"You didn't build that" - Obama

[Mr Khan]

badgenome said:

gergroy said:

I think rich people probably do need to pay more taxes, but not to redistribute to poorer people.  They should pay more taxes and that money should be used to pay down the freaking deficit.  I think republicans need to bend on taxes or we are never going to get the deficit reduced.  I also think democrats need to bend on cutting social programs.  Deficit is one of the most important issues in my opinion.  

Here's the problem with that: we don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. If we raised taxes by the amount that the Democrats want to, it will cover about a week's worth of federal government expenditures. The Democrats don't even pretend that it's going to help the deficit, which is why they constantly fall back on the "fairness" bullshit.

As far as what Obama said, it's incredibly offensive whether he meant, "You didn't build that business," or, "You didn't build that road/bridge/whatever." Just because the government can build a fucking a road (paid for with taxpayer money) means that some prissy little asshole who has never done a day's work in his entire goddamn life is entitled to confiscate your wealth and use it as he sees fit? Fuck that.

Let's try picking a country where those prissy little assholes don't exist. Oh, let's say, Somalia. Pleasant country, that, where no-one is confiscating or redistributing anything.