Think they would go for it?

MFM

Their theme is always the same “rob the rich and give to the poor”
There are several problems with this plan of action…If the government gets their hands on the money the poor will only see $.25 of every dollar the dear government takes from the rich…if that much. Then the Federal government will set up more departments in D.C. to distribute this money to the poor. $.75 of every dollar taken from the rich will go to pay the new employees in these new departments…Here we go with BIG GOVERNMENT again.

I WILL VOTE FOR JOHN McCAIN…We can not afford an OBAMA.

MFM

Of course, you are avoiding the whole issue of rich Democrats pretending they are all concerned about poverty, but then never really being concerned enough to significantly impact their own net worth to do anything about it. Why should so-called “wealthiest” households per Democratis class warfare rhetoric, households that can’t put two kids through college at the same time and pay all bills, lose even more of the income they toil so hard for, to fight poverty when Edwards can still send his kids to the best schools in the world and live like the rich millionaire mogul he is with servants etc. I thought progressives cared about fairness. Some pigs are more equal than others.

Dugger

but then never really being concerned enough to significantly impact their own net worth to do anything about it.

As I said, I’m not aware the Sen. Edwards seeks to excuse himself from paying his share. You’ve come up with this inexplicable assertion that you can propose an anti-poverty program only if you’re willing to give away all that you own.

Now this is truly a wonder:

Why should so-called  wealthiest households per Democratis class warfare rhetoric, households that can t put two kids through college at the same time and pay all bills, lose even more of the income they toil so hard for, to fight poverty when Edwards can still send his kids to the best schools in the world and live like the rich millionaire mogul he is with servants etc.

In one interminable sentence, you accuse Democrats of playing “class warfare” and denigrate Sen. Edwards for being a “rich millionaire mogul” who sends his kids to private schools.

Tell you what. If you want to go in on it with me, I’ll support a movement to start taxing wealth, rather than income, and we’ll bleed the millionaires like slaughtered pigs.

With me?

Perhaps you would like to find an average net worth figure out there for people with $200K incomes and make a point. Have at it.

No thanks. Not interested in chasing your rabbits today.

The $200,000 figure you like to quote refers to income, not net worth, and any exercise in guessing what net worth high earners actually hold isn’t relevant to what we were talking about.

You criticized Sen. Edwards as a hypocrite because he proposed programs to help the poor but he’s not poor himself! It’s a silly argument. I haven’t heard that Edwards is proposing tax breaks for the wealthy. Apparently he’s willing to pay his share of the load. I haven’t heard that he wants to tax the accumulated wealth of Americans instead of income. So this goofiness about “Why doesn’t he give away all his money” is just, well, goofy.

And wage earners who earn $200,000 and up are, in fact, the beneficiaries of most of the Bush administration’s tax cuts. They also represent the top end of the income distribution curve. They can fairly be characterized as the wealthiest among us. Debate all you like whether that last dollar of income should be taxed at 33 percent or 37 percent. Neither position reflects a fundamental misapprehension of reality.

“Say if the average net worth of a super rich $200K income household is actually $250K,” As the word suggest, it was a hypothetical. You can pick higher or lower as you choose. The income of $200,000.01 is what Democrats are claiming makes one among the “wealthiest” Americans. Perhaps you would like to find an average net worth figure out there for people with $200K incomes and make a point. Have at it.

Dugger

http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_3_black_family.html

 but we start by rolling back George Bush s unaffordable tax cut for the wealthiest people, people earning more than $200,000 a year .

That’s right: earning more than $200K a year.

Now you came up with an “average net worth” for these people of $250K. MSU?

How quickly we forget. Numerous time Kerry spoke of Bush giving tax breaks to the WEALTHIEST Americans and how he would rollback (i.e., raise taxes) on the wealthiest americans. Here’s one quick quote from kerry: “but we start by rolling back George Bush’s unaffordable tax cut for the wealthiest people, people earning more than $200,000 a year”.

Dugger

..he would have the satisfaction of not appearing as a blithering hypocrite for asking others worth way less than him to sacrifice more when he, himself, is not willing to sacrifice…

I seem to have missed the “tax-breaks-for-the-wealthy” part of Edwards’ proposals.

Say if the average net worth of a super rich $200K income household is actually $250K,

That number smells funky, Dugger. Where’d you get it?

You’ve been harping on the $200K “super rich” theme since before the 2004 election. Even though you’re badly misinterpreting what was said, I’ll let that slide.

But if you’re going to insist on throwing out that factoid every so often, at least have the courtesy to use it consistently. The $200K figure referred to income. Edwards sacrificed a much greater income to accept a job–U.S. Senator–that pays less.

Now, what’s your beef with Edwards calling attention to the problems of the poor?

If it would make you happy, we can use as a measuring stick the average net worth of the super rich as opposed to their income. Say if the average net worth of a super rich $200K income household is actually $250K, then multi-millionaire Democrat mogul Edwards would only have to give up $12.55M of his trial lawyer wad instead of $12.6M. Then he would still be super rich but have a net worth of even more. Plus he would have the satisfaction of not appearing as a blithering hypocrite for asking others worth way less than him to sacrifice more when he, himself, is not willing to sacrifice to the point of being equal with his fellow anti-poverty warriors.

Dugger , Trying to Give Edwards a Break Because Even Multi Millionaire Democratic Moguls Have feelings

Dugger

OK, I hereby call for Bush’s tax cuts (the cuts that benefitted the wealthiest 1% so well) to be rolled back. This affects my wife and me, and to a greater extent, Paris Hilton and John Edwards.

WE NEED MORE!!!

Dugger, From Each According to his Means to Me

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