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The 1% will own more than the 99% by 2016, report says

Again, what people do with their own money is of concern to you why? Why do you care what someone else pays in taxes? How did any rich person prevent you from joining them? Please explain to me why we need a 3.9 trillion dollar Federal govt. and higher taxes on anyone?
Any other distractions from the point you brought up? As with your trouble with simple percentages, the concept of "propensity to spend" baffles you to point of going off on "taxes" and the size of the US budget....more subjects you have proven time and again an inability to debate.

I don't understand why you do what you do.
 
Any other distractions from the point you brought up? As with your trouble with simple percentages, the concept of "propensity to spend" baffles you to point of going off on "taxes" and the size of the US budget....more subjects you have proven time and again an inability to debate.

I don't understand why you do what you do.

What people do with THEIR money is irrelevant to me, why does it bother you so much what others make or pay in taxes? AS for math I did quite well, 1% of 6 billion is 60 MILLION so not sure what your issue is other than trolling which you do too often. Now keep running from the question posed, you do that well too
 
without the 'Jesus' end, we actually had bumper stickers that said "nuke gay wales now" and "Move, you're in the way of a pipeline."

See, I offered a better deal, with little additional cost. ;)

Sometimes a little humor takes the edge off. Some people could use a dose or two of it.
 
Yep. You notice they don't say that this disparity has grown worse than ever under Obama. They won't make the connection

Now, if Bush were in office, they would be all, Bush, Bush , Bush

But they can't wrap their heads around the truth of what you just said.

Obama and Bush are both Corporate Capitalist jerks, selling out America to the highest bidder.
 
When you had sub prime just about anyone with a job.


No, right now, when I drive from Chelsea, NYC to my upscale home in Somerset county, I pass by tens of thousands of middle class homes.

Who lives there? if the middle class is shrinking, where are they going? who's buying these houses?



And your link means what?
That countries such as China, Indonesia have a growing economy and increase of- wait for it- middle class.


you claimed the middle class was disappearing. My link says it's growing.
 
Again, what people do with their own money is of concern to you why? Why do you care what someone else pays in taxes? How did any rich person prevent you from joining them? Please explain to me why we need a 3.9 trillion dollar Federal govt. and higher taxes on anyone?




It's always about envy, as you point out.

How many people in the US face starvation? How many suffer and die because they can't get any medical treatment? How man children are abandoned in the streets, or even the wild?

In America, "wealth redistribution" is about having what the other guys has, not about need. The progressive left throws out this gibberish, touting this and that as "income discrepancy", which is another way of saying "I get an SUV too!"

the same crowd, will throw down money to prevent development in Africa and the third world, where having an SUV is a ****ing pipe dream. They create nasty but neat sounding votes in the UN which say "Sorry, Africa, but you don't even get to have universal electricity because, well the world's heating up and we have to "save" it, and, well, somebody has to make the sacrifice"

While the likes of the all too comfortable Nancy Pelosi, the pampered Barack Obama, and a host of "celebrities" demand 50" screens for their supporters and illegals, child starvation is routine in much of the world, life expectancies are a fraction of the US....

But, we can't talk about those things.........

Why?

When we have all this crap about other people's money, how come the suffering never get mentioned?
 
I forget that liberals really are the selfish people and always want someone else to pay for services and things they want. There is never enough money to fund the liberal spending appetite. Still waiting for you to tell he how any rich person prevented you from joining them?

The destruction of free market capitalism, the decay of proper economic mobility, corporate subsidy and law that promotes coproration over smaller business' bought and paid for. It's a purposeful march to ensure the rich stay rich. And that 1% ain't even safe. Eventually we're really going to be looking at the 0.1%, and even many of those in that 1% will find themselves down in the slums with the rest of the serfs.

This is the movement to reinstate a true aristocracy. Corporate America is but one necessity in that quest.
 
What people do with THEIR money is irrelevant to me, why does it bother you so much what others make or pay in taxes?
That has nothing to do with world wealth distribution.....or the propensity to spend. you are bonging while we bing.
AS for math I did quite well, 1% of 6 billion is 60 MILLION so not sure what your issue is other than trolling which you do too often.
You seemed to have a VERY hard time believing the math, questioning it many times....and you STILL do not have correct numbers.
Now keep running from the question posed, you do that well too
I feel no need to answer ALL of your off topic non-sequiturs, get back to the OP.
 
The destruction of free market capitalism, the decay of proper economic mobility, corporate subsidy and law that promotes coproration over smaller business' bought and paid for. It's a purposeful march to ensure the rich stay rich. And that 1% ain't even safe. Eventually we're really going to be looking at the 0.1%, and even many of those in that 1% will find themselves down in the slums with the rest of the serfs.

This is the movement to reinstate a true aristocracy. Corporate America is but one necessity in that quest.




What slums?


Who lives in these solid middle class homes?

https://www.google.com/maps/place/W...2!3m1!1s0x89c2e562b6acc46d:0x984fc9b93ff301ab
 
No, right now, when I drive from Chelsea, NYC to my upscale home in Somerset county, I pass by tens of thousands of middle class homes.

Who lives there? if the middle class is shrinking, where are they going? who's buying these houses?

you claimed the middle class was disappearing. My link says it's growing.

Where is it growing.
 
The destruction of free market capitalism, the decay of proper economic mobility, corporate subsidy and law that promotes coproration over smaller business' bought and paid for. It's a purposeful march to ensure the rich stay rich. And that 1% ain't even safe. Eventually we're really going to be looking at the 0.1%, and even many of those in that 1% will find themselves down in the slums with the rest of the serfs.

This is the movement to reinstate a true aristocracy. Corporate America is but one necessity in that quest.

What does that mean?

"proper income mobility"? Who decides what is "proper" and how the **** is income mobile?

Please at least pass through a modern economics test before replying...

and, oh, please document this "destruction of the free market system", who caused it, when it happened and so forth.

The last time I looked the free market was working just fine. Your oil prices have never been lower because of the "free market" concept of competitive pricing.....so how exactly is the free market no longer in existence...

and who the **** controls it now?
 
see my link. You haven't answered my question.


I don't see middle class towns being raized for projects, or low income homes.

No, right now, when I drive from Chelsea, NYC to my upscale home in Somerset county, I pass by tens of thousands of middle class homes.

Who lives there? if the middle class is shrinking, where are they going? who's buying these houses?

Suggestion- Stop on your drive to Upscaleville and ask.
Where is the middle class going is what I asked.
Why Upscaleville because you drive by it. Yep that is sound. You make decisions based upon that?
 
What do you think? The middle class is disappearing. At one time increases in productivity equated to wage increases.
https://fortune.com/2015/01/19/the-1-will-own-more-than-the-99-by-2016-report-says/
The richest 1% of the population will own more than half of the world’s wealth by next year as inequality continues its relentless rise across the globe, a new report out Monday says.

The report, by the U.K.-based charity Oxfam, shows that the top 1% have grown their share of global wealth constantly since 2010. After dipping at 44% in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, it rose to 48% by the end of last year and is poised to top 50% by the end of next year.

The $200 Trillion World: Who Owns All the Wealth? - The Atlantic

Looks like households own 42% of that wealth.

Yes the top 1% is widening the gap but, poverty is going away quickly.

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By 2035 there will likely be no more poor countries.

The World's 85 Richest People Are as Wealthy as the Poorest 3 Billion - The Atlantic
 
What do you think? The middle class is disappearing. At one time increases in productivity equated to wage increases.
https://fortune.com/2015/01/19/the-1-will-own-more-than-the-99-by-2016-report-says/
The richest 1% of the population will own more than half of the world’s wealth by next year as inequality continues its relentless rise across the globe, a new report out Monday says.

The report, by the U.K.-based charity Oxfam, shows that the top 1% have grown their share of global wealth constantly since 2010. After dipping at 44% in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, it rose to 48% by the end of last year and is poised to top 50% by the end of next year.

Don't worry about it. The new Republican majorities in both houses have YOUR best interests in mind.

 
Please stop trolling...you are getting rather annoying.
I'm not surprised that you will not face up to your contradiction.

Inherently, discussions of inequality contain concerns about "suffering".
 
So lowering tax for middle class would make them poorer? Higher tax on the rich. That is what Obama was proposing?

Some of that is for when the 1% lays your ass off and the FedGov takes care of you. LOL!

The majority of that money goes back to Obama's friends.....the 1%ers, not to the middle class
 
What does that mean?

"proper income mobility"? Who decides what is "proper" and how the **** is income mobile?

Please at least pass through a modern economics test before replying...

and, oh, please document this "destruction of the free market system", who caused it, when it happened and so forth.

The last time I looked the free market was working just fine. Your oil prices have never been lower because of the "free market" concept of competitive pricing.....so how exactly is the free market no longer in existence...

and who the **** controls it now?

We have corporate capitalism, not free market. Corporate capitalism innately bolsters the corporate identy while making rule sand regulations which make it harder for smaller business to compete. The result is the end of competition, which is a hallmark of actual free market. Oligarchy rules the Corporate Capitalist world and economic mobility, meaning the ease at which one can rise or fall from one financial class to another, becomes restricted. So more and more the poor will have a hard time making out of being poor, and the rich will find it harder and harder to become poor.

Free market, on the other hand, rewards input, ingenuity, enterprise, and innovation. To the best go the spoils. A poor man can become rich through effort and intelligence and invention. Likewise a rich man can become poor through apathy and bad decision. It allows for a flow.

Currently, competition is choked off and we're stagnating in a pool of corporate oligarchy. The Corporate State reigns supreme now.
 
Obama and Bush are both Corporate Capitalist jerks, selling out America to the highest bidder.

Bush and Obama are like night and day, polar opposites. You can't compare them on any level
 
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