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Post #428,593
by a6l6e6x
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4/25/19 11:11:15 PM
4/25/19 11:11:15 PM
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New Jeez, you didn't quote 2016 or 2017 numbers. :)
Numbers get into 7 figures there!
Alex

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

-- Isaac Asimov
Post #428,602
by mmoffitt
4/26/19 10:08:27 AM
4/26/19 10:08:27 AM
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New Yep. Unsurprising.
I find it difficult to criticize someone for making a bunch of money through authoring a book or three (his wife wrote one and he two IIRC).

I don't have issues with millionaires who earn their money through actual work, but they're in the tiny minority of the wealthy. Most of the wealthy contribute nothing and receive vast sums of money primarily through two channels:

(1) Inheritance.
(2) Unearned income.

Unearned income ought to be taxed at least 5 times more heavily than earned income and any millionaire and up should have a wealth tax of 90% on all unearned assets. It is a very strong indictment of our economic system and culture that our tax code actually rewards people for refusing to earn anything and instead "make money from money".
bcnu,
Mikem

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     Wow! Scott! You were right about Bernie all along! Mea Culpa! - (mmoffitt) - (33) - April 25, 2019, 12:25:06 PM EDT
         :-) -NT - (boxley) - April 25, 2019, 12:28:58 PM EDT
         Not only that.. his Fortunes dropped those three years.. - (Ashton) - April 25, 2019, 03:59:52 PM EDT
         Re: Wow! Scott! You were right about Bernie all along! Mea Culpa! - (Another Scott) - (28) - April 25, 2019, 08:00:06 PM EDT
             Re: I seem to recall just asking "why" he wasn't releasing his taxes. - (mmoffitt) - (23) - April 26, 2019, 10:00:46 AM EDT
                 You didn't think it was strange, curious, disconcerting... - (Another Scott) - (22) - April 26, 2019, 09:12:52 PM EDT
                     what does it give you besides amunition? I would rather see his uni papers -NT - (boxley) - (21) - April 27, 2019, 10:53:08 PM EDT
                         Why should Bernie be special? Hillary had decades of tax returns released... -NT - (Another Scott) - (20) - April 27, 2019, 11:45:25 PM EDT
                             and who read them? only oppo researchers -NT - (boxley) - (19) - April 28, 2019, 05:15:04 PM EDT
                                 Very peculiar argument there box. -NT - (Another Scott) - (18) - April 28, 2019, 05:16:18 PM EDT
                                     did you read shrub's, hillary's and obama's? -NT - (boxley) - (17) - April 28, 2019, 09:18:34 PM EDT
                                         I think I did. - (Another Scott) - (16) - April 28, 2019, 09:24:36 PM EDT
                                             Unlike Drumpf, Bernie had decades of publicly filed financial statements. - (mmoffitt) - (15) - April 29, 2019, 08:13:02 AM EDT
                                                 Yet they didn't release their tax returns. Hmmm... -NT - (Another Scott) - (13) - April 29, 2019, 08:19:33 AM EDT
                                                     Still banging on about it, I see. And by "it" I mean "absolutely NOTHING at all." -NT - (mmoffitt) - (12) - April 29, 2019, 11:42:13 AM EDT
                                                         I thought the topic was tax returns. Sorry to have stayed on-topic!? -NT - (Another Scott) - (11) - April 29, 2019, 11:16:27 PM EDT
                                                             Were the tax returns consistent with the already supplied (in abundance) financial statements? - (mmoffitt) - (10) - April 30, 2019, 08:30:58 AM EDT
                                                                 WHY.DID.IT.TAKE.HIM.SO.LONG - is the issue. The man is incompetent. QED. -NT - (Another Scott) - (9) - April 30, 2019, 10:50:47 PM EDT
                                                                     BECAUSE IT WAS A WASTE OF TIME AND THOSE PAYING ATTENTION KNEW IT. A NOTHINGBURGER DELUXE. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (8) - May 1, 2019, 11:19:08 AM EDT
                                                                         Re: BECAUSE IT WAS A WASTE OF TIME AND THOSE PAYING ATTENTION KNEW IT. A NOTHINGBURGER DELUXE. - (Another Scott) - (7) - May 1, 2019, 11:41:54 AM EDT
                                                                             He had a book to write so he could be worth one millionth his primary opponent. - (mmoffitt) - (6) - May 1, 2019, 02:38:45 PM EDT
                                                                                 cmon now he is still blaming him for hillary's loss, you know, any reason except hillary -NT - (boxley) - (1) - May 1, 2019, 05:56:17 PM EDT
                                                                                     -3 for effort. You can do better than that. -NT - (Another Scott) - May 1, 2019, 07:23:58 PM EDT
                                                                                 Can we wrap this up or start a new thread? Right shift is getting ridiculous. -NT - (drook) - (3) - May 2, 2019, 07:37:13 AM EDT
                                                                                     Agreed. Also, make your points in the body, not in the subject line. -NT - (pwhysall) - (2) - May 2, 2019, 11:52:22 AM EDT
                                                                                         *posts an 8K image without width attributes in the body of a response* -NT - (malraux) - May 2, 2019, 02:41:22 PM EDT
                                                                                         Hey, it saves a click and puts off the heat death of the universe a few attoseconds. It's all good! -NT - (Another Scott) - May 2, 2019, 03:52:56 PM EDT
                                                 too early unless you see a sure fire winner. Last time I donated money it was to - (boxley) - April 29, 2019, 03:56:16 PM EDT
             Finally got it. And the non-trivial rebuttal. - (mmoffitt) - (3) - April 26, 2019, 10:13:03 AM EDT
                 ... definitely ... likely ... believe... - (Another Scott) - (2) - April 26, 2019, 09:25:41 PM EDT
                     its his campaign money he wants to talk to expats elsewherehe is entitled to without your permission -NT - (boxley) - (1) - April 27, 2019, 10:52:22 PM EDT
                         There are rules and laws about how campaign contributions are spent... -NT - (Another Scott) - April 27, 2019, 11:46:02 PM EDT
         Jeez, you didn't quote 2016 or 2017 numbers. :) - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - April 25, 2019, 11:11:15 PM EDT
             Yep. Unsurprising. - (mmoffitt) - April 26, 2019, 10:08:27 AM EDT

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