then you turn around and do the same, justifying it by claiming my post wasnt worth responding to.
LOL, when have I ever done that? That's a page from your gameplan champ.
Attempting to justify your paranoia changes nothing. It merely highlights your inability to see your own flaws.
It's not an attempt, but oh wait, I forgot, you're psychic, right? Can you PLEASE tell me what color I'm think of right now, I really want to know!
What I really want to know, Prox, is how you became so brainwashed to consider a person's income as defining if its fair to take their EARNED income and give it to someone who did NOT EARN IT. All you focus on is "He has money, he can afford to give it to us!!!"... and then you claim to be the champion of what's fair here. Moron.
I would argue 75% of the super rich didn't "earn" more of their income at all. (
Executive Pay - TIME "The top five American CEOs earned a combined $322 million in income last year." I'm sure they really worked hard for all that money, much harder than all the middle class workers, they must have had to work, what, 10 hours a week?) Earning hundreds of millions of dollars doesn't mean you need hundreds of millions of dollars to live comfortably or even lavishly. Most people in this country barely make $1 million in their lifetime, let alone hundreds of millions.
Again, you're more worried about the millionaires and billionaires who have zero financial worries than the guy making $40k a year just hoping his kids can afford to go to a decent college. You can try to justify your devotion, but it doesn't change the obvious characterization. There is no alternative.
Correct. Know why? Because every time you claim there is no such thing as a conservative who cares about other people, who is smart, who is not a greedy sociopath... it only serves to highlight what a looney tune you really are.
No, I'm very sure it's because you simply can't. And besides, according to you, I'll never admit that I was wrong and I'll just keep repeating my argument, so you can have you cake, and eat it too. Exemplify some conservatives who aren't sheep or who don't care about anyone else so to prove me wrong, but then I'll keep making myself look loony anyway!
Actually, government helps the 'super rich' too.
Government's basic functions do (defense, roads, police/fire, etc) do, but none of the socialism aspects of the American government do. But you knew this, this is you just trying to be petty again.
you define the poor (the other 98%)
I never said that all of the 98% of people were "poor people". Keep making up bullshit though, it makes you look smart.
Like you say here, you think you have no disposable income.
No, again, you're making **** up. I never said I have no disposable income.
You deserve more, right pal?
No, I don't think anyone deserves more from the government as it stands. I just don't want the government to start doing
less to offset the 30 years of tax breaks on the rich. You'll never find me say "I want more from the government". All my arguments are saying that government should just increase taxes on the rich back to the level they were at for 50 years before Reagan, you know, during the most prosperous times for the middle class. And maybe restore some rights for unions (while all creating a check on over-powerful unions).
As for your lack of funds, you have enough to pay for your entertainment (computer, broadband, probably an xbox, nice flat screen tv maybe, car, car audio???, etc) and yet the best you can come up with to help these others you are so worried about is 'uh... I give the bum on the corner change through my car window sometimes'... its pathetic. You, are pathetic.
I also notice you dodged the point about your leisure time. How much time do you donate to helping the needy every month? Not one fucking minute, that's how long. So take your hypocritical ass somewhere where they might believe your double standards and self-serving 'charity'.
I make about $700 a month, working five days, minimum wage. How much disposable income do you think I have? I give $200 to my mom every month, I spend around $150 a month to pay for gas to get me to school and work. That leaves me with $350 to pay for everything else. After having to pay for car maintenance and **** like that, I probably have $3500 through a year as disposable. But because I don't give every last cent to some charity, that makes me a hypocrite because I think people who makes hundreds of thousands of dollars a year should pay extra in taxes. Take a step back and look how ridiculous you are being.
I'm not saying that the rich should spend ALL of their disposable income and ALL of their free time on charity that only helps less than 1% of people anyway (the homeless). I'm saying those with enormous incomes should be taxed more than the average person to pay for things beneficial to 99% of people.
I want to use the "sacrifice the 1 to save 99" metaphor, but it's not like you're sacrificing the rich. It's more like cutting the arm of 1 to save 99.
Anyway, I'm done defending your bullshit arguments about me being a hypocrite. You have in firmly in your head that you're psychic, know everything about me, so nothing I say, despite all the logic used, will change your mind. S
hit, you probably won't even read it anyway, let alone respond to it. If you want to call me a hypocrite to make yourself feel better, that is fine, it doesn't making taxing the richest 1% of people to benefit 99% of people unfair. Which is exactly what you're trying to accomplish.