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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (312127)	11/30/2024 5:06:50 PM
From: Bill	3 Recommendations Recommended By i-node longz Thomas M. Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362710

The top 1 percent is already paying almost half the tax. Why should they pay a penny more? It ain’t YOUR money! Envy is not a virtue, my friend.

To: koan who wrote (312127)	11/30/2024 6:05:21 PM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Recommended By longz Thomas M. Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362710

>> The context is how much wealth they have, and what they should be paying, instead of continuing to borrow from our kids and running up the debt!!! It is NOT the "wealthy" who are borrowing from your kids. It is Joe Biden. And this argument of yours is going to wear thin if Trump's objectives are carried out, to vastly reduce federal deficits. Trump is going to put forth a plan. We'll see how supportive you are of cutting the waste out of the federal budget.

To: koan who wrote (312127)	12/8/2024 1:49:30 AM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Recommended By longz Maple MAGA pheilman_ Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362710

Koan, I know probability, statistics and maths aren't your strong points, so I'm happy to explain for you. The top one percent has more wealth than the bottom 50%. The bottom half always has nothing because they are wastrel spendthrifts and will even borrow to buy a lottery ticket. If they'd live within their means they could accumulate assets and even become mini capitalists. Starting from nothing and making progress from there is actually fun. Not all the time of course. Some jobs are dirty, dangerous, unpleasant. That's part of the challenge. One does need to not suffer envy of the silver spoon crowd. But success is great. I guess it's like mountain climbing which people will pay to do, and often die in the attempt, to get the feeling of achievement. I preferred to be paid for my hazardous, boring, difficult, exhausting jobs. It's good that people earn $ billions. They can afford to take huge investment risks that regular people can't as the regular people need to ensure they can keep buying food. So Elon, Irwin Jacobs, others, can invent and produce $trillions in value that the rest of us can enjoy. Envy is evil. Mqurice