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What Are the Rich People Thinking?

IndifferenceIndifference Posts: 2,733
edited November 2008 in A Moving Train
Good Article - vote for whats right not the wallet.

"have become so outraged and alienated by the incompetence, crass social conservatism, and repeated insults to the nation's intelligence, of the Bush-era Republican Party, that they're voting with their hearts and heads instead of their wallets."

http://www.newsweek.com/id/168333?from=rss

SHOW COUNT: (164) 1990's=3, 2000's=53, 2010/20's=108, US=118, CAN=15, Europe=20 ,New Zealand=4, Australia=5
Mexico=1, Colombia=1 



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  • meisteredermeistereder Posts: 1,577
    Indifference wrote:
    Good Article - vote for whats right not the wallet.

    "have become so outraged and alienated by the incompetence, crass social conservatism, and repeated insults to the nation's intelligence, of the Bush-era Republican Party, that they're voting with their hearts and heads instead of their wallets."

    http://www.newsweek.com/id/168333?from=rss


    My wallet did just fine under Clinton. My wallet atrophied and dried up under Bush.
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  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    Can you really separate voting or thinking with your mind from voting or thinking with your wallet? Sometimes they can yield the same result, correct?
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • IndifferenceIndifference Posts: 2,733
    know1 wrote:
    Can you really separate voting or thinking with your mind from voting or thinking with your wallet? Sometimes they can yield the same result, correct?

    Sometimes they can - but for some people they knew they would be taxed more under Obama then McCain and still voted for him.

    SHOW COUNT: (164) 1990's=3, 2000's=53, 2010/20's=108, US=118, CAN=15, Europe=20 ,New Zealand=4, Australia=5
    Mexico=1, Colombia=1 



  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    Indifference wrote:
    Sometimes they can - but for some people they knew they would be taxed more under Obama then McCain and still voted for him.

    But that's not an absolute. Perhaps those people were exchanging higher taxes for even higher personal financial gain.

    For example, you'll spend $10 extra in gas if you can buy an item for $30 cheaper.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • slightofjeffslightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    Rich people don't pay taxes. They can hire a team of accountants to find every loophole.

    So they don't give a shit.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • slightofjeffslightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    meistereder wrote:
    My wallet did just fine under Clinton. My wallet atrophied and dried up under Bush.

    You must be on welfare, then.


    I kid, I kid.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • IndifferenceIndifference Posts: 2,733
    slightofjeff wrote:
    Rich people don't pay taxes. They can hire a team of accountants to find every loophole.

    So they don't give a shit.

    Not true at all - look up % of federal taxes paid by income ranges. The top 1% pay over SEVEN times the % of their income that the bottom 50% do.

    SHOW COUNT: (164) 1990's=3, 2000's=53, 2010/20's=108, US=118, CAN=15, Europe=20 ,New Zealand=4, Australia=5
    Mexico=1, Colombia=1 



  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    slightofjeff wrote:
    Rich people don't pay taxes. They can hire a team of accountants to find every loophole.

    So they don't give a shit.


    Just for the sake or argument, let's say that's true (it's not, though). Then the original argument would be false that they aren't thinking with their wallets.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
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