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11 Things The Wealthiest 400 Americans Could Buy Their Country

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Harry Guerrilla said:
How so?
If you mean by income, I fall into the bottom 50%.
I just don't blame others for my failures in life.
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So - poor people are failures? I'm really not following your rationale for all this vitriol anymore, Mr. Guerilla. It's like your perma-pissed that anybody noticed our economy has gone wonky.
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
Things like this, are a honey potion for the very ignorant.
As if paying for everyone's gas would actually solve monetary behavior problems
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So everybody who disagrees with you is "very ignorant?" Really??
 
BDBoop said:
So - poor people are failures? I'm really not following your rationale for all this vitriol anymore, Mr. Guerilla. It's like your perma-pissed that anybody noticed our economy has gone wonky.
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I don't believe that "poor" is an income level.
It is a measurement of behavior.

Would you really suggest, that all people below income level X need to have these things paid for by someone else?
How do have such knowledge?
 
Badmutha said:
Yes Norway and its 190% Debt/GDP.........Germany and its 160% Debt/GDP...........and Austria and its 230% Debt/GDP are clearly the liberal states of BANKRUPTCY this country should emulate.........Good Call!


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Can you find me one economist or one article that talks about any of those nations being at risk of collapse?

As soon as you do, you can call them bankrupt.

Donald Trump has a ****-ton of debt, I assure you. So do most large corporations. The debt itself doesn't matter - it's your ability to pay it back.

Greece is in crisis because its creditors doubt its ability to pay them.

So you're in favor of not paying our debts to solve our debt issues? Is that what you're suggesting?
 
UtahBill said:
and in this country, the peasants have the 2nd amendment....
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I love the rich haters constantly talking about armed rebellion
 
BDBoop said:
Yeah, it kinda is (expected). "To whom much is given, much is asked." Or some version thereof. Wealth is a responsibility, not a gimme.

I wish people could remember. The peasants and serfs always end up revolting when things get too bad.
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what were the rich GIVEN by the government that you were not given?

they were not given anything-they or their families EARNED it. that is one of the major myths you lefties operate under-you base your BS on the myth that rich people were just handed money by the government and that justifies the government taking a huge chunk of it back
 
Screw this freedom stuff, let's pillage those rich ****ers!!
Burn some witches while you're at it.

Economic freedom?? We are sick and tired of that!! That's so 1990s!!
 
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cpwill said:
well let's see. their wealth is mostly in investments....

so what the OP is actually saying is, if we were to destroy our economy, break up and sell off the pieces at fire-sale prices, for the short time that we have left we could....
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I don't get what that even means.

Just fyi Buffett and Gates typically use 80%+ of their annual earnings towards charity and has also asked many of the richest Americans to give up at least half their networth to charities. While I could go on about what Gates and company do or don't do, here is a link and I think nearly every billionaire out there would agree there is def a massive inequality out there.

For one to say "Oh why don't you go out and be a billionaire" simply shows how little one can grasp what it takes to do such a thing. Most of our wealthiest people came from good, stable, typically rich families such as say, Bill Gates. Not every child or person was that lucky.
 
This thread is appealing to greed... making people hungry for other peoples money... pretty sick if you ask me.
 
TurtleDude said:
Income redistribution doesn't create jobs. what it creates are unambitious sloths. THe ones who sit around blaming the rich for their failure to succeed
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If income hoarding created jobs, then we'd have an unemployment rate at about 3% then, right?

If the rich would do something like pay for everyone's mortgage for a year (this is hypothetical, I'm not suggesting that they should), that would free up Billions of dollars to be spent elsewhere, thus creating jobs.

We are a consumer-driven economy. We MUST have consumers and the more, the better for EVERYONE - including the wealthy.

Further, if people would wake up - why are Germany, Canada, Norway, Denmark and others more stable than we are? I would argue one thing: healthcare. Our system ties business down because so much of our healthcare is tied directly to work. Even the rising costs of education has to do with providing healthcare benefits for teachers and staff.

If we actually fix our healthcare system - instead of just continually putting band-aids on it, we might finally have the stimulus this economy needs to start shining again.

Oh, and our infrastructure is falling apart. We should be fixing that (and thus creating jobs) instead of letting everything fall apart around us in the name of "individualism".
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
Things like this, are a honey potion for the very ignorant.
As if paying for everyone's gas would actually solve monetary behavior problems
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Havent you heard? All you had to do was vote for Obama...and he would take care of your house...your car...your gas...
 

If we had a real president who had a consistent and predictable pro growth policy I bet you'd see a lot more investment. Instead we have an ass clown who cannot make up his mind and then utters stupefying bull crap like hiking capital gains taxes are good from a "fairness" standpoint even if it doesn't help the economy or raises revenues.

this turd extends the Bush tax rates and then whines that those who pay 40% of the income taxes don't pay enough
 
celticwar17 said:
Why???????
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Its a throwaway line lefties often make when they don't like what you have said and they don't have an intelligent way of countering it
 
JohnWOlin said:
There is a lot of irony in this post.
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If you mean they earned their money and your brought their services and that somehow compares to taking their money for services you wish to have, yeah sure.

If that somehow compares that is.
 
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Nobody is asking them to, or suggesting they do so. It's a way of measuring just how much money has disappeared from our economy. It would take a special kind of stupid to read it as a 'recommendation', but then, consider the source.
 
1Perry said:
Comment? I have no idea what the point is supposed to be.
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If we just used the Government to TAKE form those evil Rich people and give their wealth to the Workers all would be PARADISE!

What really happens is the wealth gets taken till there is no more wealth to take, then just a few political elite sit from on high and tell us how equal we are now. Which is what has always happened, and will always happen in Socialist Countries.
 

Okay, so you acknowledge that hoarding wealth isn't doing our nation any good.

We've at least taken a step here.
 
FilmFestGuy said:
Okay, so you acknowledge that hoarding wealth isn't doing our nation any good.

We've at least taken a step here.
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They generally don't hoard it, where do you think money for home mortgages, bank loans for small businesses, IPO's for corporations, bonds for governments, etc, etc, comes from???
 
BDBoop said:
Yeah, it kinda is (expected). "To whom much is given, much is asked." Or some version thereof. Wealth is a responsibility, not a gimme.
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for charity, yes. not for government.

I wish people could remember. The peasants and serfs always end up revolting when things get too bad.
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this is incorrect. revolutions in the industrialized world tend to happen when a rising middle class has it's expectations dashed.
 
MrVicchio said:
If we just used the Government to TAKE form those evil Rich people and give their wealth to the Workers all would be PARADISE!
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and thats not the half of it! think of all the great things we could do if we took all the wealth from the middle class!!!

you know what, screw it. let's take everyone's wealth... yeah! and then we can redistribute it according to need, but force people to keep working so we don't starve. woohooo! the historically proven path to wealth!
 

a token few are prosecuted, when ALL of them should be in jail...
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
I don't believe that "poor" is an income level.
It is a measurement of behavior.

Would you really suggest, that all people below income level X need to have these things paid for by someone else?
How do have such knowledge?
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paid for by themselves, if they can have jobs....where are those jobs? overseas.....
 
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