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Skriven 2014-09-07 14:32:00 av TIM RICHARDSON (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JEFF BINKLEY
Ärende: INCOME INEQUALITY
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On 08-13-14, BOB KLAHN said to JEFF BINKLEY:


BK>...

HF>>New favorite quote, replacing Mrs. Thatcher's "The trouble with
HF>>Socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's
HF>>money."


BK>An old one, and it's the same problem with modern American
BK>capitalism. After all, the banks, investment houses, hedge
BK>funds, do not produce one penny's worth of actual wealth.


This is hilarious! An old triedd and true way to `rally' the
left around the socialist `colors' at mid-terms or presidential
elections.


More on Klahn's  the `banks are terrible' skreed in a minute.


But first.. here's a bit of leftist socialist silliness I saw
on the Web this morning, and just have to share with you.


Bernie Sanders....remember him? The idiot who's neither a left OR
right idiot; just `an idiot'?


He's on about `fair share of taxes on the rich' again. This
time to a group of un-fair, all-for-me-none-for-thee groups
in the country; the AFL-CIO!


Bernie calls for multi-millionaires and billionairesto `pay
their fair share' of taxes, in a speech to the AFL-CIO.


But...as they all already pay taxes....what's Sanders's complaint?


I mean...just like any other taxpayer...those individuals pay what
they owe at tax time. And nobody can say they don't, because
the IRS audits people all the time every tax year, and it isn't
`multi-millionaires and billionaires' who make the tax laws, its
the IRS....so just how does Sanders etal think they are't paying
`their fair share'?


Sen. Sanders calls for wealth tax at AFL-CIO convention - Washington Times!


By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times - Saturday, September 6, 2014


Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described socialist, called for a progressive
estate tax on multi-millionaires and billionaires during a speech on Saturday.


"A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much
while so many have so little,"� Mr. Sanders said at the Vermont AFL-CIO annual
convention.


"We need a tax system which asks the billionaire class to pay its fair share
of taxes and which reduces the obscene degree of wealth inequality in
America," said Mr. Sanders, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats.


According to Mr. Sanders, taxing the top .25 percent of wealthiest Americans
is the fairest way to reduce wealth inequality, lower the $17 trillion
national debt and pay for investments in infrastructure, education and other
neglected national priorities.


Mr. Sanders' proposal would not raise taxes for the remaining 99.75 percent of
Americans.


Former U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich said America "is
creating an aristocracy of wealth populated by heirs who don't have to work
for a living yet have great influence over how the nation's productive assets
are deployed,"� and called Mr. Sanders' tax proposal "a welcome step toward
reversing this trend."�


But according to a study conducted by the American Enterprise Institute,
raising taxes on the wealthy is not as effective as cutting spending to reduce
national debt and make up budget gaps.


Researchers examined 21 Organizations for Economic Cooperation and Development
countries between 1970 and 2007 and found that countries with successful
fiscal reforms, on average, closed 85 percent of budget gaps with spending
cuts, while countries that relied at least 50 percent on tax increases saw
failed fiscal reforms.
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You know....if I were an American multi-millionaire or billionaire, the very
next time some leftist asshole like Sanders or Feinstein got up and started
spewing `millionaires and billionaires paying their fair share of taxes'
bullshit publicly...I'd have whatever congressperson I was paying so much
high taxes to represent me stand up in the Congress and demand that people
like Sanders...Feinstein and co., either show where I've NOT paid my `fair
share', or make an immediate retraction IN Congress...AT the podium, right
where they've made such false charges!


I would further point out that, the IRS, and organization that can grant
or withhold tax-exempt status for any opposition political party they so
choose (ala Lois Lerner, etal), can also institute an audit of my or any
other millionaire or billionaire's taxes at will...bringing up tax info
on us from twenty years in the past to the present day (although they
can't seem to keep track of a few e-mails without experiencing selective
`hard drive crashes of info just a few years old!), and point out any
and all instances of where, exactly, we haven't `paid our fair share'!


Do so at their very next appearance in Congress....or *shut* *the*
*fuck* *up*!











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