No, conservatives choose for each individual to pursue whatever it is they want to do in life and hopefully succeed. You keep talking about "helping" other people...except the way you want to help them is by taking what doesn't belong to you and giving it to someone else. Feel free to show me where Jesus advocates stealing in the name of the common good.
You know what my utopia is? Where whoever is willing and able to work actually has a job. That's pretty much it...because if that were to happen, you'd see a lot of today's social problems start disappearing. The best way to achieve "common good" is for everyone to use whatever talents they were blessed with to better themselves...not to create dependency in order for their pimp leaders to maintain their place in the oligarchy.
I think people paying such little taxes is actually stealing. Like Obama says, you didn't build everything and there are very hard people who work to make this a place where people can succeed. But acting like someone just goes out and makes tons of money with out utilizing the infrastructure, education, and security this country provides... is insane.
Other than that, I don't care about raising taxes... what we should be doing is deficit spending.
The fact you can look at a place like Wal Mart where the family members that didn't even build it have more money than the bottom 33% of Americans yet they are forcing workers to work less than a certain number of hours so they don't have to pay them healthcare, and act like they are suffering because of taxes is sickening.
The 400 wealthiest Americans have more money than the bottom 150,000,000 Americans combined. Half the country.
And they keep getting wealthier while continuing to fight against laborers, educators, and the poor. It's absolutely sickening. We have a GINI index that is amongst 3rd world countries. Last time the wealth gap was this wide was right before the Great Depression.
So many levels of stupid in this post, I don't even know where to begin.
Back to the "you didn't build that" shit? What exactly does this mean...that everyone who starts a business on a given road is forever indebted whoever built that road? Businesses already pay a shitload of taxes...that's their form of saying "Thanks" to the government for all that. What really is insane is for someone who was not there during the business inception and risk taking to suddenly declare themselves as recipients of the rewards of the success.
Other than that, you only want to raise taxes to punish successful people. Duly noted. And I certainly hope you voluntarily gave all your alleged 100k+ income to the feds last year...because if those numbers are somehow accurate, then you are one of 1%ers you and that fat tub of shit Michael Moore railed against.
Yeah, the 400 wealthiest Americans have an uneven amount of wealth compared to the 150mil. Now why don't you tell us which of those two groups pays more in taxes. If you want to talk about widening gaps, take a look at the tax revenue demographic in the last 20 years:
Next, you're seriously shocked that companies have decided to put more people onto part-time status with the implementation of Obamacare? Unless you've lived under a rock since its inception, conservatives predicted this would happen. Business owners usually aren't stupid...they can't suddenly absorb a giant new cost and just go on without skipping a beat. For someone who claims to know a lot about business, you really don't know a damn thing.
Finally, if someone's dream job is to work at Wal Mart, then they need to accept the consequences of that decision. I said I want everyone to have the opportunity to pursue their dream. There is nothing at all wrong with using Wal Mart as a stepping stone towards something bigger and better.
I now reminded myself why I don't bother responding to your posts anymore. You do nothing but whine proletariat rhetoric...and steamrolling your weak-ass arguments every single time is a waste of my time.
Military, police force, education of laborers, infrastructure, technology like the Internet, cell phones, etc. The wealthy benefit far more from the government than the rest. They use far more government resources.
Well yea, if they are making more money than the rest they probably are going to be paying more taxes then the rest. Just basic math.
They did the same thing before Obamacare. Preventing employees from being at a full time level to receive benefits has been an issue for decades.
Everyone does not have an opportunity to pursue their dream. You think people dream of stocking shelves at Wal Mart? You think Chinese sweat shop workers dream of working 12 hours a day for a $1 an hour? Lmao, people choose what is available and necessary for their survival. Which is why Democrats want to make those choices more beneficial for the laborers and educate individuals to have more opportunities.
Your theory would drive laborers in to slaves. That's basically what capitalism ends up as. Few resources owners and a bunch of uneducated slaves.
