We're all in this together!

[Stormieweather]

There comes a point, doesn't there, where a person has enough money to live more than comfortably, to invest and create and luxuriate in? And beyond that, making even MORE money is rather obscene and irrelevant, except to those without.

So excuse the fuck out of me if I don't sympathize with cutting tax rates on the wealthiest, while reducing benefits to the poor and sick. It's pure greed, plain and simple. The people in charge, elected and otherwise, need to realize that greed will do them (and everyone else) in, eventually.

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by Stormieweather

There comes a point, doesn't there, where a person has enough money to live more than comfortably, to invest and create and luxuriate in? And beyond that, making even MORE money is rather obscene and irrelevant, except to those without.

So excuse the fuck out of me if I don't sympathize with cutting tax rates on the wealthiest, while reducing benefits to the poor and sick. It's pure greed, plain and simple. The people in charge, elected and otherwise, need to realize that greed will do them (and everyone else) in, eventually.

I think it's an illness, that need for more and more power and money. It makes no sense to me, and I don't think you'll find it in whatever DSM is the next one because it's all entangled with that whole "american dream" (or whatever is comparable in your homeland) thing, and those who would dare find such insane wealth and power, well...insane, are nothing more than the greenest of envious (guilt and shame have been successful stomping boots since the beginning of mankind, though they're usually employed in religion as tools to scare us into submission.)

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Stormieweather

There comes a point, doesn't there, where a person has enough money to live more than comfortably, to invest and create and luxuriate in? And beyond that, making even MORE money is rather obscene and irrelevant, except to those without.

So what part of our US Constitution gives you a right to take from others and give to someone else? I can't follow your logic.

So excuse the fuck out of me if I don't sympathize with cutting tax rates on the wealthiest, while reducing benefits to the poor and sick. It's pure greed, plain and simple. The people in charge, elected and otherwise, need to realize that greed will do them (and everyone else) in, eventually.

Explain "greed", and "enough money" and "comfortable" and what is "MORE money"? as compared to what? Who gets to decide? Describe and define the term "Wealth" and "Fair Share" as the POS president like to use all the time. What is it to you? What should it be to the masses? Under our current Constitution of the United States where does is describe these definitions? In a Free Market Economy who gets to say what the tax rates should be on the "Wealthiest"? Who are they compared to your income? Who gets the Authority to define that?

GO!

[tw]

Originally Posted by Stormieweather

So excuse the fuck out of me if I don't sympathize with cutting tax rates on the wealthiest, while reducing benefits to the poor and sick. It's pure greed, plain and simple.

Its more than that. It is how jobs get destroyed.