Viper1 said:
osamanobama said:
Viper1 said:
fordy said:
Your whole "equality" agenda bullshit is pure hypocrisy. So tell me, if you're for equality, why do you support people inheriting large sums of money and effectively having a leg-up against the rest? Not exactly equality, is it? Oh that's right, you're only for equality when it suits you.
Yes, Wall Street gave plenty to Obama and he's been the best conservative president in modern times. Funny how that works.
Correction, socialism is the equal distribution of all wealth. Capitalism stamps the poor down further in order to raise the value of the dollar. After all, there have to be classes that do the dirty work, right? You conservatives claim "everyone can be rich if they want to", but you realise what that ideology would lead to? Extreme inflation, and the dollar becoming worth less. Thereby, the wealthy like to keep their little collective group small in able to keep the value of their wealth high.
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You are confusing Capitalism with Corporatism. America hasn't been a Capitalist economy for a very long time.
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thats it, out of of the crap he spewed, you only correct him on him mixing up corporitism with capitalism. surely you can do better than that, like address his laughable death tax agument, if you can call it that.
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I consider it a bigger root issue. Once you understand this concept, understanding the others becomes more clear.
Fordy, do you not understand the absolute impossibility of an equal start in life? Do you plan for every child to have the same parents with the same income? That's a rather communist direction, wouldn't you say?
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Yes, I am aware of it. Even with an estate tax, the wealthy still have the upper hand throughout the life of the parent. I'm not saying 100% estate tax is the solution to fully solve it, but I believe it would make a hell of a difference.
If anything, ingenuity should be rewarded, not just the pure luck that you happened to be born into a better-off family.
