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vor1 year, 1 month ago
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I find it hysterical that supporters of the Party that has presided over the largest redistribution of wealth in our history dare to suggest Obama carries some evil hidden agenda or that wealth redistribution is a purely Marxist or Socialist concept. Of course much of this current redistribution has sent money outside of this country, hiding American funds in foreign accounts and the outright turning over of funds to foreign entities through bad policy.
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The middle class in particular has taken a real screwing. Show me any statistic that indicates a shift of wealth in any direction but upward and away from the average American (median annual income of $48,000) during the Bush Administration.
You folks are just shills for these people. I don't believe you are among the top 5 percent of wage earners. Not for a second. But you are the dupes for their interests! How did you ever get in such a position?
I admire those like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett who earn their fortunes but then have no issue with voluntarily redistributing their wealth. They seem to understand this strange concept that "I am my brother's keeper". If they were the norm, the status quo among the wealthiest Americans there would be no issue. Then this whole trickle down concept might actually have some merit. Instead they are the rare and notable exceptions. All because of one single word - GREED!-
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antibrainwasher1 year, 1 month ago
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7 days to go, and here's another republican desperate circle jerk.
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You mindless moron repugnicons are pathetic.
If you could just stop hating and your fear of progress, and step out of your religous ignorance status quo demigogary for a split second, your house of cards would collapse and you could see the light.
But you are all cowards, yellow bellied cowards, to afraid to see the truth, so you keep on projectile vomiting your bile and lies and putrid swiftboating crap, and it drags the country down the toilet where you reside.
No ignorance like religious arrogant ignorance. No scum like republiscum. -
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beavith11 year, 1 month ago
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my god. the inmates want to run the asylum. case in point.
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"The middle class in particular has taken a real screwing."
if you don't like what you're earning in your job, improve yourself and get a REAL job. stop being jealous about other's success.
its really very simple.
don't be average.
be smart. be hard working. be lucky.
but don't blame others for your incompetence.
but that's the new american way right? blame others. get even. cry.
dupes? no. it just makes you (dems) stupes....
"I admire those like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett who earn their fortunes but then have no issue with voluntarily redistributing their wealth."
that's stupid AND disgusting. dyathink that maybe they have SO much money it doesn't matter to them? for those of us on the cusp of being obamawealthy, maybe it DOES matter? i'm the triple threat: i'm smart, i work hard and i'm lucky. WTF does O have to say about that? 'thank you very much for being productive. here's your 30% tax increase'. wait. he doesn't even say thank you. its more like "FU, here's your 30% tax increase."
if i'm my brothers keeper, i'd like to put a shoe on your a$& and tell you get to freaking work.
and just to let you in on a what seems to be a secret concept to you, there is no economics in the world that is based on redistribution of wealth. all that does is make everyone poorer.-
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djn3nunez31 year, 1 month ago
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just to let you in on a what seems to be a secret concept to you, there is no economics in the world that is based on redistribution of wealth. all that does is make everyone poorer
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Riiiight.
As originally adopted in 1975, the earned income tax credit was intended to offset the Social Security taxes of low-income workers with children and to provide those taxpayers with an increased incentive to work. An eligible taxpayer could claim a refundable credit equal to 10 percent of the taxpayer's earned income for the taxable year, which did not exceed $4,000
The earned income tax credit is an income transfer program that provides significant financial assistance to low-income workers, especially those with children. Unlike increasing the minimum wage, the expansion of the earned income credit over the past two decades has provided benefits targeted to help the working poor. Also, unlike most other welfare programs or a negative income tax, the earned income tax credit provides significant work incentives to low-income workers (Forman 1988: 67-77). Indeed, as currently structured, the earned income tax credit is one of the federal government's largest and most effective antipoverty programs.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cf...
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