Exactly.
And you’ll hear the term ‘white supremacist terrorist’ a million times. I would have 0 issue with this, because he clearly was, but they always leave out what the person was if of color or Islamic. Then suddenly those things don’t matter.
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Exactly.
And you’ll hear the term ‘white supremacist terrorist’ a million times. I would have 0 issue with this, because he clearly was, but they always leave out what the person was if of color or Islamic. Then suddenly those things don’t matter.
He was a terrorist too. But all forms of hate don't come from all the same place. The reasons why a person is driven to murder dozens of Muslims or Gays or Women or Westerners or whoever else doesn't all derive from the same place.
Apparently a lot of his manifesto is troll stuff used as jokes for his 8chan buddies. So who knows if he actually believes most of what he said in it.
And Hitler was a Jew - hackos like this don't make a whole lot of sense.
Time for some people to question themselves and their motives:
https://www.inquisitr.com/5343540/n...LEovHRt8bvEWzxmgGyiRpD3R68sDsMHuvryb0sBOyJrMY
https://www.inquisitr.com/5343540/n...LEovHRt8bvEWzxmgGyiRpD3R68sDsMHuvryb0sBOyJrMY
What are the odds she is a Trump supporter as well:
https://rare.us/rare-news/caught-on...FG_GOQWyHi3v2c4UTYMhQsRoIljF2PxyKFdeu3qvNMatE
https://rare.us/rare-news/caught-on...FG_GOQWyHi3v2c4UTYMhQsRoIljF2PxyKFdeu3qvNMatE
True. I just get aggravated by people who treat situations like this one differently based on who is doing the killing.
Anyone taking innocent lives like this is a POS terrorist. End of discussion.
Are you sitting in the Ukraine?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...dalized-nyc-subway-may-hate-crime/3159887002/
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The question was how do rich people cause poverty. Your post answers a different question.
A guy praising Communist China gets credited to conservatives?
Good point, taking innocent life is evil. I only wish Americans were outraged when America has killed about 60,000,000 innocent babies who have a beating heart and red blood flowing through their veins. That is perfectly fine according to the United States of America government. In fact it is encouraged. America is at the top when it comes to killing.
You know all that money that poor people have? Well, the rich takes it from them.
Wait, what?
Somebody once explain that slaves are just paid now days. Crude explanation but still some truth to be found in it. Kind of hard for me to agree with the Waltons being worth $144 Billion and their employees qualifying for public assistance.
In spite of my better judgement, I'm going to comment on your post. I will agree with you that the tax code is too complicated. It should be very simple, but it has evolved over the years to include incentives for certain behaviors, special interest incentives, etc. Today, I think there is a fear that simplifying it would harm accountants that make significant income from putting together tax filings.
Aside from that, let's address a couple of things. George H. Bush is one example out of many wealthy people in the United States. I wouldn't base my belief about anything on one example. If what you say about his taxes is accurate, he was an anomaly, and not the norm. The wealthiest 1% of Americans pay nearly 50% of the taxes. Let that sink in a minute. If George H Bush was typical for the wealthy, then that statistic could not be close to being accurate.
Why should income determine your tax burden? You are taxed to cover the cost of government. Why would your share of that cost be proportional to your income? If we are going to talk about fairness in taxes, then we have to talk about why ones share of the cost of government should be proportional to their income. Does the expense your existence imposes on government correspond to your income level?
I can certainly rationalize Amazon, or any other company, paying zero taxes. Making corporations pay taxes is simply a scam politicians have pulled on simple minded people to make them think it reduces the amount of taxes they have to pay. In reality, corporations collect the taxes they owe through the price of their products and services. If they didn't, they would go out of business. People pay all taxes, either directly, or indirectly through the price of the products and services we buy. Since corporations are taxed though, we have no idea what percentage of our income actually goes to taxes because some of the taxes we pay are buried in the products and services we buy. It allows politicians to raise taxes on us without people complaining about it because they don't directly see it in their pay check.
Very clever use of fake news. The definition of is hilarious. And "acts of violence" is a much wider net than acts of terror.
On the same note, terrorism is a way over used term. The whole notion of terrorism is an act intended to instill terror in the fellow citizens of the victims. An ever present worry in the back of their mind intended to inhibit their way of life.
The msm now labels as terrorism basically any mass violence event. This of course is to cast a larger net so they can distract from Islamic terror. And it's an intentional disingenuous misrepresentation of the term and the concept
Christian churches get blown up all the time in places like Egypt but it gets almost no coverage. Isis rounded up and murdered Christian men. They made sex slaves of their women and there were crickets from the MSM.
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I know man. I remember on 9/12, there was nothing to be found on any media outlet.
The mistake liberals make is thinking that changes in socialism. Instead of being slaves to private industry, we'll be slaves to the government.
The top 1% will always be around because somebody has to fund shit. The difference in capitalism and more centralized and socialistic countries is that in capitalism you have Waltons, you have millionaires, you have folks making couple hundred thousand, 50-60 thousand, etc...
In socialism, you have the Waltons paying 75%-90% to the government which bloats up, the politicians get fatter (see Bernie, Pelosi, and Maxine plush personal lives) and then they evenly disperse crumbs to the many..."yay, no more inequality were all struggling together now..."
We'd probably have decent health care for 10-20 years. Then eventually health care professional pay would slide, I think farmers in Soviet Russia made more than doctors. At some point quantity and quality of services would start to slide. Facilities would go down the shitter (see our Post offices, school houses, police/fire/ems, and even VA now)
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Yes fear of killing the golden goose is certainly a driving force today. That is why the health insurance industry is so fearful of the study paid for by the Koch brothers that concluded universal healthcare would save Americans $2Trillion over ten years. They are fearful their costly administration will be outed.
My multi-millionaire next door neighbor is a tax accountant, I’ve shared many a steak and beer with him on summer evenings talking about these issues. So I’m not exactly unaccustomed to the issues.
The top 1% actually paid 37.3% of all income taxes according to the Tax Foundation while owning 40% of the country’s wealth. Today the top 1% own more wealth than the bottom 90%. The fact of the matter is you will only collect revenue where there is money. BUT let me remind you of off-shore tax havens like the one I spoke of with Tim Cook’s $2Trillion nest egg.
As for your assertions about proportional taxation, well you must think people live in vacuums. What about proportional benefits? Heck that one is pretty easy to pose an example off the top of my head ---- NFL stadiums. Yeah the guy delivering my mail here in Kentucky is getting benefits just like that. LOL
Lastly Corporations get more breaks than anybody fella. Corporation are using up our infrastructure more than any individual and care for nothing other than their profits that they plow back into the portfolios of the wealthy while leaving the potholes to break our cars down on! On top of that they pay their employee a wage that allows the government to pick up the tab for subsistence living through our welfare system that profits those corporations making record profits. It’s not about profits as much as it is where those profits go. You see it but you don’t understand it. IT’S A TRICKLE UP SCHEME!
But I digress because if you take a look at pharmaceutical pricing you will see how the trickle is turning into a river.
Maybe, but all of this stuff sucks. This will get coverage, just like the Pulse nightclub got coverage and 9/11 got coverage, etc. I just don't buy the media as the boogeyman narrative that pervades this board. Maybe it's because I don't watch news or opinion shows on TV.
Things weren’t like they are now, then. At least they didn’t seem it to me at that time.
I feel like that was one of the last times our country came together on something. But again, this was before the media went nuts with social justice crap.
Everything like this that happens in the US will get covered, but it will be covered differently depending on who does it.
Headlines read “Gunman” when Islamic, black, Latino, etc. They may put something in the 3rd or 4th paragraph but it’s usually buried within. They put “white shooter” in the headline when they’re white.
Either put adjectives about every killer in the headline, or leave it to the reader to find out. Make it a priority or don’t. Tired of narrative driven drivel.
The ADL has as much credibility as the dog shit that's on my shoe.
Agreed that terrible shit is terrible shit any way you slice it no matter who the perp and victims are.
However, we are about 18 years from 9/11 the shift in media since cannot be understated.
I remember the fact that the Pulse nightclub was a gay hangout being a big part of the story, msm was just waiting to pounce on some bible thumper, then it turned out ole dude was a different ethnicity and religion. Pretty sure the narrative quickly turned to guns.
Just think about the very fact that this happened in New Zealand. How often does the news cover crimes in other countries? Not often in the grand scheme of things.
Look what's on CNN right now...Mosque getting shot up...what's not being covered? Gaza lobbing rockets at Isreal...come on now...let's get serious. What's a bigger story with international or at least regional implications?
They are going to wear this story out for one reason. A white dude shot up a Mosque and had some nutjob manifesto hollering about immigrants. Okay, if that went down here, sure cover it, but it went down in New Zealand.
A stone's throw from our borders cartels are cutting people down by the dozens on a nightly basis...any time some points to an issue over there it's "manufactured"...come on now...
I'm not sure what you are looking at, but according to a Tax Foundation article written in January of this year, the top 1% of all taxpayers earned 19.7% of all AGI in 2016 and paid 37.3% of all federal income taxes. The bottom 90% of taxpayers paid 30.5% of all income taxes.The top 1% also paid the highest average income tax rate of 26.9%. The article is linked if you care to educate yourself. https://taxfoundation.org/america-progressive-tax-system/
Since when does an NFL stadium receive a Federal benefit?
Saying corporations get tax breaks doesn't refute that we pay the taxes through the purchase of products and services. Why would I care if they get tax breaks if I pay the taxes when I buy their products and services? So that comment is completely meaningless with respect to the discussion.
Your argument about infrastructure ignores reality. The reason you see so many trucks, etc. using our infrastructure is because those companies are responding to our demands for products and services. Ultimately, all economic activity is because of people like you and me consuming products and services.
The profits for corporations go to owners of the corporation. I have a 401K plan, as do many people in this country. That plan owns stock in many different corporations. The profit from those corporations go to me and other owners of the corporation. Who should it go to?
You also didn't answer the original question from the other poster as to how wealthy people cause poverty.
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To be fair, Fox News is all over this too. Drug Cartels and violence in the Gaza Strip are normal. Even thought they happen way too often, shootings like this are still pretty few and far between comparatively.
Your confusing some things I was pointing out but I have to go I will pick up later
To be fair, Fox News is all over this too. Drug Cartels and violence in the Gaza Strip are normal. Even thought they happen way too often, shootings like this are still pretty few and far between comparatively.
Sad how true this is. The more it happens, the more it becomes normal and the more no one seems to care or notice.
Duke fans have no problems with the way ESPN covers their team.
I wonder if giraffes use their long necks to lick their own ass.
They even include acts within prison. But as long as a Vox dude slangs some ADL propaganda that sounds good to dumb whores like Boston that is what works.
