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edit to note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annabel_Park
Scuba
(53,475 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)ruffburr
(1,190 posts)The unvarnished truth, Period end of argument.
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)"Indeed"...
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)eom
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)nt/
geardaddy
(24,924 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)K&R
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)any Rich Republican or people Like Ted Cruz would understand or care about!
ismnotwasm
(41,921 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)Something the repugs know about but they just don't care about the 99%. All they care about are their masters, the 1%.
Thanks, Yui.
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)and thank you!
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)How About a Maximum Wage? : Taxation: F.D.R. wanted to cap incomes of the wealthy--an idea whose time may have come again.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-04-08/local/me-457_1_maximum-wage
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Concentration of wealth is a big part of it, and according to Picketty's data, wealth grows faster than economic output, so balancing wages alone will never control the inequality of wealth. We need a way to prevent an increase in both. So what? Capital gains tax increases may be part of it. Estate taxes can be used to alleviate some of it.
Minimum and Maximum wages could possibly work together to help with the aspect of income inequality.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/05/economist-explains
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)And you are welcome !
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)But UNTIL we focus on getting money out of politics, such proposals do not matter. They're just symptoms of the greater disease.
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)need to prioritize, especially against the Republicans.
homegirl
(1,419 posts)Public Financing of Campaigns?
Not reform, 100% Public Financing?
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)Ariagatou!
DrBulldog
(841 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)backatcha!
brush
(53,475 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)is to make rich people richer, so taking money from them makes them less rich, which is the worst thing in the world to do. Cuz freedumb.
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)Taxed appropriately and with what is fair. Most of them won't even miss it, as they rake in
large sums of money every day. They need to pay their fair share.
valerief
(53,235 posts)REALLY DOES drive everything in this world. It doesn't make sense and it's not fair, but it's a sad truth. And people go to war and lose life and limb just to make rich people richer.
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)the Rich have been having their attorneys find loopholes so they wouldn't have to pay any taxes. What was it? GE? General Electric, who didn't have to pay a thing this year? That's a total right there...
valerief
(53,235 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)thank you!
me b zola
(19,053 posts)The question is, do (wealthy) people not understand this or do they not care?
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)Most Rich people are like pirates, getting all the booty, and sharing it among fellow
pirates...other poor people? Not so much. This isn't Robin Hood, not in the least! Than...
I should talk..Imma Raiders Fan!
napkinz
(17,199 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)now let's get to 100 replies and over 300 recs!
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)It's great that we have a robust class of millionaires and billionaires, and that businesses are free to pursue profit. But that has to be in accord with our society being a fair one, one in balance ...
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)tunes too!
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)"wealthiest Americans."
If you honestly agree with the above, you best choice is Sen Sanders that isn't beholden to those "wealthiest Americans" that need to be taxed.
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)Thousands of people have died in the Red States that did NOT expand Medicaid,
yet the Democratic Party is SILENT about this.
I would spend whatever it took to wall paper these states will Billboards, and a death count clock, that tells the people of these states exactly what has happened.
This year XXXXX number of people residing in your state DIED because YOUR Republicans refused to accept FREE MONEY from the government to help them.
If you had a Democratic government in your state, every single one of them could have gone to a doctor.
When RICH people get sick, they go to a doctor.
You could do that too if with a Democratic Governor.
I wonder WHY the Democratic Party Leadership does NOT keep a running total of the number of Americans the Republicans have killed this year.
I would make it a daily update, and announce it to the American People every day.
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)sounds legit!
MerryBlooms
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yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)thanks.
hay rick
(7,521 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,112 posts)Thanks for the thread, yuiyoshida.
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)mountain grammy
(26,571 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)so they used to say,
GeoWilliam750
(2,519 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)Lunabell
(5,920 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Don't cut Social Security or Medicare!
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)Honto desuyo!
alfredo
(60,065 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)BuelahWitch
(9,083 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)antigop
(12,778 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)Its not. THIS message is for Democrats whoever they are... Omally, Clinton, Sanders, etc. You obviously think this is agenda driven by one candidate only.. IN that you are incorrect. And if you were correct, this posting would be in GP: Primaries and locked here.
antigop
(12,778 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)and start your own thread, Please. Thank you.
antigop
(12,778 posts)eta: If people are truly concerned about Social Security, they need to understand history.
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)Again, start your OWN post in gd: primaries.
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)of all the rec's!
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)appalachiablue
(41,055 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)tabasco
(22,974 posts)until it affects them personally. IMO, overpopulation has caused people to care less about their fellow men. We don't need each other and we have too many more people. Therefore, other people become strangers and enemies.
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)There are always people willing to help.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)which implicates the entire citizenry of the U.S.
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)those who work at Social Security and Medicare don't help?
aspirant
(3,533 posts)K&R
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)Ditch, us.