The sad state of the US people.

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The Ghost of RubangB said:

The funny thing is Oprah made $275 million last year. That is just nuts. She's voting for Obama. Most insanely rich people are somehow Democratic, because they're wealthy beyond the point of counting the zeroes on their payczechs. She already gives dozens of cars away at a time anyway. Even Warren Buffet and Bill Gates (the world's 2 richest people) are both for progressive tax rates and are both for an inheritance tax.


But saying "I want to make their money mine" is not the right idea. We already have a progressive tax. It's not like we're jumping ship from a pure free market to pure communism. We'll hopefully never have to deal with either of those in America. We're just moving the numbers around a little bit due to a GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS.

 

 I did not say that no money from a rich person should go to the poor just because they are poor. I am not rich, so it is kinda hard for me to be an elitest..... The Government should not be the ones to redistrubute the wealth. If I were rich I would give a ton of money to scholorship funds, or to kids who want to go to school directly. Many of them are not lazy and are smart, but their parents have made stupid choices or are lazy so they might now have a fair shake. The problem is that lazy good for nothing people get the handout too when the government is doling it out.

About those 2 above, Gates and Buffet are so incredibly rich I am sure it would not be a big deal to them... But there is not a special tax for who have 20 billion or more dollars is there? Thus the reason the dump their money in charities they believe in.... How it should be.

If you want to talk about a true elitist look at Joe Biden, I encourage you to look at his charitible giving. The come back and tell that the Robin Hood BS he spews out is not just because he knows it get his more votes.

Athletes, they are kinda a funny group. Many of them have more money than their intelligence would normally allow them to acrue. Many of them are bankrupt within a few years of being out of the leauge. Some are good with money and actually do better once they get out of sports, especially by using their Name and Image. Another funny thing about them is most of them don't realize they fall within the top 1%. But enough about them.