GOP Senator Implies Those Who Aren't Millionaires Waste Money On 'Booze, Women'

[cawacko]

Grassley is definitely wrong in that rich people spend lots of money on women. I mean look at all the fancy things men purchase to impress women; cars, boats, travel, jewelry, etc.

But if comes from the mindset of The Millionaire Next Door frugality is what helped most those people reach that status. (Of course today the Fed gives the middle finger to savers).

[SmarterthanYou]

this isn't an uncommon perception among the political elite for several reasons, chief among them is that they consider themselves far and above higher class and overall more worthy of life and liberty than the rest of the lower wage earners. In other words, they're totally arrogant. It's a main reason why people talk about getting the money out of politics but have no intelligence about them in doing so because they fall for the koolaid and keep electing them. Secondly, they spend less on booze and women because it's usually supplied by lobbyists and corporate entities trying to buy favors and legislation.

[TTQ64]

He could have just stopped at the bottom earners spend more of their money. The top ones hang on to it. That's why stimulus spending and tax cuts for lower income people are effective ways to jump-start a flagging economy. And why giving tax cuts to the already-uber wealthy just increases economic inequality.

If you cut taxes, how do you recoup the revenue that we will lose?

How do we pay for education, infrastructure, social programs, healthcare etc.?

[cawacko]

Correct. But you'll never see Republicans give those who actually move the (real) economy a cut, without a much larger cut to those who don't need them. Odd, because the top of the food chain always ends up with the money after it's spent anyway.

What cut would you like to be see given?

[Thumper]

Not so much what you earn, so much as how. Wall Streeters, hedge fund workers, etc.

So now it matters how you earn. Not how much you earn? I don't only earn by the labor and skill I offer my employer. I invest, own rental properties and have developed a few products. Do I now meet your definition of top earner?

Don't paint with too broad a brush.

[evince]

never never never forget the people were CHEATED inthe election

DEMOCRACY WORKS

when it is not bastardized by bastards

[evince]

We have too many stupid people voting, and too many stupid people running the country.

This isn't me being intellectually arrogant or anything. It's just factual. This whole thing isn't working.

Philosopher king may really be the way to go...

this is the kind of shit that makes me suspect you!

[evince]

Pissing on Democracy when you KNOW the fucks have been trashing democracy by cheating people out of the rights to vote

[evince]

WTF?!! Who in hell are electing these kind of people?!!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-senat...022808743.html

In an astonishing defense of dropping “death taxes” for individual estates worth more than $5.5 million, GOP Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley implied that people not currently affected by that tax are “spending every darn penny ... on booze or women.”
“I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing — as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies,” Grassley told the Des Moines Register in an interview published Saturday. Grassley, who serves on the Finance Committee, made the remark when asked about the Senate tax reform measure which would double the exemption for estates to*$11 million*for an individual and $22 million for a couple. Heirs would inherit the estates tax-free.






who does he think buys the fucking products his wealthy fucks sell?


evil asshole


they really see themselves as fucking kings of the realm


the republican party is evil and hates democracy

[PostmodernProphet]

so as usual we have to ask, what did the guy REALLY say......

[SmarterthanYou]

If you cut taxes, how do you recoup the revenue that we will lose?

How do we pay for education, infrastructure, social programs, healthcare etc.?

you've never studied economic theories, am I right?

[cawacko]

He could have just stopped at the bottom earners spend more of their money. The top ones hang on to it. That's why stimulus spending and tax cuts for lower income people are effective ways to jump-start a flagging economy. And why giving tax cuts to the already-uber wealthy just increases economic inequality.

Rich people spend (blow) a lot of money too as well as invest. Like Patrick Ewing famously said "we make a lot but we spend a lot".

Rich folks generally don't just put their money under a mattress

[evince]

he said women are not voters only men are


does he think female votersspend money on women?

or does he think women should never buy anything for themselves?


his whole speach negated women as equal humans

[Althea]

If you cut taxes, how do you recoup the revenue that we will lose?

How do we pay for education, infrastructure, social programs, healthcare etc.?

The lie that Republicans are pushing, is that increased revenue via a boost to the economy/income taxes will have to happen when you give billionaires a tax cut.

[evince]

you've never studied economic theories, am I right?

dear fucking idiot


the fact do not prove what you claim


fuck you very much