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    Quote Originally Posted by Grummgug View Post
    http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/21/news...equality-2016/



    There it is. I am a guy who is achievement-oriented. I worked hard, studied the financial world, investing, and money. I skimped and saved. I made mistakes. I started with nothing and built it all myself. I invest capital in global marketplaces that helps keep the global economy moving.

    I'm the great evil in the world. People like me are the problem. He wants to hike taxes on making money in the market to stop people like me. I'm the target. How dare I lift myself from poverty? I should blame capitalism for my problems. I should blame the rich. I should vote socialists into office. Maybe one day I'll have a decent government program that will take care of me. I can trust their promises. They won't lie to me. I don't have to try to improve myself. I should feel guilt if I am a self starter.

    On behalf of every decent human being that goes the extra mile , fuck you, Bernie Sanders.
    I'm gonna bet my accomplishments are at the very least the same as yours. Born in a small village in the mountains of the Balkans, moved across the planet, worked my way through school, studied hard, making six figures. And I actually do work, not speculating and being an economic parasite :P

    I don't know about Sanders policies to judge one way or another, but I do believe in comprehensive social policies like universal access to education and healthcare. And I'm fine with tax rates needed to ensure those programs, as long as it's done right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ioath View Post
    If a college education ever does become free it will be as meaningless as a high school diploma for getting a good job.
    Heh you think getting a good job requires a college education? Most of our conservative posters are busy touting their $50,000/year job as a good wage. It's almost like helping people below them will almost insult the fact that they were too stupid to make more money despite their precious piece of paper.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Interception View Post
    Heh you think getting a good job requires a college education? Most of our conservative posters are busy touting their $50,000/year job as a good wage. It's almost like helping people below them will almost insult the fact that they were too stupid to make more money despite their precious piece of paper.
    It really is just a dick measuring contest for them.

  4. #24
    Think about how crappy Bernie Sanders platform REALLY is.

    His target is people who save money, invest, and grow wealth. His target, the people he wants to raise taxes on, are by DEFINITION the people who are FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE. He sees fiscal responsibility as an evil that must be taxed. He is truly a piece of crap. ANY parent would want to teach their children how to balance a checkbook and grow some savings. This idiot's CORE policy belief is to make that a BAD thing.

    If you vote for THAT, you are the biggest tool ever. That policy does nothing but destroy the fabric of society.

    He is trash and should be mocked. His supporters as well.

  5. #25
    Quote Originally Posted by Pennoyer View Post
    If he truly believed they were evil, he'd call for elimination, not a mere tax. Nothing you have quoted indicates otherwise.
    Take a look at the purges following a Communist revolution. You don't garner popular support with that truth.

    I love how the left defines "the common good" with which they justify confiscation of another's possessions. Perhaps those who profess leftist ideals should practice what they preach.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Interception View Post
    Heh you think getting a good job requires a college education? Most of our conservative posters are busy touting their $50,000/year job as a good wage. It's almost like helping people below them will almost insult the fact that they were too stupid to make more money despite their precious piece of paper.
    seems that way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grummgug View Post
    http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/21/news...equality-2016/



    There it is. I am a guy who is achievement-oriented. I worked hard, studied the financial world, investing, and money. I skimped and saved. I made mistakes. I started with nothing and built it all myself. I invest capital in global marketplaces that helps keep the global economy moving.

    I'm the great evil in the world. People like me are the problem. He wants to hike taxes on making money in the market to stop people like me. I'm the target. How dare I lift myself from poverty? I should blame capitalism for my problems. I should blame the rich. I should vote socialists into office. Maybe one day I'll have a decent government program that will take care of me. I can trust their promises. They won't lie to me. I don't have to try to improve myself. I should feel guilt if I am a self starter.

    On behalf of every decent human being that goes the extra mile , fuck you, Bernie Sanders.
    u mad bro?


    btw.. aren't you the guy bragging on making a living off the stock market?
    speaking of hard work.....
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  8. #28
    Quote Originally Posted by Grummgug View Post
    If you vote for THAT, you are the biggest tool ever. That policy does nothing but destroy the fabric of society.
    People vote themselves into slavery to the government. Personal responsibility and freedom are openly mocked by the "great minds" in our society.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grummgug View Post
    You don't understand how the world works.

    You have the vast majority of the population that just sits on their butt not giving crap about other people.

    Then you have the tiny minority of the population that are the achievers. They are working twice as hard as everyone else. They want to make things better for themselves and society. The achievers:

    1. Volunteer to help out in the community. When there's an emergency, you run to them because they have their poop in a group.
    2. Work hard, save money, build wealth. They are lifting themselves from poverty to middle class, or from middle class to rich.
    3. They focus on trying to make things better.
    4. They go the extra mile to make the workplace better, the community better, even your leisure time better.

    THOSE are the people Bernie Sanders attacks. He attacks the VERY BEST of us. He is a piece of crap.

    Bernie Sanders base of support is Scumbag Steve


    Bernie Sanders enemy is Good Guy Greg
    No the only one who doesn't know how the WORLD works is you, with your obnoxious self important ranting, about how exceptional you are, and how everybody else can like "Just deal" yeah no FUCK THAT!

    You aren't special, and I personally don't give a shit about your extra mile or extra anything else, nothing about you or anything you have done has ever been about anybody but you by the way you describe it, SO now I really don't give a fuck what you think you are owed, or your pretending like the "POOR" socialist just want to scale your imaginary fence and take whatever it is you found you have through YOUR work.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ioath View Post
    If a college education ever does become free it will be as meaningless as a high school diploma for getting a good job.
    Thats not how education works.

  11. #31
    Quote Originally Posted by Grummgug View Post
    Think about how crappy Bernie Sanders platform REALLY is.

    His target is people who save money, invest, and grow wealth. His target, the people he wants to raise taxes on, are by DEFINITION the people who are FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE. He sees fiscal responsibility as an evil that must be taxed. He is truly a piece of crap. ANY parent would want to teach their children how to balance a checkbook and grow some savings. This idiot's CORE policy belief is to make that a BAD thing.

    If you vote for THAT, you are the biggest tool ever. That policy does nothing but destroy the fabric of society.

    He is trash and should be mocked. His supporters as well.
    you have an epic inflated view of yourself, nor do seemingly understand the situation.

    and citing his policy will destroy the fabric of society is nothing more then sensationalism fear mongering take straight from fox news with zero credibility

  12. #32
    Quote Originally Posted by Wildtree View Post
    u mad bro?


    btw.. aren't you the guy bragging on making a living off the stock market?
    speaking of hard work.....
    stock market brokers acting like they provide any actual benefit to society, LAWL.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grummgug View Post
    Think about how crappy Bernie Sanders platform REALLY is.

    His target is people who save money, invest, and grow wealth. His target, the people he wants to raise taxes on, are by DEFINITION the people who are FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE. He sees fiscal responsibility as an evil that must be taxed. He is truly a piece of crap. ANY parent would want to teach their children how to balance a checkbook and grow some savings. This idiot's CORE policy belief is to make that a BAD thing.

    If you vote for THAT, you are the biggest tool ever. That policy does nothing but destroy the fabric of society.

    He is trash and should be mocked. His supporters as well.
    Correct me if I'm wrong but most of these proposed tax increases on on those that are taking wealth out of the economy. Large amounts of money in a savings account are not doing anything but taking money away from those below. The bigger the inequity in wealth we have, the more difficult it becomes for those at the bottom to climb the ladder and the higher the horizon becomes that people begin to fall down. The largest amount of revenue that would be taken would be from those that aren't actually using wealth but simply hoarding it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tj119 View Post
    Lucky for you, Sanders, Warren and the rest of those fairy land nutcases will never be president.
    Yep, get Trump, Trickle down economics no trickle down stupidity, and if not G.O.P a bunch of liars and people that believe the same thing, but without the ability to drop the PC and say how they really feel.
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    I wonder what other policy goals Bernie Sanders would have. I mean, if he is against fiscal responsibility, what other great evils are there.

    1. Tax people for reading books. I mean, how DARE they try improve themselves? Don't they understand government programs will protect you? Why are you reading books? They might not be government approved!
    2. Tax people for volunteering. Volunteering takes away GOOD government jobs. Small government is bad. We need to teach people that helping others on your own accord is bad. If you want to help someone, vote for a government program instead of getting off the couch!
    3. Tax people for exercising! Why are you trying to improve yourself on your own? You should instead vote for a government program to build a public gym (that will be closed most days due to government funding issues)

    These programs make just as much sense as taxing people for being fiscally responsible.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Grummgug View Post
    I'm the great evil in the world. People like me are the problem. He wants to hike taxes on making money in the market to stop people like me.
    If his Robin Hood tax stops you, then your returns are obviously marginal and you're pretty shit at playing the markets.

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    not enough straw in the world for that man you're trying to make.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GodlyBob View Post
    Correct me if I'm wrong but most of these proposed tax increases on on those that are taking wealth out of the economy. Large amounts of money in a savings account are not doing anything but taking money away from those below. The bigger the inequity in wealth we have, the more difficult it becomes for those at the bottom to climb the ladder and the higher the horizon becomes that people begin to fall down. The largest amount of revenue that would be taken would be from those that aren't actually using wealth but simply hoarding it.
    Has that ever happened? The political elite of both parties just end up screwing the low end of the upper class and the middle class... that's the reality I'm living in right now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grummgug View Post
    Think about how crappy Bernie Sanders platform REALLY is.

    His target is people who save money, invest, and grow wealth. His target, the people he wants to raise taxes on, are by DEFINITION the people who are FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE. He sees fiscal responsibility as an evil that must be taxed. He is truly a piece of crap. ANY parent would want to teach their children how to balance a checkbook and grow some savings. This idiot's CORE policy belief is to make that a BAD thing.

    If you vote for THAT, you are the biggest tool ever. That policy does nothing but destroy the fabric of society.

    He is trash and should be mocked. His supporters as well.
    Grummgug, Bernie is trying to solve the problem of income inequality. Since the 70's, the power and pay of the average worker has gone down, while the rich people on wall street investing in businesses and those executives get richer and more powerful. All Bernie wants to do is make sure that down the line, one of these two things doesn't happen: 1) Corporations have so much influence that the regular masses cannot stop them, or 2) The masses come and put the rich's heads on pitchforks.

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