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First of all, all of the technology that they capitalized on was researched and developed with public funding. Their wealth is highly dependent upon the public through the state and yet what is produced isn't publicly owned, as it should be. Many of these billionaires were born into wealthy families and had plenty of help from both their families and the government:
Production is a social endeavor, it takes many people to produce everything that we consume and use. Even if the rich people that you know work hard, they wouldn't produce the millions or billions that they have without their employees and the working-class in general (who mine, process, manufacture, build and produce everything in this world). There is no reason why society should allow one person or family amass so much money and power. It undermines our democracy and safety, when so much power is concentrated in one person or small group of wealthy elites.
It's easy to take risks and invest when if you lose your investment you're still filthy rich.
At the urging of Republican Senators Hawley and Rubio, a new think tank is working out ways for the GOP to changetheir messaging.
They want to shift their rhetoric from support for corporations and the morbidly rich to pretending they care about working people. This new organization will, they say, “think differently about labor vs. capital than Republicans have in recent generations.”
It’s a cynical effort to capture Trump’s working class base. He’d promised he’d bring our jobs home from China, empower labor unions, raise taxes on the rich so high that “my friends won’t ever talk to me again,” and give every American full health insurance that cost less than Obamacare. Those promises helped win him the White House.
All were lies, but the GOP base bought it and gave him tens of millions of votes; now Hawley, Rubio, et al think they can bottle that populist rhetorical magic and repeat Trump’s shtick for 2024.
Which raises the existential question both economists and politicians have debated for centuries:
America has had two different but clear answers to that question during the past century.
From the end of the Republican Great Depression with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s until 1981 (including the presidencies of Republican Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon, who maintained the top 91% and 74% income tax rates), the answer was unambiguous: “The economy is here to serve average Americans.”
Income and wealth during that time rose at about the same rate for working class Americans as they did for the rich, something we’d never before seen in this country.
This was not an accident or a mistake. It was the very intentional outcome of policies put into place by FDR and then maintained by both Democratic and Republican administrations for almost 50 years during that pre-Reagan era.
And then came the Reagan Revolution, when Republicans decided that the middle class wasn’t as important as giant corporations and the very wealthy after all, and that the rest of us are here to serve the rich.
Should a Handful of Billionaires Own More Wealth than the Bottom 50% of All Americans?
At the urging of Republican Senators Hawley and Rubio, a new think tank is working out ways for the GOP to change their messaging. They want to shift their rhetoric from support for corporations and the morbidly rich to pretending they care about...m.dailykos.com
Im sure this will hurt the feminine sensibilities of certain moderators, so I expect it to be moved with not much intelligent input.
First of all, all of the technology that they capitalized on was researched and developed with public funding.
And after they capitalized on it, they paid enough taxes to cover that public funding many times over.
Communists will eventually take the state and everyone without housing will be housed.Like most commies, he has very little to pony up.
But since they keep the assets funded by the public, which is much more valuable than the taxes they pay (when they pay taxes), they're actually taking much more than what they've paid.
Communists will eventually take the state and everyone without housing will be housed.
Those with most of the wealth will be judged harshly at the kingdom of heaven.
That's what Jesus himself says in Matthew 25:41-46, but since these conservatives are fake Christians, they don't really care what their god says. They worship comfort and mammon. They have humanity and the world in general, looking forward to being swept into the heavens in a "rapture". They're religious sickos.
Yes like Cuba, but without the United States and its allies imposing economic sanctions. The United States is now the big bully imperialist power, that threatens socialist economies with war, embargoes..etc. When the big bully empire adopts communism, it's not going to have to deal with a big bully, because it was the big bully. The abusive capitalist giant will be the one converting to communism, hence it will be easy and amazing, wonderful, for Americans to become communists. They're going to love it. Americans will enjoy a very high standard of living when they adopt modern, high-tech, democratic communism.Like in Cuba?
A commie is telling us how to be good Christians.
Yes like Cuba, but without the United States and its allies imposing economic sanctions. The United States is now the big bully imperialist power, that threatens socialist economies with war, embargoes..etc. When the big bully empire adopts communism, it's not going to have to deal with a big bully, because it was the big bully. The abusive capitalist giant will be the one converting to communism, hence it will be easy and amazing, wonderful, for Americans to become communists. They're going to love it. Americans will enjoy a very high standard of living when they adopt modern, high-tech, democratic communism.
Because unlike you the commie can read and comprehend what he reads, unlike you apparently.
So they don't have nice, free, modern housing in Cuba?
Which commie country does?
Does anyone understand that machines are capital?He intends to eliminate capital. Machines will provide all our needs.
Why did all the commie countries suppress religion?
Does anyone understand that machines are capital?
That only exists in your deluded, decrepit brain.
Affordable Care Act, as with all acts called exactly what it is not. Arizona with the low crawling John McCain last betrayal to every Arizonan. Over twice the cost with half the benefits and a deductible you will never meet. Just another democRat Ponzi Scam. DemocRats voted to give it away to ones never paying a dime into it, Jimmy Carter. It was democRat Congress that voted to 'borrow it' and 'borrow it' as fast as they get it. It was a democRat Congress that voted along party lines to tax it, with Algore giving the vote to break the tie. It was democRat BoRock Obama that used a big hunk of it to build a neighborhood of upper middle income homes. (the gooooooood welfare) Something to be proud to park your Beamer in front of, cause your Porch is in the garage. It's also democRats telling us every election Republicans are trying to steal it. They have always been full of shit. So much more so now they are getting it all over innocent victims, including the Poor Pope. Ya can't live with em and ya can't kill em. Yet.At the urging of Republican Senators Hawley and Rubio, a new think tank is working out ways for the GOP to changetheir messaging.
They want to shift their rhetoric from support for corporations and the morbidly rich to pretending they care about working people. This new organization will, they say, “think differently about labor vs. capital than Republicans have in recent generations.”
It’s a cynical effort to capture Trump’s working class base. He’d promised he’d bring our jobs home from China, empower labor unions, raise taxes on the rich so high that “my friends won’t ever talk to me again,” and give every American full health insurance that cost less than Obamacare. Those promises helped win him the White House.
All were lies, but the GOP base bought it and gave him tens of millions of votes; now Hawley, Rubio, et al think they can bottle that populist rhetorical magic and repeat Trump’s shtick for 2024.
Which raises the existential question both economists and politicians have debated for centuries:
America has had two different but clear answers to that question during the past century.
From the end of the Republican Great Depression with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s until 1981 (including the presidencies of Republican Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon, who maintained the top 91% and 74% income tax rates), the answer was unambiguous: “The economy is here to serve average Americans.”
Income and wealth during that time rose at about the same rate for working class Americans as they did for the rich, something we’d never before seen in this country.
This was not an accident or a mistake. It was the very intentional outcome of policies put into place by FDR and then maintained by both Democratic and Republican administrations for almost 50 years during that pre-Reagan era.
And then came the Reagan Revolution, when Republicans decided that the middle class wasn’t as important as giant corporations and the very wealthy after all, and that the rest of us are here to serve the rich.
Should a Handful of Billionaires Own More Wealth than the Bottom 50% of All Americans?
At the urging of Republican Senators Hawley and Rubio, a new think tank is working out ways for the GOP to change their messaging. They want to shift their rhetoric from support for corporations and the morbidly rich to pretending they care about...m.dailykos.com
Im sure this will hurt the feminine sensibilities of certain moderators, so I expect it to be moved with not much intelligent input.
Ad hominems have deep sixed all your arguments.
