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Originally Posted by Gridlock
Oh yeah...perfect example. Here's a guy! Quick, get the camera.
Yeah, and the guy doing the interview sits there and tries to make him look like an idiot. "Oh, the corp rates are the highest in the world"
Bullshit!
Yes, that is the rate, but how many companies keep money off shore?
And this whole thing that they are talking about is income inequality. It's real. Undisputed.
Read this: Income inequality in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And tell me its not a little convincing that the problem at least exists. Tell me that if the problem exists, what the solution is to get people to look at it.
Tell congress? They can't even decide to pay their bills in place of a chance for political posturing. A change in president is going to do it? That's what everyone "hoped" for in 2008, and guess what? He's a part of the same machine.
So they take to the streets.
Once again, I have proven that the protests are at least "legitimate". |
OMG income inequality actually exists??? I am shocked, and upset beyond imagination. Here I was thinking everyone made the exact same salary as me. Well, you know what they say, fool me once...
Sits there and tries to make him look like an idiot?? Sign boy did it all on his own. The interviewer just confirmed his suspicion that the guy was an idiot. He didn't have to be, he just was. As are 95% of the other people camping on Wall Street (I am giving them a lot of credit at 5%)
Whats your point about companies keeping money offshore? All that does is put most of them on a level playing field with other industrialized nations.
So yes, they still pay the same tax or more than other companies around the world. They are not doing anything illegally.
Also...income inequality must exist. It has, does, and will continue to exist for the rest of eternity. How can you say that gives them a right to protest?
Where did all those hippy idiots get their fancy fixed gear bikes? ipods? clothes? I am sure its all grown on the soil they turned themselves around the outside of their hand built adobe mud huts right?
In fact, their lives are so comfortable and nice because of that jump in income inequality. Companies like Coke, Microsoft, Apple, Google etc. kept the USA from following the same path as the mighty USSR, and made a lot of people millionaires in the process as well.
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71 percent of American economists believe the distribution of income in the US should be more equal
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From your unsolicited homework; thanks teach.
I bet 100% of fortune 500 CEOs think income distribution should be more equal. That means 99% of people need to work harder, learn more, and become better at life and business. Not that it should be handed out like pez to every granola wearing Birkenstocks and a unkempt flavor saver.
All these self entitled homeless lookalikes, need to get jobs, and stfu.
How can they even afford to just hang out for weeks on the street? Half of them probably have wealthy parents who aren't willing to offer them 10 cents for their sh!t idea to sell hemp jewelry creations on the boardwalk. But they get enough support to comfortably spend their life complaining they don't get enough.
The beauty of living in a wealthy country with lots of successful businesses I guess.