Breaking Point?
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Anonymous
I think Citizens United means they don’t have to care. They work for their donors and only their donors. |
Anonymous
Yes, let's focus on what shoes people are wearing. That's the important thing here. F*ing scum conservatives. |
Anonymous
You call me an idiot? How many times do I have to tell you that expecting a poor person to go without a $200 pair of sneakers is not a punishment. "You are going to have to wear a $100 pair of shoes as punishment for being poor!" These liberal attitudes that poor people are entitled to throw out (taxpayer) unnecessarily or otherwise they're being punished is the source of a lot of problems. |
Anonymous
Not only do you miss the point, you have to throw in cursing insults. Such a liberal you are! |
Anonymous
The GDP has not grown at 4% or beyond. You are already banking on a forecast of one single quarter. Go count the 4% growth quarters over the last eight years. |
Anonymous
I hate disingenuous, strawman arguments. Newsflash, apparently breaking: many liberals know poor people - sometimes, liberals are poor people! - and poor people frequently go without. Not without $200 shoes, but with one or two pairs total. From Walmart. Handed down. TJMax. Goodwill. You make assumptions about the behaviors of poor people based on the stories you hear from right wing media and it's total baloney. If businesses shared the vast profits they reap with people who actually do the work, you'd have fewer people needing assistance. Evidently this is a difficult concept for some. |
Anonymous
CHAPTER 16 | Document 15 John Adams, Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States 1787 Works 6:8--9 Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two millions will have lands, houses, or any personal property; if we take into the account the women and children, or even if we leave them out of the question, a great majority of every nation is wholly destitute of property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other movables. Would Mr. Nedham be responsible that, if all were to be decided by a vote of the majority, the eight or nine millions who have no property, would not think of usurping over the rights of the one or two millions who have? Property is surely a right of mankind as really as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with its present possessors. Debts would be abolished first; taxes laid heavy on the rich, and not at all on the others; and at last a downright equal division of every thing be demanded, and voted. What would be the consequence of this? The idle, the vicious, the intemperate, would rush into the utmost extravagance of debauchery, sell and spend all their share, and then demand a new division of those who purchased from them. The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free. The Founders' Constitution Volume 1, Chapter 16, Document 15 http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s15.html The University of Chicago Press The Works of John Adams. Edited by Charles Francis Adams. 10 vols. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1850--56. See also: Butterfield; Cappon; Warren-Adams Letters |
Anonymous
| Looks like John Adams called it about right 230 years ago. |
Anonymous
Precisely. The problem is that the liberals will neither read nor comprehend that quote, so I have something more pithy that basically says the same thing: "When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic." - Ben Franklin |
Anonymous
LOL. "Liberal", as if it's an insult. Take a look in the mirror, you greedy scum. You focus on the poor while rich fill each others' pockets. Talk about unsustainable. |
Anonymous
FTFY |
Anonymous
You know who just voted themselves money? Millionaire GOP Senators. |
Anonymous
What is the gross income for the data represented in this chart? What is the AGI? How is middle class defined? I’ve posted my tax picture before: Obama year 2016 Single no dependents -income 130,000 Fed income tax. 23,000 Property tax 12000 State inc. tax. 4,000 Soc. Sec + Med. 10,000 Gas and sales abt. $ 2,000 No mortgage Interest to deduct. Taxes = $51,000. Plus I pay student loans not deductible with AGI over 65,000 Am I middle class? Or am I the wealthy that needs to pay more? Post your taxes that you pay. |
Anonymous
I found the more important words. Coincidentally, they are the part conservatives don't understand. Those puppets just voted to steal from 98% of us. Enjoy 2018, thief. 
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Anonymous
So you own a million dollar house free and clear? |