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txrattlesnake on 23 April 2009
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HappySqurriel said:
txrattlesnake said:U

I'm sure that a sizeable proportion of those that go to Tea Parties make over $250,000.00 a year and are doing so because they don't want any of their wealth to be redistributed to the poor through higher taxes on those in their income group. I'm equally sure that poorer white people who attend such groups generally have a low level of education and are doing so because they don't like having a black president in the US.

I would be interested to see a demographical breakdown that shows how many African Americans attended Tea Parties versus the number of wealthier (incomes of $250,000.00 a year wage earners) white people attend tea parties.

 

 


First off, income is an awful metric on how wealthy someone is because income levels are heavily related to the cost of living in a particular area and people can (often) be much "wealthier" earning $60,000 in a less expensive area than $100,000 in a more expensive area ...

Beyond that different wealthy people support both parties and their political actions in a large part because they benefit from it ... While there are some wealthy people who would like to pay less taxes (even though the top 10% of earners pay more taxes than the bottom 90% combined) there are also lots of really rich people (like Bill Gates) who can off-load their expenses (like building a bridge between Microsoft's two campuses) to the government and pocket the savings.

The fact is that the real problem in America is that both sides of the political spectrum have legitimate concerns, and no matter how much people promise to be "Bi-Partisan" they always ignore the other side of an issue for political gain and it takes much longer to fix any problems (at a much higher cost) ...

Now, sice you want Black people who disagree with Obama you should check out the ZoNation videos on Youtube ... The host is very well spoken and quite entertaining.

 

      If the people are living in an area where there cost of living is taking such a huge chunk out of their earnings, then they need to move.

  "(even though the top 10% of earners pay more taxes than the bottom 90% combined)"

That's cherry picking because if one person is making $15,000.00 a year but has $5,000.00 taken out of their paycheck each year still has much less funds available to them for quality healthcare than someone that is making $250,000.00 a year and has $50,000.00 taken out at the end of the year in taxes.

 

"The fact is that the real problem in America is that both sides of the political spectrum have legitimate concerns, and no matter how much people promise to be "Bi-Partisan" they always ignore the other side of an issue for political gain and it takes much longer to fix any problems (at a much higher cost) ..."

Well, depending on how wide the tensions grow between the parties on both sides of this spectrum, then there could be a civil war and / or civil unrest in the US supporting my main point in this thread.

 

"Now, sice you want Black people who disagree with Obama you should check out the ZoNation videos on Youtube ... The host is very well spoken and quite entertaining."

Might be interesting to find out.  But I usually find that the black people that don't agree with Obama are pretty much like the racist poor whites.  They're generally being Uncle Toms for people like Hannity and Limbaugh or they don't like the fact that Obama is willing to give cabinet positions to white people and wants to help out all people instead of just black people.