Oh My JonL:
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How much taxation is legitimate before you call it "stealing?"
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When I referred to Geitners hand being in the Fed Employee Fund, that's not taxation, but it is STEALING. Just plain ole fiduciary mismanagement. White collar crime. I'm not (bigL) libertarian enough to call ANY taxation theft or stealing.
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Only the most radical of leftists are saying anything that approaches class warfare rhetoric.
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Not really.. Hard to find ANYONE in Dem leadership that hasn't used the phrases "millionaires and billionaires" in referencing their target for redistribution. In fact, referring to their only viable party of opposition as the "party of millionaires and billionaires" is part of the revolution. I just laugh when I think of Fox New's audience as composed of "millionaires and billionaires". And Obama was outed as a Progressive several times during his campaign and folks tried to warn that there would be ample support for the radical Progressive agenda.
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I surely don't get your Gilligan's Island analogy.
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More important stuff there. Maybe it's an age thing. You had the filthy rich Howells on that island trying to maintain their status and pretend that they were still elite and superior in social graces. When in reality, they were eating crap off the beach and living in a hut. Those RICH that the class warfare revolution want to tax are one Federal Reserve policy change away from living in hut like the rest of us. So much invested in shaky or risky investments. They are in a position to lose MORE in a downturn than then the lower 50% who don't contribute at all.
So the point is -- it's ludicrous fiscal policy to bet the farm on the income of the top 5 or 10%. Unless of course, you want to discover (like California) that all your social programs and govt pretend altruism gets dumped every time the market tanks. It's like financing your health care system off tobacco tax revenues. Not a very wise or stable thing to do.