Funny how every other modern country can support socialism Health Care daycare cheap college and training except us the richest country in the world. Thanks to you idiots. And the lying propagandizing scumbag greedy asshole GOP.We need to stop being afraid to hurt the feelings of the wealthyPure baloney, super duper. after 35 years of give away to the rich and screwing everyone else, we now have the worst inequality and upward Mobility ever anywhere and our infrastructure is falling apart. Great job! Education and training has never been more expensive and we have the worst perks of any citizens in the modern world. All to save the greedy idiot GOP rich and giant corporations from paying their fair share. Only brainwashed functional GOP moron voters make this possible....Waltons, Heirs of WalMart Founder. All worth 50+ Billion.
Rob , Alice , Jim each over 70 years old and living in mansions.
These people pay most of their employees a minimum wages, and many have to work multiple jobs.
This is NOT ok.
Microsoft paid their employees.
Even the Janitors that started out with Microsoft are millionaires today.
This is what Capitalism is or should be.
Allen and Gates could have paid the Janitors minimum wages, but they didn't, and
they still were the richest men in the world.
Not entirely true. You claim that Microsoft paid their employees... and even the janitor ended up millionaires.
You are implying that Microsoft was dishing out the cash. That is not true. Microsoft paid their employees very little at the start, and barely average wages once the company was growing considerably.
The way in which these employees became millionaires, is that Microsoft had company stock, as part of the compensation package. This is no different than Walmart's employee stock purchase program, where you can buy company stock (for I believe just $1).
The reason is because Microsoft grew dramatically as a company, this resulted in the value of that stock growing dramatically as well. Thus all those employees ended up millionaires.
But Microsoft was not paying the Janitor $100/hour to clean toilets. The Janitor simply was taking advantage of the company stock compensation, when the company was growing.
Walmart, and Microsoft, are treating their employees identically. The only difference is, Microsoft grew dramatically, and Walmart is not.
The irony of this conversation is that if Walmart did grow dramatically, you people on the left, would be screaming and throwing a hissy fit.... and we know this because every time Walmart gets larger, you protest it.
And here's the problem with you complaining about wealthy people.
Do you know what would happened, if the Walton heirs were poor? Nothing.
How many people gain something, when a wealthy person loses money? Zero.
Do remember back in 2008, when the Walton's lost a huge portion of their wealth when the stock market crash? I remember this. You know how many people, woke up the next day with a new car, because the Walton's lost money? None.
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From 2007 to 2009, the richest 400 people in this country, collectively lost half a Trillion dollars. Almost 1/4th their total net worth.
Remember all those Americans that woke up the next morning, with new homes, new cars, and so on? No? Me neither.
So if wealthy people losing their wealth helps NO ONE........ then why do you care? You know why? Greed, and Envy. That's the reason you care. It doesn't help anyone, for the Walton's to be poor.
You know this. You know it would help no one. The reason you care how much a wealthy person has, is because if you can't have it, then darn it no one should.
That's it. An entire ideology of greed and envy.
They can take it
Working Americans have been taking it for 35 years and making due with less. I’m sure our wealthiest can survive in that scenario
We're not 'afraid of hurting the feelings of the wealthy'.
We're afraid of you, operating on the lunacy of "Use a loss, to pay for schools and healthcare", destroying the entire country. That's what is scary. People like you, operating on economically suicidal policies, have destroyed entire countries. You are who we are afraid of, and rightly so. We'll be digging through trash cans for moldy bread, with the stupidity you keep pushing.
Many are finding they can't really afford it. Most of the rest can only "afford" it because Uncle Sam pays for their defense. Your propaganda ignores that little factoid.