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Originally Posted by MothBalls
Two, you picked the wrong person to tell they don't know about paying taxes,
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I was addressing the folks on that website, and not you. I apologize for being unclear on that. I try not to personally attack any member here. Again, that is my mistake.
The fact remains though, that this "47% of people don't pay taxes" meme is a blatant misrepresentation of the situation. Everyone who legally earns money or purchases anything in this country pays taxes.
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There's a lot of things I'm unhappy with. My unemployment insurance premium went up 8% to cover an extension for the unemployed. My answer to that is "if you pay people to not work, they won't". Want to help them get jobs? Quit cutting the checks, trust me, they'll look harder.
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By and large, most people on unemployment would rather be employed. And cutting off unemployment benefits to everyone would be an unmitigated disaster. You think the economy is bad now? Think about how bad it would be with people starving and dying in the streets. Think of the crime rates that would skyrocket as people turned to robbery as a means of survival. Think about the loss in GDP that would occur if all a sudden every person receiving unemployment benefits suddenly had no money to spend. Unemployment is a form of social insurance that we have deemed as preferable to the situation I've just described.
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Health insurance, bailouts, economics, sure a lot of things suck right now. But don't blame 1% of the population for all of it. There are many other factors.
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This is true. But the current economic climate was caused in large part by the excesses of Wall Street.
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See that's the point. The 99% who claim to be representing 99% of the population, aren't.
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Nobody is claiming that at all. You've completely misunderstood. You are the 99% unless your income puts you in the top 1% of wage earners in this country. Like it or not, you're the 99%.
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The 53% group are there to tell them don't speak for me (us) because I've worked my ass off to get to where I am and I don't blame anyone for it. Don't blame your lot in life on the 1%. Times are tough, life sucks, drive on.
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All the 99% movement is doing is drawing attention to the fact that the game is rigged and the deck is stacked against those that are trying to "drive on."
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Originally Posted by MothBalls
My favorite posting on the 53% website;
"Blaming Wall Street for your financial shortcomings is like blaming Beyonce for your inability to sing."
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And my favorite response:
"No dude, it's more like if Beyonce's vocal chords only still worked cause the federal government gave her trillions of dollars for throat surgery and then a few months after that she went on TV and was like "Wow, why are so many people angry about this? You must all be jealous. You guys should have spent more time practicing singing.""