac]

Our country gains very little from the wealth of Billionaires

No reason to protect them

Let’s see....

What do we gain from Jeff Bezos immense wealth?

Amazon is a separate entity. The hundred billion Bezos has is only helping himself.

It's made me $200K

 

[rightwinger]

Our country gains very little from the wealth of Billionaires

No reason to protect them

Let’s see....

What do we gain from Jeff Bezos immense wealth?

Amazon is a separate entity. The hundred billion Bezos has is only helping himself.

No it's the hundreds of millions of people who use his service that makes Bezos his money

So why don't you get all those hundreds of millions of people to stop using Amazon?

I love Amazon and quite frankly I get all of my nonperishable groceries through Amazon not to mention clothes, guitar strings etc etc, I save a ton of dough using their subscribe and save and I get a 5% cash back bonus for using the Prime credit card.

I get to pick from thousands of books to read for free too

What mom and pop store would do that for me?

The taxes that Amazon pays and what Bezos pays on his personal income are different issues.

I believe Amazon paid 1.2% in federal taxes

Amazon paid a tax rate of just 1.2% last year, versus 14% for average Americans

 

[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.

Why do you think everyone has to do things that benefit you?



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The right defends them as job creators. What do we care they are creating jobs everywhere else?

 

[Blues Man]

Our country gains very little from the wealth of Billionaires

No reason to protect them

Let’s see....

What do we gain from Jeff Bezos immense wealth?

Amazon is a separate entity. The hundred billion Bezos has is only helping himself.

No it's the hundreds of millions of people who use his service that makes Bezos his money

So why don't you get all those hundreds of millions of people to stop using Amazon?

I love Amazon and quite frankly I get all of my nonperishable groceries through Amazon not to mention clothes, guitar strings etc etc, I save a ton of dough using their subscribe and save and I get a 5% cash back bonus for using the Prime credit card.

I get to pick from thousands of books to read for free too

What mom and pop store would do that for me?

The taxes that Amazon pays and what Bezos pays on his personal income are different issues.

I believe Amazon paid 1.2% in federal taxes

Amazon paid a tax rate of just 1.2% last year, versus 14% for average Americans

So what?

All a corporate tax would do is lower the taxes the CEOs pay in because they would make less. And the marginal rate those people pay is higher than the corporate tax in many cases

Every single dollar that passes through a corporation gets taxed eventually because all those dollars end up in the hands of some individual be it through the sales of an appreciated stock or bonuses etc etc

 

[Blues Man]

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.

Why do you think everyone has to do things that benefit you?



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The right defends them as job creators. What do we care they are creating jobs everywhere else?

No corporation has an obligation to create jobs

 

[Brain357]

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.

Why do you think everyone has to do things that benefit you?



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The right defends them as job creators. What do we care they are creating jobs everywhere else?

No corporation has an obligation to create jobs

Sounds like that defense doesn’t work then.

 

[Blues Man]

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.

Why do you think everyone has to do things that benefit you?



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The right defends them as job creators. What do we care they are creating jobs everywhere else?

No corporation has an obligation to create jobs

Sounds like that defense doesn’t work then.

I never claimed that any corporation has an obligation to provide jobs.

They don't

A corporation has the obligation to its stockholders to make the company as profitable as possible if this country makes it impossible to be as profitable as possible it's not the fault of the corporation

 

[Brain357]

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

Why do you think everyone has to do things that benefit you?



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The right defends them as job creators. What do we care they are creating jobs everywhere else?

No corporation has an obligation to create jobs

Sounds like that defense doesn’t work then.

I never claimed that any corporation has an obligation to provide jobs.

They don't

A corporation has the obligation to its stockholders to make the company as profitable as possible if this country makes it impossible to be as profitable as possible it's not the fault of the corporation

So that isn’t a valid defense then, I agree.

 

[blastoff]

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.

It is not "the country's wealth."

What makes anyone think said billionaires would not move their assets out of reach should the Democrats attempt such folly?

Shhhhhhhhhhhh....

 

[rightwinger]

Our country gains very little from the wealth of Billionaires

No reason to protect them

Let’s see....

What do we gain from Jeff Bezos immense wealth?

Amazon is a separate entity. The hundred billion Bezos has is only helping himself.

No it's the hundreds of millions of people who use his service that makes Bezos his money

So why don't you get all those hundreds of millions of people to stop using Amazon?

I love Amazon and quite frankly I get all of my nonperishable groceries through Amazon not to mention clothes, guitar strings etc etc, I save a ton of dough using their subscribe and save and I get a 5% cash back bonus for using the Prime credit card.

I get to pick from thousands of books to read for free too

What mom and pop store would do that for me?

The taxes that Amazon pays and what Bezos pays on his personal income are different issues.

I believe Amazon paid 1.2% in federal taxes

Amazon paid a tax rate of just 1.2% last year, versus 14% for average Americans

So what?

All a corporate tax would do is lower the taxes the CEOs pay in because they would make less. And the marginal rate those people pay is higher than the corporate tax in many cases

Every single dollar that passes through a corporation gets taxed eventually because all those dollars end up in the hands of some individual be it through the sales of an appreciated stock or bonuses etc etc

LOL
What a crock of shit

Why can’t I use that same lame excuse on my taxes?