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09-30-2021, 09:21 AM
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Sorry Jim,
You just eat the baloney and regurgitate it
Before the pandemic, there was 1 person worth $100 billion. Now there are 10.
Before the pandemic, those 10 people were worth $650 billion. Now they are worth $1.4 trillion.
Must have been all the hard labor and risk they took.
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09-30-2021, 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Pete F.
Before the pandemic, there was 1 person worth $100 billion. Now there are 10.
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the pandemic has been a huge boon for china, democrats and big tech/corporate entities tied to democrats...hmmmmm
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09-30-2021, 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Pete F.
Sorry Jim,
You just eat the baloney and regurgitate it
Before the pandemic, there was 1 person worth $100 billion. Now there are 10.
Before the pandemic, those 10 people were worth $650 billion. Now they are worth $1.4 trillion.
Must have been all the hard labor and risk they took.
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"Before the pandemic, there was 1 person worth $100 billion. Now there are 10."
(1) so what? would anyone be better off if we burned all that money? They created it, they didn't steal it.
(2) how many are republican, how many are democrat?
"Must have been all the hard labor and risk they took"
You're being sarcastic, but that's what it is. You think you work more hours in a week than Jeff Bezos or Tim Cook?
You are deranged with jealousy, and consumed with the nonsense that one person's wealth was caused by another person's poverty. It doesn't work that way, wealth is not finite, it's not like a pizza. If it were, GDP would be constant.
Pete, just tell me this...how does it hurt you, if Apple's stock performance or Amazon's stock performance makes those CEOs richer? In what way does that have a negative impact on anybody?
Those people pay a boatload of taxes, they invest money which creates jobs, they spend a lot of money which creates jobs, and they give tons to charity.
How are you better off if those people were only half as successful as they are?
I don't think anyone needs a billion dollars, but I could care less if someone has that goal and then achieves it, as long as they do it legally.
"You just eat the baloney and regurgitate it"
This, from the guy obsessed with the wealth 100 private citizens in a country of 330 million.
If you want what they have, do what they did, or stop crying about it.
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09-30-2021, 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
"Before the pandemic, there was 1 person worth $100 billion. Now there are 10."
(1) so what? would anyone be better off if we burned all that money? They created it, they didn't steal it.
(2) how many are republican, how many are democrat?
"Must have been all the hard labor and risk they took"
You're being sarcastic, but that's what it is. You think you work more hours in a week than Jeff Bezos or Tim Cook?
You are deranged with jealousy, and consumed with the nonsense that one person's wealth was caused by another person's poverty. It doesn't work that way, wealth is not finite, it's not like a pizza. If it were, GDP would be constant.
Pete, just tell me this...how does it hurt you, if Apple's stock performance or Amazon's stock performance makes those CEOs richer? In what way does that have a negative impact on anybody?
Those people pay a boatload of taxes, they invest money which creates jobs, they spend a lot of money which creates jobs, and they give tons to charity.
How are you better off if those people were only half as successful as they are?
I don't think anyone needs a billion dollars, but I could care less if someone has that goal and then achieves it, as long as they do it legally.
"You just eat the baloney and regurgitate it"
This, from the guy obsessed with the wealth 100 private citizens in a country of 330 million.
If you want what they have, do what they did, or stop crying about it.
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Rant much?
You’re right. It takes thousands of people working for almost nothing to make someone a billion dollars. Capitalism will eat itself.
The share of American adults who live in middle-income households has decreased from 61% in 1971 to 51% in 2019. This downsizing has proceeded slowly but surely since 1971, with each decade thereafter typically ending with a smaller share of adults living in middle-income households than at the beginning of the decade.
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09-30-2021, 10:36 AM
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Rant much?
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from the guy that cuts and pastes encyclopedic volumes.....
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09-30-2021, 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Pete F.
It takes thousands of people working for almost nothing to make someone a billion dollars.
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this is stupid.....
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09-30-2021, 10:50 AM
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well, we know that 99.9% of west virginians are uneducated hicks who married their sisters....soooo....I wouldn't put much stock in that nugget
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the pandemic has been a huge boon for china, democrats and big tech/corporate entities tied to democrats...hmmmmm
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most Americans support the government sending them "free money"
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this is stupid.....
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09-30-2021, 11:03 AM
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it is all true....except I don't believe that about wv....that's the leftists particularly, ne leftists attitude
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09-30-2021, 10:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Pete F.
Rant much?
You’re right. It takes thousands of people working for almost nothing to make someone a billion dollars. Capitalism will eat itself.
The share of American adults who live in middle-income households has decreased from 61% in 1971 to 51% in 2019. This downsizing has proceeded slowly but surely since 1971, with each decade thereafter typically ending with a smaller share of adults living in middle-income households than at the beginning of the decade.
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You still won't answer my question.
How is anyone better off, if the 100 wealthiest people were only half as successful?
Are you saying that if they were less successful, that their lost wealth would necessarily go to the less fortunate? It doesn't work that way, because they created their wealth, they didn't steal it.
Christ, what a stupid, devoid-of-any-logic, broken record.
I agree that it's not fair that there are billionaires and poor people. But one person's wealth has nothing to do with another person's poverty. They're not connected to each other.
Ands as Scott correctly said, even if you took every cent that the billionaires have, it's nothing compared to the federal budget.
If you dont have what you want in life, and you want to know why, the answer isn't on the cover of Forbes magazine, it's much more likely that the answer is staring at you in the mirror.
Your premise is stupid, it has no logic to it, and it's completely refuted by the math, which clearly shows that tweaking tax rates on the wealthy doesn't add up to much.
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09-30-2021, 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
Ands as Scott correctly said, even if you took every cent that the billionaires have, it's nothing compared to the federal budget.
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clearly we should kill them and take their stuff and evenly distribute it among the people they victimized to create their wealth and the world would be a better place
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09-30-2021, 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted by scottw
clearly we should kill them and take their stuff and evenly distribute it among the people they victimized to create their wealth and the world would be a better place
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Sounds implausible, doesn't it?
In 1993, Timothy McVeigh wrote his hometown paper: “Do we have to shed blood to reform the current system? I hope it doesn’t come to that. But it might.”
Two years later he murdered 168 people.
That the OKC bombing has somehow been memory-holed both baffles and explains a lot
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Frasier: Niles, I’ve just had the most marvelous idea for a website! People will post their opinions, cheeky bon mots, and insights, and others will reply in kind!
Niles: You have met “people”, haven’t you?
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09-30-2021, 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by scottw
clearly we should kill them and take their stuff and evenly distribute it among the people they victimized to create their wealth and the world would be a better place
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I did the math, I looked at Walmart, if you took all of the CEOs annual compensation and gave it to the US workers, it worked out to around $35 per year. Big whoop.
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09-30-2021, 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
I did the math, I looked at Walmart, if you took all of the CEOs annual compensation and gave it to the US workers, it worked out to around $35 per year. Big whoop.
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It's much worse than that. If you took the yearly income of a part time greeter and distributed it evenly to every top store manager it would come out to roughly 1.43 dollars. This doesn't even make a dent in the problem.
Even worse, randomly divide by 5!!!!!
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09-30-2021, 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by scottw
clearly we should kill them and take their stuff and evenly distribute it among the people they victimized to create their wealth and the world would be a better place
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When I was 19, I heard the CT democrats saying if we could just take a little more from the wealthy, we could end poverty. It sounds so morally obvious, I registered as a democrat and couldn't believe anyone was opposed. Then one day, someone showed me the very simple and very irrefutable math, showed how stupid it was to make that argument. It's all a big fat lie.
I'm not saying its Fair that there are billionaires, but they aren't any kind of viable solution to our big problems. Their collective wealth is a rounding error in the big picture. yet the left never stops obsessing with them. Because it sounds great, like Biden promising to cure cancer.
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09-30-2021, 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
When I was 19, I heard the CT democrats saying if we could just take a little more from the wealthy, we could end poverty. It sounds so morally obvious, I registered as a democrat and couldn't believe anyone was opposed. Then one day, someone showed me the very simple and very irrefutable math, showed how stupid it was to make that argument. It's all a big fat lie.
I'm not saying its Fair that there are billionaires, but they aren't any kind of viable solution to our big problems. Their collective wealth is a rounding error in the big picture. yet the left never stops obsessing with them. Because it sounds great, like Biden promising to cure cancer.
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yeah but don't you remember that guy McVeigh?
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