14 Aug 22
@sonhouse saidI have never said that I am a multimillionaire. May I take this moment to suggest that no one 'lies' about what they are, as it is irrelevant on posts between anonymous people??????
@no1marauder
That attitude is MUCH worse than just laughing stock, he has employees and thus can implement such BS in a meaningful way at his company, which I have no idea what it is but he has said a couple of times he is a multimillionaire.
We are all having a good time, me the capitalist, chiding the erudite Marauder for being a marxist, mixing together all of our points of view. He chides me back!!!
So, I, for purposes of this text, let at night as I retire, dont jnokw what Sonhouse just wrote, but everyone, get a grip. Jesus. Look, I have been successful any many investments, E.G.,I have a piece of a tomato farm for god sakes, makes me money in my sleep. It makes Suzy mad ( the making money of the backs of others gambit). But the upside, you get to give me hell for that!!! I have a lake house, Marauder says I should share it with the universe, whether they are documented or not!!!!!
This is supposed to be fun! Sonhouse, or Marauder, I can't tell which, says I (personally?) am a laughing stock? What in the hell!?!?!
I have Never Said That I Am A Multimillionaire! And why WOULD I ? I don't even know you fellers. This is about issues and ideas, not us personally.
Now,,,,,,where were we...........
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14 Aug 22
@averagejoe1 saidBe honest, Joe - you're so easily scared, you "could just scream" so often, that that's a surprise to nobody. A duck coming at you would strike fear in your heart. Fear is your middle name, and the core of your soul.
As to Fear Channels, all of the news does in fact strike fear in my heart.
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14 Aug 22
@averagejoe1 saidThen why are you so scared when the left wants to go after, not even the multi-millionaire, but the billionaire? Are you scared that, after four decades of trickle-down not working, the fear from Musk and Zuckerberg will finally trickle down to your own, lower-middle-class level?
I have never said that I am a multimillionaire.
Or are you just scared of everything you do not understand, as a matter of principle?
14 Aug 22
@shallow-blue saidWhat I am scared of is the attempt of leftists to transform the United States of America.
Then why are you so scared when the left wants to go after, not even the multi-millionaire, but the billionaire? Are you scared that, after four decades of trickle-down not working, the fear from Musk and Zuckerberg will finally trickle down to your own, lower-middle-class level?
Or are you just scared of everything you do not understand, as a matter of principle?
I am not much scared of anything else, except maybe a hoodie walking in my direction.
A post from No1Maurader that belongs here as well:
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted
Audits of the Rich Have Dropped Much Faster Than Audits of the Poor".
The IRS has been gutted for years by Republican Congresses and pressured to chase the poorest who receive the Earned Income Credit:
"Corporations and the wealthy are the biggest beneficiaries of the IRS’ decay. Most Americans’ interaction with the IRS is largely automated. But it takes specialized, well-trained personnel to audit a business or a billionaire or to unravel a tax scheme — and those employees are leaving in droves and taking their expertise with them. For the country’s largest corporations, the danger of being hit with a billion-dollar tax bill has greatly diminished. For the rich, who research shows evade taxes the most, the IRS has become less and less of a force to be feared.
The story has been different for poor taxpayers. The IRS oversees one of the government’s largest anti-poverty programs, the earned income tax credit, which provides cash to the working poor. Under continued pressure from Republicans, the IRS has long made a priority of auditing people who receive that money, and as the IRS has shrunk, those audits have consumed even more resources, accounting for 36 percent of audits last year. The credit’s recipients — whose annual income is typically less than $20,000 — are now examined at rates similar to those who make $500,000 to $1 million a year. Only people with incomes above $1 million are examined much more frequently.
14 Aug 22
@no1marauder saidYou once said a statement which equated to the Marx maxim, "To each according to his needs, from each according to their ability." You can deny it all day, but you said it, you believe it. Own up.
Joe, you don't have the slightest idea what a "communist" is, so you shouldn't be calling people things you're a complete idiot about.
It would be most accurate to call me a Natural Law Libertarian Socialist.
@AverageJoe1
So because he quoted a commie, that makes HIM a commie?
I guess when a dude is on your side it doesn't matter if he is an ACTUAL AVOWED COMMIE like Metal Brain.
@sonhouse saidThis post makes absolutely no sense, Sonhouse.
@AverageJoe1
So because he quoted a commie, that makes HIM a commie?
I guess when a dude is on your side it doesn't matter if he is an ACTUAL AVOWED COMMIE like Metal Brain.
My post? It could not be more clear.
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15 Aug 22
@shallow-blue saidYes they are frightened.
Then why are you so scared when the left wants to go after, not even the multi-millionaire, but the billionaire? Are you scared that, after four decades of trickle-down not working, the fear from Musk and Zuckerberg will finally trickle down to your own, lower-middle-class level?
Or are you just scared of everything you do not understand, as a matter of principle?
Frightened by,
women's emergence into the (business) world as equals.
Frightened by people who aren't afraid to show their sexuality,
for as we know, there has always a percentage of the population
that is homosexual, only now they need not be ashamed,
and are even allowed to marry.
They are frightened by the changing demographics of the
populace. The 'OLD WHITE MEN,' are being displaced.
I suggest that TRUMP's election was partly an OBAMA backlash,
in the same vein that The Ku Klux Klan, popularity, and the instigation of Jim Crow, as a backlash to the loss of The Civil War.
.........Has anyone ever noticed that 'The South' only started voting
Republican AFTER 'The Voting Rights Act,' of 1964?
....So what shall these FRIGHTENED, OLD, WHITE MEN, do to retain power?. Well they could start off by screaming foul about
legitimate elections and, when that doesn't work, simply
make it harder for their targeted opposition to vote at all.
......They will work to present history in a slanted version that
paints them in a better light-----Slavery was not, 'A Noble Cause.'
......And, of course, they will criticize & obstruct any and all
steps towards progress, as a nation, a peoples and a civilization.
Do yourself, and your fellows a favor.Be on the right side of history,
be for progress and a better quality of life for everyone.
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15 Aug 22
@vivify said5 Thumbs up,
A post from No1Maurader that belongs here as well:
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted
Audits of the Rich Have Dropped Much Faster Than Audits of the Poor".
The IRS has been gutted for years by Republican Congresses and pressured to chase the poorest who receive the Earned Income Credit:
"Corporations and the wealthy are the bigg ...[text shortened]... million a year. Only people with incomes above $1 million are examined much more frequently.
This was the main idea of hiring IRS auditors.
.......BEZOS pays NO TAXES.........C'mon
15 Aug 22
@averagejoe1 saidSuch would be a better society than America finds itself saddled with right now. Oligarchies suck.
You once said a statement which equated to the Marx maxim, "To each according to his needs, from each according to their ability." You can deny it all day, but you said it, you believe it. Own up.