Into the Night (05-16-2021)
I think those who have become rich beyond their wildest dreams ought to be told when they retire congratulations, you don't get social security, wasn't designed for people like you.
If you made $7000 per hour 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year, since the time of Christ, you would not have as much money as Jeff Bezos. If his tax rate were 90% he still could have a dozen mansions with yachts tied up outside each one. This country gave him the people and opportunity to make such a fortune and that country is in debt over 25 trillion dollars. Something is wrong with that picture. I'm not against the rich they should be congratulated and be able to live a life of luxury but there comes a point when they should be paying a higher tax rate than their secretary making hundreds of thousands of times less of a salary.
Sorry but Obama was 100% correct when he said to people like Jeff, "you didn't build that all by yourself". Without what the USA provided for people like Jeff they never would be where they are today.
Nope, call it stupidity. A truly capitalistic country would not have guys like Romney making 20 million per year and paying a tax rate less than his secretary making $75,000.
Besides, it was a republican (Reagan) who said "I'm not worried about the debt, it's big enough to take care of itself."
Phantasmal (05-16-2021)
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Phantasmal (05-16-2021)
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