Richest 1% own 50 percent of world wealth- Credit Suisse report

[captain morgan]

Can easily fit a couple bricks in there too.... And a big metal buckle on the outside, adds to the damage capabilities

 

[taxslave]

There is a massive difference between 'sharing' and gvt legislation that makes winners and losers.

Gates, through the charitable group that he and others fund is 'sharing'.... An unwarranted demand from the public, legislated through gvt that forces an increasing disproportionate share of income tax is not 'sharing'



I get such a kick outta the pseudo-Marxist philosophy that relies on cherry-picking select generalizations and ignoring the herd of elephants in the room.

Your globalization-is-evil rant has no merit whatsoever based on the reality that I can source, on the same street, equal products/services for a range of prices.... You call that healthy competition, but the second that the playing field extends from one street to nations, it magically becomes eeeeevil.

Think for one moment on your baseless rant about the pressures that you force into the marketplace... You demand more money for the work you do... Followed-up with demands for cheaper products (under the guise of 'rights')... And then bitch that some enterprise delivers on your various demands by providing cheaper products by virtue of outsourcing.

The position you support is founded on surreal assumptions on top of unrealistic expectations all wrapped-up in your own form of greed.

That said, please don't sell me this horse sh*t about the dangers of capitalism and globalisation when in fact you are the very source of the pressures

There is the root of the "problem". Anyone that shops at wallywirld is contributing to globalization.

 

[Nuggler]

Can easily fit a couple bricks in there too.... And a big metal buckle on the outside, adds to the damage capabilities

C'mon Capt..........it's gotta be one I can lift..........poor me.:lol:


Always wondered what hookers carried in their purses.
Couple bricks, balpeen, big buckle.
No wonder cops carry guns.:roll:

 

[coldstream]

There is a massive difference between 'sharing' and gvt legislation that makes winners and losers.

Gates, through the charitable group that he and others fund is 'sharing'.... An unwarranted demand from the public, legislated through gvt that forces an increasing disproportionate share of income tax is not 'sharing'



I get such a kick outta the pseudo-Marxist philosophy that relies on cherry-picking select generalizations and ignoring the herd of elephants in the room.

Your globalization-is-evil rant has no merit whatsoever based on the reality that I can source, on the same street, equal products/services for a range of prices.... You call that healthy competition, but the second that the playing field extends from one street to nations, it magically becomes eeeeevil.

Think for one moment on your baseless rant about the pressures that you force into the marketplace... You demand more money for the work you do... Followed-up with demands for cheaper products (under the guise of 'rights')... And then bitch that some enterprise delivers on your various demands by providing cheaper products by virtue of outsourcing.

The position you support is founded on surreal assumptions on top of unrealistic expectations all wrapped-up in your own form of greed.

That said, please don't sell me this horse sh*t about the dangers of capitalism and globalisation when in fact you are the very source of the pressures

In reference to charitable gifts i'm not against making, say, 25% of realized capital gains deductable for real and registered charities. (Excepting a reasonable investment allowance of perhaps $2M tax free along with primary residence).

If you taxed the rest at a marginal 75% rate that would leave them something in the order 18.75% of the original original gains for personal extravagence, and the other 56.25% as real taxation on that original amount. It's enough for anyone who isn't besotted with greed.

It should be pointed out that business men like Bill Gates or Warren Buffet, who have made their fortunes honestly and productively have spoken out in favour of progressive taxation on income and estates.

It is the pathetic pygmies who have inherited their fortunes (like the Koch Brothers).. or made it by looting honest investors on Wall Street.. or exploiting desperate foreign workers in squalid 'Free Trade' slave colonies.. and imposed nothing but usury, economic stagnation and political chaos on the globe... who squeal in outraged indignations at having to pay taxes to the economic system from which they reaped their plunder.