Vegas Free-for-All - Income Inequality

Income Inequality

forkushV

May 5, 2016
2:34am

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Originally posted by: Roulette Man

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Originally posted by: forkushV
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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
...Forkie either is being disingenuous or just doesn't get it. Either way, he is not a very good numbers person. Here is a guy who doesn't pay his fair share and doesn't do any volunteer work, but whines like crazy that he is entitled.
Those who rely on Roulette Man's personal attacks might want to reconsider.

That's about your speed and I figured that because you are getting your ass handed to you, that you would probably resort to it. All I said when that girl made the report was to wait for the evidence, while you had convicted her.

Is it true you don't work Forkie?

I wish. Alas, though I aspire to a life of leisure like Marco Rubio, I have yet to achieve it.

Now about me being entitled:

I have never received welfare, unlike Rush Limbaugh.

I never had Social Security finance my college education, unlike Paul Ryan.

I've never had the taxpayers pay for a stadium, unlike Jeb!

I remained eligible for the draft, unlike Mitt Romney who escaped it by going to France.

I never received an affirmative action for white guys admission to Yale or Harvard, unlike George W. Bush.

I've never gone to federal court to escape my debts, unlike Donald Trump (4x).

My employer provided health insurance isn't subsidized (although it is non-taxable compensation).

I don't even have an Obamaphone.

And regarding digging up your past idiocies, stop lying about me or I'll keep telling the truth about you.

Roulette Man

May 5, 2016
2:47am

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Originally posted by: forkushV

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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
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Originally posted by: forkushV
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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
...Forkie either is being disingenuous or just doesn't get it. Either way, he is not a very good numbers person. Here is a guy who doesn't pay his fair share and doesn't do any volunteer work, but whines like crazy that he is entitled.
Those who rely on Roulette Man's personal attacks might want to reconsider.

That's about your speed and I figured that because you are getting your ass handed to you, that you would probably resort to it. All I said when that girl made the report was to wait for the evidence, while you had convicted her.

Is it true you don't work Forkie?

I wish. Alas, though I aspire to a life of leisure like Marco Rubio, I have yet to achieve it.

Now about me being entitled:

I have never received welfare, unlike Rush Limbaugh.

I never had Social Security finance my college education, unlike Paul Ryan.

I've never had the taxpayers pay for a stadium, unlike Jeb!

I remained eligible for the draft, unlike Mitt Romney who escaped it by going to France.

I never received an affirmative action for white guys admission to Yale or Harvard, unlike George W. Bush.

I've never gone to federal court to escape my debts, unlike Donald Trump (4x).

My employer provided health insurance isn't subsidized (although it is non-taxable compensation).

I don't even have an Obamaphone.

And regarding digging up your past idiocies, stop lying about me or I'll keep telling the truth about you.

I only asked you the question because someone else stated it and you didn't refute it. I haven't lied about you at all. I really wish you would stop your disinformation campaign and please stop whining.

Boilerman

May 5, 2016
2:50am

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Do you consume more government services and subsidies than you pay for? Why does Forkie think that a rich guy, who pays for all of his government services used, plus that for a thousand more people, should give you even more money?

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Originally posted by: forkushV

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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
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Originally posted by: forkushV
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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
...Forkie either is being disingenuous or just doesn't get it. Either way, he is not a very good numbers person. Here is a guy who doesn't pay his fair share and doesn't do any volunteer work, but whines like crazy that he is entitled.
Those who rely on Roulette Man's personal attacks might want to reconsider.

That's about your speed and I figured that because you are getting your ass handed to you, that you would probably resort to it. All I said when that girl made the report was to wait for the evidence, while you had convicted her.

Is it true you don't work Forkie?

I wish. Alas, though I aspire to a life of leisure like Marco Rubio, I have yet to achieve it.

Now about me being entitled:

I have never received welfare, unlike Rush Limbaugh.

I never had Social Security finance my college education, unlike Paul Ryan.

I've never had the taxpayers pay for a stadium, unlike Jeb!

I remained eligible for the draft, unlike Mitt Romney who escaped it by going to France.

I never received an affirmative action for white guys admission to Yale or Harvard, unlike George W. Bush.

I've never gone to federal court to escape my debts, unlike Donald Trump (4x).

My employer provided health insurance isn't subsidized (although it is non-taxable compensation).

I don't even have an Obamaphone.

And regarding digging up your past idiocies, stop lying about me or I'll keep telling the truth about you.

pjstroh

May 5, 2016
2:54am

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Originally posted by: Boilerman
Do you consume more government services and subsidies than you pay for? Why does Forkie think that a rich guy, who pays for all of his government services used, plus that for a thousand more people, should give you even more money?

You should direct this question to the candidate you will be voting for in November because he agrees with Forkush....as does Warren Buffet...and Bill Gates.....and countless rich guys who pay for all of Boilerman's handouts.

forkushV

May 5, 2016
2:32pm

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Originally posted by: Roulette Man

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Originally posted by: forkushV
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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
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Originally posted by: forkushV
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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
...Forkie either is being disingenuous or just doesn't get it. Either way, he is not a very good numbers person. Here is a guy who doesn't pay his fair share and doesn't do any volunteer work, but whines like crazy that he is entitled.
Those who rely on Roulette Man's personal attacks might want to reconsider.

That's about your speed and I figured that because you are getting your ass handed to you, that you would probably resort to it. All I said when that girl made the report was to wait for the evidence, while you had convicted her.

Is it true you don't work Forkie?
I wish. Alas, though I aspire to a life of leisure like Marco Rubio, I have yet to achieve it.

Now about me being entitled:

I have never received welfare, unlike Rush Limbaugh.
I never had Social Security finance my college education, unlike Paul Ryan.
I've never had the taxpayers pay for a stadium, unlike Jeb!
I remained eligible for the draft, unlike Mitt Romney who escaped it by going to France.
I never received an affirmative action for white guys admission to Yale or Harvard, unlike George W. Bush.
I've never gone to federal court to escape my debts, unlike Donald Trump (4x).
My employer provided health insurance isn't subsidized (although it is non-taxable compensation).
I don't even have an Obamaphone.

And regarding digging up your past idiocies, stop lying about me or I'll keep telling the truth about you.

I only asked you the question because someone else stated it and you didn't refute it. I haven't lied about you at all...

I may have misinterpreted your question, so my bad. And in case you were concerned, my "telling the truth about you" has nothing to do with the technical glitch that temporarily exposed your identity. I didn't save that information and have since forgotten it. The only personal information that I have on you is that you're a tall white guy who seems to know a lot about taxes.

CowboyKell

May 5, 2016
3:34pm

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There is nothing intrinsically wrong with a gap between those who earn much and those who earn little. Nothing. Not even if the gap is huge. And growing.

In fact, in an environment of freedom, we should expect the gap between those earning the most and those earning the least, to grow.

Not because those at the bottom go down. In an environment of freedom, those at the bottom as well as those at the top tend to rise: most free people create some wealth by producing some value for others.

The difference is that those at the top are among the most productive, producing more value for more people, so they often rise faster than those at the bottom rise.

There IS, however, something intrinsically wrong when a few in government decide to give perks, subsidies, regulatory advantages, and special favors to select friends in the business world. The way to right this wrong is simple: get government out of the business world.

ecomstoc

May 5, 2016
9:29pm

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It's ironic that those in Gov't that want to redistribute the wealth enrich themselves. Actually it is the ploy they use to get votes from the bottom feeders. I think the reality is that they could care less about the inequity. I don't see any of them living in a 2000 sq. ft. home and minimizing their own consumption. Another term for bottom feeders is "suckers".

forkushV

May 6, 2016
4:29am

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Originally posted by: ecomstoc
It's ironic that those in Gov't that want to redistribute the wealth enrich themselves...

Yup. When top 1% of Texans pay 2.9% in total state and local taxes, while the poorest Texans pay 12.9%, that is the very definition of income distribution. The game is rigged.

forkushV

May 6, 2016
5:01am

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Originally posted by: CowboyKell
...The way to right this wrong is simple: get government out of the business world.

Because deregulating Wall Street worked out so well.

And who says payday lenders shouldn't be able to charge our young troops 700% interest?

And yeah, let's run our government like a business, move toward privatizing utilities, and start counting the pennies. By the way, welcome to Flint Michigan. In contrast, last year California produced more jobs than Texas and Florida combined, while tiny government Wisconsin is trailing badly to all it's Midwestern neighbors and right-wing loon hot house Kansas is a basket case.

Meanwhile, Chris Christie privatized the New Jersey lottery and the state lost millions as a result. Pennsylvania privatized the hiring of substitute teachers, it cost millions, and left children without teachers. And nationiwide charter schools get higher test scores by cherry-picking their students and kicking out the bad ones right before test day. The free market at work!

Privatizing our national security apparatus has worked wonders; just ask Edward Snowden. And didn't those $150 per hour trigger-happy Blackwater rent-a-cops work wonders in helping us win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people?

Oh, but that one time someone was rude or lazy at the DMV, so government = bad.

Small government and privatization has worked out about as well as trickle-down economics, hasn't it? Maybe we should dig up Reagan and place him in a tomb next to Lenin's. You know, a monument to two utterly failed economic theories.

jatki

May 6, 2016
9:25am

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Originally posted by: ecomstoc
It's ironic that those in Gov't that want to redistribute the wealth enrich themselves. Actually it is the ploy they use to get votes from the bottom feeders. I think the reality is that they could care less about the inequity. I don't see any of them living in a 2000 sq. ft. home and minimizing their own consumption. Another term for bottom feeders is "suckers".

I'm not sure I could agree more. I have to say Bernie is one of the exceptions along with a few of the other legislators who have a low bank acct. It's fairly simple, look at the guys bank worth before and after they're in office.

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