Taxes and beer

[LogGrad98]

You have my condolences.

..What? Dude, did you take some crazy pills or some **** this morning?

I just read what you wrote. If you were being sarcastic I apologize.

Sorry if I came across too strong but I get so tired of the political system and the minions that follow the Becks and Pilosis blindly over the cliff. It isn't the 2-party system that is wrecking America it is the legions of followers that get told what to think instead of engaging their own brains. Frankly I would love it if we changed the constitution (or something) to require at least 4 candidates and made it law that they all got equal money and equal air time for their campaign and could not accept donations to their campaign.

 

[unluckyseventeen]

I just read what you wrote. If you were being sarcastic I apologize.

Sorry if I came across too strong but I get so tired of the political system and the minions that follow the Becks and Pilosis blindly over the cliff. It isn't the 2-party system that is wrecking America it is the legions of followers that get told what to think instead of engaging their own brains. Frankly I would love it if we changed the constitution (or something) to require at least 4 candidates and made it law that they all got equal money and equal air time for their campaign and could not accept donations to their campaign.

I'm one of the least politically charged people you'll meet. I said "you have my condolences" after you read it, simply because the article struck me as boring and several others responded the same way.

And then I got this in response

and then I was all like

and then you were like

and then I was all like

And then explaining further would require me to quote this very post.

 

[LogGrad98]

 

[unluckyseventeen]

It's a hedgehog, eating catfood. Duh.

 

[Gameface]

This is pretty old, though. I got it in a chain email well over a year ago from a friend at work who is a parrot of Beck and Hanity. I can't even talk to this guy about politics anymore because he doesn't really think about issues, he just knows conservatives are right, even when they contradict themselves, and liberals are wrong because they're all dumb and hate America.

 

[balli]

Where's the part about the tenth man going home to a mega-mansion after the night at the bar, only to log into his online banking and find he still has millions of dollars... while the fifth guy goes 'home' to find out his meager west-side house has been re-possesed cause his wife got cancer?

Cause that's the part that's missing.

 

[LogGrad98]

Where's the part about the tenth man going home to a mega-mansion after the night at the bar, only to log into his online banking and find he still has millions of dollars... while the fifth guy goes 'home' to find out his meager west-side house has been re-possesed cause his wife got cancer?

Cause that's the part that's missing.

That has nothing to do with our tax system. The story was to illustrate how our tax system works and it is correct. The argument are you are implying is that the rich man needs to give all of his wealth to the poor man so no one is rich and no one is poor. This is also known as communism. I am not making a judgement about communism, just pointing out that this model fits the tenets of communism.

 

[balli]

the argument are you are implying is that the rich man needs to give all of his wealth to the poor man so no one is rich and no one is poor.

Really? All of his wealth? That's the argument I was making?

Huh.... Weird take...

 

[LogGrad98]

Where's the part about the tenth man going home to a mega-mansion after the night at the bar, only to log into his online banking and find he still has millions of dollars... while the fifth guy goes 'home' to find out his meager west-side house has been re-possesed cause his wife got cancer?

Cause that's the part that's missing.

Really? All of his wealth? That's the argument I was making?

Huh.... Weird take...

First I said IMPLYING. Check it out at dictionary.com.

And if that is not what you were implying, that we need to balance the wealth, then please clarify.

 

[balli]

First I said IMPLYING. Check it out at dictionary.com.

And if that is not what you were implying, that we need to balance the wealth, then please clarify.

All [of his] wealth? No, that's not what I was implying.

And please don't haggle/condescend over semantics.

 

[LogGrad98]

That has nothing to do with our tax system. The story was to illustrate how our tax system works and it is correct. The argument are you are implying is that the rich man needs to give all of his wealth to the poor man so no one is rich and no one is poor. This is also known as communism. I am not making a judgement about communism, just pointing out that this model fits the tenets of communism.

All [of his] wealth? No, that's not what I was implying.

And please don't haggle/condescend over semantics.

Not sure where the hostility is coming from. Hmm.

Well actually you are the one arguing semantics. Notice the bold above. Implies that only enough of the rich man's wealth is given away to balance the wealth. You want to get hung up on the word "all" without taking the rest of the post into account, that is up to you I guess. I can edit it to say "most" or "some" or "enough to balance the wealth", since that was the core of the sentence.

I just wondered if you would clarify then what you meant by your highly sarcastic post.

 

[balli]

Not sure where the hostility is coming from. Hmm.

Well actually you are the one arguing semantics. Notice the bold above. Implies that only enough of the rich man's wealth is given away to balance the wealth. You want to get hung up on the word "all" without taking the rest of the post into account, that is up to you I guess. I can edit it to say "most" or "some" or "enough to balance the wealth", since that was the core of the sentence.

I just wondered if you would clarify then what you meant by your highly sarcastic post.

What I meant was that the tax system, as constituted, seems fair given the vast lifestyle differences that each man's socio-economic position allows.