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Obama takes on income inequality with his tax proposal
'Class warfare': GOP senator attacks Obamas plan to close tax loopholes for the wealthy
Richest 1% may own half of global wealth by 2016
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isobar
(188 posts)WAGE IT !!!!!!!!!!
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)They are lucky the people haven't put the pieces together all this time.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)But nobody cares, obviously.
Otherwise they WOULDN'T
Rex
(65,616 posts)Wait until we are in dire straits and then MAYBE try and deal with the issue. By then it will be far too late, but that is another thing we do so well. Wait until we cannot do shit about it or whatever IT is has run its course and done all the damage that can be done. In this case, world collapse.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Soldiers get maimed and die for this reason alone.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)Oddly, they call 50 of those 80 people "self-made," and only 11 inherited their wealth, while 19 inherited wealth and made it grow. They must have a very different idea of "self-made" from the rest of us. Rupert Murdoch is listed as "self-made," since he only inherited 2 newspapers and a radio station from his father, and turned it into a massive media empire. Carlos Slim likewise had wealthy parents, who taught him about investing at the age of 12, and he started at a job in his father's company.
Some of the richest billionaires really did start from nothing. Those examples are what Republicans point to and say, "See? There's plenty of financial mobility."
staggerleem
(469 posts)... once upon a time. Today? Not so much.
And their arguments are composed of such logical fallacies. On "Face the Nation" yesterday, Marco Rubio said that "one group of people does not have to do worse for another group to do better," and, in a way, he was right - but NOT in the way he meant. He meant "you don't have to take money from the rich to make the poor better off", but we DO! (Where else is it going to come from??)
Where he's absolutely right is that NOBODY is REALLY going to do any "worse" - except on paper. The standard of living of Chuck & Dave Koch will not change one iota due to the tax increase. Maybe they'll rake in fewer millions next year than they did last year, but as long as you're raking in millions, what's the freakin' difference??
2naSalit
(86,760 posts)use that as their jingle/bait for 2016 after all, dammit.
sammy750
(165 posts)Inequality, saying they want to address the issues and help people get better wages. Yet The GOP does just the opposite in the House and Senate. They are waging a war on middle class. Where do the presidential candidates connect with the GOP house and senate. Is the GOP so divided that they disagree on everything. We look at the bills that have passed recently and its a war on middle class and they are letting Wall Street go back to their criminal ways under George Bush. Are we waiting for another economic crash under the GOP? What is their real agenda? Its seems like they would want a strong middle class to support the states and USA, yet it doesn't seem like it?
I wonder why they continue to get elected with there agenda. DESTRUCTION OF THE USA and MIDDLE CLASS.
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)foreclosed properties that they caused to be in that situation. The former homeowners are stuck with debt on homes they don't own anymore unless they can file for bankruptcy! This is how insidious it is, they make money no matter what while we are mere pawns to be sacrificed!
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)staggerleem
(469 posts)... by the politics of division and single-issue dimwits.
Their wettest wet dream is to capture the Social Security trust funds first (either by mandated, or voluntary, privatization) and THEN engineer another crash. Then, they can say "Whoops! Where'd that trust fund money go, now? Well, we invested it in this fund that was rated quintuple-A by the agency that we PAID to rate it (even though it's really nothing more than a can of dog turds) and your Social Security retirement money just kinda went down the memory hole," just like what happened with the value of your home and the cash in your 401K after their LAST crash!
onecaliberal
(32,884 posts)back against the assault on our jobs, our wages, our educations, our ability to move up.
The income disparity has never been greater in this country. Maybe faux viewers don't get that, but the rest of us do. We are mad, and you better believe we're not going down without a fight against the corporate puppets and their masters.
sammy750
(165 posts)with the only mission to destroy, Pres. Obama, the nation and the people. The GOP only mission is to take this nation back 50/60 years. Why did the people elect them to office?
Ernest, who will be giving a speech tonite for the GOP. She is against education, student loans. etc. She is just a pig farmer, now controlling some of the voice in the Senate. How insane.
onecaliberal
(32,884 posts)Dems received more votes and lost. The GOP knows it can't win without cheating because of demographics. Why aren't the elected dems doing anything about it. When POTUS was re-elected he said he would fix the 6 hours in line to vote but so far I've seen nothing. The south elected Earnst, people too ignorant to understand the very people they vote for are trying to destroy us. The majority of people in this country are NOT represented by her and never will be.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)geretogo
(1,281 posts)poor .
Rex
(65,616 posts)Total nonsense, the richest 1% will own ALL the wealth and demand we pay them back for letting us exist on their dime, with interest! We will do NOTHING to stop them, vulture capitalism wins. We all lose. Game over.
We won't make a stink when they charge us for water and air, THEY will have paid for mouthpieces (like the do now) DEMANDING we feel like shit for using up the riches air and land and water. WE SUCK and should be thankful for the table scraps of the table scraps we are promised to get one day soon.
The people I blame? Those in office that can stop this takeover by a select few. I never thought the world would except slavery under low wages and dire living conditions, but I now know better.
Class warfare is out and the owners won hands down.
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)Call Whine-1-1, get a Whaaaambulance !!!
The Great American Class War
Plutocracy Versus Democracy
By Bill Moyers
Martin Eden
(12,874 posts)Orrin Hatch is little more than a paid mercenary in that war.
Initech
(100,098 posts)Too bad there was no Smedley Butler to stop them this time around.
Martin Eden
(12,874 posts)... as they are purchasing it.
Initech
(100,098 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,987 posts)ProudProg2u
(133 posts)LongTomH
(8,636 posts)Maybe a good laxative would solve their - and our - problems?
Cons have no soul. They lack the gene that makes them human. They are the "I got mine jack" Crowd. They are the bane of caring intelligent people . They are the people who destroy in order to make themselves feel good. They could be an alien breeding experiment (Ancient Aliens) that went wrong.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)is class warfare, then please give me more class warfare.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Of course, Mitt was for income inequality before he pretended to be against it.
Still, it's rude of Republicans to throw poor Mitt under the bus just to get at Obama.
elleng
(131,067 posts)and it's good mitt can be quoted.
merrily
(45,251 posts)I feel very confident we can rely on it.
father founding
(619 posts)Why would anyone live in a country with such burdensome regulations and crushing taxes when you could live in Somalia which has niether
czarjak
(11,287 posts)Huh, Orrin? Party of the rich. Tax cuts pay for themselves. Trickle down. Like Senator Cruz says, "stand strong", even if you're wrong. Pricks.
Indydem
(2,642 posts)Do you make $32500 a year?
You are in the richest 1% globally.
elleng
(131,067 posts)especially because Mitt Romney has recently discussed the bane of poverty and income inequality I guess. Should be interesting, now and at primary and general election time.
Initech
(100,098 posts)The upper1% is addicted to their wealth. And just like any other addict, they don't care whose lives they destroy to feed their addiction.
BlueMTexpat
(15,371 posts)Speaking to reporters in Davos, Switzerland, where he is attending the World Economic Forum, the hedge-fund owner Harland Dorrinson said, I think I speak for a lot of my fellow billionaires when I say I thought we were doing a good deal better than that.
Calling the Oxfam findings sobering, he said that he hoped they would serve as a wake-up call to billionaires everywhere that its time to up our game.
Quite frankly, a lot of us thought that by buying politicians, rewriting tax laws, and hiding money overseas, we were getting it done, said Dorrinson, who owns the hedge fund Garrote Capital. If, at the end of the day, all we control is a measly half of the worlds wealth, clearly we need to do moremuch more.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/richest-one-per-cent-disappointed-possess-half-worlds-wealth
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Cha
(297,503 posts)http://theobamadiary.com/2015/01/20/an-essay-on-free-speech-in-tweets/
Thanks for the SOTU preview, EarlG
RoccoRyg
(260 posts)Conservative pundits keep saying, "You can't help the poor by hurting the rich."
Like the rich are so easily hurt. All these taxes will do is force them to get the large yacht instead of the extra-large yacht. That money is much more economically viable in the hands of the middle class consumers who buy products.