• This is a political forum that is non-biased/non-partisan and treats every person's position on topics equally. This debate forum is not aligned to any political party. In today's politics, many ideas are split between and even within all the political parties. Often we find ourselves agreeing on one platform but some topics break our mold. We are here to discuss them in a civil political debate. If this is your first visit to our political forums, be sure to check out the RULES. Registering for debate politics is necessary before posting. Register today to participate - it's free!

Billionaire Lifts Marco Rubio, Politically and Personally

jet57

Banned
DP Veteran
Joined
Feb 19, 2012
Messages
31,057
Reaction score
3,969
Location
not here
Gender
Undisclosed
Political Leaning
Centrist
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/u...column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

So let’s not hear any more about Warren Buffet:

As Mr. Rubio has ascended in the ranks of Republican politics, Mr. Braman has emerged as a remarkable and unique patron. He has bankrolled Mr. Rubio’s campaigns. He has financed Mr. Rubio’s legislative agenda. And, at the same time, he has subsidized Mr. Rubio’s personal finances, as the rising politician and his wife grappled with heavy debt and big swings in their income.

Now, with Mr. Rubio vaulting ahead of much of the Republican presidential field, Mr. Braman is poised to play an even larger part and become Mr. Rubio’s single biggest campaign donor, with an expected outlay of approximately $10 million for the senator’s pursuit of the White House.

The money has flowed both ways. Mr. Rubio has steered taxpayer funds to Mr. Braman’s favored causes[/i], successfully pushing for an $80 million state grant to finance a genomics center at a private university and securing $5 million for cancer research at a Miami institute for which Mr. Braman is a major donor.


Marco Rubio and Norman Braman.jpg
 
This is the result of applying capitalism to government. When personal wealth is more powerful than government, it can buy government. Our government is for sale and this needs to be stopped. This kind of corruption cannot be tolerated. Both these men should be in prison.
 
This is the result of applying capitalism to government. When personal wealth is more powerful than government, it can buy government. Our government is for sale and this needs to be stopped. This kind of corruption cannot be tolerated. Both these men should be in prison.

True enough, but the partisan will go on to protect his own, and we'll only see more of the same.
 
This is the result of applying capitalism to government. When personal wealth is more powerful than government, it can buy government. Our government is for sale and this needs to be stopped. This kind of corruption cannot be tolerated. Both these men should be in prison.

This is just what happens all the time. Political favors are bought. The system is damned.
 
This is the result of applying capitalism to government

This is a result of our allowing the costs of political campaigns to get as high as they have become.
 
This is the result of applying capitalism to government. When personal wealth is more powerful than government, it can buy government. Our government is for sale and this needs to be stopped. This kind of corruption cannot be tolerated. Both these men should be in prison.

No they shouldn't, it's not proven they broke any law.

No ones who has broken no laws should be in prison.
 
This is just what happens all the time. Political favors are bought. The system is damned.

That may be the case, but one can't gripe about it now just with Rubio, this has been going on for decades now.

It really is interesting to see hyper partisan ship on these things.
 
This is a result of government's increased influence. If government wasn't so valuable to control, the costs would drop. But we still have those who want to use government as a club to push their own agenda.
 
This is the result of applying capitalism to government. When personal wealth is more powerful than government, it can buy government. Our government is for sale and this needs to be stopped. This kind of corruption cannot be tolerated. Both these men should be in prison.

False narrative.
 
This is the result of applying capitalism to government. When personal wealth is more powerful than government, it can buy government. Our government is for sale and this needs to be stopped. This kind of corruption cannot be tolerated. Both these men should be in prison.

You got it, and when the two combine into a national agenda and foreign policy - that's fascism. So this article is yet another reason not to vote for right-wing candidates.
 
This is just what happens all the time. Political favors are bought. The system is damned.

You said a mouth full there. It makes me wonder what we're going to do. As for international reaction we're turning into Israel with domestic attacks.
 
No they shouldn't, it's not proven they broke any law.

No ones who has broken no laws should be in prison.

It just went right over your head didn't it... The next time the right yells about money influencing the left, I want you to remember this example. Braman has no problem saying that Rubio is advancing his agenda. THAT should worry you, and yes they should be jailed.
 
This is a result of government's increased influence. If government wasn't so valuable to control, the costs would drop. But we still have those who want to use government as a club to push their own agenda.

Uh, no, it's the result of the corporate's increased influence. If the people of this country weren't so weak we could put a stop to this nonsense.
 
Uh, no, it's the result of the corporate's increased influence. If the people of this country weren't so weak we could put a stop to this nonsense.

Would those be the same people who keep wanting the government to do more and more for them or the people who do want the government to be less involved in day-to-day life that often get made fun of by many on this forum?

I liked it better when the government was the umpire, not one of the players.
 
Would those be the same people who keep wanting the government to do more and more for them or the people who do want the government to be less involved in day-to-day life that often get made fun of by many on this forum?

I liked it better when the government was the umpire, not one of the players.

No, now you're drifting off. I liked it better in the old days too, but since about 1979 the corporate has moved on the whole country, changed the paradigm, and now they're openly using our government, and visa versa to advance an agenda - that is protected by people on this forum who want government "stay out of everyday lives".
 
No, now you're drifting off. I liked it better in the old days too, but since about 1979 the corporate has moved on the whole country, changed the paradigm, and now they're openly using our government, and visa versa to advance an agenda - that is protected by people on this forum who want government "stay out of everyday lives".

Take away the usefulness of the tool (government) and the tool stops being used for things it was not intended. It is this very topic which illustrates the issue. It isn't the person doing the buying that is at fault, it is the person who is being bought. Public service was never intended as an avenue to become rich and yet how many people leave office dozens of times wealthier than they left?
 
Take away the usefulness of the tool (government) and the tool stops being used for things it was not intended. It is this very topic which illustrates the issue. It isn't the person doing the buying that is at fault, it is the person who is being bought. Public service was never intended as an avenue to become rich and yet how many people leave office dozens of times wealthier than they left?

I could not agree with you more. The point is - the right is being bought, so don't complain about the left.
 
No they shouldn't, it's not proven they broke any law.

No ones who has broken no laws should be in prison.

socialists want to punish being wealthy. especially wealthy people who aren't socialists like Soros or nanny state lovers like Buffett
 
This is the result of applying capitalism to government. When personal wealth is more powerful than government, it can buy government. Our government is for sale and this needs to be stopped. This kind of corruption cannot be tolerated. Both these men should be in prison.

You forgot to add Hillery to your list.
 
socialists want to punish being wealthy. especially wealthy people who aren't socialists like Soros or nanny state lovers like Buffett

:rolleyes: "the rich pay most of the taxes" is older than dinosaurs.

We've posted more than 1,567,984,567 times evidence that it's based on excluding payroll taxes.
 
:rolleyes: "the rich pay most of the taxes" is older than dinosaurs.

We've posted more than 1,567,984,567 times evidence that it's based on excluding payroll taxes.

The problem is that a lot of rich daddy conservatives don't even know that payroll taxes are part of the tax collected during annual federal tax returns, since they've never had to do any of their own taxes.

psychobabble. The richest 1% pay many more times their share of the income tax

add up all the federal taxes paid and the top one percent pay far more actual dollars than the entire bottom 50% combined

and payroll "taxes" include the forced contribution to SS-guess who pays the other half of that "contribution" for middle and lower class workers?
 
Back
Top Bottom