Spread the Wealth

Discussion in 'Politics' started by wjk, Oct 13, 2008.

  1. Chicago really needs it's own dictionary.....
     
    #51     Oct 14, 2008
  2. The word's been around. Fuckwad was a favorite come back of a high school buddy of mine and I lived in the sticks in a small town in New Mexico. Reading that brought back memories of goofing off as as a high school kid.
     
    #52     Oct 14, 2008
  3. "Hey FUCKWAD" as an opener probably doesn't advance your case all that much.

    "McCain recklessly floats unfocused big ideas and leaves them hanging in the air without explanation. He repeated his pledge from the first debate to freeze federal spending except for defense, military veterans and other unnamed priorities. He also said he would order the Treasury secretary to buy mortgages of individual homeowners and adjust them to reflect declining values. That sounds desperate coming from a politician who argues against big government and only recently embraced more government regulation of financial markets. It offers false hope to Americans when Congress would not even allow bankruptcy judges last week to alter mortgage terms for homeowners facing foreclosure."

    http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/article843579.ece

    Looks a LOT like the plot line for "Read My Lips: No New Taxes" - Part II, doesn't it?

    You probably shouldn't be making promises that your favored candidate can't keep.
     
    #53     Oct 14, 2008
  4. Actually:
    1) Higher marginal cap gains & dividends rates in upper brackets could push some of this passively invested "sit on your ass and collect dividends" money into more active investments such as creating new businesses.

    2) Fair, progressive taxation would create opportunity for working adults living 'on the margin' to embark upon their own saving & investment plan - working toward securing a retirement that isn't dependent upon public funding.


    Collecting dividends & capital gains from financial markets is not the same as creating (or growing) businesses. Your attempt to equate the two is laughably fallacious.
     
    #54     Oct 14, 2008
  5. #55     Oct 17, 2008