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Wealth Inequality in America

  • TroyTide said...

    I did. Again what's the point? How to you propose we solve this?

    Well, I would say step one is admitting we have a problem.

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  • fsufsu said...

    Its a quality of life issue. For all humans.

    Sounds like a personal problem. Some people just have it better than others

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  • fsufsu said...

    Yeah, didnt watch it but I am sure she believes since Obama has used the words wealth redistribution that he's a socialist right out of Czarist Russia. The super productive should lead super awesome lives. 1-10 mill a year supplies that and more. Above that should be hammered and 1-10 million earners should pay 45% or so IMO.

    And what becomes of this enormous piggy bank that you just created?

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  • I think it should be redistributed to people who are either proven physically unable to work or otherwise work at least 20 hours a week. Minimum wage jobs. We just want to create a nation where most households make at least 20K a year for each adult or at least 10K a year per child present. We have to try and erase the charity side of it. People need to be forced to contribute.

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  • Yea. I can't condone what fsufsu is saying, but a more progressive and flat tax system would be a good start.

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  • Jeff4SC said...

    Sounds like a personal problem. Some people just have it better than others

    LOL. Exactly. What I have learned from this thread is that rich people are rich, and the poor are poor...imagine that. Not sure how it effects my life, or why I should give a ****. I take its as I am supposed to get all jealous and want to knock those rich down a notch or two.

    This post was edited by TroyTide on 3/3/2013 at 10:51 PM

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  • TroyTide said...

    LOL. Exactly. What I have learned from this thread is that rich people are rich, and the poor are poor...imagine that. Not sure how it effects my life, or why I should give a ****. I take its as I am supposed to get all jealous and want to knock those rich down a notch or two.

    Without sounding like any side of the fence, do you really not care about other people? Especially those that need help?

    You should give a **** because we're not savages. We're supposed to care about each other.

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  • TroyTide is too stupid to realize that economies with higher inequality grow at a slower average pace than those in the middle of the bell curve.

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  • sf2k4 said...

    Without sounding like any side of the fence, do you really not care about other people? Especially those that need help?

    You should give a **** because we're not savages. We're supposed to care about each other.

    Pretty much what you are suggesting is a "level playing field" huh? Sorry, life isn't fair

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  • Jeff4SC said...

    Pretty much what you are suggesting is a "level playing field" huh? Sorry, life isn't fair

    That's not what I said at all.

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  • sf2k4 said...

    Without sounding like any side of the fence, do you really not care about other people? Especially those that need help?

    You should give a **** because we're not savages. We're supposed to care about each other.

    Very few people in this country are starving or have no where to live, and if someone is they must be the biggest moron on the planet since they live in a society in which the government actively advertises public assistance like free food, money and housing for people like them.

    TroyTide

  • Jeff4SC said...

    Pretty much what you are suggesting is a "level playing field" huh? Sorry, life isn't fair

    Lol

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  • sf2k4 said...

    That's not what I said at all.

    Well what are you then?

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  • BamaLivesFootba said...

    Lol

    Exactly what are you laughing at?

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  • fsufsu said...

    I think it should be redistributed to people who are either proven physically unable to work or otherwise work at least 20 hours a week. Minimum wage jobs. We just want to create a nation where most households make at least 20K a year for each adult or at least 10K a year per child present. We have to try and erase the charity side of it. People need to be forced to contribute.

    You know you can't use that word. Haha. If that were the case WTF would the govt do. You really think they are going to want to have people less dependant on them. They bank on the fact that people "need " them. All that does is turn the "rich" into the govt. giving handouts to others. Doesn't solve the problem of equality. Still same problem just someone else footing the bill

    This post was edited by Go bucky go on 3/3/2013 at 11:00 PM

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  • Jeff4SC said...

    Pretty much what you are suggesting is a "level playing field" huh? Sorry, life isn't fair

    In any proposed economy the ultra productive would still have far and away more than the middle class and common citizen. Their lives would not compare.

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  • fsufsu said...

    I think it should be redistributed to people who are either proven physically unable to work or otherwise work at least 20 hours a week. Minimum wage jobs. We just want to create a nation where most households make at least 20K a year for each adult or at least 10K a year per child present. We have to try and erase the charity side of it. People need to be forced to contribute.

    Lol. Forced to contribute their hard earned money huh?

    This post was edited by Jeff4SC on 3/3/2013 at 11:01 PM

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  • BamaLivesFootba said...

    TroyTide is too stupid to realize that economies with higher inequality grow at a slower average pace than those in the middle of the bell curve.

    How much more unequal are we than those other societies? Please show me the vast difference.

    Also of many of those "more equal societies" the average person accumulates less in a lifetime than the average American.

    TroyTide

  • Jeff4SC said...

    Well what are you then?

    That we should CARE. We can have discussions ad nausea about welfare, social programs, whatever. I've been on both sides of said discussions. It's the total disregard and flippant care for the life of another human being that bothers me. We're not plants. We're not dogs. Hell, we're not even Russians or Koreans or whatever. We're AMERICANS and we're HUMAN BEINGS. We're supposed to care about each other, supposed to be neighbors.

    "For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’"

    —Deuteronomy 15:11

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  • BamaLivesFootba said...

    TT made that number up arbitrarily.

    It's just talking about the differences between the ideal, perceived and real levels of equality.

    Actually no, another poster "fsufsu" is the one who made it up.

    TroyTide

  • sf2k4 said...

    That we should CARE. We can have discussions ad nausea about welfare, social programs, whatever. I've been on both sides of said discussions. It's the total disregard and flippant care for the life of another human being that bothers me. We're not plants. We're not dogs. Hell, we're not even Russians or Koreans or whatever. We're AMERICANS and we're HUMAN BEINGS. We're supposed to care about each other, supposed to be neighbors.

    "For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’"

    —Deuteronomy 15:11

    And people can care for each other without taking others money in which they have worked hard for.

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  • fsufsu said...

    Its a quality of life issue. For all humans.

    Don't see how Bill Gates getting richer affects my life any, but whatever.

    TroyTide

  • Jeff4SC said...

    And people can care for each other without taking others money in which they have worked hard for.

    No, people don't care. That's the point. I've seen it time and time again in multiple threads on here. People don't care about other people. It's as obvious as the night sky outside my window.

    And really, what's so wrong with giving a little bit to help those that need it? That's just another example of not caring. Giving a little to help =/= giving all to help a freeloader, but that's what people equate it to. And I've never supported that.

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  • sf2k4 said...

    No, people don't care. That's the point. I've seen it time and time again in multiple threads on here. People don't care about other people. It's as obvious as the night sky outside my window.

    And really, what's so wrong with giving a little bit to help those that need it? That's just another example of not caring. Giving a little to help =/= giving all to help a freeloader, but that's what people equate it to. And I've never supported that.

    No one should be required to give any of their money if they do not want to.

    If people need more money....get another job

    This post was edited by Jeff4SC on 3/3/2013 at 11:09 PM

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  • Jeff4SC said...

    Lol. Forced to contribute their hard earned money huh?

    Obviously I said forced to contribute as in work.

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