70% top tax rate for incomes over $10 million gains traction

Unclebaldrick

Unclebaldrick

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Or perhaps...


Sorry for the non-politcal diversion. It just so happens that LaGunitas' Undercover Investigation Shutdown Ale dropped this week. I have had a couple and I am feeling them. Has it been 13 years already?

 
Rob Roy

Rob Roy

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UncleBuck said:
you have to consent to taxes or they can't take any from you

you're a fucking idiot. go away
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So a person who sells items in an oxymoronic public park without receiving permission from your masters will be left alone to peacefully do business with other nonconsenters (sic) ?
 
Rob Roy

Rob Roy

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tangerinegreen555 said:
Sounds like you're speaking from experience.

Isn't lowering the age of consent a legal form of rape?
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How do you legislatively create or deny an individual persons ability or inability to consent ?

Does the act of legislation confer or deny the ability of a person to consent ?

Sounds like magic, please explain how that works.
 
tangerinegreen555

tangerinegreen555

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Rob Roy said:
How do you legislatively create or deny an individual persons ability or inability to consent ?

Does the act of legislation confer or deny the ability of a person to consent ?

Sounds like magic, please explain how that works.
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You already know how it works, it works fine.

No normal person would even consider challenging it in the 21st century.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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squarepush3r said:
to some extent they are ok.
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The way things are right now, the wealthy can pass on their fortunes virtually free of taxes. This means their families can continue to dominate the economic and political scene for generations. Another word for this phenomenon is 'aristocracy'. Our Founding Fathers rightfully hated it and were convinced it was the enemy of democracy. I agree with them and so I want to see large fortunes cut down to size when they pass from one generation to the next. This makes sense from another standpoint, as well; our current tax code defers the payment of tax on capital gains from the increase in value of property like land and stocks. If the wealth is passed on, it never gets taxed at all and that's wrong.

Trump is a prime example of the kind of human being that aristocracy creates.
 
squarepush3r

squarepush3r

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ttystikk said:
The way things are right now, the wealthy can pass on their fortunes virtually free of taxes. This means their families can continue to dominate the economic and political scene for generations. Another word for this phenomenon is 'aristocracy'. Our Founding Fathers rightfully hated it and were convinced it was the enemy of democracy. I agree with them and so I want to see large fortunes cut down to size when they pass from one generation to the next. This makes sense from another standpoint, as well; our current tax code defers the payment of tax on capital gains from the increase in value of property like land and stocks. If the wealth is passed on, it never gets taxed at all and that's wrong.

Trump is a prime example of the kind of human being that aristocracy creates.
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American has pretty strong wealth mobility. Look at so many of the Billionaires today, they are all tech founders. The same tech that didn't even exist 15-30 years ago. So the wealthiest people are those in an area that didn't even exist when they were born.

So what I am saying, is the top wealthy people in America are either tech business people, or some type of other successful business people (think Warren Buffet). They aren't just people who inherited money.

The actions of the Federal Reserve and banking Wall Street bailouts probably did the most to make the wealthy wealthier in the past 10 years. They basically made it financial policy through banking bailouts and QE to bailout the rich in this country, and increasing wealth inequality.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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squarepush3r said:
American has pretty strong wealth mobility. Look at so many of the Billionaires today, they are all tech founders. The same tech that didn't even exist 15-30 years ago. So the wealthiest people are those in an area that didn't even exist when they were born.

So what I am saying, is the top wealthy people in America are either tech business people, or some type of other successful business people (think Warren Buffet). They aren't just people who inherited money.

The actions of the Federal Reserve and banking Wall Street bailouts probably did the most to make the wealthy wealthier in the past 10 years. They basically made it financial policy through banking bailouts and QE to bailout the rich in this country, and increasing wealth inequality.
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America has less class mobility than any other developed nation.
 
UncleBuck

UncleBuck

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squarepush3r said:
American has pretty strong wealth mobility. Look at so many of the Billionaires today, they are all tech founders. The same tech that didn't even exist 15-30 years ago. So the wealthiest people are those in an area that didn't even exist when they were born.

So what I am saying, is the top wealthy people in America are either tech business people, or some type of other successful business people (think Warren Buffet). They aren't just people who inherited money.

The actions of the Federal Reserve and banking Wall Street bailouts probably did the most to make the wealthy wealthier in the past 10 years. They basically made it financial policy through banking bailouts and QE to bailout the rich in this country, and increasing wealth inequality.
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We would have class mobility on par with the rest of the world but the republican south is dragging down our average
 
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