Income disparity is what we all should be upset about

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fish82
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Mar 14, 2011 1:05pm
Thread Bomber;711427 wrote:The same old mantra.... The richest 1 percent pays 80% of the taxes. DUH!!!! The also have 80% of the money.

Bill Maher said it Best last Friday. ( yeh, I know.. he's a socialist liberal.)

"A 100 people pitch in and buy a pizza with a 100 slices, the 1st guy walks in and takes 80 of them. If you say wait a minute, you can only have 79, the cry, get your hands out of my pizza! that's socialist!"
I don't know for a fact that he's a "socialist liberal," but he is an bitter little retard...you'd do better to find some other failed celebrities to quote. Did Sean Penn not give any interviews this week?
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Tobias Fünke
Posts: 2,387
Mar 14, 2011 4:53pm
O-Trap;711443 wrote: Mind = blownt! :D

hahahaha

My point is though that pure capitalism can be just as bad as socialism. I'm not really sold on laissez-faire economics, I think the federal government's power, not government's power, is what destroys economies. I don't have anything wrong with localized government.
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believer
Posts: 8,153
Mar 14, 2011 6:32pm
Tobias Fünke;712026 wrote:hahahaha

My point is though that pure capitalism can be just as bad as socialism. I'm not really sold on laissez-faire economics, I think the federal government's power, not government's power, is what destroys economies. I don't have anything wrong with localized government.
You mean get Washington out of our lives and let the people govern? Damn...that's a great idea! :p
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Tobias Fünke
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Mar 14, 2011 7:47pm
I've been saying it since the beginning, just because Washington sucks a dick doesn't mean Columbus necessarily would. For that reason I am equally against big-government Democrats and the no-government Tea Party folk. So I guess it's safe to say I could care less what party you're in...I simply think the bell curve of governmental efficiency reaches its vertex at the state level and that's what I want to work towards.

EDIT: If anything, yelling at your politicians in Columbus is much easier to do than the ones in Washington, and thus change can actually happen.