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It's morally reprehensible that the wealth is so unevenly distributed.

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It's morally reprehensible that the wealth is so unevenly distributed. [/QUOTE]

Thankfully nobody agrees with you. Are you immoral to buy an Iphone and thus contribute to Steve Jobs' family wealth? In a free country you are free not to buy and even to encourage others not to buy. But using the govt to steal your money back at gunpoint from Jobs is truly immoral and reprehensible. Maybe someday he'll want his phone back without giving you your money back. Would the liberal like that???
 
James972 said:
It's morally reprehensible that the wealth is so unevenly distributed.
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Thankfully nobody agrees with you. Are you immoral to buy an Iphone and thus contribute to Steve Jobs' family wealth? In a free country you are free not to buy and even to encourage others not to buy. But using the govt to steal your money back at gunpoint from Jobs is truly immoral and reprehensible. Maybe someday he'll want his phone back without giving you your money back. Would the liberal like that???[/QUOTE]

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James972 said:
It's morally reprehensible that the wealth is so unevenly distributed.

Thankfully nobody agrees with you. Are you immoral to buy an Iphone and thus contribute to Steve Jobs' family wealth? In a free country you are free not to buy and even to encourage others not to buy. But using the govt to steal your money back at gunpoint from Jobs is truly immoral and reprehensible. Maybe someday he'll want his phone back without giving you your money back. Would the liberal like that???
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Jeff Bezos is worth 165 billion dollars and 2 million U.S. Veterans don't have any healthcare.
 
Winston said:
Jeff Bezos is worth 165 billion dollars and 2 million U.S. Veterans don't have any healthcare.
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Ok. What do those two things have to do with each other, though? Did Bezos steal that 165 billion from veterans or something? Are you proposing we confiscate all his shares of stock and give it to the veterans?
 
Skeptic Bob said:
Ok. What do those two things have to do with each other, though? Did Bezos steal that 165 billion from veterans or something? Are you proposing we confiscate all his shares of stock and give it to the veterans?
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I'm in favor of wealth redistribution. Bezos is one billionaire. If you look at the whole club, they can give back enough to meet the needs of our veterans. There's evidence suggesting that once you reach the threshold of around 80k-100k per year, nothing more adds to your satisfaction of life. So, when you look at really gross amounts, they are unnecessary for one man, or even unnecessary for the line that succeeds him.
 
James972 said:
Thankfully nobody agrees with you. Are you immoral to buy an Iphone and thus contribute to Steve Jobs' family wealth? In a free country you are free not to buy and even to encourage others not to buy. But using the govt to steal your money back at gunpoint from Jobs is truly immoral and reprehensible. Maybe someday he'll want his phone back without giving you your money back. Would the liberal like that???
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I understand wanting to defend free markets. However, why are you so keen on defending the massive riches of people like Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos? Have they really contributed billions of dollars worth of wealth to their economies? I mean them alone, because if you're going to make the case that their companies have contributed billions, well then why is so much of the wealth just going to these two individuals and not the workers?
 
Skeptic Bob said:
Ok. What do those two things have to do with each other, though? Did Bezos steal that 165 billion from veterans or something? Are you proposing we confiscate all his shares of stock and give it to the veterans?
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Tax his capital gains more. Tax all capital gains more. There's no reason that the massively rich should pay a lower tax rate than the kinda rich.

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Tanngrisnir said:
Thankfully nobody agrees with you. Are you immoral to buy an Iphone and thus contribute to Steve Jobs' family wealth? In a free country you are free not to buy and even to encourage others not to buy. But using the govt to steal your money back at gunpoint from Jobs is truly immoral and reprehensible. Maybe someday he'll want his phone back without giving you your money back. Would the liberal like that???
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whoops, you know a liberal is around when you start to see pictures. To a liberal dueling pictures is debating!! Sad!
 
Winston said:
Jeff Bezos is worth 165 billion dollars and 2 million U.S. Veterans don't have any healthcare.
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you mean his stock is worth $165 billion, his company is losing money, and he needs every penny to keep a company that is keeping America on the map, revolutionizing shopping, and providing millions of jobs, alive and growing! Besides, he can spend his extra money, if he ever gets it, as he likes and it is likely to be far better spent than if liberal govt will spends it. You earn your money and give to fool liberal bureaucrats to waste if you want. I'd much rather see smart guys who earned it like Gates and Bezos spend it intelligently.
 
Winston said:
Jeff Bezos is worth 165 billion dollars and 2 million U.S. Veterans don't have any healthcare.
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its a free country; stop buying from Amazon and sent your money to Washington fool liberals to waste and encourage others to do same, but don't encourage violence at gunpoint!
 
Winston said:
If you look at the whole club, they can give back enough to meet the needs of our veterans.
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as if veterans are the only ones with their hands out? Liberals want to steal at gunpoint from our most productive and use it to get votes from our least productive recipients following the same path that destroyed incentive to work and got 120 million killed in USSR and Red China
 
James972 said:
you mean his stock is worth $165 billion, his company is losing money, and he needs every penny to keep a company that is keeping America on the map, revolutionizing shopping, and providing millions of jobs, alive and growing! Besides, he can spend his extra money, if he ever gets it, as he likes and it is likely to be far better spent than if liberal govt will spends it. You earn your money and give to fool liberal bureaucrats to waste if you want. I'd much rather see smart guys who earned it like Gates and Bezos spend it intelligently.
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Or we could take that money Gates is using to help people overseas and give it to the government so it can be used to blow up people overseas.

Sorry, that is more snarky than I usually am. I am actually a proponent of progressive taxation. I am just losing faith in my government’s ability to do the right thing with the money it gets.
 
phattonez said:
. However, why are you so keen on defending the massive riches of people like Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos?
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not defending it at all but rather opposing liberal gun violence. You and similar are free thanks to conservatives not to contribute to Gates' wealth and Foundation so starving kids in Africa die but you have no right to steal his wealth at gunpoint in hopes it will go where you want rather than where Gates wants is own money to go. Liberalism is pure violence which is why our
Founders hated it so much and tried to make it illegal in America!!
 
phattonez said:
why is so much of the wealth just going to these two individuals and not the workers?
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because thats what people want obviously!!!. Everyone is and always was free not to do business with Bezos or not work for him or not buy from him. But because he offered each of them more wealth than anyone else they chose to do business with him and his company grew. You want to interrupt that process at gunpoint as the soviets did and get another 120 million killed??
 
phattonez said:
Tax his capital gains more.
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taxing capital gains is taxing economic growth. The more capital venture capital firms have the more new venture like amazon we have

NYSUN: It came when Mr. Gibson questioned Senator Obama about the capital gains tax. Mr. Gibson quoted Mr. Obama as talking about raising the tax to 28% from 15%. "But actually, Bill Clinton, in 1997, signed legislation that dropped the capital gains tax to 20 percent," Mr. Gibson said. "And George Bush has taken it down to 15 percent. And in each instance, when the rate dropped, revenues from the tax increased; the government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28 percent, the revenues went down. So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that 100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected?"
 
Winston said:
I'm in favor of wealth redistribution. Bezos is one billionaire. If you look at the whole club, they can give back enough to meet the needs of our veterans. There's evidence suggesting that once you reach the threshold of around 80k-100k per year, nothing more adds to your satisfaction of life. So, when you look at really gross amounts, they are unnecessary for one man, or even unnecessary for the line that succeeds him.
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I'm in favor of wealth redistribution also. I feel, for the greater good as I perceive it, that all wealth should be taken from progressives, particularly those that go by the name Winston on an internet forum. That wealth should be redistributed to all those with black and yellow avatars. Will you comply?
 
Common Sense 1 said:
People need to vote for new members of congress and that would change.
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why so violent?? why not just stop buying from Bezos and send the money to Washington yourself and encourage other to do same rather than encourage govt to steal it at gunpoint?. Ever notice that liberalism is based 100% on violence?
 
Common Sense 1 said:
People need to vote for new members of congress and that would change.
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you mean new members of Congress who will make it legal to steal more of Amazon's money at gunpoint?
 
phattonez said:
I understand wanting to defend free markets. However, why are you so keen on defending the massive riches of people like Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos? Have they really contributed billions of dollars worth of wealth to their economies? I mean them alone, because if you're going to make the case that their companies have contributed billions, well then why is so much of the wealth just going to these two individuals and not the workers?
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Stealing is wrong. It doesn't become right just because someone's got more money than you.
 
The government prints and mints the money. Therefore, the government can decide who gets it and how much.
 
James972 said:
but do you mean at the point of a liberal gun or peacefully as per OP??
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I said that with sarcasm. All "wealth redistribution" is done at the point of a gun. As for what you posted in the OP, it's ambiguous. You messed up the quote/formatting, so it's unclear who's making what point.
 
Anarchon said:
Stealing is wrong. It doesn't become right just because someone's got more money than you.
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Let's stop subsidizing them with immigration and welfare. Then let's see how their wages change.

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