"Dear Wealthy Fucks: Fuck you. Yours in Christ, the Black Guy"

[Admiral Yi]

And I figured you're in favor, so I guess that makes us even.

[Jacob]

And I figured you're in favor, so I guess that makes us even.

Great pair of analytical minds, us.

[Ed Anger]

Like watching 2 math nerds trying to pick up chicks.

[Jacob]

Like watching 2 math nerds trying to pick up chicks.

I figure it's all about the leverage...

[The Minsky Moment]

Eat me.  People who feel compelled to go all the way to France to buy vacation homes can lovingly trim my pubes into the shape of an American flag.

Huh.  Never figured Seedy for a Hamptons guy.

[Ed Anger]

Seedy goes to the Jersey Shore.

[CountDeMoney]

Eat me.  People who feel compelled to go all the way to France to buy vacation homes can lovingly trim my pubes into the shape of an American flag.

Huh.  Never figured Seedy for a Hamptons guy.

Whatever few scraps of taxes the 1% can't hide.

[CountDeMoney]

Seedy goes to the Jersey Shore.

I'm in Maryland;  the Jersey Shore has come to us.

[Ed Anger]

Seedy goes to the Jersey Shore.

I'm in Maryland;  the Jersey Shore has come to us.

[DontSayBanana]

I figure it's all about the leverage...

Please god, don't let this turn into a thread about the seduction community.

[Siege]

I'm going Galt.

Fuck yeah.

[Berkut]

I used to bitch about Dems because I knew that no matter how much more taxes were increased, and more wealth transfer was done, there would never come a point where they would say "Oh yeah, this is the right spot - this is how much we should spend on social services, and no more..."

Now I feel exactly the opposite - the Republicans have made it clear that there is no amount of wealth transfer to the already wealthy that is too much. No matter how much the system skews more and more towards the rich, the answer is never going to be "Hey, that seems a little out of line...should we do something about that?"

Right now the wealthy continue to become more wealthy, and at the expense of not just the poor but of the middle class and even the well off. This has been going on for some time, continues, even accelerates, and yet the answer from the right is always "Don't do anything, and even roll back things that have been done in the past - even tax rates that Reagan supported are too much!"

It is kind of mind boggling, really.

[The Brain]

Maybe you shouldn't be so partisan, Berkut.

[Siege]

It is kind of mind boggling, really.

What boggles my mind is how little you know of economics.
Do you want to know what happens when you rise taxes?
Look at France with the 75% tax for the rich, i forget whether capital gain or what exactly it was, which they expected would collect billions, but instead the rich fled the country and the punitive tax only collected a few millions.

Rise taxes to the rich and the professional class pays the price. Taxes are always pushed down to the consumer.

[crazy canuck]

It is kind of mind boggling, really.

Not sure why you would be surprised.  Republican ideology is all about getting government out of the lives of people to allow them to make their own way.  That ideological view necessarily rejects the kind of balancing you are talking about which is firmly within what Americans call liberal ideology.