(05-14-2015 09:07 PM)NCeagle Wrote:  

(05-14-2015 07:53 PM)chess Wrote:  

(05-14-2015 01:39 PM)NCeagle Wrote:  

(05-14-2015 01:38 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(05-14-2015 12:34 PM)I45owl Wrote:  Hard work itself is no guarantee of productivity, either. It takes innovation, production, and value in addition to dedication and hard work in order to really become rich. Someone who is actually rich could probably add more insight here, though...

I'd also say that "rich" is also a relative term. The left has done a good job of distorting it to perpetuate class warfare.

true that!

give a single, 25 year old guy $85k a year, and he is rich. lol

The median U.S. household income is less than $52,000 a year.

The average human head weighs 8 lbs

Just catching up...

(05-15-2015 10:05 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(05-15-2015 09:52 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(05-15-2015 09:40 AM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Why is income from wealth taxed at 15% while labor is higher. That should be reversed in any form of fairness.

Simple. "Wealth" has already been taxed when it was initially earned.

But intrest earned on that money is new money and therefore should be taxed.

Oh boy.

bless your heart.

(05-15-2015 02:08 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(05-15-2015 10:05 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(05-15-2015 09:52 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(05-15-2015 09:40 AM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Why is income from wealth taxed at 15% while labor is higher. That should be reversed in any form of fairness.

Simple. "Wealth" has already been taxed when it was initially earned.

But intrest earned on that money is new money and therefore should be taxed.

Oh boy.

bless your heart.

I think you need to read post #152

Carefully.

(05-15-2015 03:18 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(05-15-2015 02:08 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(05-15-2015 10:05 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(05-15-2015 09:52 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(05-15-2015 09:40 AM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Why is income from wealth taxed at 15% while labor is higher. That should be reversed in any form of fairness.

Simple. "Wealth" has already been taxed when it was initially earned.

But intrest earned on that money is new money and therefore should be taxed.

Oh boy.

bless your heart.

I think you need to read post #152

Carefully.

Nah, I read it. No need to go read your weasel words again. You started with "But" which implies a counter point or disagreement. nice try though!

(05-13-2015 08:11 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  I guess he won the lottery then.

He did....which is why he thinks everyone else who is rich also did it that way.

(05-15-2015 09:44 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(05-15-2015 12:20 AM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(05-14-2015 03:46 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(05-14-2015 01:54 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  The whole rich argument really gets under my skin.

People who make $300,000 to $1,000,000 per year are in the top 0.5% of people nationwide but they are NOT "rich." They work for a living.

The ones everybody seems to be upset about are unbelievably rare.

That whole moronic 1% crap really gets to me because the end result is the heavier taxation of those who work their ass off and produce something. Successful self made folks fall into this category.

Perhaps you make a lot of money but in my neck of the woods, anyone who makes 300k to 1 millon dollars IS rich.

My wife and I combined have never ever ever even come close to making 100k in one year and my students think WE are rich because I have a two story house with a pool and three cars.

So your students are stupid. Have you tried to actually educate them as to how you achieved your status in life is because you worked to do so or have you done like you do on here and are perpetuating the myth? I mean you have claimed to be the spawn of illegal immigrants and here you are. Did you work to get to where you are or did the government hand you everything? How about your wife? Did the government hand her everything or did she work to get to where she is?

My students aren't stupid. They are poor. It's a common misconception among people like you.

Being poor isn't an excuse for being ignorant of the realities of life. Of course that's a common misconception among people like you.

The Clintons obviously are preaching against Themselves as They Themselves are in the Top .01% income earners having just added over 25 Million dollars into Their Bank accounts since 2014 for 100 speeches. They claim to fight for the little guy against all the Evil money people in the top 1%. Evil Now has a Face. Clinton's.