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In reply to the discussion: Rolling Stone: The 1% Are NOT Citizens Of The United States [View all]brooklynite
(94,511 posts)36. ...and that's precisely my point...
I'll be glad to trade finances with you, and that way, you won't have to suffer a higher tax rate
Because I'm in the top income category I must want to resist progressive taxation, right? And I must oppose regulation of the banking and financial sectors, right? Because no wealthy person could ever be philisophically liberal, just like no poor person is ever conservative.
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Would you mind terribly much putting your neck in this cradle? Please lie still. Here comes choochoo
WingDinger
Dec 2011
#1
The rich can be good citizens -those who pay taxes, and give it back to the community
leveymg
Dec 2011
#15
I thought we were talking about your citizenship, and not your morality
DisgustipatedinCA
Dec 2011
#35