tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post3943368365773314815..comments2023-10-20T05:51:51.625-04:00Comments on The THINK 3 INSTITUTE: Idiots of the Week: Dinesh D'Souza and Newt GingrichSamuel Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-63283721102565943542010-09-16T09:41:33.266-04:002010-09-16T09:41:33.266-04:00The attitude of the wealthy towards those of us wh...The attitude of the wealthy towards those of us who actually labor to create that wealth was most accurately summed up by Marie Antoinette. If there is any true justice in this country, the outcome will also be the same.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-59189007227103151312010-09-16T09:39:54.882-04:002010-09-16T09:39:54.882-04:00So sammarlia, you're saying that a person who ...So sammarlia, you're saying that a person who makes 10,000,000/year is paying 5,000,000 in taxes? You are definitely full of something. These people have all kinds of legal loopholes they use to get out of paying their fair share. But let's be comparative. Let's say that guy does, in fact, pay 50% of his "earnings" in taxes. Compare that with the average American who, according to recent studies, earns about 50,000/year and pays about 25% of that in taxes. So the average American nets about $37,500 and the other guy nets $5,000,000. He still has no cause to complain, considering the ample lifestyle he can afford to live. Let's call higher taxes on the wealthy the "price" of living the high life in the United States. Anyone not willing to pay that price definitely has the option and the means to find another country to live in.<br /><br />Bottom line - when it comes to social obligation vs. individual "freedom", social obligation MUST ALWAYS COME FIRST. Assuming you want your civilization to continue. Otherwise you will go the way of every other fallen civilization that has put individual wealth above the national interest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-30658608873384160502010-09-15T18:59:16.208-04:002010-09-15T18:59:16.208-04:00sammarlia: I'm only saying that attributing su...sammarlia: I'm only saying that attributing such a policy to Old Man Obama's anticolonial attitudes is asinine. Or are you saying that D'Souza's claim <i>is</i> true?<br /><br />Crhymethinc: your last point strikes home, and back then we Americans had much the same attitude about English and European exploitation. Conservatives might argue that we got over it by learning capitalism, but I don't know if they'd approve of the means (tariffs, tariffs, tariffs) our ancestors learned along the way.Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-37724184716754433862010-09-15T18:18:12.512-04:002010-09-15T18:18:12.512-04:00Are you saying that this isn't true?
"he...Are you saying that this isn't true?<br /><br />"he wants people who are already paying close to 50% of their income in overall taxes to pay even more"sammarliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13779795069219831159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-15514807177925887622010-09-15T15:38:31.839-04:002010-09-15T15:38:31.839-04:00Well, considering America is a force for destructi...Well, considering America is a force for destruction - at least since the time of Bush. It is readily understandable why any people whose country is ransacked and looted by America and it's erstwhile compatriots would hate those who steal from and enslave them. <br /><br />But in the beginning, could it not be rightly argued that our founding fathers were also "anti-colonialists"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com